Cheap Flight News Europe

After much soul searching, I have finally made the decision to stop covering air travel on Eurapart. It will mean big changes to the Eurapart project, but I started Eurapart without airlines and now I am going back to a site without airlines. Although, I could make many excuses to justify why budget airlines should stay on the site, such as them operating the most modern fuel efficient fleets, their low baggage payloads and their high load factors, there is no point. Flying is one form of travel that we can, and in the future will have to do without. It consumes vast amounts of oil and generates more Carbon Dioxide per passenger kilometre than competing forms of public transport such as trains.
The challenge we will all eventually face is to travel without flying, this is a challenge Eurapart will take up now. How do you see travel without flying?

Labels: carbon, Eurapart, flying, oil

bmibaby is having a sale of seats, starting at £10 plus credit card booking fees. The seats are available on flights up until the 24th of October 2009. The sale ends midnight Monday 16th March 2009.
The £10 routes include
Birmingham to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newquay, West Knock and Belfast,
Cardiff - Edinburgh
Manchester - Cork, West Knock and Newquay
East Midlands - Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh

Flying damages the environment - please consider other travel options and finally offsetting your flight through a reputable scheme.

The BBC reports today that they may charge £1 for using the toilet on their flights. He points out that if you visit a major railway station you will have to pay 20 pence. I believe, the different currencies carried by passengers would make it difficult to find a coin to operate the door that could be used across Europe. Also that there would be increased maintenance as the slots get clogged up with washers,metal discs and wrong currency. I'm sure he has thought this one through ages ago. He is just after more publicity. He is making the point that the airline will continue to look for revenue streams to keep the base costs of tickets down.
Do you think he will implement charges for the toilets?

Labels: charges, Ryanair, toilet

Sky Europe has a sale starting today with seats on offer from €33 one way including taxes and charges. Booking starts today, Thursday February 26 and runs until Sunday March 1, 2009 for travel in March, April and May this year.

Cheap flights to/from Bratislava:

Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kosice, London Luton, Manchester, Paris Orly, Rome Fiumicino
Cheap flights to/from Prague:

Amsterdam, Athens, Milan Bergamo, Bari, Brussels, Copenhagen, London Luton, Naples, Paris Orly, Rome Fiumicino, Venice/Treviso
Cheap flights to/from Vienna:

Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Bucharest, Barcelona, Brussels, Larnaca, Lisbon, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Paris Orly, Thessaloniki, Sofia
Cheap flights to/from Kosice:

Bratislava, London Luton, Manchester

Cheap flights to/from Poprad/Tatry:

London Luton

Ryanair is to phase out 'Check In' desks. They already charge for checking in baggage and aim to have only one in five passengers checking in hold luggage in the future.
According to Ryanair 75% of passengers Check In online already. I must say that has not been my experience at airports of late, but they must know.
The aim of the airline is to reduce the cost of the flight by trimming costs to the bone, while charging for everything from paying by card (even though there is no cost free option), hold baggage, in flight meals, prize draws and just announced in flight mobile phone calls and text messaging.

After a 2 year break my blogs are back. Eurapart us my hobby and a number of factors conspired to ensure that I did not have enough time with work and home commitments to keep this blog updated. I am now on sabbatical and am now updating and revising the Eurapart sites. With the credit crunch starting to bite hard it is this information on affordable travel should help you to get away for a break over the coming months.
Over the last 2 years I have also been considering the environmental effects of travel and as such will be downgrading the prominence of air travel. That said, budget airlines such as Ryanair emit less CO2 per passenger mile than some of the older operators who operate with considerably lower load factors.

The orange low fares airline, easyJet added 5 more routes to its timetable today. This will bring the score of new routes for 2007 to 30. The five new routes are:

London Gatwick <> La Rochelle daily from 14 July to 9 September
Madrid <> Palma Mallorca daily from 26 February
Berlin (Schoenefeld) <> Lisbon Daily from 11 May
Berlin (Schoenefeld) <> Venice daily from 11 May
Geneva <> Cagliari daily from 29 June to 7 September

In addition the following routes make up the remaining 25. Some of which have been published on here some of which haven’t as this web site is my hobby and my family and day job have priority.

Belfast <> Krakow 3 X Weekly from 24 April
Belfast <> Ibiza 1 x weekly from 7 July
Bristol <> Bordeaux Daily fro 31 March
Bristol <> Ibiza 1 x weekly from 14 July
Edinburgh <> Munich Daily from 4 April
Edinburgh <> Palma 1 x weekly from 5 May
Geneva <> Bordeaux Daily from 29 June
Geneva <> Oporto Daily from 29 June
Glasgow <> Ibiza1 x weekly from 16 June
London Gatwick <> Pisa Daily from 3 April
London Gatwick <> Palermo Daily from 18 June
London Luton<> Ibiza Daily from 5 May
Lyon <> Rome (Ciampino) Daily from 16 February
Madrid <> Asturias 2 x Daily from 15 February
Madrid <> Casablanca Daily from 22 February
Madrid <> Edinburgh Daily from 25 February
Madrid <> La Coruna 2 x Daily from 15 February
Madrid <> Lyon Daily from 16 February
Madrid<> Marrakech Daily from 22 February
Madrid <> Rome (Ciampino) Daily from 23 February
Madrid <> Toulouse Daily from 25 February
Milan (Malpensa) <> Edinburgh Daily from 21 May
Newcastle <> Krakow 4x weekly from 30 March
Newcastle <> Mahon 2x weekly from 14 July
Paris (Orly) <> Athens Daily from 4 May

easyJet is adding 12 new aircraft to its fleet this Summer enabling them to service 258 routes.

Thomsonfly will add Barcelona to its Summer 2007 destinations available to passengers from Cardiff. The airline will operate the route four times per week offering one way fares starting at £22.99 one way including taxes and charges.