The UK's first flight subscription

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The travel you love. Without the bit you hate.

Same price during half-term as a Tuesday in January. Book any flight in about 30 seconds. On recommended flights, your return is free. From £2.30 a day.

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Route Surge price With Elope from
Manchester → Malaga
Peak summer · Solo · easyJet
£1,380
peak pricing
£2.30/day
always
Heathrow → Barcelona
Christmas · Couple · BA
£890
peak pricing
£2.30/day
always
Gatwick → New York
Summer · Solo · Virgin
£2,240
peak pricing
£2.30/day
always
Edinburgh → Dubai
Bank Holiday · Couple · Emirates
£1,760
peak pricing
£2.30/day
always
0
blackout dates.
Ever.
£680
average member saves
per year vs surge pricing
UK travellers will waste 382,491 hours searching for cheaper flights today — time that could be spent on holiday.

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The problem

You open one tab. Then fourteen. You watch the price jump £80 while you're deciding. You buy it in a quiet panic and spend the next week half-convinced you overpaid.

You've done this before. You'll do it again. Unless something changes.

Elope exists because that time belongs to you.

3 weeks
of your life searching for flights
Over the next five years.
4hrs
per booking, average
£80
avg surge premium paid

Four hours per trip. Every trip. Searching, comparing, second-guessing, panic-buying. Handed to an algorithm built to charge you as much as it can get away with.


Not travelling. Losing.


Elope replaces all of that with a monthly subscription, an app, and about 30 seconds of your time. The miles are worth one real mile of flight distance each. The price doesn't move. On recommended flights, the return is free.


The solution

Spotify sorted music.
Netflix sorted TV.
Elope sorted flights.

Before Elope
  • 14 tabs. Prices spike when you're ready to book.
  • Passport details. Emergency contacts. Every. Single. Time.
  • Insurance upsells. Hotel prompts. Car hire. Priority boarding.
  • £80 surge because half the country also wants to fly that weekend.
  • Quiet regret that lasts all the way to the airport.
After Elope
  • Open the app. Pick where you're going. Tap confirm.
  • About 30 seconds. Done. No forms. No upsells.
  • Same miles on a bank holiday as any other day.
  • On recommended flights, the return comes back to you free.
  • Zero regret. You just go.
How the miles work
01
One mile = one real mile of sky
No arbitrary points. No confusing conversion charts. London to Rome is 890 miles on a recommended flight. That's exactly what you spend.
02
Layovers never cost extra
Elope counts point A to point B. One stop, six stops — same miles either way. Pick the flight that works for you. You're never penalised for the route.
03
Recommended flights: return free
On Elope-recommended routes, you only spend miles to get there. The return is on us. Your allowance goes twice as far on these routes.

Where you could be

Every destination.
Same subscription.

Flight distance calculator 1 Elope Mile = 1 real mile of sky. No surge. No blackout dates.

More than just booking
Three things nobody else does.
Coming Soon
👥
Nobody wants to sort the group flights
With Party Booking, you handle up to 8 people in one go. One flow, one confirmation, done in under a minute. Then you can get back to arguing about the hotel, which is at least more fun.
✈️
Send someone a trip instead of a gift card
Your Elope Miles are yours to give. A partner who hasn't had a holiday in two years. A friend who keeps putting something off. Transfer instantly. They create a free account. Miles arrive. They go.
⬆️
The more you use it, the further it takes you
Every qualifying action earns Elope XP, which unlocks bonus miles on top of your monthly allowance. Actual miles you can book actual flights with. Not points expiring on a tier nobody tells you about.

Members
People who already use Elope.

In their own words, not ours.

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Joined by thousands of UK travellers who decided the old way was a waste of their time.


Pricing

Stop being charged more for wanting to fly when life actually tells you to.

Every mile is worth one real mile of sky. On recommended flights, the return is always free. Same price whatever the season or how many other people want to go.

Free
£0
No card. No catch.

Explore the app and check mile costs for any destination before you spend a thing.
Try Free
Bronze
£69.99
per month
£2.30 a day

3,000 miles a year. Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome in the same twelve months. £2.30 a day to never panic-book again.
Full plan details Start with Bronze 12-month commitment, billed monthly
Gold
£249.99
per month
£8.22 a day

18,000 miles a year. New York five times. Dubai, Istanbul and New York in the same twelve months. For the people who never really stop.
Full plan details Go Gold 12-month commitment, billed monthly
📍

Expanding to Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh and airports across the UK in May. Sign up before then and you're a founding member. First in line when your local airport goes live.

🔒 12-month commitment, billed monthly. Miles don't expire. The price doesn't change. For less than a tenner a day, from any UK airport, this is the last time you decide. After this you just fly.


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How it works

The full
picture.

The homepage told you what Elope is. This page tells you everything else. How the miles work. What each plan actually gets you. Why the return is free on recommended flights. Why this is the last time you decide whether to book a flight the old way.

The problem

The system is built to charge you
as much as it can get away with.

The homepage gave you the headline. Here is what it actually looks like, in detail. Because understanding exactly what Elope replaces is the fastest way to understand why it matters.

01
Dynamic pricing punishes you for needing to fly
Airlines price by demand. When demand is high — half-term, bank holidays, peak summer, Friday evenings — prices spike. Sometimes 3x. The algorithm is not pricing the flight. It is pricing your need to take it. Elope does not have a demand algorithm. Your miles cost the same on Christmas Eve as they do on a Tuesday in February.
02
Four hours per booking. Three weeks of your life per five years.
Fourteen tabs. Three comparison sites. You refresh to check if the price dropped. It didn't. You buy it in a quiet panic. You spend the next week wondering if you overpaid. Multiply that by every trip you take over the next five years and you have handed three full working weeks of your actual life to an algorithm that does not care about your time at all.
03
Every booking is a gauntlet you have to fight through
Priority boarding. Travel insurance. Seat selection. Hotel. Car hire. "Travel protection." You came to buy one thing. You are leaving with a trolley full of things you said no to seventeen times. Elope has none of that. You open the app, pick the flight, tap confirm. The upsell gauntlet simply does not exist.
The miles

One Elope Mile.
One real mile of sky.

Elope Miles are not airline loyalty points. They cannot be devalued overnight. They do not expire on a tier you fell out of. One Elope Mile is exactly one straight-line mile of flight distance from A to B.

01
How miles are counted
Point A to point B. That is it.

Elope calculates the straight-line distance between your departure airport and your destination. London to Rome is 890 miles on a recommended flight. London to Amsterdam is 225 miles. Those numbers do not move based on the season, the day, the airline, or how many other people are searching the same route.

No conversion charts. No arbitrary points. No wondering what your miles are actually worth today. You spend exactly what you see.

No surge pricing. Ever. Your miles hold the same value on a bank holiday as they do on a Tuesday in January. The price of the seat is Elope's problem to absorb. Not yours.
02
Layovers
One stop or six stops — same miles either way.

If you fly London to Tokyo via Dubai, Elope charges you the straight-line distance from London to Tokyo. Not London to Dubai plus Dubai to Tokyo. Elope counts point A to point B, full stop, regardless of how many stops are in between. You are never penalised for the routing.

You choose the flight that suits you — time of day, layover, airline. The miles stay the same. The choice is yours.

03
Recommended flights
On recommended routes, the return is free.

On Elope-recommended routes, you only spend miles to get there. The return leg comes back to you at no additional cost. Silver's 7,000 annual miles can take you to New York and back for 3,451 miles — leaving you 3,549 miles for everything else you want to do that year.

A Silver member who always books recommended routes effectively has a 14,000-mile annual allowance. That is not a footnote. That is the whole point of the recommended flight programme.

Your allowance goes twice as far on recommended routes. This is why most people who join on Bronze upgrade to Silver within three months.
04
Your miles
Your full year's allowance, upfront.

When you subscribe, your entire annual miles allowance is credited to your account immediately — not drip-fed month by month. If you fly a lot early in the year, great. If life gets busy and you travel less for a stretch, your miles are waiting. Any unused miles also roll over at renewal, so nothing disappears at the end of the year.

Miles reference. Popular routes.

Recommended = outbound only, return free. Standard = both legs.
RouteStandard (both legs)Recommended (outbound only, return free)
London to Amsterdam450225
London to Barcelona1,430715
London to Rome1,780890
London to Marrakech2,6001,300
London to Istanbul3,1201,560
London to Dubai6,8003,400
London to New York6,9023,451
London to Tokyo11,9765,988
Layover mechanic, visualised
London
Tokyo
5,988 mi
London
Tokyo
5,988 mi
London
Tokyo
5,988 mi
Direct · 1 stop · 2 stops. Same miles every time.

Pick the routing that works for you. Spend the same miles regardless.

Whether you fly direct or via two connections, Elope charges you the same miles for the same journey. The airline decides the routing. You pick the flight that fits your schedule, budget, or preference. Your miles don't change.

On Silver and Gold, there's more. Booking recommended routes earns Elope XP — Silver at 1x, Gold at 2x. XP unlocks bonus miles on top of your annual allowance. Real miles you can book real flights with. The more you fly on recommended routes, the more your allowance compounds over the year.

Booking

About 30 seconds. From open
to confirmation in your inbox.

Most people do not believe this until they do it the first time. Here is exactly what the booking flow looks like.

01
Open the app
Your miles balance is right there. No loading screen, no dashboard maze. One search bar.
02
Search and choose
Type the city. Pick your dates. See the flights and the exact miles cost for each. Recommended routes are clearly marked.
03
Tap confirm
Your details are already saved. No passport number re-entry. No upsells. Tap confirm — miles deducted, booking made.
04
Done.
Confirmation in your inbox. No follow-up forms. No reminders you didn't ask for. Just the flight, confirmed.
Features

Three things nobody else does.

Beyond the core subscription, Elope has three features built because members asked for them. None of them are gimmicks.

Coming Soon
👥
Party Booking
One person handles up to 8 people in a single booking. One flow, one confirmation, done in under a minute. Then you can get back to arguing about the hotel, which is at least more fun than arguing about the flights.
✈️
Mile Sharing
Your miles are yours to give. A partner who hasn't had a holiday in two years. A friend who keeps putting it off. Transfer instantly. They create a free account. Miles arrive. They go. No faff, no fees.
⬆️
Elope XP
Every qualifying action earns XP. Silver earns 1x, Gold earns 2x. XP unlocks bonus miles on top of your monthly allowance. Real miles for real flights — not points that vanish when you drop a tier nobody told you about.
Members

People who already use Elope.
In their own words.

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"Booked flights for the May bank holiday for the same miles as a random Tuesday. I kept expecting a catch. There wasn't one."
DK
Dan K.
Gold member
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Booked Rome on my lunch break. Took 28 seconds. I honestly thought something had gone wrong because it was that quick."
JT
Jamie T.
Silver member
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"I used to lose whole Sunday evenings to Skyscanner. That doesn't happen anymore. Worth every penny just for that."
PM
Priya M.
Silver member
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Transferred miles to my mum for her birthday. She booked Barcelona. First time she'd flown in four years. That one felt good."
SO
Sarah O.
Bronze member
Pricing

Stop being charged more for wanting
to fly when life actually tells you to.

Every mile is worth one real mile of sky. On recommended flights, the return is always free. The price never moves — whatever the date, the season, or how many other people want to go.

Free
£0
No card. No catch.
Explore before you commit.
Try the app, search any destination, and see exactly what your miles would cost before spending a penny. Free forever. No credit card required.
  • Full app access
  • Check mile costs for any destination worldwide
  • See available flights before you subscribe
  • Earn referral miles
Bronze
£69.99
per month
£2.30 a day
3,000 miles a year. Never panic-book again.
Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome in the same twelve months on recommended flights. For people who fly two to four times a year, mostly to European destinations, Bronze removes the stress entirely for less than the cost of a daily coffee.
  • 3,000 Elope miles per year
  • Economy flights from any London airport
  • Receive Elope miles
  • No blackout dates, no surge pricing
  • Book any flight in about 30 seconds
Start with Bronze
12-month commitment, billed monthly
Right for you if: you fly 2 to 4 times a year, mostly Europe, and you want to stop the panic-booking without committing to a bigger allowance yet.
Gold
£249.99
per month
£8.22 a day
18,000 miles a year. For the people who never really stop.
New York five times. Dubai, Istanbul and New York in the same twelve months. Gold earns 2x Elope XP — which compounds your allowance further the more you use it. For frequent travellers who want to never think about flight booking again.
  • 18,000 Elope miles per year
  • Earn 2x Elope XP — bonus miles compound faster
  • Miles roll over on renewal
  • Economy flights from any London airport
  • Receive and share Elope miles
  • No blackout dates, no surge pricing
Go Gold
12-month commitment, billed monthly
Right for you if: you fly six or more times a year, regularly go long-haul, and want the highest allowance plus 2x XP compounding your miles further every month.

Not sure between Bronze and Silver?

Most people who start on Bronze upgrade to Silver within three months. The reason: recommended flights make Silver's effective allowance closer to 14,000 miles a year. If you fly more than twice a year to destinations beyond Europe, Silver pays for itself almost immediately. The difference between Bronze and Silver is £60 a month — about £2 a day — for nearly two and a half times the annual miles.

Get Silver

🔒 12-month commitment, billed monthly. Miles don't expire. The price doesn't change. This is the last time you decide. After this you just fly.

For the first time

A flight service built around
your life. Not theirs.

Airlines built their pricing to extract as much as possible when you need to fly. Elope was built because that is not a reasonable way to treat people who just want to go somewhere. You know exactly how it works now. You know what it costs. You know what you get. The only question left is why you'd keep doing it the old way.

How it works

How Elope
works.

The short version. If you want the full detail, the Discover page has everything. If you want to understand the core of it in two minutes, you are in the right place.

1
Subscribe
Choose a plan. Bronze, Silver or Gold. Or start free with no card. Your Elope Miles are available immediately.
2
Get miles
Each Elope Mile is worth one real straight-line mile of flight distance. London to Rome is 890 miles. London to New York is 3,451 miles. No conversion charts.
3
Book in 30 seconds
Open the app. Type your destination. Pick your flight. Tap confirm. Your details are already saved. Miles are deducted. Confirmation in your inbox.

The miles

One Elope Mile equals exactly one real straight-line mile of flight distance between your departure airport and your destination. The miles cost the same every day of the year. There is no surge multiplier, no peak-season rate and no algorithm adjusting the price based on demand.

On Elope-recommended routes, you only spend miles on the outbound leg. The return is free. This means your annual allowance effectively goes twice as far on these routes.

Layovers never cost extra miles. If you fly London to Tokyo via Dubai, you pay the straight-line distance from London to Tokyo . not London to Dubai plus Dubai to Tokyo. You can book cheaper indirect flights without being penalised for the routing.

Unused miles roll over each month and at annual renewal. Elope does not delete your allowance to push you into buying more.

The booking

Open the app. Type your destination and dates. The available flights are shown with the exact miles cost for each. Recommended routes are clearly marked. Tap confirm. Your details are already saved from sign-up . no forms, no passport number re-entry, no upsells. Miles are deducted from your balance. Your confirmation arrives in your inbox.

The whole thing takes about 30 seconds. Most people do not believe this until they do it for the first time.

The plans

Free
£0
No card. No catch.
Explore the app and check mile costs for any destination before spending anything.
Try Free
Bronze
£69.99
per month
£2.30 a day
3,000 miles a year. Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome in the same twelve months.
Start with Bronze
Gold
£249.99
per month
£8.22 a day
18,000 miles a year. New York five times. Dubai, Istanbul and New York in the same twelve months.
Go Gold

No surge pricing. Ever.

Airlines know exactly when you need to fly . school holidays, bank holidays, peak summer . and price accordingly. Elope does not. Your miles hold the same value on Christmas Eve as they do on a grey Tuesday in February. Book when life says go.

Trusted and protected

Every booking is ATOL protected as standard. Elope is IATA Accredited, a Google Partner, and Marc Randolph . co-founder and first CEO of Netflix . is an investor and advisor. Payments are processed through Stripe.

Still got questions?

The Discover page has the full detail on every aspect of how Elope works. The FAQ page answers 33 specific questions. Or contact the team directly and get an actual reply from an actual person.

Start free. No card needed.

Explore the app, check any destination's miles cost and upgrade when you are ready.

See Silver & Gold Plans Full detail on Discover
Pricing

Stop being charged more
for flying when life tells you to.

Every mile is worth one real mile of sky. On recommended flights, the return is always free. The price never changes based on the date, the season, or how many other people want to go.

How the pricing works

You pay a fixed monthly fee. You receive Elope Miles . each one worth exactly one real straight-line mile of flight distance. You use those miles to book any flight from any UK airport on any airline. The miles cost the same every day of the year. No surge pricing. No blackout dates. No exceptions.

On Elope-recommended routes, you only spend miles on the outbound leg. The return is free. This means your annual allowance effectively goes twice as far on recommended routes.

Plans
Free
£0
No card. No catch.
Explore the app and check mile costs for any destination before spending anything.
Try Free
Bronze
£69.99
per month
£2.30 a day
3,000 miles a year. Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome in the same twelve months.
Start with Bronze
Gold
£249.99
per month
£8.22 a day
18,000 miles a year. New York five times. Dubai, Istanbul and New York in the same twelve months.
Go Gold

🔒 12-month commitment, billed monthly. Miles don't expire. The price doesn't change. The only question is why you're still deciding.

What each plan gets you in real destinations

Destination (recommended, return free)MilesBronze fitsSilver fitsGold fits
London to Amsterdam225 mi13×31×80×
London to Barcelona689 mi10×26×
London to Rome890 mi20×
London to Marrakech1,300 mi13×
London to Istanbul1,560 mi11×
London to Dubai3,400 mi.
London to New York3,451 mi.
London to Tokyo5,988 mi.

Frequently asked pricing questions

Why is there a 12-month commitment?

Elope is a startup that needs members who are genuinely committed. In return: miles that never expire, prices that never surge, and a platform that gets better every month. The 12-month commitment is billed monthly . you are not paying a year upfront.

Do unused miles expire?

No. Unused miles roll over each month and carry forward at annual renewal. Elope does not delete your allowance to pressure you into spending more.

Can I upgrade during my subscription?

Yes. Contact the team at contactus@elope.co.uk and they will sort it out.

Is the free plan actually free?

Yes. No card required. You can explore the app and check mile costs for any destination before spending anything.

Start free. No card needed.

See exactly what any flight costs in miles before you commit to a plan.

See Silver & Gold Plans Full plan details
Comparison

Flight subscription
vs booking direct.

The honest comparison. When does a flight subscription make financial sense, and when does booking direct still win? The answer is more specific than most people expect.

When booking direct wins

If you fly once a year, have complete date flexibility, never need to travel during school holidays or bank holidays, and enjoy the process of finding deals . booking direct is probably cheaper than a subscription. The savings from catching a low fare on an off-peak Tuesday can offset the subscription cost for an infrequent traveller.

Booking direct also makes sense if your trips are one-offs to destinations you will not return to . in which case building a miles allowance has less value than a single well-timed purchase.

When a flight subscription wins

The maths shift the moment any of these apply to you:

  • You fly more than twice a year
  • You ever need to fly during half-term, bank holidays or peak summer
  • You value your time . four hours per booking multiplied by several trips a year is a significant cost
  • You want the return to be free on recommended routes
  • You book last-minute and get punished for it

The time cost that never appears in the price comparison

When people compare the cost of a subscription with the cost of booking direct, they almost always compare pound figures. They rarely count the time. The average UK traveller spends over four hours searching, comparing and deciding for each flight booking. Over five years of regular travel, that adds up to three full working weeks of your life.

That time has a value. It is time you could spend doing anything else. Including actually being on the trip you spent three weeks of your life finding the cheapest route to.

The surge pricing problem

The most significant advantage of a flight subscription is not booking speed or convenience . it is that the price does not change based on when you need to fly. Airlines price by demand. School holidays, bank holidays and peak summer are exactly the moments when demand is highest and prices follow. A subscription that charges the same miles in August as it does in January is removing the most expensive feature of modern flight pricing.

ScenarioBooking directElope subscription
Off-peak date, flexible travellerOften cheaperSame miles cost
School holiday travelSignificantly more expensiveSame miles cost
Bank holiday travelMore expensiveSame miles cost
Last-minute bookingVery expensiveSame miles cost
Return flightFull priceFree on recommended routes
Time to bookAverage 4 hoursAbout 30 seconds
2–3 trips a year, some peak travelOften much more expensiveTypically breaks even on 1–2 peak trips
4+ trips a year, any mix of datesSignificantly more expensiveSubscription pays for itself quickly

The break-even calculation for Bronze

Bronze costs £69.99 per month . £839.88 per year. For a member who takes four return flights a year and at least two of those fall during peak periods (half-term, bank holidays, summer), the surge premium on those two trips alone is typically £100 to £400 per trip above off-peak prices. The subscription pays for itself on the peak-pricing saving alone, before counting the time saved or the value of the return flight being free on recommended routes.

The free plan removes the risk entirely

Elope's free plan lets you check exactly what any flight would cost in miles before you spend a penny. You can compare the miles cost with what you would pay booking direct and decide whether it makes sense for your travel pattern. No card required, no commitment.

Free
£0
No card. No catch.
Explore the app and check mile costs for any destination before spending anything.
Try Free
Bronze
£69.99
per month
£2.30 a day
3,000 miles a year. Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome in the same twelve months.
Start with Bronze
Gold
£249.99
per month
£8.22 a day
18,000 miles a year. New York five times. Dubai, Istanbul and New York in the same twelve months.
Go Gold

Check the maths for yourself.

The free plan shows you exactly what any destination costs in miles. Compare it with what you paid last time.

See Silver & Gold Plans
Help centre

Questions.
Answered.

Everything you want to know about Elope. If you cannot find what you are looking for, email us at contactus@elope.co.uk and we will reply properly.

What is Elope
What is Elope?

Elope is the UK's first flight subscription service. You pay a monthly fee and get Elope Miles, each one worth one real mile of flight distance. Use them to book any flight, from any UK airport, at any time of year.

No surge pricing. No blackout dates. No upsells. You open the app, pick the flight, confirm in about 30 seconds. Done.

Is there a Netflix for flights? Is that what Elope is?

Essentially, yes. Spotify sorted music. Netflix sorted TV. Elope sorted flights.

Instead of paying per booking and dealing with prices that spike every time life tells you to travel, you pay one monthly subscription and book any flight at a fixed miles cost. The subscription model already transformed music and TV. Elope is doing the same for travel.

Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix and Elope's first investor, backed it for exactly this reason. He built the original subscription model for entertainment. He recognised what this was immediately.
Who is Elope for?

Anyone in the UK who flies at least twice a year and is tired of the stress, the tab-switching, the prices that jump while you are deciding, and the upsell gauntlet at checkout.

Bronze suits people who take 2 to 4 shorter trips a year. Silver suits people who fly more often or want to reach further. Gold suits frequent travellers who never really stop.

Why is it called Elope?

To elope is to run away somewhere, often on impulse and without making a big fuss about it. That is exactly what Elope the service lets you do. See somewhere. Book it in 30 seconds. Go. No fuss, no faff, no fourteen tabs.

How is Elope different from a travel agent or comparison site?

Comparison sites show you prices that change by the minute and make their money from the chaos. Travel agents add markup and book on your behalf. Elope is neither.

You subscribe monthly. You get miles. You book directly through the Elope app in about 30 seconds at a fixed miles cost that never moves based on demand. There is no middleman taking a cut per booking, and there is no algorithm waiting to charge you more when you need to fly most.

The miles
What is an Elope Mile?

One Elope Mile is exactly one real straight-line mile of flight distance between your departure and destination airport. London to Rome is 890 miles on a recommended flight. London to New York is 3,451 miles.

There are no arbitrary conversion charts, no confusing point multipliers, no wondering what your balance is actually worth. You spend exactly what you see.

Does Elope have surge pricing?

No. Never. Your miles hold the same value on Christmas Eve as they do on a Tuesday in February. Same during half-term. Same over bank holidays. Same during peak summer.

Airlines know exactly when you need to fly and price accordingly. Elope does not. Book when life tells you to go. The price does not move.

Do layovers cost extra miles?

No. Elope always charges point A to point B regardless of how many stops are in between. If you fly London to Tokyo via Dubai, you pay the straight-line miles from London to Tokyo. Not London to Dubai plus Dubai to Tokyo.

This means you can book cheaper indirect flights freely. You are never penalised for the routing the airline chose.

Why is the return free on recommended flights?

On Elope-recommended routes, you only spend miles to get there. The return leg comes back to you at no additional miles cost. This means your annual allowance effectively goes twice as far on these routes.

Silver's 7,000 annual miles can take you to New York and back for 3,451 miles, leaving 3,549 miles for everything else you want to do that year. Rome, Istanbul and Amsterdam, all with miles to spare.
Do unused Elope Miles expire?

No. Unused miles roll over each month and carry forward at annual renewal. Elope does not delete your allowance at the end of the month to pressure you into spending more. If you travel less one month, those miles are still there next month.

Can I share my Elope Miles with someone else?

Yes — on Silver and Gold plans. Mile Sharing lets you transfer miles to anyone instantly. They create a free Elope account, the miles arrive, and they can book immediately. A partner who hasn't had a holiday in two years. A friend who keeps putting something off. Send them a trip instead of a gift card.

How do Elope Miles compare to airline loyalty points?

Airline loyalty points are opaque by design. Airlines can and do devalue them overnight, black out peak dates, and set redemption costs at whatever level suits their revenue. Elope Miles are transparent: one mile, one real mile of sky, same value every day.

Loyalty points are a reward for spending money with one airline. Elope Miles are a subscription you control, usable across any airline, with a fixed and predictable cost.

Booking
How do I book a flight with Elope?

Open the app. Type your destination and dates. Pick your flight. Recommended routes are highlighted. Tap confirm. Your details are already saved from sign-up, so there are no forms to fill in and nothing to re-enter. Miles are deducted and your confirmation arrives in your inbox.

The whole thing takes about 30 seconds. Most people do not believe that until they do it for the first time.

Which airlines can I book through Elope?

Elope is multi-airline. You are not restricted to one carrier. If the airline flies to your destination, you can book it. No loyalty to one airline required. No missing out because your preferred airline doesn't serve a route.

Can I book flights for other people?

Yes. Party Booking lets you book for yourself and up to 8 people in a single flow. One confirmation, done in under a minute. No juggling multiple bookings across multiple sites. Then you can get back to arguing about the hotel, which is at least more fun.

Are there blackout dates when I cannot book?

No blackout dates. Ever. You can book half-term, bank holidays, peak summer, Christmas Eve. All for the same miles cost as any other time. The whole point of Elope is that life tells you when to fly, not the algorithm.

How far in advance can I book?

You can book as far in advance as the airlines make seats available, typically up to 12 months ahead. Last-minute bookings are equally supported. If the seat is available, you can book it in 30 seconds regardless of how close the departure date is.

What is the Elope XP system?

Elope XP is an experience point system that rewards you for qualifying actions on the platform. Silver members earn 1x XP and Gold members earn 2x XP. XP unlocks bonus miles on top of your monthly allowance. Real miles you can actually book flights with, not points that expire on a tier you fell out of.

Plans and pricing
How much does Elope cost?

Free: £0. No card needed. Explore the app and check mile costs for any destination before spending anything.

Bronze: £69.99 per month (£2.30 a day). 3,000 miles per year.

Silver: £129.99 per month (£4.27 a day). 7,000 miles per year. Most popular.

Gold: £249.99 per month (£8.22 a day). 18,000 miles per year.

Paid plans are a 12-month commitment, billed monthly.

Which plan should I choose?

Bronze if you fly 2 to 4 times a year, mostly to European destinations. Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome are all reachable in the same twelve months on recommended flights.

Silver if you fly more often or want to reach further. Rome, Marrakech, Istanbul and New York are all within Silver's 7,000 annual miles on recommended routes. This is the plan most people end up on.

Gold if you fly 6 or more times a year and want the highest allowance plus 2x XP compounding your miles further each month.

Not sure between Bronze and Silver? Most people who start on Bronze upgrade within three months. On recommended flights, Silver's effective allowance is closer to 14,000 miles a year. The difference is £2 a day.
What is the 12-month commitment?

Paid plans are a 12-month subscription billed monthly. Elope is a startup and needs members who are genuinely committed. In return: miles that never expire, prices that never surge, and a platform that gets better every month.

You are also spending more than this on coffee. We both know it. That is fine.

Can I cancel my Elope subscription?

Elope operates on a 12-month commitment. If you have any questions about your subscription or circumstances have changed, contact the team directly at contactus@elope.co.uk and we will talk it through properly.

Can I upgrade my plan mid-subscription?

Yes. You can upgrade from Bronze to Silver or Silver to Gold during your subscription. Contact the team at contactus@elope.co.uk and they will sort it out for you.

Is the Free plan actually free?

Yes. The Free plan is free forever. No credit card required. You can explore the app, search destinations, and see exactly what any flight would cost in miles before you spend a single penny. Sign up, look around, and upgrade only when you are ready.

Is a flight subscription worth it compared to just booking directly?

The average UK traveller spends four hours searching per flight booking. Over five years of flying, that is three full working weeks of your life handed to comparison sites and pricing algorithms. That alone has a value.

On top of that: no surge pricing means you book when life tells you to instead of waiting for prices to drop. On recommended routes the return is free, which effectively halves the miles cost. And you never pay more in peak periods than off-peak.

Whether it works out financially depends on how often you fly and how much you value your time. The Free plan lets you check exactly what your flights would cost in miles before you commit to anything.

Airports and routes
Which airports can I fly from?

Elope currently covers London airports, excluding London City Airport. Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh and airports across the UK are joining in May 2026. Members who sign up before May will be ready to book the day their local airport goes live.

Where in the world can I fly to?

Any destination served by an airline. Elope is not limited to specific routes or regions. From short European hops to long-haul destinations like New York, Dubai and Tokyo. If a commercial flight exists, you can book it through Elope.

How many miles do popular routes cost?

On recommended flights (outbound only, return free):

London to Amsterdam: 225 miles. London to Barcelona: 715 miles. London to Rome: 890 miles. London to Marrakech: 1,300 miles. London to Istanbul: 1,560 miles. London to Dubai: 3,400 miles. London to New York: 3,451 miles. London to Tokyo: 5,988 miles.

On standard flights (both legs): double the above figures. Use the miles calculator on the homepage to check any route.

I don't live near London. Can I still use Elope?

Yes. Sign up now on the Free plan and you will be ready to book the moment your nearest airport goes live in May 2026. Elope is expanding to Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh and airports across the UK. Members who sign up before the expansion get founding member status and are first in line.

Trust and safety
Is Elope ATOL protected?

Yes. Every booking made through Elope is ATOL (Air Travel Organiser's Licence) protected as standard, on every plan, at no extra cost. ATOL is the UK government's scheme that protects your money if a travel firm fails. Your booking is covered by law.

Is Elope a legitimate, regulated company?

Yes. Elope is IATA (International Air Transport Association) Accredited, ATOL Protected, a Google Partner, and SEIS eligible. Payments are secured through Stripe. Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, is an investor and advisor.

If you want the full story, the About page covers everything.

How are payments handled?

All payments are processed through Stripe, one of the world's most trusted payment processors. Elope does not store your card details. Your payment information is handled entirely by Stripe's PCI-compliant infrastructure.

Who backs Elope?

Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. The person who built the original subscription model for entertainment. He is Elope's first investor and advisor. He backed it because he recognised the model immediately. His involvement is a signal, not a marketing line.

Elope is also a Google Partner with significant AI credits, IATA Accredited, ATOL Protected, and SEIS eligible for UK investors.

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Our story

Built by someone
who got told no
his whole life.

Elope did not start in a boardroom. It started with a lost job, a one-way ticket to Japan, and a question nobody in the travel industry wanted to answer.

Chapter one

"You can't do this."

Saqib grew up hearing that phrase more than most people hear their own name.

Dyslexia, in the schools he attended, was not treated as a different way of thinking. It was treated as a ceiling. Teachers who were busy. Systems that were not built for him. A quiet, accumulating message that certain doors were simply not going to open.

He did not accept that. Not because it was easy to reject, but because he decided early that the people saying it were talking about themselves, not about him. Limitations, he came to believe, are just opportunities that haven't been reframed yet.

He went on to build a career at Amazon, working on NHS Alexa, BMW Group, and Alexa AI. He did the thing he was told he could not do. And then, in 2018, he lost his job.

This is where most stories take a predictable turn. Person loses job, feels sorry for themselves for a bit, finds a new job. Saqib did something different. He booked a flight to Japan.
"I just needed to go somewhere. Somewhere completely different from everything that had just happened. Japan in cherry blossom season felt right. So I went."
Saqib, co-founder of Elope
Chapter two

Cherry blossoms. Then the price doubled.

The trip to Japan did what travel is supposed to do. It reset something. The cherry blossoms were extraordinary. The quiet of it. Being somewhere nobody knew him, where nothing about his old job existed. It was exactly what he needed.

He came back. He started to rebuild. And then he tried to book another trip.

The prices had doubled.

Not because anything had changed about the flight. Not because fuel costs had shifted or the airline had improved. The prices had doubled because it was now a peak period and the algorithm had decided that people who needed to fly should pay more for needing to.

That was the moment. Not some grand strategic insight in a meeting room. Just one person, sitting in front of a laptop, watching a price he could not afford appear where an affordable one had been the week before. Wondering why travel, something that had just saved him — was designed to feel like a punishment.

He started asking people around him. Friends who had never left the UK, not because they did not want to, but because airfare was a gamble they could not afford to lose. Parents who saved for months only to watch prices spike in the school holidays. The only time they could actually take their children. Students who turned down exchange programmes because the return flight cost more than their rent.

The problem was not a lack of desire to travel. The problem was that the system was built to extract money from that desire.

That single question: why should travel feel like a luxury when so many people dream of seeing the world? That question became the founding question of Elope.

3 weeks
of the average person's life spent searching for flights over five years. Not travelling. Fighting an algorithm.
£80
average surge premium paid by UK travellers for booking during peak periods: half-term, bank holidays, summer.
4 hours
average time spent per booking across comparison sites, tab-switching, second-guessing, and quiet regret after.
Chapter three

Late nights, endless drafts,
and one very badly timed email.

Saqib spent months mapping the problem. Late nights. Notebooks full of half-formed ideas. The logic was simple but the execution was not: what if you could pay a fixed monthly fee for flights, and the price of those flights never moved regardless of when you needed to take them?

He read a book called That Will Never Work, written by Marc Randolph, the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. The man who had built the original subscription model for entertainment. Saqib read it and thought: this is exactly the framework. Someone already proved that subscriptions can replace the unpredictable. They just proved it for movies. Nobody has proved it for flights.

That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph — the book Saqib read that sparked everything
The book that started it all.

He emailed Marc.

Marc replied.

He invited Saqib onto his podcast.

Saqib panicked. He ghosted the co-founder of Netflix. He simply did not respond. The person who had built one of the most successful subscription businesses in history wanted to talk to him. Saqib, in a moment of pure, honest, very human terror, said nothing.
Marc Randolph signing a copy of That Will Never Work for Saqib
Marc signing Saqib's copy when they finally met.

Months later, Marc reached out again. This time, Saqib said yes.

Those early conversations with Marc, and with his son Hunter, gave Elope something that most startups spend years trying to find: someone who had already proven that a completely new way of paying for something people love could work at scale. Marc understood immediately what Saqib was trying to do, because he had done the same thing for a different industry twenty years earlier.

Marc became an advisor. Then Elope's first investor. Others followed.

Marc Randolph. Co-founder and first CEO, Netflix. Investor and advisor, Elope.
"I built Netflix on one simple idea. People want access, not ownership. Elope is doing exactly that for travel. I saw it immediately. That's why I'm involved."
MR
Marc Randolph
Co-founder and first CEO, Netflix. Investor and advisor, Elope.
Saqib with Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix
Chapter four

The person who makes
it actually work.

Every founder who has a vision needs a co-founder who can build the thing. Saqib found that in Slawomir Chmielewski.

Slawomir is the CTO of Elope. He is the reason the app works the way it does: the 30-second booking flow, the miles calculator, the infrastructure that allows someone to confirm a flight without filling in seventeen forms. The part of Elope that feels frictionless exists because Slawomir made it frictionless.

Two people. One question. One company.

SQ
Saqib
Co-Founder and CEO

Also known as Nod or Squibs to anyone who knows him well. Grew up with dyslexia in a system that told him what he could not do. Built a career at Amazon on NHS Alexa, BMW Group, and Alexa AI, and then lost his job in 2018.

Went to Japan. Watched prices double when he tried to go back. Spent the next few years turning that moment into a company. Ghosted Marc Randolph once. Did not ghost him the second time.

Believes that the financial barrier to travel is not inevitable. It is a choice the industry made, and a choice Elope is built to undo.

SC
Slawomir Chmielewski
Co-Founder and CTO

The person who turns vision into something you can actually use. Slawomir built the technology that makes Elope feel the way it feels: fast, clean, with no upsells and no unnecessary steps between wanting a flight and having one confirmed.

He is the reason booking a flight on Elope takes about 30 seconds. In a world where booking a flight normally takes four hours, that is not a small thing.

What we believe

Travel is not a luxury.
It is a human thing.

Every time someone books a flight on Elope instead of spending four hours on comparison sites, that is time they get back. Time with people they love. Time doing the thing they were going to spend the evening trying to get to.

Every time someone books a bank holiday flight for the same miles as a Tuesday in January, that is money that stays in their pocket instead of going to an algorithm that priced their need to travel during the only week they could take off.

Every time someone transfers miles to a friend who hasn't had a holiday in two years, something shifts. Travel stops being the thing you save for and stress about. It becomes the thing you just do.

That is what Elope is for. Not just cheaper flights. A different relationship with travel entirely.

We are IATA Accredited, ATOL Protected, and a Google Partner. Marc Randolph invested because he recognised what this was. We are raising now to expand to every UK airport and prove that a subscription model for flights is not just possible. It is the only model that actually makes sense for the people doing the flying.

If you sign up to Elope, you are not just getting a flight subscription. You are being part of proving that travel does not have to be this hard.

IATA Accredited ATOL Protected Google Partner Backed by Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix SEIS Eligible

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