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Jet2.com have some new deals this August and September. Flights from £41 to Algarve, Alicante, Barcelona, Ibiza, Majorca, Malaga, Menorca, Murcia, Pisa and Tenerife.
Jet2.com are also have summer offers on car hire, travel insurance, accommodation and airport parking.
Visit Jet2.com for more details.

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.

SkyEurope latest Internet sale ends on 30 July 2006. It is offering flights at 50% discount before the addition of taxes and charges. Flights can be booked for travel between 4 September 2006 and 28 October 2006.

Routes served in the United Kingdom include:
London Stansted <> Bratislava / Vienna
London Stansted <> Krakow
Manchester <> Krakow
Birmingham <> Krakow

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.

Virgin Express the budget airline owned by SN Brussels is having another 6 hour long sale. On Thursday 27 July 2006 they will sell seats on flights from Brussels starting at 49.99 euros per person one way including all taxers and charges. The sale is only on for 6 hours though between 18h00 CET and 24h00 CET (17h00 UK to 23h00 UK). Flights can be booked for travel between 15 August and 31 August 2006.

Virgin Express flies from Brussels to:
Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Berlin, Catania, Faro, Geneva, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Marseille, Milan Bergamo, Munich, Murcia, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Palma, Rome and Valencia.

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.

Air Turquoise have been put into liquidation after declaring a suspension of payments at the Tribunal of Commerce in Reims. This means that all flights as of July 19th have been cancelled.
If you have booked a flight with Air Turquoise they should get in contact with you, if you have not left a postal address please contact Air Turquoise.

British Airways Connect have some new routes from Manchester, some of these include Manchester <> Edinburgh from £25, Manchester <> Geneva from £35 and Manchester <> Lyon from £45. These are just a few of the routes available, for a full list visit British Airways. All these are one-way and include taxes and charges, they are available to book between the 10th and 25th of July and you can travel between August 2006 to March 31st 2007.

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.

flyMonarch are offering 2 Million from £36 one-way including taxes, some of the fares include Spain and Portugal at low prices. You can travel up to the end of October 2007.

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.

Jet2.com has a sale for this weekend only with a third off everything in July and August 2006. Here are some of the deals on offer:

• Edinburgh & Newcastle <> Murcia £17
• Leeds & Manchester <> Alicante £25
• Leeds & Manchester <> Ibiza £25
• Newcastle <> Menorca £29
• Leeds & Manchester <> Malaga £25
• Manchester <> Algarve £29
• Belfast <> Barcelona £29
• Blackpool, Leeds & Manchester <> Majorca £25
• Leeds Bradford <> Tenerife £37.99

The prices quoted above are one way and do not include taxes and charges.

Transavia the Netherlands based budget airline has released some of its Winter 2006 / 2007 schedule. There are a number of new routes on the timetables including:

• Amsterdam <> Glasgow Prestwick
• Amsterdam <> Pau
  
• Amsterdam <> Salzburg
• Amsterdam <> Valencia
• Rotterdam <> Geneva
• Rotterdam <> Innsbruck
• Rotterdam <> Toulon
• Eindhoven <> Alicante
• Eindhoven <> Faro
• Eindhoven <> Malaga
  

Prices start at 19.99 euros one way excluding taxes and charges.

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.

Virgin Express are offering some new deals this week including flights to Hamburg, Copenhagen and Munich from 49,99 Euros per person, one-way including taxes and charges. The booking period is from 6pm Thursday July 13th and the travel period lies between July 15th and August 30th. For more details visit www.virgin-express.com.
There are also Hotel offers, some of these include Hamburgs St. Raphael for 39,00 Euros per person per night, Copenhagen Island Hotel 63,50 Euros and The Fleming Hotel, Munich City for 40,49 Euros.
Also, if you are travelling with Virgin Express there is a 10% discount on car rentals (minimum rental 3 days).

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.

If airports are too expensive Ryanair has a straightforward policy of not flying there. So when the Swedish Government proposed an airport environment tax of SEK 94 (£7 / $13) on economy flights within Europe starting this August. Ryanair responded by dropping a number of its flights to Sweden but not mentioning that the tax was aimed at mitigating the environmental damage accrued by aviation. Ryanair will drop its London Luton <> Stockholm-Vasteras and reduce its Malmo-Sturup <> London-Stansted and Gothenburg City Airport <> Glasgow-Prestwick flight frequencies from the 28th of October 2006.

The debate is now being opened up as Ryanair are not alone in moving their operations away from Sweden. Copenhagen has recently halved its airport taxes and as a result has had many low cost airlines including Air Berlin, FlyMe and Wizz Air locate routes there instead of Sweden.
At this moment in time the EU is looking closely at the tax and at plans to exempt some routes. This would be in breach of EU competition rules so the tax may not be implemented.

If it is implemented then there is one big issue that needs addressing as far as I am concerned.
That is the tax when levied as an airport tax does not differentiate between airlines operating fuel efficient aircraft running with high load factors and those airlines with poor fuel efficiency and low load factors. Taxing aviation fuel is one way of addressing this issue as this would be least detrimental to airlines with a low fuel burn per passenger. The problem would be that to work effectively it needs to be adopted across Europe. Another alternative would be to levy a tax related to the aircraft's destination and average fuel consumption figures. Thus a Boeing 737-200 would pay more for a flight from Stockholm to London than a Boeing 737-800 with blended winglets. The tax can then be related directly to the amount of Carbon dioxide produced by the flights.

Ryanair is to discourage passengers with checked in bags even more. From 1 September 2006 persons paying to check in baggage online will rise by £1 to £3.50 per bag from 1 September 2006. From 1 November the total checked in allowance will be reduced from its present 20 kilograms to 15 kilograms per person. The cost for bags not pre paid when booking will still be subject to the £5 per bag charge as now.
Ryanair has made it clear that it doesn't want passengers with lots of heavy bags that require baggage handlers when most passengers use the airline for a short visits and can easily get by with the carry on allowance of 10 kilograms.
What is your view? Please leave a comment.

SkyEurope is also having a sale from today 11 July to 16 July 2006. Flights can be booked for about £20 one way including taxes and charges during September 2006. That represents a discount of £20 on their normal prices.

In addition there is another even better deal for passengersrs on the Dublin <> Krakow route. If booked between today and 16 July Winter flights can be bought for 1 euro each way plus taxes and charges. The Winter flight period is 1 November 2006 to 10 December 2006 and from 15 January to 28 February 2007.

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.

Wizz Air has a special offer on flights if you book between July 11th to July 17th 2006. These offers include flights from London to Gdansk for £1, London to Budapest £3.99, Liverpool to Warsaw for £12.98, Glasgow to Warsaw at £1 and Amsterdam to Budapest at 1 Euro. All prices are for one-way excluding taxes and charges and the travel period is between August 1st and October 28th 2006. Visit www.wizzair.com to see a full list of all the flights.

Ryanair's latest sale is on from today 11 July 2006 until Thursday 13 July 2006. Seats

can be purchased on flights between Monday 18 September and Thursday 7 December 2006. The * means that the £0.19 does not include taxes and
charges which come to less than £12.50 each way. The flights are
available on Monday to Thursday and Saturdays. There are some blackout
periods such as October Half Term 20 October 2006 to 6 November 2006 as
well as major festivals and sporting events.

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.

Jet2.com have a sale on at present. Seats start at £9.99 one way including all taxes and charges. When I checked there did not seem to be a lot of availability but the low fare checker can display flight prices on a route for a whole month so finding what is available is easy.
In addition the airline has just started selling flights from Manchester to Alicante and Malaga for Summer 2007. Seats are on sale starting at £34.99.

Vueling the Spanish low cost airline has a sale on at present. It is selling half a million seats on flights between now and March 2007 for 10 euros one way, plus taxes and charges. The sale ends Friday 14 July 2006.

Vueling is based in Barcelona but is expanding at a reasonable pace with two Airbus A320 aircraft being delivered this Summer with two A320's due beore the end of the year. The fleet is expected to be 16 strong by the end of 2006 with 25 aircraft planned by the end of 2007. The latest route to be offered is Paris <> Bilboa. Vueling has an extensive route network in Spain with connections to Paris, Lisbon, Milan, Rome, Venice and Amsterdam.

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.

From September 19th 2006 Sterling are offering flights from Copenhagen to Krakow, Poland from DKK 260 one way. As Florence and Nice are popular locations in July there are extra flights from Copenhagen, Copenhagen <> Nice on July 14th, 21st or 28th and Copenhagen <> Florence on July 17th or 24th. These flights are DKK 549 one way.
Also flights from Copenhagen to Berlin from DKK 199, Copenhagen to Frankfurt from DKK 449 and Copenhagen to Edinburgh from DKK 549.

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.

Monarch Airlines is adding new aircraft and routes from 1 May 2007. A new Airbus A320 will be added to its London Luton based fleet. With this aircraft the low cost airline will service a new route to Ibiza up to five times per week. It will also service Almeria four times per week. In addition to the new routes the new flights will be added to existing Luton routes. Both Palma and Faro will see a substantial increase in the number of flights flown.
Monarch has researched the low cost market and found that they offer a service that few of its competitors can match. They offer seat booking, better catering and free newspapers in order to cater for passengers needs.

Cork <> Gdansk is the latest route from Wizz Air. Starting on 15 December 2006 the airline will fly the route three time per week, bringing the total number of Wizz Air routes from the city to eight.

Both locations are ports and have lots for visitors. Cork has plenty of places worthy of a visit including the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, the Cork Public Museum and St. Anne's Church with the famous Bells of Shandon. Others include the 17th century English Market Bishop Lucey Park, St. Francis Church, the South Mall and Cork City Gaol.

A little further afield you'’ll find the Cobh once named Queenstown following a vist by Queen Victoria. It was from here that over 6 million Irish emigrated to the New World. A visitor centre in the old railway station brings their story to life. Another destination for visitors to the area is the world famous Blarney Castle. Legend has it that kissing the Blarney Stone gives the kisser the gift of eloquence. You can tell that I haven't kissed it just by reading my posts.

Gdansk is a former Hanseatic League port with strong German influences having been part of the Prussian Empire. It is an industrial city but has some historic sites from the surviving buildings from the old town, to the Gdansk shipyard birthplace of Solidarity.

After delays get an operating license from London Luton to Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen International easyJet, will start flying the route on Tuesday 1 August 2006. It will offer three flights per week throughout August and increase frequency to daily on 4 September 2006.
The new route to Istanbul is easyJet's second. It has been operating to Sabiha Gokcen International from Basel since 29 May 2006. Istanbul is where Europe meets Asia across the Bosphorus, in fact Sabiha Gokcen International is on the Asian side.
Istanbul is a fascinating city with some magnificent places to visit from the Roman cisterns, aqueduct and City walls to the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque to the Topkapi Palace.

One of the leading low fare airlines, Flybe have now announced their new base at Doncaster / Sheffield Airport and have launched a new route to Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland. Flights will run twice a day and daily on Saturdays from Doncaster / Sheffield throughout the winter season from only £19.99 one way including taxes. The route is open on 29th October and is part of Flybe’s new winter schedule 2006, with Flybe’s new base it will help to increase the size of the company. Also on the 29th October there are two services from Flybe open from Belfast to Robin Hood Doncaster and Galway. One way flights to Doncaster would be priced starting at £19.99 including taxes and to Galway £24.99 including taxes.

Scotland’s low fare airline flyglobespan, voted airline of the year are offering the first Aberdeen <> Tenerife and Durham Tees Valley <> Tenerife service this winter. Although flyglobespan thought they could not offer any routes until next summer they have managed to add Aberdeen <> Tenerife to their Winter programme. The service starting on November 3rd for Aberdeen and November 7th for Durham Tees Valley, for flights to Tenerife all year round from only £49.99 including taxes. It is also thanks to the Aberdeen City Council’s decision to lift the airport’s opening hour restrictions to allow many more new routes for the future.
“Tenerife is a very good destination to offer as our first Aberdeen service,” says flyglobespan chairman Tom Dalrymple. “It has an attractive climate all year round and is particularly appealing in the winter when the temperatures there are invariably the best in Europe.”
With flyglobespan expanding since they started in 2002 they are expecting to offer more flights next summer with the brand new Boeing 737 700's bringing many more Mediterranean resorts in range.
Miles@eurapart

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