Total cost + fair split
Where to meet when half of you are in London and half in Barcelona
Cross what it costs to leave London against leaving Barcelona and the most affordable, best-balanced meeting point tends to land on Milan, roughly €18 each.
Cached estimate · prices checked October 2026
Check the live price →Prices for travel around 6 December 2026
| Destination | Group total | Per person |
|---|---|---|
| MilanMIL Best option | €35 | €18 |
| DublinDUB | €57 | €29 |
| LisbonLIS | €66 | €33 |
| ParisPAR | €74 | €37 |
| BerlinBER | €91 | €46 |
Who pays what · Milan
What each person would pay flying to Milan
Average: €18 per person
No sign-up. Drop in the cities and the destination comes out.
It's the usual setup: half the crew chased work in London while the others kept their lives in Barcelona, so any reunion ends up between those two. The trouble starts when everyone checks their own flight. The fare that's pocket money for the London lot can force the Barcelona one onto a dawn flight at double, and your bargain might suit them terribly. Your own ticket tells you nothing about the actual plan.
The calendar doesn't help either. Bank holidays and long weekends don't line up between the UK and Spain, so a weekend that looks ordinary here is a three-dayer over there or the other way round, and the price jumps for one of you and not the other. Throw in the pound wobbling against the euro and the same trip costs differently depending on whose card pays. A date that works for everyone at once beats a one-off bargain on a random day.
It doesn't help that 'London' is really several airports scattered round the city. The cheapest flight might leave from one that's a long haul from where your mate actually lives, so the bargain on screen isn't always the comfortable plan. Worth checking which airport it really departs from before anyone celebrates.
The temptation is obvious: meet wherever suits the London side, since they've got more options, and let the Barcelona one fend for themselves. That's how someone ends up paying triple and quietly resenting the whole thing. FlyndMe turns it around. You put both departure cities in together and it works out the group's TOTAL cost, not anyone's lone flight, with each person's share visible so the gap between the biggest and smallest bill doesn't blow out. There's a group link so everyone adds their own city.
Frequently asked questions
Why focus so much on the date and the pound?
Because the UK and Spanish calendars don't match: a Spanish bank holiday can be an ordinary day in London, and a UK long weekend can catch Barcelona at their desks, so the same weekend runs dear for one side and cheap for the other. And with the pound rising and falling against the euro, what the London side pays doesn't translate evenly to the Barcelona wallet. Nailing a date that suits both at once saves more than any stray bargain.
Where do the prices come from? Can I trust them?
They lean on an archive of real searches, great for ranking destinations and seeing where the group stands at a glance. It isn't a booking: right before you pay the figure refreshes, because with the pound bouncing and seats selling out yesterday's number isn't always today's. The aim is to point you the right way, not slip you a price that's gone by checkout.
Do I need to sign up or pay?
No. It's free and there's no account. Open the site, put London and Barcelona in as departure cities, and if there are more of you there's a group link so everyone adds their own. It isn't the only flight tool out there, but most of them search for one person. This one looks at the whole group's spend and whether the split is actually fair.