Aegean Airlines has launched an interesting promotion: Families travelling with at least one child under the age of 11 can book a Family fare, that waives the airfare for all children on the booking, reducing their ticket cost to taxes & surcharges. The offer can be booked until February 27, 2025 for trips between March 4 and October 26.
Since the base fare is more expensive than the Light fare for adults, you need to add at least two children to you ticket to make the offer worthwhile.
Terms & Conditions
- The offer is valid for all direct and connecting flights to/from any international or Greek destination. Valid for bookings between 20th February, 2025 – 27th February, 2025 and travel from 4th March, 2025 until 26th October, 2025 for flights operated by AEGEAN and Olympic Air. All codeshare flights are excluded from this offer. This offer is only valid when there is at least one adult and one child or infant under the same booking and it does not apply to children travelling alone. 100% discount applies for children and infants when booking the Family fare. 50% discount applies for children and 100% discount applies for infants when booking the ComfortFlex fare. 90% discount applies for infants when booking the Light and Flex fares, but there is no discount for children’s tickets on these fares. The discount refers to the fare of the ticket, to fuel surcharges (only when applied) and it does not include the airport taxes. Fares shown on the reservation system are already reduced accordingly. In case of ticket cancellation, refund policy is applied depending on fare category. Ticket changes are permitted – relevant charges depend on fare category. The offer is valid for Economy Class fares. The promo ends on 27th February, 2025 at 23:59 Greek time.
You don’t need an extra code to get the discount, they just have to travel with an adult. In the following example, the family fare is rougly €50 more expensive:
Price Check
We strongly recommend comparing prices. Even with the free seat reservation and the discount on checked bags, a family of three (two adults, one child, two checked bags) would pay roughly €80 more for a trip from Milan to Athens in October when selecting the family fare and adding all discounted extras:
However, by increasing the number of children, the offer gets more appealing. If you are travelling with three kids instead of a single child, the Family fare is notably cheaper. Even without taking the discounts on seat selection or checked bags into account, you’d save €180:
Feel free to use our search form to see how much you’d be paying for a trip with your family:
Conclusion
While Aegean mainly promotes this as a “kids fly free” deal, that part of the deal is overstated for smaller families. When travelling with a single child, the Light fare is most likely the better choice. The more children you add to your booking, the more appealing the Family fare becomes.
Kids still pay taxes and fees (which make up the majority of the price) and adults are paying a higher price – so the savings are very small. However, being able to sit together for free and 50% discount on luggage seems to the more attractive part of this deal – though still nothing to go crazy about. It’s not a bad deal for larger families. Especially, as most other airlines are doing almost nothing to be family-friendly, so this is definitely better than nothing.
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