Cheap Flight News Europe

Thomsonfly's latest offer is 350, 000 seats being sold for less than £35 one way. This offer is open until midnight on Sunday 18 June 2006. The seats are not available on all flights and routes and exclude Bank Holidays. Some flights also have to be booked as part of a return trip. To simplify finding a cheap fare Thomsonfly have a good cheap fares locator which can be found by clicking the 350,000 flights for £35 banner on their homepage.

SkyEurope is halving its fares for travel this Autumn is booked before midnight on Sunday 18 June 2006. The offer is valid for flights taken between 4 September 2006 and 30 November 2006. The discount does not apply to the taxes and charges.

Ryanair continues its battle to open up Europe to low cost airlines. Its latest battle is to open up routes from and within France. It recently opened a base at Marseille, but Ryanair claim Air France have complained about the low cost airline's use of the new low cost terminal. Ryanair have responded by refering the case to the European Commission. The European Union has been instrumental in bringing about free competition in air travel in Europe and thus the prevalance of the budget airlines we see today.

From 19 September 2006, Wizz Air the East European low cost airline will move its operations in the Netherlands to Eindhoven. The benefit to the airline will be lower operating costs. Seats on Budapest <> Eindhoven flights will start at 29.99 euros one way including taxes and charges. Eindhoven is closer to Northern Belgium and the German Rhur region than Amsterdam but the country has cheap efficient rail and bus services.

dba the mainly domestic German budget airline is to fly to Moscow Domodedowo Airport three times weekly starting this month. It will also allow passengers from Munich, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Hannocer an easy connection to Moscow via Stuttgart.

Another offer the airline has on at present is 49.99 euro seats sold at the budget German Supermarket chain, ALDI. These are available to ALDI customers in Southern Germany and are availble for flights at short notice to the World Cup fixtures, subject to availablity.

bmibaby the budget arm of BMI will offer seats on Winter 2006 /07 routes for sale starting Thursday 15 June 2006 when flights from Birmingham and Nottingham East Midlands will be offered for sale. Then on Friday seats on Winter flights from Manchester, Cardiff and Durham Tees Valley will be put on sale. Tickets start at a low £13.99 one way. If you are looking to get away to the Alps (Geneva) or the sun (Alicante, Palma or Malaga) or any of their other city destinations, then get in quick because that is when the really cheap flights can be found.

Flyglobespan the low budget airline is expanding in the North West. In March they announced a Manchester <> South Africa service and recently added a Liverpool <> Tenerife route. Today they have stated that they will fly to Toronto from Manchester starting on 3 November 2006. The flights will be weekly on Fridays using a Boeing 767-300. Flights start at £148 one way including all taxes. They will also offer a premimm economy and business service.

flybe, today announced that from 29 October 2006 it would add a twice daily service between Southampton and Düsseldorf. It will also service Hannover daily throughout the Winter.

Air Scotland has released its Winter flights from Glasgow and Manchester to Gran Canaria for sale. The Canary Islands is a very popular destination for budget airlines at present.

bmibaby, the budget arm of BMI has a Summer flight sale on at present. Seats start at £13.99 one way including taxes and charges. Destinations include Cork, Knock, Newquay, Jersey, Paris and of course Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Durham Tees, Nottingham East Midlands. If you are interested, then you'd better look them up now as the offer ends Midnight Tuesday 13 June 2006.

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Monarch Airlines is having one of there 50% off web bookings sale. Quite simply, this means that bookings up to Midnight on Tuesday 13 June 2006 will attract an extra 50% web booking discount worth up to £15 off a return flight. Monarch flies to a number of Western Mediterraneann destinations including Barcelona, Mallorca, Malaga and Gibraltar. It also flies to Lisbon, Faro, Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.

It also runs "Bargain of the Day!" offers, today's being London Gatwick to Lisbon on 28 August 2006 for £14.99 including taxes and charges.

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Opodo the company owned by British Airways, Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, Finnair, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa & Amadeus has a couple of competiotion on at present. One is for free flights to Europe with Lufthansa. The second is a £15,000 holiday in Thailand and Abu Dhabi with Etihad.

Air Southwest have some good Summer 2006 offers. Air Southwest is a budget airline operating flights out of the South West of the United Kingdom.
Routes on offer include:

Bristol <> Manchester from £22 one way
Bristol <> Norwich from £22 one way
Bristol <> Leeds Bradford from £22 one way
Bristol <> Newquay from £22 one way
Bristol <> Plymouth from £22 one way
Bristol <> Jersey from £32 one way
Cardiff <> Manchester from £19 one way
Cardiff <> Newquay from £19 one way
Plymouth <> Manchester from £33 one way
Plymouth <> London Gatwick from £33 one way
Plymouth <> Leeds Bradford from £33 one way
Plymouth <> Jersey from £33 one way
Plymouth <> Bristol from £22 one way
Newquay <> London Gatwick from £33 one way
Newquay <> Manchester from £33 one way
Newquay <> Leeds Bradford from £33 one way
Newquay <> Dublin from £25 one way
Newquay <> Bristol from £19 one way

All prices are one-way and include taxes.

You are probably aware that air travel damages the environment. Please consider this when booking flights. Have a look at www.climatecare.org for ways of mitigating the adverse effects of your flight.

Aer Lingus is to add new services from Dublin and Cork from October 2006. The new routes are:

• Dublin <> Turin
• Dublin <> Newcastle
• Cork <> Madrid
• Cork <> Lanzarote
• Cork <> Prague
  

In addition the new routes introduced this Summer:

• Dublin <> Poznan
• Dublin <> Seville
• Cork <> Berlin
• Cork <> Birmingham
• Cork <> Faro
• Cork <> Tenerife
  

will now operate all year. Cork will have an extra Airbus A320 based there to service the Aer Lingus expansion.

Thomsonfly has 10,000 seats on offer for free to Paris and Amsterdam the only payment required is the taxes & charges. The travel period is from 15 June 2006 to 28 October 2006. The offer ends midnight (UK) on Monday 12 June 2006.

You are probably aware that air travel damages the environment. Please consider this when booking flights. Have a look at www.climatecare.org for ways of mitigating the adverse effects of your flight.

easyJet is to introduce a new three-times daily service to Glasgow International Airport from 2 October 2006. It will also increase flight frequencies to Madrid, Milan, Cologne, Athens, Berlin and Amsterdam. They have announced that they are to take on BA who's share of flights from London Gatwick has declined from 47% to 38% since 2002. BA has been reducing capacity on routes operated by easyJet and withdrawn altogether from others. easyJet recently added three new routes from Gatwick to Milan Malpensa, Marrakech and Split.

EasyJet's service is less of a culture shock for defecting BA passengers than some low cost airlines who have stripped away all of the “frills” from their service and fly at off peak hours to reduce costs.
easyJet now offers a number of services aimed at winning over business customers:

• A hand baggage allowance of equivalent volume to BA Club Class but with no weight restriction
• Access to airport lounges for fee
• Free transfer to an earlier flight if meetings finish early
• Overnight check-in at Gatwick for early flights
• Internet check-in (and 15 minute arrival time at the departure gate)
• Speedy Boarding (£5 per sector) for those that want to board the aircraft first
  

In announcing the Gatwick expansion, Andy Harrison, easyJet Chief Executive, said:
“easyJet has grown dramatically at Gatwick over the last few years by offering its familiar combination of low-fares with care and convenience and has grown Gatwick to be our biggest single airport base.
“Given the range of services we now offer – from speedy boarding to the best hand baggage allowance in the business – it’s not surprising that BA’s passengers are flocking to easyJet in record numbers and today’s announcement will strengthen further our position at Gatwick.”

Jet2.com have a Summer sale on right now. They have fares to 19 destinations starting at £9.99 one way including all taxes and charges. The £9.99 destinations are likely to be Amsterdam, Belfast, Blackpool, Cork and Leeds.

You are probably aware that air travel damages the environment. Please consider this when booking flights. Have a look at www.climatecare.org for ways of mitigating the adverse effects of your flight.

Manchester International Airport has won a prestigious IATA Eagle Award for providing a value for money service to airlines. The airport provides good customer service while charging well below the levels set by the CAA.

Giovanni Bisignani, Director General and CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said: "It is a special pleasure to congratulate Manchester Airport on winning an Eagle Award in 2006-a good partner and a model for other airports to emulate. They have proved that well-managed airports can be both efficient and cost-effective."

Vueling the Spanish low cost airline is selling 150,000 seats on its flights around mainland Spain as well as destinations in mainland Europe such as Paris, Brussels, Venice for a mere 10 euros plus taxes and charges. The flights can be booked throughout June, July and August. To qualify they must be booked before 13 June 2006.

Jet2.com will start flying the Manchester - Tenerife route three times weekly from 31 October 2006. The Jet2 flights start at £55 one way including all taxes and charges.

Tenerife is becoming an increasingly popular destination with BA Connect, the low budget operation owned by BA also announcing that it will fly there from Notttingham East Midlands and Bristol. The BA Connect flights start with an introductory offer of £49 each way including all taxes and charges.

Aer Arann the smaller of the Irish low cost airlines has added a new London Luton <> Newquay route. The new service will begin operations on 3 July 2006. The airline will offer four flights per week (Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday) between the two airports. This is the airline's second Newquay route. Fares will start at £29.99 one way including taxes and charges.

Aer Arran is also to increase the number of flights from Cardiff to Dublin by adding an additional mid week flight on Mondays to Fridays. It is reporting strong demand on this route that was abandoned by Ryanair in April.

Wizz Air continues to strengthen its position in Poland. From 19 September 2006 it will connect Katowice in Poland to Oslo-Torp Airport at Sandefjord, Norway. This is some way out of Oslo but has good connections to the Capital City.

This latest addition will bring the total number of European countries served by Wizz Air to eighteen.