Cheap Flight News Europe

2010 Winter Holiday prices slashed

noreply@blogger.com (John Williams) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:41:00 +0000

With the Pound at a historic low against the Euro, coupled with the severe credit crunch, it was hardly good news for Brits wanting to enjoy the excellent snow last Winter. I can`t wait to ride my snowboard in the Alps again. The good news is that bookings are open for ski resorts for 2009/2010 and there are some very good early booking offers. P&V Holidays, the operator of apartments and hotels in most French Ski Resorts have at least 22% off all Dates, all Resorts. Up to 45% off!. Book during August for these great deals.

Last post - no more flight blogs

noreply@blogger.com (John Williams) — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:44:00 +0000

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?

Low cost airlines and the environment

noreply@blogger.com (John Williams) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:00:00 +0000

The European Low Fares Airline Association (ELFAA) a body comprised of easyJet, flybe, Hapag-Lloyd Express, Norwegian, Ryanair, Sky Europe, Sterling, Sverige Flyg, Transavia and Wizz Air has produced a report in response to the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EUETS). So far two budget airlines, easyJet and flybe have made their own responses to the criticism that airlines, in particular low fare airlines are the biggest threat to the environment. The report produced by Frontier Economics points out that airlines in Europe produce only 4% of the carbon dioxide European Union's (EU) fifteen members and predict that it will still only be 5% by 2030 assuming there are 25 EU members by then. What they don't point out is that the increase to 5% is a 25% increase in CO2 at a time when the world needs to be reducing emissions. They feel aggrieved as they believe bigger polluters are not getting the same attention.

The make the point that the low cost airlines are the least damaging to the environment of all the airlines as they operate new fuel efficient aircraft with very high load factors. They believe that the EUETS must carefully consider how to implement emissions trading so that airlines running old aircraft with poor load factors are not rewarded with big emissions quotas based on historical usage. The low cost airlines are in favour of an emissions trading scheme if it rewards moves to further improve fuel efficiency. My view is that the rising cost of aviation fuel may achieve many of the goals of the EUETS before the scheme starts to influence airlines.

News has moved to a new Eurapart Subdomain

noreply@blogger.com (John Williams) — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:34:00 +0000

In order to tidy up the files on our server, the cheap flight news is being moved to a new URL:

http://news.eurapart.com

The archive of the old will be retained. The changeover will take place at the end of March 2006.
We hope this does not cause too much inconvenience.