More and more people are finding that with cheap flights from the budget airlines driving prices down on all European routes, it can be cheaper and easier to fly to the Pyrenees and the South of France.

There are now 30 different routes from the UK landing within 2 hours drive of us, and nearly 100 routes within four hours drive.

The actual details change weekly so we no longer try to keep an up to date list here, instead we use Flightmapper.net for up to date information. If you click on one of the cities listed below, the link will take you to Flightmapper's list of the flights into that airport. We find this is a lot easier than wading through each airline's list of departures and destinations.

The majority of our guests fly into Toulouse or Carcassonne as these are the closest to us, but to help your planning, we are:

• 30 minutes from Carcassonne airport,
• 1 hr from Toulouse,
• 1 hr 30 from Perpignan, and Beziers,
• 2 hrs from Montpellier,
• 2 hrs 30 from Nimes, and Avignon,
• 3 hrs from Lourdes, and Rodez,
• 3 hrs 30 from Barcelona (Girona), Pau, and Bergerac,
• 4 hrs from Bordeaux,
• 4 hrs 30 from Barcelona (International).

Scheduled Connecting Flights

Several of our guests have used connecting flights to travel from (say) Edinburgh to Toulouse where there is no direct flight available. These flights can be arranged with different airlines, but there is the risk that if the first flight is delayed, there is no requirement for the second airline to hold or reschedule your ticket.

Conversely, the bigger airlines (BA, Air France etc.) will allow you to book (for example) Edinburgh-Toulouse, with a transfer in Paris, often as low as £45 per person (each-way, excluding fees and taxes). For us, the big advantage with this is that the flights are scheduled and if the first is delayed, the airline has a duty of care.

Fly-drive car hire brokers

CompareCarRentals.co.uk is an online cost comparison website that will enable you to arrange fly-drive car hire irrespective of which airline or airport you use!

The cars are provided by the major operators (Hertz, Alamo, Avis etc), so your contract will actually be with someone like Hertz - the advantage you have is being able to compare the different rates all on one page.

Over the past few years, many of our clients have used this service and all of the feedback we have had has been good.