Cheap Flight News Europe

Germany’s second largest low cost airline has a sale on again. They are selling seats on 300,000 flights taken between 12 December 2006 and 28 February 2007 for just the taxes and charges. The offer opens tomorrow at 6pm CET (5pm UK) and runs until Sunday 3 December 2006. The offer applies to flights out of Koln / Bonn, Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

The latest Summer 2007 easyJet routes are now sale. They include the following new routes:
Belfast <> Krakow
Bristol <> Bordeaux
Newcastle <> Krakow
Newcastle <> Mahon

As part of its rapid expansion which includes taking over BA Connect, flybe today claimed 13 new routes for its Summer 2007 line up. I make the full line as:

• Belfast <> Newquay from 26 May 2007 1 / week
• Belfast<> Rennes from 26 May 2007 1 / week
• Birmingham <> Hamburg from 25 March 2007 Daily
• Birmingham<> Dubrovnik from 1 May 2007 3 / wee
• Birmingham<> Split from 5 May 2007 1 /week
• Edinburgh <> Bergerac from 26 May 2007 1 / week
• Exeter <> Avignon from 25 March 2007 3 /week
• Exeter <> Rennes from 8 May 2007 3 /week
• Exeter <> Nice from 9 May 2007 2 /week
• Glasgow <> Jersey from 21 April 2007 2 /week
• Manchester <> Glasgow from 25 March 2007 6 / day
• Manchester<> Brest from 5 April 2007 3 / week
• Manchester<> Rennes from 6 April 2007 4 / week
• Newcastle <> Limoges from 26 May 2007 1 /week

The above list shows 14 routes in all, so perhaps someone would like to post a comment if they know why? The routes from Birmingham to Split and Dubrovnik in Croatia are flybe's first. There is currently string growth in the former Yugoslavia as holiday destinations.

XL.com the former Excel Airways has revamped its website. It looks a lot slicker but retains its list of last minute flights starting at £86 return (Birmingham <> Arrecife). It also has some package holidays on offer starting at £69 for a week long vacation in Tenerife leaving Bristol on 28 November 2006.

Book a flight over the internet with Monarch Airlines up until 28 November 2006 and they will increase the web discount to £16 (usually £10) on a return flight. The offer is not valid on Monarch Charter flights.
The Airline flies from a number of UK airports such as London Luton, London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and Aberdeen to Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands.

Germanwings, the low cost operator is to add some new routes to its Summer 2007 schedules. They will be:

• Cologne/Bonn <> Alghero (Sardinia), Zadar (Croatia), Sarajevo, Bucharest, Sofia, Burgas (Bulgaria), Varna (Bulgaria), Kavalla (Greece), Mallorca (now 15 times per week)
• Stuttgart <> Bastia (Corsica), Mallorca (now daily)
• Hamburg <>MallorcaBerlin
• <> Balaton (Hungary), Burgas (Bulgaria), Varna (Bulgaria)

The complete Summer 2007 Germanwings timetable is now available for booking on flights departing up to 27 October 2007.

When it acquires BA Connect , flybe will offer a shuttle service between Birmingham and Edinburgh and Birmingham to Glasgow. flybe plans to offer up to 10 flights per day on these routes bewteen the Midlands and Scotland's largest city.

Thomsonfly has cut 20% off the prices of many of their flights this Winter. A flight to the Salzburg will now start at £15.99 one way reduced from £19.99 while flights to Grenoble have been reduced to £27.99 one way. they also have some outstanding offers on Winter Sun destinations such as Malaga, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.

When bmibaby made an announcement earlier this Autumn stating their intention to increase their service from Birmingham International Airport, they did not reveal the new routes. Today they have opened four new routes for booking. The new routes being:

• Birmingham <> Barcelona
• Birmingham <> Lisbon
• Birmingham <> Marseille (Provence)
• Birmingham <> Rome (Fiumicino)

In addition they have increased frequencies on the following routes:

• Birmingham <> Malaga - 12 / week
• Birmingham <> Alicante- 8 / week
• Birmingham <> Edinburgh - 4/ day during the week
• Birmingham <> Glasgow (International) - 3 / day during the week
• Manchester <> Belfast (International) - 4 / day
• Cardiff <> Belfast (International) - 2 / day
  

The latest route from Jet2 is on sale now. The Newcastle <> London Gatwick route will start flights on 25 March 2007. The service will take over when British Airways drop the route from their schedules. Jet2 will operate up to three flights per day on the route.

Aer Lingus the Irish flag carrying airline has some very good offers on its short haul routes from the United Kingdom to Ireland over the next couple of days. Hurry because you will need to book by midnight on Thursday 23 November 2006. Here are some of the cheap flights Aer Lingus has on offer for £1 excluding taxes and charges:

• London to Dublin
• London to Cork
• London to Shannon
• Manchester to Dublin
• Birmingham to Dublin
• Edinburgh to Dublin
• Glasgow to Dublin
• Birmingham to Cork
• Bristol to Dublin
• Newcastle to Dublin

Ryanair have a new flight offer, certain european flights are priced at £10 (from UK) or 10Euros (from EU) Including taxes and charges! The offer ends midnight 23rd of November 2006 and you can book flights from 27th Novemer 2006 to the 31st January 2007.
Fly from London (Stansted) to: Balaton, Poitiers, Perpignan for £10
From Glasgow (Prestwick) to: Barcelona (Reus), Riga for £10
From Doncaster (Sheffield) to: Barcelona (Girona), Dublin, Pisa (Florence) for £10
From Barcelona (Girona) TO: Paris (Beauvais), East Midlands for 10Euros.
There are much more flights listened on Ryanair.com.

The latest route to be added to easyJet's growing schedules is Edinburgh to / from Munich. Seats orange and white aircraft will cost from £21.99 one way including tax, when the tickets go on sale in December 2006 for travel in Summer 2007. The service will operate daily to the home of the Oktoberfest, the largest Beer Festival in the world.

A 60/40% joint venture between Air France and transavia the KLM owned Dutch low cost airline is to be considered by Air KLM France at a meeting on 22 November 2006. If approved a French Transavia would be set up with a base at Paris Orly. It would be marketed through the existing transavia.com website. Destinations would be aimed at French travellers with Morocco, Tunisia, Spain or Italy. The service will be provided by 186 seat Boeing 737-800 which are the latest most efficient in the 737 line up. A press release on the transavia website states that they will not be drawn from the Netherlands carriers' fleet.

Jet2.com are offering more flights for free, all you pay for is the taxes and charges.
Fly one-way to popular destinations such as: Algarve, Milan, Lanzarote, Krakow (Poland), Tenerife, Rome, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Leeds, London (Gatwick), Malaga, Paris and Prague.
There are all sorts of Sun/Winter/City Break destinations, visit Jet2.com for more locations.

Vueling the Spanish low budget airline has a good offer on at present. It is offering 75,000 flights from 10 euros one way including fees. Flights can be taken in January, February and March 2007. There are flights on offer on all flights out of Spain.

New for Summer 2007 Thomsonfly.com have opened two new routes to Morocco. You can visit Morocco's main holiday location Agadir, or the magical city of Marrakech. Both destinations are priced at £34.99 one-way including taxes and charges.
Also Thomsonfly still have 1000s of seats on offer at low prices if you book by midnight monday 20th November 2006.
Some of the offers include: Amsterdam from £16.99 one way, Jersey from £16.99 one way, Valencia from £19.99 one way, Salzburg from £19.99 one way, Prague from £19.99 one way, Alicante from £24.99 one way and Malaga from £24.99 one way.

Centralwings the budget airline based in Poland and owned by Polish LOT Airlines will be two years old this week. To celebrate they are offering seats on flights starting at 2 euros / £2 one way excluding fees or £2 depending on whether the flight originates in the euro zone. The offer is on this week between 20th November 2006 and 26th November 2006 for travel between 8th and 31st January 2007. The offer is available on the following routes.

London Gatwick <> Cracow, Warsaw and Wroclaw
London Stansted <> Warsaw
Shannon <> Gdansk and Warsaw
Cork <> Cracow and Wroclaw
Dublin <> Gdansk, Katowice and Wroclaw
Edinburgh <> Gdansk, Katowice and Warsaw
Bologna <> Cracow and Warsaw
Lille <> Warsaw
Rome <> Cracow, Warsaw and Wroclaw

Germanwings has 200,000 seats on offer across its Europe wide network for just the price of taxes and charges. The offer started tonight and ends 19 November 2006 at midnight CET (23h00 UK).
Flights are on offer in the period 1 December2006 to 15 February 2007. Fly from London Stansted fly to Germany from London Stansted, London Gatwick and Edinburgh. They also have connections from Dublin.

Summer 2007 routes are now on sale from Thomsonfly. They start at £16.99 one way including taxes . They also have a number of tempting new routes on offer. Those announced today are:

Manchester <> Lisbon (from £24.99) Funchal (from £34.99)
Cardiff <> Jersey (from £16.99)
London Luton <> Jersey (from £16.99)
London Luton <> Dubrovnik (from £29.99)

All prices quoted are one way and include taxes.

Hapag Lloyd Express the German cheap fare airline with their distinctive yellow cab paint scheme have a good offer on until Sunday 18 November 2006. Fights start at £5 one way including taxes. From my local airport Manchester, flights are available to Hanover and Cologne. Other airports in the United Kingdom served by HLX are Birmingham and Newcastle. They also fly from Dublin.
They are also offering the chance to reserve your seat on board for free if booked before this Sunday.

The orange liveried budget airline has today announced that it will exercise its options to buy a further Airbus A319 aircraft and place options on a further 75. This means that easyJet now has 104 Airbus aircraft on order as it continues to expand. It acknowledges that the increased fleet will impact on the environment but point out that they are fuel efficient aircraft that will be operating with high load factors.

Jet2's current cheap flight sale offers travel to European cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast, Bergen, Budapest Düsseldorf, Krakow, Paris, Prague and Rome. The seats are free, you will just need to pay the taxes and charges. Offer Internet bookings only.

Ryanair's latest sale has some very, very cheap flights on offer. They are selling the seats for free but some of the taxes and charges are a mere £5 or 5 euros. Meaning that flights start at 5 euros one way including taxes. The offer is on until midnight Thursday 16 November 2006. Examples of offers include:
London Stansted > Blackpool and Frankfurt (Hahn)from £5 one way
London Stansted > Milan (Bergamo) from £10 one way
Pisa > Doncaster Sheffield from 5 euros one way
Shannon > Madrid from 5 euros one way

Fares include taxes. Terms and condtions apply. Travel between 21 November 2006 and 31 January 2007. Not valid during holdidays or sporting events.

British Airways have some offers on their long haul flights at present for anyone wanting to visit Europe. Return fares from Heathrow to Hong Kong are on sale from £349 including taxes and charges which is not a lot more than the £280 a return from the new long haul budget airline Oasis Air is charging. It seems the new budget carrier is causing fares to drop. The BA offer is only on for 5 days and must end on 14 November 2006 so if you are interested go to www.ba.com.

Thomsonfly’s latest sale has been extended by the addition of 50,000 extra seats at fares starting at £16.99 one way including taxes. The sale ends at midnight on Tuesday 14 November 2006. Destinations available:
Amsterdam, Paris and Jersey from £16.99
Salzburg, Prague and Barcelona from £19.99
Malaga, Alicante and Faro from £24.99
Marrakech, Tenerife and Gran Canaria from £34.99

Look up www.thomsonfly.com for more details.

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

Centralwingshave today officially announced two new routes from Lodz in Poland. The low budget arm of the Polish National Airline LOT will connect Lodz to Paris every Tuesday and Saturday. It will also run a service to / from Rome every Monday and Friday. The new services will commence with the Rome route on 19 February 2007. Look up www.centralwings.com for more details.

You are probably aware that flights along with most forms of transport damage the environment. Please consider this when booking flights and take responsibility for your travel.. Have a look at www.climatecare.org for ways of mitigating the adverse effects of your flight.

Vueling the Barcelona based budget airline has some cracking offers on domestic flights in Spain as well as outside the country. They start at 10 euros one way excluding taxes and charges. Finding them is made easier by a graphical cheap fare finder on the special offers section of their site.

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

Jet2 has extended its latest pay only taxes and charges sale. They are adding another 25,000 seats to the offer to a host of destinations from their routemap. Choose from the likes of Rome, Prague, Geneva, Prague, Amsterdam, Belfast, Bergen, Faro, Alicante.

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

SkyEurope the Eastern European budget airline is selling 100,000 seats on flights between 1 December 2006 and 28 February 2007 for just the price of the taxes and charges. This offer closes on Sunday 12 November 2006.

They have also just released their Summer 2007 timetable. In addition they have also recently introduced a seat booking facility for £3 a flight.

In Ryanair’s current sale they are offering seats on over 200 routes from £5 or 5 euros one way including taxes and charges.
Examples on offer being:
For £5 / 5 euro
London Stansted <> Hahn (Frankfurt)
Liverpool <> Aberdeen or Inverness
for £10 / 10 euros
London Stansted <> Cork, Girona, Oslo (Torp), Lubeck, Salzburg
Glasgow Prestwick <> London Stansted, Dublin or Shannon
Dublin <> Bristol, Leeds Bradford, Nottingham East Midlands

The offer is open until Midnight 13 November 2006 for travel Monday to Sunday from 14 November 2006 to 31 January 2007. Offer excludes flights between 20 December 2006 and 9 January 2007.

Sterling the Danish low cost operator has some good offers on at present. They include:
Copenhagen to Berlin from 199 DKK
Copenhagen to Paris from 399 DKK
Oslo to Copenhagen from 280 NOK
Oslo to Amsterdam from 388 NOK
Stockholm to Alicante from 549 SEK
Stockholm to Barcelona from 549 SEK

Flyglobespan has released its Summer 2007 timetable from Durham Tees Valley. This is the airport where bmibaby has ceased operating so it will be welcome news that flyglobespan are increasing their route map from the airport. Five new routes are being offered by flyglobespan in 2007. They are:

Durham Tees Valley <>
Ibiza starts 25 May 2007 (Mondays and Fridays) from £34.99
Pula starts 28 June 2007 (Thursdays) from £44.99
Mahon starts 30 June 2007 (Saturdays) £39.99
Jersey starts 30 June 2007 (Saturdays) from £24.99
Nice starts 1 July 2007 (Wednesdays and Sundays) from £49.99

All prices quoted are one way include taxes

Monarch Airlines opens up the opportunity of flying to a Spanish ski resort from the United Kingdom from £29.99 one way including taxes. £29.99 can get you a flights from Manchester to Barcelona. This service is operated daily and allows visits to the very beautiful city that is capital of Catalonia.
If you would prefer the Sierra Nevada with its high altitude ski resorts and excellent sun, then Monarch offer 4 flights from London Gatwick to Granada per week from £36.99. Daily flights to Malaga are also on offer from £36.99 from London Luton, Birmingham and Manchester.

Brussels Airlines with a distinctive 'b' logo representing Brussels and the taxi and runway lights has just been announced. It is formed from the merger of Virgin Express and SN Brussels. The Virgin Express logo and branding was not available to the airline indefinitely following its purchase by SN Brussels so a new brand for a merged airline was developed.It means that from 25 March 2007 Brussels Airlines will offer cheap flights on 50 routes out of Brussels up from the 20 served by Virgin Express.Flights will start at 49 Euros one way including all taxes and charges. It will achieve this by offering a cheap flight ticket class known as 'b.light' on its flights while offering a with frills service known as 'b flex'. It will also offer a lowest fare guarantee on its 'b.light' fares though I feel it is unlikely that cheaper flights meeting the terms and conditions for getting a refund of the difference in fares will be found as there are few other budget airlines operating out / into Brussels as the most likely competitor on the routes is BA Connect (the BA being British Airways not Brussels Airlines) which will soon become flybe. However since the two company's had a code share agreement their flights were not timed close together.The good news as I see it is more cheap flight options from the United Kingdom to Brussels and beyond.

Ryanair has a sale on where 3 million seats on flights between 14 November 2006 and 24 March 2007 can be picked up for the price of the taxes and charges. This latest sale has been extended until 9 November 2006.

As of today Jet2 the low cost airline operating from the United Kingdom has 20,000 seats on flights in November, December, January and February for just the price of the taxes. The offer ends on Wednesday 8 November 2006.

British Airways Connect have some very cheap flights available in its current sale. Up until 20 November 2006 they are selling flights to Europe with 40% cut off the fares. I looked up some Manchester to Brussels flights and found good availability of seats for £29 one way including all taxes and charges for January / February next year.

The latest new route to be announced by Ryanair the leading European low budget airline is Nottingham East Midlands <> Rimini. Starting on 27 March 2007, the cheap flight provider will connect the East Midlands to the seaside town of Rimini in Italy.

The latest deal to tempt us from bmibaby, the low budget arm of BMI is a 50% reduction on its cheapest fares to all of its 20 destinations. The offer runs until midnight on Wednesday 8 November 2006 and applies to flights taken between 20 November 2006 and 28 February 2007. Of course there are terms and conditions so don't expect to find these fares offered at school holidays.

BA is to sell its BA Connect low cost subsidiary to flybe the Exeter based budget airline. The deal will make flybe the largest regional airline in Europe it will give flybe a total of 159 routes and 10 million passengers. The airline will have 70 aircraft by the end of next year.

Flybe had embarked on a programme to upgrade its fleet to new fuel efficient aircraft with orders in place for Bombardier Q400 and Embraer 195 aircraft. It plans to replace the ageing BA Connect fleet with more efficient aircraft at the earliest opportunity.
BBC Radio this morning highlighted that job cuts in BA Connect’s 1900 staff were likely.

Aer Lingus is to add 86 flights per week to its European short haul services. The Irish Flag carrier has increased demand for its flights after entering the low cost market. Its lowest fares are competitive with the leading budget airlines especially when you consider that Aer Lingus flies to the main airports at convenient times saving on time and money when travelling to the destination city.
Aer Lingus will add six new routes and increase frequencies on 20 other routes.
The new routes are:
Cork <> Manchester
Cork <> Madrid
Cork <> Prague
Dublin <> Newcastle
Dublin <> Milan-Malpensa
Dublin <> Athens

The no frills, low cost arm of BMI is to add three new destinations to its Birmingham International Airport schedules. From 25 March 2007 bmibaby will fly to Faro, Glasgow International and Murcia. Seats on the new flights start at £13.99 one way including taxes and charges.