Cheap Flights to Albuquerque (ABQ) from UK Airports

Albuquerque Cheapest Fares

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Useful Information about Albuquerque

• Typically the cheapest month to travel is October with prices around £583

• The cheapest price we have found was £509 departing the week of 28 Aug 2016 with prices averaging £520

• Airlines which offer the cheapest fares to Albuquerque include KLM, United Airlines and United Airlines with the most popular being United Airlines

• Albuquerque's time zone is -7 hours difference from the UK

• Passengers staying for 13 days and travelling on a Friday tend to find the best fares to Albuquerque

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

For over 30 years, during the first week of October and lasting for around nine days, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, one of the world’s most mesmerising attractions and the largest annual international event in America, fills the air of the New Mexico destination of Albuquerque with the magical and silent beauty of hundreds of colourful hot air balloons. Tens of thousands of visitors flock every year, from all corners of the world, to celebrate the spectacular art of hot-air ballooning.

Beginning in 1972 with just 13 balloons and which were launched from the parking lot of an Albuquerque shopping mall, the Balloon Fiesta, as it is known, grew into a festival of multiple events. It now has a 365-acre, custom-designed Balloon Fiesta Park to call its home. The main event is still the glorious Balloon Fiesta where over 700 balloons and 1,000 pilots are launched into the skies at the same time, making it the largest and most photographed festival on earth.

Children are mesmerized and left catching flies with upturned heads at the special shaped balloons such as Airabelle, the Creamland Dairy cow or the Wells Fargo Stagecoach, the Space Shuttle and the Energiser bunny flying side by side with Darth Vader. All take part in the special shapes rodeo which has, in recent years, become an important part of the fiesta. Be warned: your children will not leave you in peace until they partake in a balloon ride.