17 December 2009
Flyglobespan ends its operations with immediate effect!
The Scottish low-cost carrier Flyglobespan announced today its bancrupcy and the end of its operations with immediate effect. The airline has been bringing no profits. Last year ended with 17 million GBP loss. The immediate withdrawal of operations left many passengers without transport back home in many places in Europe. Some other low cost airlines have already offered its help. Flyglobespan was operating flights from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen to many Mediterranean curorts. Todays information is a bad news aspecially for Aberdeen airport which has lost its all Mediterranean direct destinations. It is likely that the abandoned routes will soon be taken by other competition airlines at all three Scottish airports.
9 December 2009
Big Ryanair's route network correction
The Irish low-cost carrier has withdrawn many services from its UK's bases. The most routes lost Birmingham and Manchester which no longer hosts Ryanair's Boeing as a base. The withdrawn flights from Manchester include the following destinations: Brussels-Charleroi, Milan-Bergamo, Bremen, Barcelona-Gerona, Dusseldorf-Weeze, Frankfurt-Hahn and Marseille. From Manchester Airport, Ryanair is operating only one flight to Dublin. Birmingham has lost flights to: Frankfurt-Hahn, Marseille, Olbia (Sardegne), Oslo-Torp, Poitiers and Trapani (SIcilly). There were also some services withdrawned from Liverpool, Dublin, London Gatwick, Shannon, Bournemouth and Edinburgh.
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3 December 2009
New route from London Luton to Riga by Wizzair
Biggest Central-Eastern Europe's budget airline Wizzair announced today entering Latvian market and opening three destinations from Riga: London Luton, Oslo Torp (Norway) and Turku (Finland). The carrier joins Ryanair in competition. Ryanair is already linking five British destinations from Riga: Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham, Prestiwick and Stansted. The flights from London Luton to Riga will commence on 30th March 2010 and will be operated three times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) leaving Luton at 2:05 pm and returning at 8:10 pm.
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30 November 2009
No £0 fee Visa Electron Payments at Ryanair, new free MasterCard option
Ryanair announced the end of free Visa Electron payments. Instead the airline introduces a new no-fee MasterCard pre-paid card option. The £0 Visa Electron payments will be suspended on 1st January 2010. A new free MasterCard offer will be available from 1st December. Keeping a no-fee ticket purchase option is a good news for £0.01 ticket promo "hounters", since such low price was only possible thanks to Visa Electron free payment.
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25 November 2009
Ryanairs 37th base at Oslo Rygge and new link to Dublin
Ryanair announced yesterday opening a new base at Oslo Rygge Airport (40 miles south from Oslo). The carrier plans to base there 3 aircraft and gain 1.7 million passengers in 2010. Ryanair has already been flying from Oslo Rygge to London Stansted. Yesterdays announcement included also 16 new routes from the new base. The new destinations include the following: Aarhus, Berlin Schonefeld, Dublin, Weeze, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Krakow, La Rochelle, Malaga, Memmingen, Palma, Paris Beauvais, Riga, Wroclaw, Valencia and Treviso.
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24 November 2009
FlyBe starts codeshare with Etihad and adds Isle of Man - Bristol
FlyBe, biggest regional airline in Europe, has announced starting new flights from Isle of Man to Bristol. The service will commence on 30th March 2010 with three flights a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays). The flight will leave Isle of Man at 10am (10:25am Sundays) and return back from Bristol at 2pm (2:25pm Sundays). The carrier is now selling tickets for this route in promotional price 59.98GBP (including taxes). FlyBe has also signed codeshare agreement with United Arab Emirates national carrier - Etihad. This will allow comfortable connecting flights from many regional FlyBe's airports in UK using Manchester and Dublin airports as transfer points to Abu Dhabi and further to many destinations around the world.
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19 November 2009
Ryanair reopens flights from Bristol to Gdansk
The airline has reopened the link between Bristol and Gdansk (northern Poland). This route used to be served by Ryanair and easyJet in past. Due to low passenger numbers it was closed. Seems that the demand is back and Ryanair wants to give it another try. The service will start on 1st April 2010. The time schedule and frequency is not yet known, but we can expect 2-3 flights a week.
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18 November 2009
£1.00 Ryanair promotion!
Christmas promotion in Ryanair! The airline is offering £1.00 (including all charges) tickets on chosen 400 routes! Tickets have to be purchased with at least 14 days advance. To avoid any additional charges the purchase has to be done with Visa Electron card, the passenger has to check in on-line and travel with hand luggage only. The booking periond is: 16 Nov. - 20 Nov. (hurry up! - finish on Friday). The travel period is: 14 Dec. - 28 Feb. Good luck with low-fare hounting!
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18 November 2009
Two new Ryanair routes for two scottish bases
The largest UK's budget airline Ryanair announced today opening two new routes from bases in Scotland. The new services include: Edinburgh - Tampere and Glasgow Prestwick - Carcassonne. For Edinburgh it is 5th Ryanair link with Scandinavia and first link to Finland. Tampere is already served from Stansted and Dublin. Glasgow Prestwick gets another southwards destination. Carcassonne, located in southern France, will be the third french city airport served from Prestwick, following already operating routes to Beauvais and Marseilles.
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04 November 2009
FlyBe reopens flights from Norwich to Guernsey
Regional British budget airline FlyBe reopens service from Guernsey to Norwich. Both destinations are FlyBe-only airports. Its 9th new direct connection for Norwich and 7th for Guernsey. The new route takes off on 15th May 2010. It is once a week service only, departing Norwich at 13:20 and leaving Guernsey at 15:10.
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02 November 2009
Ryanair announces flights from Edinburgh to Bordeaux
Ryanair enters 26th airport in France. From 31st March 2010 the Irish low-cost airline will operate flights from Boredaux. First four destinations include: Edinburgh, Bologna (Italy), Charleroi (Belgium) and Porto (Portugal). The flights from Edinburgh will depart four times a week (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun) at 12:50. The return flights will depart from Bordeaux the same days at 16:30.
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19 October 2009
EasyJet starts flying Luton - Belfast City
EasyJet opens its first service from Belfast City Airport. The carrier is already operating at Belfast International Airport which is located further from the city centre. New flights between Luton and Northern Ireland's capital will commence on 7th January 2010 and will operate from Luton twice a day at 7:00 and 18:15 (Sundays 15:25 and 18:55). EasyJet will compete at Belfast City Airport with Ryanair which flies fo Stansted and with Flybe offering service to Gatwick.
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30 September 2009
Iceland-Express announced Europe - New York flights!
Icelandic budget airline Iceland-Express announced today adding New York to its route network from next summer! What's significant, it means the first low-cost airline will serve transatlantic flights (with stopover in Reykiavik). The airline will offer connecting flights from many European cities served by them already. In summer 2010, Iceland-Express will offer nine weekly flights to Iceland from London Gatwick and one weekly flight from Birmingham. The carrier is also flying to such European destinations as: Copenhagen, Barcelona, Geneva, Milan, Paris, Warsaw, Oslo and many other.
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30 September 2009
Flights from London Gatwick to Dusseldorf by easyJet
EasyJet adds London Gatwick - Dusseldorf route to its network. This daily service will commence on 2nd February 2010. EasyJet will compete with Flybe which already flies 18 times a week on this route. Dusseldorf is a main airport of Ruhr - the biggest industrial and business area in Germany. Dusseldorf International Airport is located in reasonably short distance from such cities as: Duisburg, Koln, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Essen or Oberhausen. Ryanair has its well developed base at (Dusseldorf) Weeze Aiport which offers cheaper landing fees, however has much less convenient location.
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30 September 2009
Wizzair opens base in Wroclaw
Biggest Central-Eastern Europe budget airline Wizzair bases a plane in Wroclaw and announces eight new destinations which include Cork and Doncaster-Sheffield. Both cities will be served twice a week. Wizzair is using only one type of aircraft - Airbus A320. Wizzair is the airline which serves the biggest number of destinations in Doncaster (also flights to Warsaw, Gdansk, Katowice and Poznan). Wizzair also serves all of its five bases in Poland from Cork.
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23 September 2009
Iceland-Express to fly London Gatwick - Akureyri
Icelandic budget airline Iceland-Express announced opening a new route from UK to Iceland. The new service will operate once a week from London Gatwick to Akureyri in northern Iceland. This creates the alternative to Reykjavik which is already served from Gatwick and Stansted airports. Akureyri is located in remote region known from outstanding natural beauty. So far, Iceland-Express was flying only to Copenhagen from this remote destination. Flights from UK to Iceland are becoming more and more popular among British tourists. Iceland-Express is frequently offering promotional fares which start from 59 GBP one way.
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23 September 2009
Three new destinations from Edinburgh by Jet2.com
Jet2.com opens three new routes from its Scottish base at Edinburgh Turnhouse Airport. The new routes: Dalaman (Turkey), Dubrovnik (Croatia) and Faro (Portugal) have been already served by FlyGlobespan. The competing airline has already cancelled Dubrovnik connection but it's going to be a tough competition on Faro and Dalaman routes. The added destinations are very popular holiday resorts. Edinburgh Airport became 3rd biggest Jet2.com's base (behind Leeds-Bradford and Manchester) serving now 15 cities.
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22 September 2009
Legendary 1p flights sale by Ryanair
Biggest UK/Irelands budget airline Ryanair is sarting today its classic 1p sale. The flights can be booked only until midnight tomorrow (22-23 September). The travel period in promotional fares is 6th October - 10th December. There are also some other limitations regarding this promotion. The flights can be booked only for Tuesdays, Wednesays and Thursdays. The pasenger can have only hand luggage and has to check-in online. Another limitation is a payment made with UK's Visa Electron card. There are many routes available in promotion. From the airline's biggest base in Stansted, 1p destinations include for example: Genoa, Linz, Toulon, Oslo Torp, Oslo Rygge, Bologna... Almost all airports in UK and Ireland has at least few 1p destinations available.
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17 September 2009
Seventh birthday of Norwegian Air Shuttle
The biggest Scandinavian budget airline Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian.no) is seven years old! The airline started operations in 2002 with four domestic routes in Norway. The numbers of passengers flying with Norwegian were growing year to year. In 2008 the airline carried 9,1 million passengers. Those numbers are still groving this year in spite of crisis in air-travel industry. Norwegian owns 45 aircrafts and awaiting 58 more until 2014. The route network of the carrier is spread all over Europe including almost 200 routes and 90 airports. Last year Norwegian opened services to Dubai from Oslo and Stockholm, becoming the first European budget airline operating flights to United Arab Emirates. The airline has its bases in Norway (ie. Oslo Gardermoen, Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim), Sweden (Stockholm Arlanda), Denmark (Copenhagen and Aalborg) and Poland (Warsaw). Norwegian operates flights from Gatwick, Stansted, Edinburgh and Dublin.
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16 September 2009
Two new Ryanair bases in Italy
The biggest European budget airline Ryanair announced yesterday opening two new bases in southern Itlay: Bari and Brindisi. However, non of added routes connect UK or Ireland. The airline already operates flights to Bari and Brindisi from London-Stansted Airport. Nine new routes from Bari were announced: Cagliari, Charleroi, Karlsruhe, Genova, Paris Beauvais, Trapani, Treviso, Valencia, Weeze. Four new destinations from Brisdisi include: Eindhoven, Gerona, Trapani, Treviso. Again, budget airline puts attention on Southern-European holiday destination preparing for summer 2010 season.
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10 September 2009
Monastir (Tunisia) - new destination on the map!
Thanks to Jet2.com, the map of budget airlines destinations available from UK has added a new destination in new country. Monastir is a popular holiday resort located on eastern coast on Tunisia. Monastir is a destination served mostly by charter airlines. Jet2.com is a first UK budget carrier providing regular flights to this Tunisian resort. The airline offers direct flights to Tunesia from Manchester, Leeds-Bradford and Newcastle.
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10 September 2009
Bmibaby developes East Midlands base after easyJet's withdrawal
The Middle-England's budget airline bmibaby has announced opening 8 new services from their Nottingham East Midlands base. The new routes include flights to: Dubrovnik (Croatia), Bastia (Corse), Alghero (Sardegna), Barcelona, Malta, Venice, Cork and Newquay. The decision was followed by easyJet's intention to withdraw almost all services from East Midlands airport. Bmibaby reacted immediately, taking empty slots after easyJet. After those changes, bmibaby is now serving three routes (Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham) from Newquay airport joining Flybe with the number of destinations.
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10 September 2009
Wideroe - new airline on Flyography.co.uk
Norwegian airline Wideroe has been added to Flyography. The airline serves 4 routes between UK and Norway. That incudes: Aberdeen - Bergen, Aberdeen - Stavanger, Edinburgh - Bergen (only summer) and Newcastle - Stavanger. Wideroe is a regional carrier with very well developed network covering all Norway. Except UK, it serves also few other foreign destinations such as: Copenhagen and Bornholm in Denmark and Gothenburg and Gotland in Sweden. The return flights between UK and Norway start from app. 150 GBP.
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1 September 2009
Ryanair restarts ski destinations for winter
Biggest budget airline in Europe Ryanair puts back to its route map winter typical winter destinations. The carrier announced today restart of of services to Grenoble (Edinburgh, Liverpool Birmingham) to Turin (Bristol, Dublin, Nottingham, Prestwick) and Cuneo (Stansted). All of those destinations are located near biggest ski resorts in Italian and French Alpes. It is likely that Ryanair (and other airlines) will soon add more ski-destinations for winter 2009/2010 season.
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1 September 2009
Sky Europe suspended its operations last night
Slovakian low cost airline Sky Europe has officially announced bancrupcy. The airline suspended its operations with immediate effect just before midnight on 31st September. The carrier was offering budget flights from London Luton to Bratislava, Prague, Poprad and Kosice and from Manchester to Bratislava. The fall of the airline was predictable since month. They were looking for investors without any success. Sky Europe was losing tough competition with much stronger in Eastern Europe WIZZ Air. The airline left a big gap on the market especially in their former bases: Bratislava, Viena andPrague.
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26 August 2009
Nottingham East Midlands - new base for Jet2.com
English budget airline Jet2.com announced today opening a new base at Nottingham East Midlands Airport. It's 7th base of the airline after Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Blackpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Belfast. Following the introduction of new base, the airline announced seven routes from the new base: Corfu (Greek Island), Heraklion (Crete - Greece), Paphos (Cyprus), Dalaman (Turkey), Lanzarote (Canary Islands), Tenerife (Canary Islands), Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt). The routes will operate from May 2010. Jet2.com is continuing its expansion to holiday Mediterranean and Canary destinations. What is significant, the carrier is growing very rapidly and is getting closer and closer to Ryanair and easyJet. - leading budget airlines in UK.
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24 August 2009
Jet2.com developes Newcastle base
Today, Jet.com announced 4 new routes from Newcastle. All of them are typical "sea sun sand" holiday destinations: Dalaman (located on south-eastern coast of Turkey), Heraklion (biggest settlement of Greek island Crete), Paphos (holiday resort on Cyprus) and Gran Canaria on Canary Islands. Jet2.com (together with Ryanair) is recently concentrating its route development on Mediterranean and Canary Islands destinations. Newcastle is the airline's third biggest base after Leeds Bradford and Manchester. Jet2.com is now serving the most destinations (17) of all airlines at Newcastle Airport. Previous leader - easyJet, is currently serving 15 routes.
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23 August 2009
Low-cost airport for Warsaw?
Almost all administrative requirements are fullfiled for building a passenger terminal at Warsaw-Modlin airport. The idea of converting military airport for low-cost and charter carriers in Modlin (about 40 km north from Polish capital) has a long history. The environmental issues were always the biggest obstacle. The surrounding area is protected by Nature 2000 progamme. Now, after many years of adjustments and negotiations, the project has a "green light" from authorities. Warsaw has always been struggling with lack of secondary airport. The high landing fees are discouraging low-cost airlines. Warsaw is the only Polish airport (next to tiny Zielona Gora) which is not served by Ryanair! easyJet has just closed its last service from Warsaw to Luton. Modlin Airport would be a great potential base for one of those two big european players.
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22 August 2009
Ryanair stronger in Edinburgh
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair opens 8 destinations from Edinburgh: Charleroi (Belgium), Gdansk (northern Poland), Gerona (near Barcelona), Oslo Torp (Norway), Memmingen (southern Germany) and three Canary's airports: Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife. The services will start on 30th October. Ryanair is gradually expanding its base in Scottish capital which used to be strong easyJet's point on UK's map. It is significant how quickly Edinburgh overrun other Ryanair's Scottish base Prestiwck. Now Edinburgh serves 36 Ryanair's destinations while Prestwick 27. Scottish capital seems to be more long-range success destination for irish low-cost carrier.
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New routes added
22 December
Liverpool - Bodrum (easyJet)
Bristol - Dalaman (easyJet)
Bristol - Bodrum (easyJet)
Bristol - Heraklion (Crete) (easyJet)
Stansted - Bodrum (easyJet)
Stansted - Dalaman (easyJet)
Stansted - Dubrovnik (easyJet)
Stansted - Split (easyJet)
16 December
Birmingham - Faro (Ryanair)
16 December
Kerry - Alicante (Ryanair)
Kerry - Faro (Ryanair)
Knock - Faro (Ryanair)
Derry - Faro (Ryanair)
11 December
Doncaster Sheff. - Amsterdam (easyJet)
Doncaster Sheff. - Barcelona (easyJet)
Doncaster Sheff. - Faro (easyJet)
Doncaster Sheff. - Palma d. M. (easyJet)
Doncaster Sheff. - Prague (easyJet)
Gatwick - Bordeaux (easyJet)
Edinburgh - Lisbon (easyJet)
Liverpool - Rhodes (easyJet)
Doncaster Sheff. - Amsterdam (easyJet)
Manchester - Menorca (easyJet)
Manchester - Sharm el Sheikh (easyJet)
Manchester - Zurich (easyJet)
9 December
Bournemouth - Jersey (bmibaby)
6 December
Newcastle - Hannover (FlyBe)
4 December
Jersey - Glasgow Prestwick (FlyBe)
Jersey - Durham Tees Valley (FlyBe)
3 December
Luton - Riga (Wizzair)
24 November
Dublin - Oslo Rygge (Ryanair)
Isle of Man - Bristol (flyBe)
Liverpool - Malta (easyJet)
Manchester - Helsinki (easyJet)
Stansted - Cagliari (easyJet)
20 November
Bristol - Treviso (Ryanair)
Bristol - Palma de Mallorca (Ryanair)
Bristol - Valencia (Ryanair)
Bristol - Faro (Ryanair)
Liverpool - Lodz (Ryanair)
Liverpool - Rimini (Ryanair)
Liverpool - Trapani (Ryanair)
19 November
Bristol - Gdansk (Ryanair)
18 November
Edinburgh - Tampere (Ryanair)
Prestwick - Carcassone (Ryanair)
11 November
Belfast - Alicante (Aer Lingus)
4 November
Norwich - Guernsey (FlyBe)
30 October
Edinburgh - Bordeaux (Ryanair)
19 October
London Luton - Belfast City (easyJet)
5 October
Manchester - Dubrovnik (Jet2.com)
Manchester - Prague (Jet2.com)
Manchester - Reus (Jet2.com)
Manchester - Split (Jet2.com)
1 October
London Gatwick - Dusseldorf (easyJet)
30 September
Cork - Wroclaw (Wizzair)
Doncaster - Wroclaw (Wizzair)
24 September
L. Gatwick - Akureyri (Iceland-Express)
23 September
Edinburgh - Dalaman (jet2.com)
Edinburgh - Dubrovnik (jet2.com)
Edinburgh - Faro (jet2.com)
10 September
Manchester - Madeira (jet2.com)
9 September
Nottingham - Alghero (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Barcelona (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Bastia (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Cork (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Dubrovnik (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Malta (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Newquay (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Venice (Jet2.com)
7 September
Dublin - Liverpool (Aer Arann)
Dublin - Newcastle (Aer Arann)
4 September
Blackpool - Jersey (jet2.com)
3 September
Leeds-Bradford - Monastir (jet2.com)
Manchester - Monastir (jet2.com)
Newcastle - Monastir (jet2.com)
2 September
Manchester - Lourdes (bmibaby)
1 September (restarts)
Dublin - Salzburg (Ryanair)
Dublin - Turin (Ryanair)
Nottingham - Turin (Ryanair)
Bristol - Turin (Ryanair)
Prestwick - Turin (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Grenoble (Ryanair)
Birmingham - Grenoble (Ryanair)
Liverpool - Grenoble (Ryanair)
Stansted - Cuneo (Ryanair)
28 August
Nottingham - Dalaman (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Heraklion (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Paphos (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Tenerife (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Corfu (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Lanzarote (Jet2.com)
Nottingham - Sharm el Sheikh (Jet2.com)
24 August
Newcastle - Dalaman (Jet2.com)
Newcastle - Heraklion (Jet2.com)
Newcastle - Paphos (Jet2.com)
Newcastle - Gran Canaria (Jet2.com)
20 August
Edinburgh - Charleroi (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Gdańsk (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Gerona (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Las Palmas (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Lanzarote (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Memmingen (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Oslo Torp (Ryanair)
Edinburgh - Tenerife (Ryanair)
19 August
Nottingham - Bydgoszcz (Ryanair)
Nottingham - Marrakech (Ryanair)
Nottingham - Rzeszów (Ryanair)
Gatwick - Stockholm Skavsta (Ryanair)
18 August
Manchester - Kos (Jet2.com)
Manchester - Lanzarote (Jet2.com)
Manchester - Gran Canaria (Jet2.com)
Liverpool - Agadir (Ryanair)
Liverpool - Bremen (Ryanair)
