Promotions !!!

SkyEurope
SkyEurope, the Slovakia-based low-cost airline, is offering flights to Eastern Europe from £19 one-way including taxes. Check the routes here

GermanWings
Fly from 19 €* including taxes, charges and fees. All routes. Check here

Vueling
100.000 seats at 20€ all inclusive. Check here

Ryanair
Fly from €/£9.99. Check here

AerLingus
Book by midnight on Thursday, March 29: Aer Lingus is having one of its regular "£1 to Ireland" fare sales. The Irish national carrier has discounted its flights to Dublin, Cork and Shannon from UK airports. Check teh routes here, all one-way flights with taxes included.

Easyjet
Book before midnight on Tuesday, April 3: easyJet is offering 25 per cent off its flights to Spain. Travel between April 17 and June 30. Check here the destinations

Wizz Air
Wizz Air’s current offers start from £28 one-way including taxes.

Monarch
Book before April 3: Monarch Airlines is cutting the price on a range of its flights to sunshine destinations like Malaga. Customers can get up to 50 per cent off two million seats.

Thomsonfly’s 48-hour sale, fly from £19.99

Offer ends at 10pm on Friday, March 30: Thomsonfly, the low-cost holiday airline, has released 200,000 seats to some of its most popular beach and city-break destinations for less than £25 one-way including taxes.

Destinations on offer from £19.99 one-way with taxes include: Barcelona, Lisbon, Venice, Prague, Salzburg, Amsterdam, Jersey and Paris.

Cities on sale from £24.99 are: Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Minorca, Dubrovnik, Ibiza, Faro, Valencia and Pisa.

Fly from several airports around the UK including London Luton and Gatwick, Manchester, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Coventry and Doncaster Sheffield. Travel until the end of June.

Pay with a debit card (Switch, Visa Debit or Visa Electron) to avoid the credit-card charges of £5 per payment transaction.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

New Low-cost airline chooses Cardiff as its base

A new budget airline operating flights across Europe is to be based at Cardiff International Airport.

The first passengers are expected to travel with company flyforbeans later this year. The airline will offer routes to several destinations including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Eastern Europe.

Up to 100 new jobs will initially be created by the venture, with more expected as the airline grows.

Managing director of flyforbeans Tim Lee said: 'Flyforbeans will be a European airline headquartered in Wales. We will be a truly low-cost airline and be dedicated to great value and excellent, friendly service.

'The flyforbeans senior management team have more than a century of experience combined in the international aviation industry.

Source: icnetwork.co.uk

And more new routes!!!

Air Berlin

Air Berlin have put a number of new routes on sale for the coming months. These include:

• Munich to Dresden, Cologne-Bonn, Bremen, Muenster and Paris (Orly)
• Dusseldorf to Dresden, Nuremberg and Berlin (Tegel)
• Berlin (Tegel) to Cologne-Bonn, Karlsruhe-Baden, Nuremberg, Frankfurt (International) and Stuttgart
• Hamburg (Fuhlsbuettel) to Nuremberg and Leipzig to Lamezia-Terme.

Meridiana
Meridiana will begin weekly flights between Cagliari and Milan (Orio al Serio) from 13 June 2007. The flights, which will operate every Wednesday, are on sale now at www.meridiana.it.

MyAir
MyAir will begin summer flights from their various hub airports to Ibiza this summer. From mid-July 2007, they will begin flying to Ibiza from Bucharest (Baneasa), Bologna (Guglielmo Marconi), Venice (Marco Polo), Bari and Milan (Orio al Serio).

ClickAir
Spanish low-cost airline clickair will begin flights from their Barcelona base to Moscow (Domodedovo).They will fly daily on this route from 01 June 2007.

Air Berlin Acquires German Airline LTU

Germany's Air Berlin PLC said Tuesday it bought Duesseldorf-based airline LTU for euro140 million in cash to expand the business.
In addition Air Berlin will assume between euro190 million and euro200 million of LTU's debt.
"Through this transaction, the Air Berlin group will become the largest airline in the most important German source market," the company said.

LTU will remain a legally independent company within the Air Berlin group, with its own management, and will retain its own name "in the foreseeable future," Air Berlin said. The acquisition makes Air Berlin the fourth largest airline for European traffic behind Ryanair, Air France/KLM and Lufthansa, the company said.
Separately, Air Berlin it agreed to buy a 49 percent stake in Switzerland's Belair Airlines AG, a unit of the Hotelplan group. Financial details were not disclosed.
"Air Berlin aims to increase its activities in the Swiss market," the company said.
Both the LTU and Belair deals are subject to regulatory approval.

Source: forbes.com

Brussels Airlines set for take off

Brussels Airlines will take to the skies this Sunday, completing the merger of Virgin Express and SN Brussels Airlines. The new carrier is promising to combine the business class services of SN Brussels with the low-cost operations of Virgin Express, as it launches flights to more than 50 European destinations.

UK airports will see see a fair proportion of the flights as routes to Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Gatwick, Heathrow and Newcastle feature on the network map of Brussels Airlines.
There will be two standards of service available. The top service, "b.flex" has been developed for business travellers and will focus on offering swift progress through airports and separate fast-track security control at busier times of the day.
For regular travellers, "b.light" is the low fare offer. One-way tickets in this class start at €49.99 (£34), including taxes.
The airline will also offer links to destinations further afield with flights to the US and Canada, the Middle East and Africa. Brussels Airlines announced earlier this month that it will begin the only direct service between Burundi and Europe.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

Foreign low-cost airlines start flying to Russian province

The Italian low-cost airline WindJet intends to start flights from Forli to Rostov-on-Don, and this will be the first ever flight of a foreign discount air transporter to Russian province. Up to now WindJet, like many other discount air companies, such as Air Berlin, Niki, Germanwings, Norwegian, Alpi Eagles, have committed flights from Europe only to Moscow and St. Petersburg.



The new weekly flight will be introduced on 3 July; tickets booking is planned to start in April. The plane will leave Forli at 9.30am and arrive to Rostov at 3pm. The tickets` cost is not known at the moment, but WindJet offers one-way flights from Moscow to Italy for 90 EUR. However, it cannot be excluded that flying from Rostov will be more expensive.

Source: russia-ic.com

And the PROMOTIONS are...

ClickAir
New routes to Marrakech and Casablanca from 30€. Check here all the promotion routes.

bmibaby
You can get up to 30% off every flight, every day. You can choose from 24 destinations and fly from four UK airports: Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester and East Midlands. Book until midnight Thursday (29th March 2007). Check here

AlpiEagles
a lot of destinations for only 55€. Check here

Blue1
Super offer for 10 days only. Book a cheap flight with Blue1 between Finland and 8 destinations in Europe. Budapest, Amsterdam, Dublin, Barcelona, London, Paris, Milan and Zurich. Check here.

Air Southwest
Air Southwest's spring and summer fares start from £27 one-way including taxes. Check here

Easyjet
One-way flights to Amsterdam at € 25.99, taxes included. Check here

WizzAir
Book before midnight on Wednesday, March 28: Wizz Air’s spring sale features seats from £28.99 one-way including taxes and charges. Look for the promotional fares on selected routes that start at £0.01 one-way excluding taxes. Check here

Monarch
Monarch Airlines is offering 30 per cent extra web discount on any flight booked online before midnight on Tuesday, March 27. This discount will lop up to £6.50 off a one-way flight (it is usually £5) and varies according to fares. Check here

FlyBe

Budget airline Flybe is offering flights from London Gatwick to Inverness from £34.99 one-way, including taxes.

Aer Lingus

Book by midnight on Thursday, March 29: Aer Lingus is having one of its regular "£1 to Ireland" fare sales. The Irish national carrier has discounted its flights to Dublin, Cork and Shannon from UK airports.

Ryanair

Ryanair is extending its “£40 million worth of savings” sale until midnight on Thursday, March 29. Fares start from £0.01 / €0.01 one-way excluding taxes and charges on hundreds of routes from around the UK and Ireland. The sale takes in Europe’s most popular beach and city-break destinations.

Aer Lingus to announce new U.S. routes Friday

Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus has announced plans to start services from Dublin to San Francisco, Orlando and Washington Dulles by the year end following today’s agreement by European Union transport ministers backing an open skies agreement between Europe and the USA.

Aer Lingus currently operates to four destinations in the US and has long sought the lifting of restrictions to expand its presence in the US market. The Irish carrier secured access to an additional three US gateways cities as part of a 2005 deal with the US related to wider open skies.

Source: flightglobal.com

Scotland to south of France flights launched

New low-cost flights from Edinburgh to Avignon in the south of France have been announced by the Jet2.com airline.

Flight prices will start from £14.99 each way excluding charges and will start from June 23rd 2007. The route will be the first direct flight to Avignon from Scotland. "Avignon is bursting with culture and historical monuments and in July the whole city buzzes with the annual Avignon theatre festival. Forever immortalised in song, the beautiful old pont d’Avignon is another must see attraction for tourists," the airline explained.

The city is also a good destination to head for to explore France's Provence region, which features vineyards, olive groves and is home to some of the country's most famous Mediterranean style of cooking.

Source: travelbite.co.uk

Thomsonfly announces 15 new routes

Thomsonfly has unveiled 15 new routes for next winter, with tickets on sale immediately.

Seven of the new routes will depart from Manchester, heading to Lisbon, Venice, Naples, Faro, Funchal, Paphos and Sharm El Sheikh. Flights to Venice will operate three times a week and prices start at £19.99, including taxes and charges.

The most expensive Manchester route, to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, will operate four times a week and ticket prices start at £79.99.

Tickets to Funchal and Paphos are both priced at £59.99 upwards, flights to Faro and Naples are priced from £29.99 and the four-times-weekly route to Lisbon is available from £27.99.

From Cardiff, Thomsonfly will operate routes to Jersey, Barcelona and Gran Canaria, with tickets priced from £19.99, £22.99 and £49.99 respectively.

There are also two new routes from Gatwick, heading to Funchal and Paphos. Both of these are priced from £59.99 and both will operate twice a week. Thomsonfly has set prices from Birmingham to Paphos at the same level.

The final new route from Thomsonfly links Luton and Jersey and will operate three times a week at a starting price of £19.99.

Source: Cheapflights

New Routes

Transavia
From 28 April 2007 Transavia will begin three new routes to the Mediterranean. They will begin flying weekly from Rotterdam to Corfu, Amsterdam to Palermo and from Eindhoven to Heraklion. These new routes are on sale now at www.transavia.com.

CentralWings
centralwings will launch a summer service from their Warsaw base to Bourgas in Bulgaria. Weekly flights will begin on 16 June 2007, and can be booked now at www.centralwings.com.

Ryanair
Ryanair will begin flying from their Frankfurt (Hahn) base to Perugia in Italy. They will fly three times per week from 12 June 2007.

Vueling
Vueling continue to expand with the announcement that they will launch 5 more new routes during May and June 2007. These include flights from Alicante to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) and Amsterdam, Madrid to Mahon, Malaga to Amsterdam and Palma to Rome (Fiumicino). These new flights are on sale now at www.vueling.com.

Germanwings
The flights of low-cost carrier Germanwings to and from Malta started few days ago. One flight from Cologne and the other from Stuttgart, landed at Malta International Airport.

Jet2
Budget airline Jet2 has launched a service between Newcastle and Gatwick, with three flights a day during the week. New Belfast to Milan route launched at Belfast International Airport.

Agreement on "open skies" finally reached

A new agreement which promises "open skies" between Europe and the United States has been signed. This should mean more competition on flights across the Atlantic.

After years of discussion a deal has been struck by the European Union's Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot and his US counterpart Mary Peters, that allows any EU-based airline to fly from any city within the EU to any city in the US, and vice versa.

Jacques Barrot said: "We have an opportunity to unlock major benefits on both sides of the Atlantic. In economic terms, this unprecedented agreement would represent a step change - it could be worth up to €12 billion in economic benefits and up to 80,000 new jobs."

But under pressure from the UK government the plans won't actually be introduced until March 2008 as questions were raised about American regulations which restrict non-US airlines from operating domestic routes in America, for example, blocking a US-based but European owned airline from offering services between New York and Los Angeles.

British Airways franchise partner, GB Airways, is to begin flights between Gibraltar and Madrid this summer.

GB Airways said it would begin a daily service on May 1 and that it would code share with Spanish carrier Iberia, with flights departing Gibraltar at 7.40pm arriving at 9pm and a return service leaving Madrid at 9.30pm arriving at 10.40pm.

GB Airways’ Kevin Hatton said: “Gibraltar is at the very heart of the airline and we are very pleased developing Gibraltar’s air services. Our partnership with Iberia is key to the development and the schedule opens up the possibility of short business trips to the Rock and the surrounding region. ”
One-way fares will start at £32 plus taxes from Gibraltar, €48 plus taxes from Madrid.

Source: cheapflights

PROMOS PROMOS PROMOS!

bmibaby
Book by midnight on Thursday, March 29: bmibaby, has discounted the price of its flights (before taxes) by up to 30 per cent. Fly from four airports around the UK to 24 destinations. Check here

Thomsonfly
Book by midnight on Tuesday, March 27: Thomsonfly has discounted more than 100,000 seats by up to 50 per cent. Travel by June 30. Check all the destinations here

Condor
Boom until 22.03 and fly from 29€ around Europe. Check here

AlpiEagles
8 Italian destinations for 55€. Fly until 14 April. Check Here

Ryanair
40 million worth of savings. Book until 22.03 and travel from 28th Mar 07 – 30th Jun 07. Click here

Blu-Express
Fly from 25€ to 50€ all inclusive. From italy cities to France and Italy. Check here

FlyLAL
Check here all the destinations.

GermanWings
All routes from just 9€. Book from 6pm on Thursday until midnight on Sunday and fly from 2 April until 30 April 2007.

Vueling
100.000 seats at 20€ all inclusive. Buy from 22nd to 30th March. Check here

SmartWings expansion!

SmartWings will expand their operation considerably for the upcoming summer season. They will add flights from the Czech Republic cities of Brno and Ostrava.

They will become the first low-cost airline to operate flights to Ostrava, the largest Czech regional airport. From June 2007, they will begin flying from Ostrava to Thessaloniki and Girona. They will also fly from Brno to Girona. Also during the summer season, they will expand the number of flights that they operate from their Prague base. From the beginning of June they will begin flying to Kavala, Kalamata, Rhodos, Ibiza and Faro.

Source: FlyCheapo

And...More New Routes!

WindJet
Italian low-cost airline WindJet will launch new routes to Russia at the end of April. From 29 April 2007 they will begin flying from Verona (Villafranca) and Catania to both Moscow (Domodedovo) and St. Petersburg.

GermanWings
Germanwings will begin flying from Dortmund from 21 June 2007. They will begin flights to Palma, Ibiza, Faro, Istanbul (Sabiha) and Vienna.

Blu-Express
Blu-express, the low-cost airline based in Italy, will begin flights to Pantelleria. They will fly twice weekly to Pantelleria from their Rome (Fiumicino) base from 21 April 2007.

Air Berlin
Air Berlin will launch three new routes in May 2007. These include Stuttgart to Vienna, Munich to Athens and Berlin (Tegel) to Stockholm (Arlanda). They are on sale now at www.airberlin.com.

Vueling
Spanish low-cost airline Vueling continue to put on new routes at their first non-Spanish base. They have announced three new routes from Paris (Charles de Gaulle) including flights to Venice (Marco Polo) and Rome (Fiumicino) (from mid-May 2007), and also flights to Ibiza (from the end of June). These flights are available to book at www.vueling.com.

Sterling
Scandinavian low-cost airline Sterling will begin direct flights between Edinburgh and Stockholm (Arlanda). They have previously operated flights via Copenhagen on this route, but will launch direct flights for the summer season from 28 May 2007. Tickets can be booked now at www.sterlingticket.com.

Meridiana

Meridiana, the low-cost airline based in Italy, will begin flights to Trapani from 01 April 2007. They will begin flying from both Palermo and Pantelleria. Flights can be booked now at www.meridiana.it.

Air Berlin set to absorb DBA into its business

From the beginning of April, German-based Air Berlin will move to incorporate the operations of recent acquisition DBA into its business.The airline bought DBA, a former subsidiary of British Airways, in August 2006 as the rapidly expanding operator looked to establish itself in Europe.

Air Berlin has now said that from April 1 the DBA livery will disappear and be incorporated into the company's red colour scheme. The two airline's systems have also been brought together to ensure fares, baggage allowance and services are in line with each other.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

Spanish low-cost confirms Malta-Barcelona route

Malta will be among 24 new destinations to which Catalan low-cost airline Clickair will fly from its Mediterranean hub in El Prat airport, just outside Barcelona.Clickair chairman Carlos Losada announced the new routes, which also include North Africa, Italy, Moscow and Helsinki, in a presentation to Barcelona’s airline development committee earlier this week. The service is expected to start in June.

Clickair will be the fourth low-cost airline to land in Malta, where Irish carrier Ryanair already operates to Dublin, Pisa, and London Luton, and Italian carrier Meridiana flies to Bologna. Germany’s low-cost carrier Germanwings will shortly commence flights from Cologne and Stuttgart.

Source: maltatoday

Low-cost carriers storm Bulgarian market

Low-cost air carriers will expand their operations in Bulgaria even before the start of the 2007 tourist season. UK Sterling and Germany's Germanwings are already starting to service fights to and from Bourgas, while Wizz Air, Sky Europe and Norwegian Air Shuttle will follow suit in the summer.

The local aviation market is already shifting towards the coastal cities, Kalin Barzov, executive director of the Bourgas airport, said.

Source: focus-fen

AlpiEagles will fly to Cluj

Italian low-cost airline AlpiEagles will begin flights from their Venice (Marco Polo) base to the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca.

They will fly twice per week from 01 August 2007.

Source: flycheapo

PROMOTIONS!!!!

ClickAir
With 6 new Italian destinations, you can choose a lot of destinations for 20€ each. Check here.

bmibaby
It's bmibaby's fifth birthday and to celebrate they are offering you up to 50% off our lowest fares (taxes and charges not included).

Ryanair
£40 Million Worth of Savings! Check here

Vueling
It´s Easter time... up to 20% discount. Check here

AlpiEagles
National flights (Italy) for 50€ and international flights for 99€. Check here

SkyWays
23000 tickets for 48€. Check here

Monarch
Monarch offers up to £15 off return flights. Up to £15 off 1 Million return flights. Travel from April to 26 July 2007. Check here

Transavia will begin flights fom Oporto to Paris

Transavia, the Dutch low-cost airline, will begin flying from Oporto to Paris (Orly).

They will fly twice per day on this route from 12 May 2007. This announcement appears surprising, given that they do not currently fly to either airport. Flights can be booked already at http://www.flycheapo.com/out/transavia.

Source: flycheapo.com

Free holiday to Italy in Ryanair Mother's Day offer

Ryanair is getting ready for "the mother of all giveaways" this week, with a free Italian holiday up for grabs.
With Mother's Day on Sunday, the low-cost airline is giving away "free" (pay the taxes and charges) flights and a hotel package to Italy so that devoted sons and daughters can give their mum an extra special treat.

In order to enter, people must send a poem or story to mothersday@ryanair.com explaining why their mother in particular deserves a trip away. Entries must include the contact details of both the entrant and the nominated mum.
The winner will receive a weekend for two in Bergamo, Italy, and ten runners-up will receive "free" one-way Ryanair flights.
"Forget cards and flowers - win your mother a gift she'll appreciate this year," said the airline's Peter Sherrard.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

flyglobespan cancels flights before they start

A new summer flight to the Costa Blanca by low-cost airline flyglobespan has been cancelled before its first take-off.
The airline announced in October it would be starting flights to Murcia from Aberdeen on Sundays and Wednesdays from April 29.
But it removed the Wednesday flights from its website without warning on Wednesday and confirmed to callers they would not be going ahead "for technical reasons".
A spokesman at Aberdeen Airport said they had not yet been told officially the flights had been cancelled.
Last night, flyglobespan confirmed it was a lack of passengers which had prompted the decision which has left some travellers furious.

Source: theherald

PROMOTIONS !!!

SkyEurope
Book by Monday & fly from MANCHESTER with 2 for 1! Check Here

Ryanair
Fly from 14€/£. Book until 15.03 and Travel from 22nd Mar 07 – 30th Jun 07. Check Here

Alpi Eagles
Flights from Italy to Italy and Europe for 50€ incl. tax. Check Here

Flybe
31 new routes at low prices. Check Here

Ryanair to fly to major airports... and the free flights

The new strategy

Low-cost airline Ryanair is to begin flying to major airports, signalling a new chapter in the development of no-frills flying.
Carriers such as Ryanair and easyJet have traditionally adopted a low-cost model whereby they fly to and from secondary airports such as London Stansted, where airport charges are lower.Other such airports include Glasgow Prestwick, Frankfurt Hahn and Barcelona Girona - the latter being in fact around 145 kilometres from Barcelona. Passengers are advised to always double-check the location of their destination airport to avoid any shocks.

...and the free flights
Ryanair says it will give away 100,000 free flights for every Irish winner at this year’s Cheltenham Festival.
The flights will be one-way, and the ‘free’ offer excludes taxes and charges.
Head of communications Peter Sherrard said: "As a big thank you to the 25,000 passengers who have chosen Ryanair to fly to and from this year’s festival, we will give away 100,000 free flights for every Irish winner and double that number if last year’s record of 10 Irish winners is beaten."

Go IRISH!!!

Source: sbpost.ie, cheapflights.co.uk

And the new routes are...

AlpiEagles

Italian low-cost airline AlpiEagles will begin flights to Kiev this summer. They will operate a summer service from their Venice (Marco Polo) base beginning on 01 August 2007. This will make them the first low-cost airline to fly to the capital of Ukraine. Later this month they will also launch flights to the Moldovan capital Kishinev.

Flybe

Flybe is to launch a new service between Cardiff International and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport from April 29. The new route comes as part of the deal which saw the airline complete the acquisition of the former British Airways franchise BA Connect last week, establishing itself as leading operator in Europe. Two flights a day will be offered during the week, with a single flight on Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices on the Cardiff to Paris service will start from £34.99 one-way including taxes and charges.

Transavia and Meridiana with new routes!

Transavia
Transavia will launch a number of new routes for summer over the next few months from their Amsterdam base. These will include flights to Seville, Corfu, Heraklion, Calvi and Catania. They can be booked now at www.transavia.com.

Meridiana

Bologna is just one flight away for the Maltese traveller. Low-cost Italian airline Meridiana will start operating flights twice a week from the last week in March until September.

Good bye Air Scotland

Air Scotland, the low-cost airline based in Scotland, ceased operating during February. Oddly for a low-cost airline, they appear to have disappeared without trace and there was no formal announcement that they would cease operations. We have been unable to find any information about what should happen to passengers who have booked tickets.

The airline, registered in Greece, was previously licensed by the Greek Civil Aviation Authority. It is believed that they have had their operating license suspended, and therefore, cannot continue flying.

Source: FlyCheepo

PROMOTIONS!!!

FlyBe
Up to 50% on selected routes. Check Here

Sterling
Copenhagen from 27€ and Oslo from 47€. Check Here to see other destinations.

ClickAir
Fly from Spain to all ClickAir destinations from 20€. Check Here

Germanwings
During the “Crazy Days” special offer which runs from 6pm on 8 March until midnight on 11 March (all times CET) Germanwings is offering an extra 200,000 flights from €0*. Click Here

AirBaltic
airBaltic announces the Spring sale. Only this weekend, only three days! 30 000 cheap tickets for Your journeys in the spring! Check all the routes here

Ryanair
Fly cheaper to Ireland. Book until midnight 08.03 and travel until 30.06. 9,99€ taxes included.

Thomsonfly
Book by midnight on Tuesday, March 13: Thomsonfly has put thousands of seats on sale from £19.99 one-way including taxes. Travel until the end of June to the following destinations: Lisbon, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga, Faro, Alicante, Palma, Ibiza, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. Check Here

MyTravelLite
1000s of flights available to Ibiza, Majorca and Menorca with an extra £10pp off all return flights.

Blu-Express
Flights from 40€ around Italy Lyon and Nice. Check Here

New Routes!!!

Norwegian

Norwegian Air Shuttle will begin flying from Stockholm (Arlanda) to Paris (Orly) on 04 May 2007 and will fly four times per week on this route. Tickets can be purchased now at www.norwegian.no.

Ryanair

Ryanair, announced a new route from London Stansted to Maribor, Slovenia's second largest city. The flight will operate 3 times weekly from Jun. 5 and will deliver 40,000 passengers in the first year of operation. This brings the total number of low fare routes on offer from London Stansted to 96 and the number of countries in the Ryanair network to 25.

Vueling

It´s confirmed. Vueling Airlines said its first international hub and third base (after Madrid and Barcelona) will be at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
In a statement, Vueling said the new hub will open May 16 with three new Airbus A-320s and new international routes to Milan, Amsterdam and Seville.

Source: marketwatch, abcmoney

Ryanair with new route and a great "gift"!

Ryanair links Knock to Notts

A NEW route from Ireland West Airport Knock to Nottingham East Midlands took flight last week.
Ireland’s largest airline, Ryanair, commenced the route last Tuesday afternoon at 3pm. They expect to bring 60,000 extra passengers year-ly through the Knock airport. Flights to the central England destination will take-off four times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

The "gift"
In a Scottish "first", on Thursday Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline, is giving away free flights, free holidays and even free cash to Glaswegians, and handing out the goodies is a lovely leggy leprechaun!"No-one walks away empty-handed provided they come along with a poster," says UK Sales Manager Caroline Baldwin."All people have to do is come along to outside the main entrance of the Buchanan Galleries Shopping Centre on Buchanan Street on Thursday lunchtime with a poster of any size or description saying why they love Ryanair, and they will receive a fantastic prize...guaranteed.""No ifs, no buts - free cash, free flights and free holidays from Ryanair. No-one with a poster leaves empty-handed. Be there!"

Source: easier.com

PROMOTIONS!!!

SkyEurope
Flights to Krakow for £ 19 incl. tax. Fly direct from: Manchester and Birmingham. Check Here

Alpi Eagles
Flights from Italy to Italy and Europe for 50€ incl. tax. Check Here

EasyJet
Easter's arrived early at easyJet with up to 25% off all flights! To bag a bargain you must book before midnight Tuesday 6 March 2007 for flights departing 14 March to 30 June 2007.

Ryanair
Fly Cheaper to Europe. Book until 08.03.07 and travel from 13th Mar 07 – 30th Jun 07. Check Here

Poland with NEW routes

Norwegian

Scandinavia's largest budget airline Norwegian is to begin flights between Birmingham and Warsaw from April 17.
The airline will at first offer three flights a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with a departure time from Birmingham of 11.25am, arriving in Warsaw at 6.55pm. Flights from Warsaw will set off at 1.20pm and get into the Midlands airport at 2.55pm.
However, the service will change from May 4, with flights operating on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Flight times will also be changed with a departure time from Birmingham of 8.45am, arriving in Warsaw at 12.20pm. Flights from Warsaw will depart at 6.40am and land at Birmingham at 8.15am.
Norwegian currently offers a number of services from the UK including flights to Bergen from Manchester and Stansted airports.

easyJet
No-frills airline easyJet PLC said it is launching flights between London Gatwick and Krakow in Poland this autumn.
The Luton-based carrier said the new daily service to the historic city in southern Poland will begin on Oct 5. The move increases easyJet's total number of routes from London Gatwick -- the budget airline's largest base -- to 38.
It currently runs services to Krakow from Bristol, London Luton and Liverpool and will launch flights from Newcastle on Mar 30 and from Belfast on Apr 24.

Source: cheapflights, forbes

Flybe announces 11 new routes

Low-cost airline Flybe has completed its acquisition of BA Connect and has announced 11 brand new routes.
It will take over BA Connect flights from Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Gatwick and other airports, and promises average savings of £19 per passenger.
As well as this, the airline will launch the following new routes over the coming months:

Manchester to Bergerac (from May 3, priced from £39.99 one-way, including taxes), Guernsey (from May 24, priced from £34.99), Limoges (from May 24, priced from £39.99) and La Rochelle (from May 22, priced from £39.99)
Gatwick to Bergerac, beginning May 12, with prices from £42.99
Cardiff to Paris, starting April 29, with prices from £34.99
Southampton to Paris (from March 25, priced from £39.99), Isle of Man (from March 25, priced from £36.99), Frankfurt (from March 25, priced from £34.99)
Edinburgh to Rennes, from May 26, priced from £47.99
Guernsey to Norwich, starting on March 25, with fares from £44.99

The BA Connect takeover will see Flybe operating more flights from airports such as Birmingham, Manchester, Gatwick and Glasgow.
Examples include Gatwick to the Isle of Man from £44.99, Manchester to Edinburgh from £29.99 and Birmingham to Milan from £49.99.

Source:cheapflights.co.uk

New Routes

centralwings
centralwings will begin new flights from their Warsaw base to Malaga. They will fly weekly on this route from 30 April 2007. Flights can be booked at www.centralwings.com.

Norwegian
Norwegian Air Shuttle have announced that they will begin flying from their Warsaw base to Birmingham. They will fly three times per week from 17 April 2007. They will also launch flights from Stavanger to Berlin (Schoenefeld) at the beginning May. Tickets for both of these flights are already on sale at www.norwegian.no.

clickair
clickair will begin yet more new flights from their Barcelona base in the coming months. From 01 April 2007, they will launch flights to Casablanca and Marrakech in Morocco. From the beginning of May they will also launch flights to Palermo and Marseille.

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"The End" for Fly Me

Swedish budget airline FlyMe has ceased operations, grounding all its jets and leaving passengers stranded at airports around Europe.

In a statement, the airline's board of directors said they had failed to raise enough money to ensure the continued operation of flights which resulted in them filing for bankruptcy.
Danish airline Sterling.dk is offering passengers flying on international routes the option of a discount on a replacement ticket, while those people stranded overseas will be offered a free ticket home where seats are available.

FlyMe started operations in 2004 and offered flights to about a dozen European destinations, including a service between Stansted and Gothenburg.

Source: cheapflights.co.uk

What's new with Europe's top low-fare carriers?

"It's no secret that flying Europe's no-frills, low-fare airlines is a popular—and cheap—way to get around the Continent (and not just for the student crowd, either).

The demand is such that more than 45 carriers have sprouted up to serve Europe. With the peak summer travel season just around the corner, now's a good time for a refresher on Europe's most popular low-fare carriers, and a look at what's new with each."

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