Well after scouring different flights and avoiding the April rip off with flights, finally got my wife and son booked to visit her parents back in the Phils.
Leaves March 30 returns May 7 with Emirates from our local airport Newcastle with good connections of 3hr 30 going and 2hr 30 return all for £698 for the both of them.
Certainly cheaper than Ethiad at £1,137 and Qatar at £1,368 so a happy chappy apart from missing them like mad, 38 days but suppose it will pass been there before...