Heads up. Super-cheap Easyjet summer 2026 flights are about to land – here's how to bag 'em
Budget airline Easyjet launches its flights in tranches every quarter of the year – and if you find out what day they're going to be launched and you book them at that moment, you can get them FAR cheaper. And we now know that next Tuesday, 22 July, it's launching its flights for the summer of 2026, meaning there's an opportunity to get super cheap prices.
Watch: Martin Lewis's top tips for bagging super-cheap Easyjet flights
"This is an urgent heads up about potentially super cheap flights, dirt cheap flights, for summer 2026. I know it's a long time away, but this is important because it all happens next Tuesday 22 July. What's going to happen is it's one of Easyjet's quarterly flight launches. Now we always try and find out when they're happening, but we don't always get to.
"But we know this time. The thing to understand about Easyjet is it has dynamic pricing. That means the price of your flight depends on the demand at the time. And often if you manage to book the flight the moment it's launched, then there isn't any demand and the price is rock bottom. So these flights are specifically for next summer, between 15 June 2026 and 13 September 2026.
"It won't tell us how many seats are available, but last year at the same time it was 10 million UK flights. As for when it's going to launch, I don't know. I can tell you from the past, sometimes we've seen it at 5 or 6am, sometimes we've seen it at 8am, sometimes we've seen different flights to different places coming at different times during the morning.
"You're going to hate me for this, but if you really want to bag the super cheap flights, you probably want to be up at about 5.30 in the morning and refreshing to see if they're available, as long as we don't crash its website when we do that. So how cheap can it be? Really cheap. Possibly the cheapest you'll ever get the flights, but this is not guaranteed.
"It does not always work. It is a case of trial and error.
"Glasses on now so I can read you a couple of successes that show you what I'm talking about. This one's from 2023: 'Thanks, Martin. Flight nabbed at 6.15 for Christmas in Lanzarote at £215 cheaper than what they're now showing at 8am.' So it went up over £200 in just one hour 45 minutes.
"This is from last summer: 'Good result £1,260 family of five return to Portugal, including checked bags. 14 hours later, same booking was priced at around £1,700.'
"And this one: 'Released early around 6am. Just bagged five return adult flights to Crete August 2025, seats and luggage £1,700 saving over £1,000 on yesterday's search prices.' So no guarantees but hopefully next year I'll be reading out your success.
"So what I'd suggest you do before they start this is you go and look at the prices other airlines are selling flights for next summer at, at the moment. So you've got a benchmark of what is a reasonable price and what isn't a reasonable price. And then you get up next Tuesday if you're looking for this, and you cross your fingers."
Full transcript of Martin's video
Easyjet flights are often cheapest when they launch
As Martin explains in his video above, Easyjet follows a dynamic demand pricing model – in other words, when there's lots of demand for seats, you pay more; when there's less demand, you pay less. Usually it can be tricky to predict, and prices are fluid.
However, there's one point when demand is almost always low... the very second seats are released. This happens in several tranches throughout the year. In the past, these seats have shot up in price within two or three hours of being made available, so being online bright and early is the key to bagging a bargain.
As Martin cautions, just because the flights have just gone on sale, it doesn't necessarily mean you're getting the best deal. Benchmark what a good price on that route is beforehand, just so you can check if it's worth it.
Confirmed. Next seat release is Tuesday 22 July
The next batch of seats will be released on Easyjet's website, for travel between 15 June and 13 September 2026. Easyjet wouldn't tell us exactly how many seats are up for sale, just that it was in the 'millions'. In 2024, 18 million became available, 10 million of which were to or from the UK.
What time will the seats be released?
Easyjet hasn't shared when the flights will go on sale, telling us: "Customers looking to book early and get great fares for next summer should keep an eye on the Easyjet website from early in the morning." Our past experience, though, is they tend to go on sale as early as 5am or 6am, but sometimes it hasn't released seats until 8am, and it could depend on the location. So it's tough to predict...
Sadly, that means the safest thing to do is get up early and check every ten minutes or so. In the past, tickets have shot up in price as demand increases, so being online early is key to getting a bargain.
'I've saved over £1,000'
Here are a few successes from the last seat release in September 2024...
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