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Summer expansions for Centralwings

Centralwings will expand the number of routes that they fly from their Warsaw base for the summer 2007 season.

Throughout the next few months they will begin flying from Warsaw to Chania, Malta, Catania, Palermo, Thessaloniki, Faro, Varna, Heraklion and Rhodos.

They will also launch flights from Katowice to Rhodos and from Krakow to Lisbon.

Source: flycheapo

EasyJet with new routes!

EasyJet’s Scottish network is to be increased with a new route between Edinburgh and Dortmund. The no-frills airline will operate four flights a week from Edinburgh to Dortmund from May 30.

EasyJet will begin flying between Bristol International and Milan in two months' time.
EasyJet will operate the daily service from April 23, 2007, with single tickets starting at just £24.99 and return flights available from £42.98.
The route is expected to carry 100,000 passengers in its first year, with high demand from business and leisure travellers alike.

Sources: forbes, cheapflights

Let´s fly... by Vueling

The Spanish low cost carrier Vueling, announced that they will sell 100.000 tickets at 20€, all included.

You only have to buy your tickets between 25th February and 2nd March. These tickets are valid to fly from 25th March to 31st August.

Make your reservation now!!!

Source : Vueling

Click Air announced new routes!

Clickair, the Catalan low-cost airline, will be flying to Malta in the coming months, the airline has announced.

Malta features among the 22 new destinations that will be offered to customers flying out from the El Prat airport in Barcelona.

The airline was set up last May with 20 per cent of its capital held by Iberia, the Spanish national airline. At the time, the low-cost airline had stated its ambitions were to reach the target of carrying 300,000 passengers with five planes in 2006 rising to 10 million passengers, 30 planes and more than 70 destinations by 2008.

The airline has also announced it will start flying to Casablanca and Marrakesh in April, the first low cost flights to North Africa from a Spanish airport.

Apart from flying to Malta, the airline will also be flying to Tunis, Moscow, Helsinki, Vienna, Budapest, Warsaw and Dubrovnik and to the Italian cities of Palermo, Venice, Verona, Naples and Rome.

The airline will in all be flying to 24 new destinations: 20 international and four internal.

Source: independent

Winter timetable for Manchester launched by Monarch

Monarch has released details of its winter timetable from Manchester Airport, with increased frequencies and a new route.

The airline's winter schedule for the 2007/2008 period includes the launch of a service from Manchester to Murcia, which is set to begin operating from February 8, next year.

There will also be an extension into the winter months of Monarch's current service to Jerez and flights from Manchester to Palma recommence on February 7, 2008.

Tickets are now on sale and come soon after the airline announced details of its winter service from both Luton and Birmingham, while details of its flights from Gatwick will soon be released.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

Vueling with international base. EasyJet with new routes

Vueling
The Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling, based in Spain, are to make Paris (Charles de Gaulle) their first base outside Spain.

They have requested additional landing slots from the end of March 2007 to facilitate this.

EasyJet
EasyJet will add two new routes from their Dortmund base on 30 May 2007.

These will include flights to Edinburgh (4 times per week) and Thessaloniki (3 times per week).

Source: flycheapo.com

My Air will fly to Bucharest and Paris (CDG)

MyAirItalian low-cost airline MyAir will begin flights from Bucharest (Baneasa) to Barcelona.

Flights will begin on 01 June 2007. This will be a new departure for them because currently, all of their routes from Bucharest (Baneasa) are to destinations in Italy.

They will also begin flights from Genoa to Paris (Charles de Gaulle ). There will be flights four times per week on this route from 01 May 2007.

Source: flycheapo

Prizes Prizes Prizes

Leeds-based budget airline Jet2.com has been voted the top airline by online consumers at Reviewcentre.com.

The carrier beat competition from 170 competitors in the airline category, with more than 90 per cent of customers who reviewed the airline recommending it to others.

They were particularly impressed by the good quality customer service, reliability and value for money offered by Jet2.com, and placed it ahead of other no-frills carriers as well as full-service airlines.

Source: cheapflights

Let´s fly to...

Vueling:
Just in time for the launch of clickair at Barcelona, Spanish competitor Vueling will launch flights from Jerez to Barcelona. Vueling will begin flights on this route at the end of March 2007, whereas clickair are not due to commence flying this route until August.
Vueling will also launch flights from Jerez to Madrid at the same time. Flights are on sale at www.vueling.com.

Click Air
The recently launched Spanish low-cost airline, clickair, has launched an assault on the competition at Barcelona airport. Over the coming months they will launch 11 new routes, including flights to Verona (Villafranca), Venice (Marco Polo), Naples, Rome (Fiumicino), Pisa, Helsinki, Bucharest (Otopeni), Budapest, Vienna, Jerez and Warsaw.
They will also launch two new routes from Seville to London (Gatwick) and La Coruna.

Norwegian
Norwegian Air Shuttle will begin flights from Oslo (International) to destinations in Turkey. From the beginning of May 2007, they will begin flights to Antalya. They will also begin flights to Istanbul (Sabiha) on 02 June. These flights are already on sale at www.norwegian.no.

CentralWings
Polish low-cost airline Centralwings has announced that the three flights to Warsaw, Gdansk and Katowic will be available for booking as part of its winter 2007/08 schedule. The new routes are in addition to three times a week routes between Dublin and Wroclaw, Katowice and Gdansk, which were announced recently for 2007/08.

Easyjet
The no-frills carrier is launching a four-times weekly service from Edinburgh that will start on May 30 and is aimed at business and tourist travellers visiting Germany's sixth largest city.

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'Unlucky' airline logo grounded

The new Belgian carrier, Brussels Airlines, has been forced to change its logo following complaints from superstitious passengers.

The 13 dots making up the stylised 'b' brought a flood of complaints about the "unlucky" design.
The airline, which formally launches on 25 March, said it was taken aback by the strength of feeling and felt obliged to respond.

It has now altered the design to incorporate an additional dot.
Brussels Airlines was formed from the merger of SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express.
Brussels Airlines spokesman Geert Sciot said: "They [passengers] said they were not pleased with an aircraft with a logo with 13 balls because they think it brings them bad luck.
"We are never surprised by reactions - but that it was that bad? It really took us aback," he said.

Luckily, Brussels Airlines is not flying to China, where 14 is a definite no-no. Fourteen, or one-four, in Mandarin, sounds like the phrase "to want to die."

Source: bbc and theglobeandmail

Low cost flights to Israel may soon be available

Talks have taken place between the Israeli transport minister and representatives of both easyJet and bmi about the possibility of new flights between the UK and Israel.

According to TheMarker newspaper, Israeli Transport Minister Gideon Siterman has been in discussions with both airlines in an attempt to arrange a deal.

Although nothing has been agreed, both airlines appear keen to talk to the minister, and if the flights get the go ahead both easyJet and bmi would be pitched against British Airways.

Last year the Israeli Tourism Minister said that he hoped to see a low-cost operator offer flights from UK airports, and mentioned that he had held discussions with both easyJet and Ryanair.

Source: cheapflights

Ryanair to provide 1 million "free" flights

Ryanair, announced that it will give away 1,000,000 "free" flights "when" Ireland beat England in the 6 Nations rugby clash in Croke Park this Saturday.

Announcing the pre match incentive, Ryanair’s Peter Sherrard said:

"This is the first time that the English have been invited to Croke Park and we’ve no doubt that it will be an occasion to savour. To help the Irish team on to their 4^th consecutive victory against England, we will give away 1,000,000 free flights when they win. That way, the Irish fans can fly to England to boast about the win, while the English fans can avoid the television replays with free* escape flights!"

"The 1,000,000 victory seats will be made available from Monday morning, when we hope the whole of Ireland will have something to gloat about".

Free to an airline may not mean free to most consumers. The offer is for one way flights and excludes taxes and charges.

Source: finfacts.com

Flybe increases flights to Scotland

Low-cost airline Flybe has announced a major increase in the number of flights offered from Birmingham to Scotland.

From March 25, the Exeter-based airline will operate nine daily return flights from Birmingham to Edinburgh and from Birmingham to Glasgow.

Demand for travel between England's second city and Scotland has been consistently high for some time and Flybe is expecting considerable interest in its improved service.

Source: cheapflights

Air Southwest to begin Newquay to Cork flights

Air Southwest is to begin a new service between Newquay Airport and Cork in southern Ireland from May 4 this year.

With prices beginning at £27 one-way (including taxes), flights will initially operate three times per week on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays. From June, an additional flight will operate on Wednesdays.

The trip takes less than an hour, with flights leaving Newquay at 11.20am and touching down in Cork at 12.10pm. Coming back, flights take off at 12.55pm and land back in Cornwall at 1.45pm.

Source: cheapflights

Querelle Meridiana-AirOne: stop to the flights for Lampedusa

As from March 25, 2007, the flight towards Lampedusa island, operated by Meridiana, will be cancelled.

It will be possible to realize the last flight on March 24, 2007.

This fact is linked to the querelle between Meridiana and AirOne, the carrier that awarded the call for bids for the connection. So, Meridiana had a recourse to the administrative tribunal of Lazio (TAR) and is waiting for the verdict that should have to be pronounced within March 1st, 2007.

Source: avionews

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Aer Lingus reported to plan first base outside Ireland

Former State airline Aer Lingus is planning to establish its first base outside Ireland.

The move is said to be part of an expansion which will allow the airline to establish 15 new European routes between destinations outside Ireland. The airline has already shortlisted three airports for its first foreign hub.

A report in the Irish Independent says that according to industry sources, it is likely the base will be the first of several which will give Aer Lingus major new opportunities to increase revenue.

New Routes

Ryanair : from Granada Airport, to East Midlands Airport in Nottingham. The airline will fly the link three times a week. The company is currently offering a promotional price of 2.99 €.

EasyJet will begin flying to Brussels (International) from their Geneva base, and flights will begin on 29 June 2007. This may come as a surprise to many, because Brussels (International) is frequently avoided by low-cost airlines due to the expense of landing there.

VLM: has announced that it will be launching an extra return service between London City Airport and Manchester on March 1st.The airline announced a new service between Rotterdam and Manchester last December, which is set to begin on February 26th.

Monarch: Flights in Monarch's 2007/2008 winter schedule from Birmingham and Luton - which includes increased service on many routes - are now on sale at www.flymonarch.com.

Blue Air: Romanian low-cost airline Blue Air will begin flights from the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca to Barcelona. They will begin flying from 27 March 2007.

The new Spanish low-cost airline Clickair will go into direct competition with Vueling with their latest route announcement. From 26 March 2007, clickair will operate flights from Malaga to Bilbao, which is also a route offered by rival Vueling.

Norwegian Air Shuttle will begin flights from Oslo (International) to Palma. Their new weekly flights will begin on 12 May 2007. Tickets are on sale at www.norwegian.no.

Air Berlin will begin flights from their Berlin (Tegel) base to Gothenburg (Saeve). They will fly six times per week from 02 May 2006, and flights can be booked now at www.airberlin.com.

No-frills airline bmibaby will begin a new route from Birmingham to Jersey as part of an expansion drive at the West Midlands airport. From May 24, flights will operate four times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, with the frequency likely to increase to twice daily over the coming 12 months. There will be another new route between Cardiff and Murcia. They will fly twice per week from 27 March 2007.

Thomsonfly, Cardiff's biggest operator with a total of 27 routes, is increasing capacity to Jersey and introducing a new route to Barcelona from May 25, with a lead flight price of £22.99.

Aer Arann, which has been building up its network from Cardiff since last year with flights to Cork, Dublin, Galway and Lorient in Brittany, adds a second route to France, to Nantes, from March in time for the Rugby World Cup. The airline's typical UK flights to Nantes cost from £49 one way including taxes.

Flybe is a new base carrier at Cardiff International from May, starting out with flights to Belfast City. It is a considerably large carrier, having absorbed British Airways' regional arm, BA Connect. Its Belfast City route could cost around £20 for a one-way flight, including taxes and charges.

First Choice is seeing excellent bookings for niche products like cruise packages. It adds Kos in Greece from Cardiff this summer. Prices have not yet been announced.

Helvetic Airways... to Croatia and Macedonia

Helvetic Airways is increasing its flights from Switzerland. From May, they will start flying from Geneva to Split in Croatia. With the new weekly flight, they also want to offer Western Switzerland the first nonstop connection to Split, as well as the popular service of Helvetic Airways. At the end of March, they will also launch flights from Zurich to Ohrid.

Source: Helvetic Airways

The Last Promotion... and the Fusion!

Virgin Express will stop flying as from March 25th, 2007, after which it will make place for Brussels Airlines.

There are 25,000 seats at Eur 49.99 per person per one-way, incl. taxes.

Departing from Brussels, the destinations are: Malaga, Barcelona, Milan Bergamo, Copenhagen, Rome Fiumicino, Geneva, Hamburg, Lisbon, Madrid, Munich, Naples, Nice, Berlin Schönefeld and Valencia.

Brussels Airlines will start operating flights to Krakow, Poland, from March 30, and to Cagliari, in Sardinia, Italy, from April 27.
The Belgian national airline said there will be five direct flights a week to both destinations.

Brussels Airlines is the new brand name for the newly merged entity from the merger between SN Brussels and Virgin Express , which merged 18 months ago.

Source: VirginExpress, Forbes

Flyglobespan news...

Flyglobespan has decided to extend its flights from Liverpool to New York into its winter schedule.

The budget airline originally intended to run the route during summer only, but high ticket sales have led to an extension of the service. Daily flights from Liverpool to New York JFK take off on May 25.

Source: flightmapping.com

Aer Arann is adding seven new UK

Aer Arann is adding seven new UK routes to its network for the summer 2007 season. The Irish regional specialist is launching flights from Birmingham to Waterford, Manchester to Sligo, Bristol and Newcastle to Galway, as well as Bristol and Cardiff to Nantes.

All services will be operated by an ATR72 66-seater aircraft from varying dates in May and June. The flights will run until September.

Source: flightmapping.com

Sky Europe with new route

SkyEurope Airlines will launch three new services to Brussels, anticipating an increased demand for low-fare flights when Virgin Express ceases operations March 25 due to its merger with SN Brussels Airlines.

New flights include a daily from Vienna, a thrice-weekly from Prague and a four-times-weekly from Budapest aboard 737-700s. It also will add a fourth weekly frequency to its Krakow-BRU service.

Source: atwonline.com

Madrid becomes 17th easyJet base

Andy Harrison, easyJet’s Chief Executive, today officially opens easyJet’s 17th base at Madrid’s Barajas airport. The airline expects to carry over two million passengers from Madrid in 2007 on 18 routes - three domestic, thirteen European and two to North Africa.

Four brand new Airbus A319 aircraft will be permanently based at Madrid Airport, the largest airport on the Iberian Peninsula, from February. The initial investment of 170 million Euros will create 150 jobs for pilots and cabin crew at easyJet.

Spain is one of easyJet’s fastest growing markets. Last year easyJet launched 13 new routes to and from Spain and the airline has already announced a further 13 routes to and from Spain to be opened this year. Currently easyJet offers 79 routes from 12 Spanish airports and Spain now accounts for 29% of the total easyJet route network.

Sorce: easier.com

Aer Lingus may use Belfast as new base

The Irish Times reports that Aer Lingus is considering using Belfast as a new base from which to launch short-haul services.
The paper says the city is believed to be one of five in the UK under consideration as a new hub for the low-fares airline, which currently has planes based in Dublin and Cork.
A decision is likely to be made within three months, and services could begin next January.

The article says whichever base is chosen, Aer Lingus plans to open routes to the UK and continental Europe. Any new services would typically be of more than two hours' duration.
The paper quoted informed sources as saying Aer Lingus was considering both Belfast International Airport and George Best Belfast City Airport, which is owned by Ferrovial of Spain.

Sorce: rte.ie

VLM Airlines increases London - Manchester flights

VLM Airlines, the carrier which offers the largest number of flights from London City Airport, will introduce an additional return service to Manchester from 1st March, 2007, bringing the total of return flights to nine each weekday.

At the same time, the carrier is optimising its schedule to offer a greater number of departures at peak times, allowing business travellers more flexibility when planning their meetings in either city.VLM Airlines introduced its London City to Manchester service in September 2002.

Despite intense competition from other airlines and rail services too, passenger numbers have grown each year since 2002. The route has become an established and popular link for business people travelling between Manchester and Central London, with over 113,000 travellers choosing to use the fast and convenient service in 2006.

Source: easier

European carriers launch air services to Boston

Three new nonstop flights from European airports to Boston are starting from this March with Air Lingus opening Dublin-Boston route from March 25, Iberia flying from Madrid to Boston from May 6 and flyglobespan operating the Glasgow-Boston from May 25, 2007.

Dublin-Boston Irish airline Aer Lingus is planning on restarting its service between Dublin and Boston`s Logan International Airport starting March 25, Flights will take off five times weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. In May the service will be expanded to once daily.

Aer Lingus, also flies to Boston from Shannon. Madrid -Boston Spanish national airline Iberia will offer five times a week service to Madrid beginning on May 6, 2007 on an Airbus A340. Northwest Ireland-Boston Scottish discount carrier Flyglobespan will begin new twice-a-week flight from Ireland West Airport in Knock, County Mayo.

Glasgow- Boston Scottish discount carrier Flyglobespan will begin new daily service from Glasgow to Boston on May 25, 2007. Amsterdam--Boston USA-based Northwest will offer a second daily flight from Amsterdam to Boston on July 15, 2007.

Logan International Airport will now offer direct service from 35 international destinations, up from 23 in 2001.

Source: dominicantoday

New Routes from Cardiff

Thomsonfly, Cardiff's biggest operator with a total of 27 routes, is increasing capacity to Jersey and introducing a new route to Barcelona from May 25, with a lead flight price of £22.99.

Aer Arann, which has been building up its network from Cardiff since last year with flights to Cork, Dublin, Galway and Lorient in Brittany, adds a second route to France, to Nantes, from March in time for the Rugby World Cup. The airline's typical UK flights to Nantes cost from £49 one way including taxes.

Flybe is a new base carrier at Cardiff International from May, starting out with flights to Belfast City. It is a considerably large carrier, having absorbed British Airways' regional arm, BA Connect. Its Belfast City route could cost around £20 for a one-way flight, including taxes and charges.

First Choice is seeing excellent bookings for niche products like cruise packages. It adds Kos in Greece from Cardiff this summer. Prices have not yet been announced.

Source: icwales.icnetwork

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Centralwings with new routes

Polish no-frills airline Centralwings is expanding its network from the UK and Ireland with eight new routes.

The airline’s winter 2007-08 schedule includes new flights from Gatwick, Stansted, Edinburgh and Shannon.

The new routes, which all take off on October 28, are from Gatwick to Krakow and Warsaw, Stansted to Warsaw, Edinburgh to Warsaw, Gdansk and Katowice; and Shannon to Warsaw, Gdansk and Katowice.

They are in addition to three flights a week from Dublin to Wroclaw, Katowice and Gdansk recently announced for next winter. The airline is expected to announce further new routes over the next few months.

Source: flightmapping.com

All the latest new Routes across Europe

Flybaboo will begin flights from their Geneva base to new destinations in France and Italy from 25 March 2007. These include flights to Biarritz, Marseille and Naples.

Scandinavian low-cost airline Sterling will begin flights to Biarritz. From 14 May 2007, they will launch flights to Biarritz from Copenhagen and Oslo (International). They also launch flights between Copenhagen and Edinburgh at the same time.

The Romanian low-cost airline Blue Air will begin flights from their Bucharest (Baneasa) base to Lisbon. From 25 March 2007 they will fly twice per week.

Vueling, the low-cost airline based in Spain, will begin flying between their Madrid base and Venice (Marco Polo). Flights, will begin on 29 March 2007.

In addition to their recent announcement to make Weeze their 19th base, Ryanair will launch a further 12 routes over the coming months. These include flights from Liverpool, London (Stansted) and Pisa to Palma and Alicante, Rome (Ciampino) to Zaragoza (Spain), London (Stansted) to Zadar (Croatia), Girona to Maastricht, Dublin to Bremen and Alicante and Frankfurt (Hahn) to Palma.

The Spanish low-cost airline clickair have put a new route on sale from London (Heathrow) to La Coruna. Flights will begin on 01 April 2007. They continue to be the only low-cost airline to fly to London (Heathrow).

Transavia will launch a new route from their Amsterdam base to Ajaccio on Corsica. They will fly weekly from 28 April 2007 on this new route. They will add also, two new routes from their Amsterdam base at the end of April 2007. They will begin flying weekly to Almeria and twice per week to Olbia.

Moroccan low-cost airline Atlas Blue will add two new routes from their Marrakech base. The new flights to Barcelona and Madrid will begin from 30 March 2007.

Norwegian Air Shuttle will begin three new routes in mid-June 2007. These will include flights from their Oslo (International) base to Kos and Rhodos in Greece, and Ibiza in Spain.

If you want to go to the websites of all these airlines, check the list on the right side.

Aer Lingus to form strategic alliance with JetBlue

Ireland’s Aer Lingus is to form a strategic alliance with US airline JetBlue, marking the world’s first tie-up between two international low-cost carriers.

The alliance will enable Irish and US customers to book a single low fare ticket between Ireland and 51 destinations across the US, Mexico and the Caribbean through either of the company’s websites.

“The partnership will significantly extend Aer Lingus’ reach into North America,” the Dublin-based airline said in a statement. “Customers will now be able to make just one booking, which will allow them to travel from Ireland to the US and onto a direct Jet Blue flight to 51 destinations.”

Aer Lingus chief executive Dermot Mannion reportedly said, “It changes the face of access to North America for the Irish travelling public. It will also expose millions of US passengers to the Aer Lingus website and brand and further consolidate aerlingus.com as the premier way to book flights to Ireland from North America.”

According to media, the alliance is due to become operational in late summer.

Source: m-travel

Blue Air with new route to Lisbon

Blue Air has announced a new route. Starting on the 25th of March 2007 it´s possible to fly directly to Lisbon.

The Romenian low cost, will have two weekly direct flights Bucharest-Lisbon-Bucharest, Tuesday and Saturday.

The price of a ticket starts from 1 EURO*/per segment+ taxes.The flight schedule is the following: Tuesday and Saturday:20:15 Bucharest - 22:30 Lisbon23:15 Lisbon - 05:30 Bucharest.

Blue Air, has already 14 western european destinations from 4 Romenian cities. They are also operating a route from Bucharest to Istanbul.

Source: blueair

London air link under threat

MERSEYSIDE’S business community was last night warned that Liverpool’s direct air link to London could be abandoned unless more people use it.

City council leader Warren Bradley pleaded to business leaders to back the link, as Belgian airline VLM revealed it was closing its office base at Liverpool John Lennon Airport and switching staff to Manchester Airport.

While VLM has cut losses on its Liverpool to London City link by reducing the service to two flights a day, it is planning to increase the number of flights from Manchester to as many as 12 a day.

Last night, VLM insisted that the Liverpool service was not at risk of closure, but the company added its voice to the call for support from the business community.

Source: icnetwork.co.uk

Edinburgh to Copenhagen link from Sterling

Scandinavian low-cost operator Sterling.dk is to operate a summer service between Edinburgh and Copenhagen.

Two flights a week will be available, on Tuesday and Friday, with the first service set to take off on May 15 and be in operation until September 7.
A promotion has been launched to mark the start of the route, with one-way tickets starting from €47, inclusive of fees, and Sterling is keen to attract weekend tourists from both sides of the North Sea.

Next month Sterling will begin flights from Gatwick to Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, joining existing links to Billund, Aalborg and Copenhagen.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

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Air Berlin and dba "fusion"

Air Berlin said the dba brand will disappear from the market by April 1 once the subsidiary is fully integrated.

Air Berlin acquired dba last summer. Dba's network, check-in facilities and administration already have been combined with AB's. The airlines flew a combined 1.2 million passengers in January, up 8.7% from the first month of 2006. Load factor rose 1.9 points to 64.9%.

Source: atwonline.com

Vueling Airlines with new Madrid-Venice route

Vueling is launching daily flights between Madrid and Venice as from 30th March as a part of its international expansion. The first seats for this new route will be available on 9th February 2007.

In 2007 the airline company foresees to transport in excess of 70.000 passengers spread over 550 flights, linking Madrid and Venice.

With this new incorporation, Vueling will fly from Venice to both Barcelona and Madrid. From Madrid, Vueling will fly to 13 different destinations, 6 international (Amsterdam, Lisbon, Milan, Paris, Rome, Venice) and 7 national destinations (Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Ibiza, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Santiago). The start of the new Vueling route from Madrid to the Marco Polo airport in Venice coincides with the start of the spring season.

Source: traveldailynews.com

bmibaby’s bargains ex Birmingham, from £18.99

bmibaby's new routes from Birmingham International Airport

start from £18.99 one-way including taxes. The destinations, prices and start dates are as follows:

Aberdeen from £18.99
Glasgow (starts March 25) from £18.99
Barcelona (starts March 25) from £24.99
Lisbon (starts March 25) from £24.99

Marseille-Provence (starts March 25) from £24.99
Rome (Fiumicino) (starts March 24) from £24.99
Faro (starts March 27) from £29.99
Murcia (starts March 25) from £29.99

All fares quoted are one way, include taxes and charges and are subject to availability. There is limited availability during school holidays. Book online and pay with a debit card to escape the credit-card charges of about £4.95 per booking.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

VLM Airlines launches new route from Rotterdam to Manchester

VLM Airlines announced the launch of a new route between Rotterdam and Manchester, directly linking two major regional cities in the Netherlands and the UK. Flights will commence on Monday 26 February 2007, with the choice of two services every weekday.

With the start of the new service, VLM Airlines will increase the choice of destinations it offers from Rotterdam Airport to three. In addition to the new service to Manchester, the carrier also offers flights to London City Airport ten times each weekday, along with two flights each weekday to Hamburg.

Source: FlyVLM.com

Romania and Bulgaria set for boom in low-cost flights

The two countries are hoping to enjoy the same travel boom experienced by their fellow former-communist neighbours when they joined the EU in 2004.

As well as boosting budget travel opportunities abroad, Romania and Bulgaria hope to see a jolt to businesses in domestic tourist industries.

SkyEurope, based in Slovakia, WizzAir and a few other low-cost carriers already operate flights to Bucharest and Sofia. As of January 1, however, access became even easier. Any operator with a European Union air carrier licence no longer needs government permission to secure landing rights. That, coupled with the countries' fast growing economies, is expected to attract many more carriers.

Source: ftd.de

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EasyJet goes to Brussels

According to EasyJet’s internal newsletter, a service between Brussels and Geneva will be launched from Zaventem starting from 29 June this year.

In September the flight frequency will be increased to two flights per day in each direction, Le Soir reports.

Neither Brussels Airport nor EasyJet wanted to comment. It is well known, however, that the Brussels airport had been negotiating with EasyJet for a long time.

Source: expatica.com

Ryanair announces 16 New Routes

Ryanair Holdings PLC announced 16 new routes Tuesday and declared the airport it uses near Duesseldorf, northwest Germany, to be its 19th base.

Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said the no-frills airline would launch four new routes from Duesseldorf in June, linking northwest Germany with Alghero, Sardinia; Alicante and Palma, Spain; and Venice, Italy.

The airline said it was opening a dozen other new routes from March to June that would bring four new destinations into the Ryanair network: Palma Alicante in Spain, Maastricht in the Netherlands, and Zadar, Croatia.

Ryanair also announced it was shutting down two underperforming routes: London Stansted-Deauville, France, and Girona, Spain-Marrakech, Morocco.

Source: forbes.com

Direct flights between Bristol and Orlando take off

First Choice Airways has begun the first ever charter flights between Bristol Airport and Orlando Sanford International Airport.

The first arrival landed on February 4, operating on a Boeing 767-300 aircraft with 62 premier class and 196 economy class seats.
Weekly departures from Bristol will take off at 10am on Sundays, arriving at the Florida airport at 5pm the same day.

First Choice also flies to Orlando Sanford from East Midlands, Glasgow, Gatwick and Manchester airports.

Source: cheapflights

bmibaby’s domestic and European fares, from £18.99

bmibaby is offering one-way flights (with taxes) from £18.99 across its route network.

The cheapest seats depart from Birmingham to Aberdeen, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow; Cardiff to Belfast and Glasgow; and Manchester to Belfast and Newquay.

Several routes carry a ticket price of £21.99 one-way with taxes. These include Birmingham to Amsterdam, Knock (Ireland West) and Cork; Cardiff to Amsterdam and Edinburgh; East Midlands to Amsterdam, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Paris CDG.

Sun-holiday favourites include Alicante, Faro, Malaga, Murcia and Palma from £44.99. Depart from Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands and Manchester.

Ireland-Poland links from €29 one-way with fees

Book by Sunday, February 11: Centralwings, the low-cost Polish airline, is offering flights to Poland from Ireland from €29 one-way including taxes. The airline, which usually charges a fixed fee of €24.98 on one-way flights, has waived it for the promotion.
Fly on the following routes:
• from Shannon to Gdansk, Katowice and Warsaw
• from Cork to Krakow and Wroclaw
Promotional fares are limited.
Be flexible with travel dates to secure the cheapest flights.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

Ryanair announced results

Ryanair today announced another quarter of excellent results. Europe’s biggest low fares airline reported that net profit rose 30% to €48m., traffic grew 19% to 10.3m., yields were up 7% as total revenues increased 33% to €493m. Unit costs rose by 14% as fuel costs increased 52% to €175m.

Despite much higher oil costs, Ryanair maintained a net margin of 10% in Q3, which is significantly ahead of expectations. Ryanair now expects that net profit after tax for the fiscal year ended 31^st March 2007 (which we previously guided to rise 16% to €350m) will in fact rise by approx 29% to €390m.

RYANAIR STILL CONFIDENT ON AER LINGUS
Mr Millar said the airline was still confident that the European Commission would approve its Aer Lingus takeover proposal, as it had offered a number of competition remedies such as selling off a number of slots. The Commission is conducting a second phase inquiry which should report later this year.

Source: rte.ie and finfacts.com

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Aer Lingus with new routes to Portugal and US

Aer Lingus customers will soon be able to book flights to almost 100 US cities on the airline’s website as a result of a unique link-up with a number of US-based carriers.

From this autumn, customers who access aerlingus.com will be able to book the onward leg of their US journey at the cheapest rate complete with baggage transfer.

The airline promises to take the cheapest fare on one carrier and combine it with the cheapest on the US carrier’s website.

Meanwhile, Aer Lingus announced an increase of flights to Portugal. Lisbon and Faro (Algarve) will be the affected cities.

Source: sbpost.ie

ClickAir at Heathrow

Clickair has just become the first low-cost carrier to fly out of Heathrow: to Seville and Valencia, from £45 return. It’s part-owned by Iberia, and plans Dublin-Barcelona flights from March 1.

Source: Timesonline

bmibaby to Jersey

BMI the second largest airline at Heathrow have announced a twice daily service from it's London Heathrow hub to Jersey.

This new service which will start from 25 March re-links the island to Heathrow after British Airways pulled off the route six years ago. Huge demand is expected on the route due to the many offshore finance centres based in the island. It is also good news for the residents of Jersey who will not only have greater access for onward connections but will also be able to interline onto the other Star Alliance carriers with services from Heathrow.

BMI will face tough competiton on the route as the island is already has established services to Gatwick by British Airways and Flybe along with a daily weekday service to London City airport with VLM.

Source: justtheflight.co.uk

£10 online discount from Monarch

Low-cost airline Monarch has announced that it will be cutting £10 from the price of all return flights booked online, allowing passengers to jet off to the sun for a little less than they had previously expected.

In the wake of the increase to air passenger duty that came into effect yesterday (February 1), it will come as a welcome relief to many customers.

All routes, all dates and all fares across the airline's network are eligible for the online discount. Monarch flies to destination such as Alicante, Barcelona and Jerez from Manchester and Lisbon, Malaga and Murcia from Birmingham.

On May 3 this year, Monarch will also launch a route from Gatwick to Murcia.

A £5 discount will also apply for one-way journeys. All tickets can be booked online.

Source: cheapflights.com