Just some info if you want to get back to the Philippines and don't mind adding 1 day / flight onto your trip.

I have flown from BUD and back to LHR and the price dropped dramatically (over a £300 drop in a standard return ticket) with no problems.

I have been playing around and if you fly from most places in Europe and back to the UK you can save a some good money. You need to find out where you can get to cheaply as sometimes the saving is not worth it, for me I collect Avios so I can fly to most places in Europe for £15.

Currently if you fly from Paris, Rome or Milan to Manila and back to london you can do this for around £450 return with Air China. If you are flying via a low cost airline you should be able to do this for less than £500...

An example is here: http://d.pr/i/rT8z

Depending on the airline and their routes depends on the price, the cheapest I have had is £160 to Hong Kong with Turkish Airlines (about 4 years ago) and £251 to Hong Kong in May 2012 with Qatar Airways. You need to play around, and also look at stop overs to get the price down... (I don't always fly to the Philippines direct, I normally stop in SIN, KUL, BKK or HKG as it's normally cheaper even with the extra flight).

I hope that some people who don't mind breaking their journey to the Philippines can save some money...

Chino