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Low cost news   About low cost airlines The low cost airlines: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O |  P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z A   Airlines Contacts   Aer Arann The low-cost regional airline was established in 1970. It started off as an air service to the Aran Islands from Galway and now operates more than 600 flights per week across 35 routes in Ireland (Dublin to Cork, Galway, Donegal etc), the UK (Dublin to Cardiff; Waterford to London Luton etc) and France (Cork, Galway, Kerry or Waterford to Lorient; Bristol, Cardiff or Cork to Nantes). Website   Air Baltic Air Baltic is the Latvian national airline and operates flights out of Riga, the capital city, and Vilnius in Lithuania. The Latvian State and SAS Scandinavian Airlines are the major shareholders. From London Gatwick, Manchester and Dublin airports, Air Baltic flies to several destinations including Riga, Vilnius, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Moscow and Kiev. Website   Air Berlin Air Berlin is Europe’s third-biggest low-cost airline after Ryanair and easyJet. It has an extensive network in Germany; it joined forces with Niki, the former F1 driver Niki Lauda's airline, in 2004. The airline flies from London Stansted to Hanover, Munster, Berlin, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Paderborn and Dusseldorf in Germany as well as Belfast and several cities in Spain, Portugal, Austria, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Switzerland, Tunisia and Turkey. From Manchester, the airline flies to London Stansted. From Bournemouth, Air Berlin operates a service to Paderborn and Palma. Website   Aer Lingus Ireland's flag carrier was established in 1936 and is based at Dublin Airport. It also has hubs at Cork and Shannon airports. Although it the national airline, Aer Lingus has repositioned itself as a low-cost carrier in recent years. It offers low fares to cities in the UK (Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jersey, Liverpool, London Heathrow and Manchester), Europe, the USA and Middle East. Website   Air Southwest A regional airline that flies to and from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Destinations served include London Gatwick, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds/Bradford, Newquay, Plymouth, Cardiff, Jersey and Dublin and Cork in Ireland. Website   Alitalia Alitalia is Italy's national airline and has hubs at Milan Malpensa International Airport and Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport. It is a member of the Skyteam alliance with Air France, Delta Airlines, AeroMexico, Korean Air, CSA Czech Airlines, Northwest, Continental and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Alitalia flies domestically and internationally. In the UK and Ireland it flies from several airports including London Heathrow, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle and Dublin. Website   B   Airlines Contacts   bmi bmi is the UK's second-largest full-service airline and a member of Star Alliance along with carriers such as Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Lufthansa, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and US Airways. Its main operational base is at Heathrow Airport. The airline operates about 1,700 flights a week worldwide and provides regional flights within the UK. It has a regional low-cost offshoot called bmibaby. Website   bmibaby bmi’s low-cost airline has recently marked its fifth birthday. It was established in 2002 and has four bases in the UK (East Midlands, Birmingham International, Cardiff and Manchester) from where it flies to 24 destinations around Europe including the Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland (Cork, Dublin and Knock), the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands. Website   British Airways The flag carrier and third-largest airline in Europe after Air France-KLM and Lufthansa offers more transatlantic flights than any other airline. BA's two main operating bases are London Heathrow and Gatwick and the airline flies to more than 550 centrally located airports. It is also an oneworld alliance member with American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, LAN and Qantas. It has five franchisee airlines: BMED, Comair, GB Airways, Loganair and Sun Air of Scandinavia. Website   Budget Air Budget Air is the low-cost brand of Budget Travel, an Irish tour operator. The airline flies from Dublin, Cork and Shannon to Europe’s most popular holiday destinations including Alicante, Malaga, Faro, Bodrum, Corfu, Ibiza and Tenerife. Website   C   Airlines Contacts   Centralwings The low-cost offshoot of LOT Polish Airlines started flying in 2005. Its main base is in Warsaw and it also has bases at Gdansk, Katowice and Kraków. The airline flies from London Gatwick to Warsaw, Wroclaw and Katowice; Stansted to Warsaw; and Edinburgh to Gdansk, Katowice and Warsaw. From Ireland, there are flights from Shannon to Warsaw, Katowice and Gdansk; from Dublin to Szczecin, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Katowice; and from Cork to Krakow, Wroclaw and Warsaw. The airline offers a 20 per cent discount for children (2-12) and charges a fixed passenger fee of £19.89, €24.98 or 99 PLN. Website   CSA Czech Airlines The Czech national airline is based in Prague and is a member of the Skyteam alliance along with Delta Airlines, Alitalia, Korean Air, Air France, KLM, Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines. With these partners, Czech Airlines offers a comprehensive network of flights to Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia. The airline flies from London Heathrow and Stansted, Edinburgh and Manchester. From Ireland, the airline flies from Cork and Dublin airports. Website   E   Airlines Contacts   easyJet The Luton-based airline, established by Stelios Haji-Ioannou in 1998, is one of the pioneers of low-cost travel. The orange-liveried airline flies 289 routes across 74 airports around the UK and in Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Germany. Since the accession of ten new states to the EU in 2004, easyJet has expanded into Eastern and Central Europe with flights to the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia and Estonia. Flights to Istanbul and Marrakesh commenced in 2006. Website   Estonian Air The airline was established in 1991, shortly after the country declared its independence. Privatised in 1996, 49 per cent of the airline's shares are owned by Maersk Air, the Danish airline. Estonian Air flies from London Gatwick and Dublin to Tallinn, Helsinki, Riga and Vilnius and from Manchester to Tallinn and Riga. Website F   Airlines Contacts   FlyGlobespan.com Flyglobespan was established in 2002, an offshoot of Globespan, a tour operator based in Edinburgh. The airline has bases at Edinburgh and Glasgow airports and flies from several other airports around the UK including Aberdeen, London Gatwick and Stansted, Manchester, Liverpool, Durham Tees Valley and Belfast. It serves dozens of popular destinations such as Alicante, Barcelona, Faro, Lanzarote, Palma, Malaga, Nice, Rome and Tenerife. There are also flights to Canada (Toronto and Vancouver), the United States (Florida) and South Africa (Cape Town). Website   Flybe The airline that was Jersey European and then British European became Flybe in 2002. The Exeter-based airline is now Europe’s largest independent regional airline, flying 140 routes to 45 airports and will carry six million passengers in 2006/2007. Flybe flies from 20 airports around the UK (from Inverness in Scotland to Newquay in Cornwall) to the Channel Islands, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Croatia. Website   FlyNordic The airline is a subsidiary of Finnair. From its hub at Stockholm, FlyNordic flies to Lulea, Umea, Kiruna, Ostersund, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Bergen, Dublin, Tallinn, Bordeaux, St Tropez and Grenoble. Website   G   Airlines Contacts   Germanwings Germanwings has five bases in Germany: Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg and Dortmund. The low-cost airline serves 53 destinations in Europe and flies approximately seven million passengers each year. It flies from London Gatwick to Hamburg, London Stansted to Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart and Edinburgh to Cologne-Bonn. Germanwings also flies from Dublin to Cologne-Bonn. Lufthansa owns almost half of Germanwings' parent airline, Eurowings. Website   H   Airlines Contacts   Hapag-Lloyd Express In January, Hapagfly and HLX were amalgamated under the TUIfly brand. This move created a fleet of 56 aircraft and made TUI the third-largest German fleet after Lufthansa and Air Berlin. TUIfly flies to 75 destinations in 17 countries and its headquarters are at Hanover Airport. It flies from Birmingham to Cologne-Bonn; Manchester to Cologne-Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart and Venice; and Newcastle to Hanover. Website I   Airlines Contacts   Iceland Express The low-cost airline is based at Keflavik Airport near Reykjavik and started flying in 2003. Iceland Express flies from London Stansted to the Icelandic capital. It also connects Reykjavík to more than a dozen European destinations including Alicante, Basel, Berlin, Billund, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Frankfurt Hahn, Friedrichshafen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Paris and Stockholm. Website Telephone J   Airlines Contacts   Jet2 Jet2’s home airport is Leeds Bradford with bases at Manchester, Belfast, Blackpool, Edinburgh and Newcastle. The airline flies to popular holiday destinations around Europe including Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Budapest, Faro, Ibiza, Malaga, Murcia, Nice, Palma, Paris (Charles de Gaulle), Pisa, Prague, Tenerife, Valencia and Venice. Website   L   Airlines Contacts   Lufthansa Europe’s second-largest airline (after Air France-KLM) and a Star Alliance founding member, Lufthansa has kept up with the budget airlines by featuring regular and attractive seat sales (Ready To Fly sales each Wednesday and regular Long Weekend promotions) across its comprehensive domestic, European and worldwide network. The airline, which took over Swiss International Air Lines in 2005, flies from the following UK and Irish airports: London Heathrow and London City, Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guernsey, Inverness, Jersey, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle, Teesside and Dublin. Website   M   Airlines Contacts   Meridiana Alisarda was founded in 1963 by HH Prince Aga Khan with the aim of developing the tourist industry in Sardinia. It became Meridiana in 1991. The airline connects 11 Italian airports with several European points including London Gatwick, Amsterdam, Paris CDG, Barcelona, Madrid, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, and Pristina. From London Gatwick, Meridiana flies to Amsterdam, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Olbia and Palermo. Website   Monarch Scheduled Monarch offers low-cost scheduled flights to several popular holiday destinations (including Alicante, Almeria, Faro, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Malaga, Menorca, Majorca and Tenerife) from its bases at London Gatwick and Luton, Manchester and Birmingham. The company also operates charter flights for leading tour operators. It was recently named Airline of the Year – Leisure at the annual Travel Trade Gazette awards in London for its look, online check-in service and customer service. Website N   Airlines Contacts   Norwegian Norwegian Air Shuttle AS is a low-cost carrier based in Oslo. It flies domestically and internationally to several cities including Alicante, Rome, Prague, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Warsaw and Venice. From London Stansted there are flights to Bergen, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger, Tromso and Trondheim. From Manchester, there are flights to Bergen; and from Edinburgh to Bodo, Oslo, Stavanger, Tromso and Trondheim. Website   R   Airlines Contacts   Ryanair The Irish airline, established in 1985, is one of the pioneers of low-cost travel in Europe. Its headquarters are in Dublin, but its biggest base in the UK is at London Stansted Airport. The airline carries more than 42 million passengers each year. It operates 456 routes - from Aberdeen to Zaragoza - across 25 countries and has 19 bases including Glasgow, Shannon, Dublin, Liverpool, London Stansted and Luton, Milan, Brussels-Charleroi, Girona, Frankfurt-Hahn, Stockholm and Rome. Ryanair flies from six airports in the Republic of Ireland - Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Kerry, Derry and Knock-Ireland West. Website Telephone   S   Airlines Contacts   SkyEurope SkyEurope flies to 42 destinations in 19 countries from its bases in Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, Prague and Bratislava. From London Stansted, Manchester and Dublin, the airline flies to Bratislava, Budapest, Dubrovnik, Kosice, Krakow, Poprad (Tatry), Split and Vienna. Website   Sterling The no-friller’s headquarters are in Copenhagen. It flew 5.3 million passengers in 2006 on its routes in Scandinavia (Copenhagen, Aalborg, Billund, Oslo, Stockholm and Gothenburg) and to popular European destinations including Alicante, Faro, Gran Canaria, Crete, Lanzarote, Malaga, Majorca and Tenerife. Sterling flies from London Gatwick to Aalborg, Billund, Copenhagen and Stockholm and Edinburgh to Stockholm and Copenhagen. Website   T   Airlines Contacts   Thomsonfly Thomsonfly.com is part of the world of TUI AG, one of the largest travel and tourism businesses in the world. Other airlines in the group are Hapag-Lloyd in Germany, Britannia in Sweden, Corsair in France and TUI Airlines in Belgium. Thomsonfly flies from 20 airports around the UK (including Coventry, Doncaster Sheffield and Bournemouth) to more than 80 destinations in 37 countries. Regular seat sales feature Thomsonfly’s most popular beach and city-break destinations such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Faro, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Malaga, Palma, Paris, Pisa, Prague, Tenerife and Venice. Website   Transavia Transavia (formerly known as Basiq Air) operates a large network of European routes (charter flights for tour operators and scheduled services for individual passengers) from its home bases at Amsterdam Schiphol and Rotterdam. Transavia is a member of the Air France-KLM Group. It flies from London Stansted to Rotterdam and from Glasgow to Amsterdam. Website   V   Airlines Contacts   FlyVLM VLM Airlines, a business airline, started operations in 1993 with a service from Antwerp to London City Airport. Today VLM Airlines offers more flights from London City than any other airline. There are daily services to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Groningen, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liverpool, Luxembourg, Manchester and Rotterdam. It carried more than 625,000 passengers in 2005. Website W   Airlines Contacts   Wizz Air Wizz Air, a Polish/Hungarian low-cost carrier, took to the skies in 2004. It is now the largest Central European-based low-cost carrier with bases in Katowice, Warsaw, Gdansk and Budapest. It operates 32 scheduled routes to 17 European destinations and flew three million passengers in 2006. From London Stansted, Wizz Air flies to Katowice and from Luton to Bourgas, Bucharest, Budapest, Gdansk, Katowice, Poznan, Sofia, Split, Warsaw and Zagreb. There are also flights from Liverpool, Belfast, Bournemouth, Coventry, Doncaster-Sheffield and Durham Tees Valley. From Cork Airport in the Irish republic, there are flights to Gdansk and Katowice. Website   X   Airlines Contacts   XL.com Formerly Excel Airways, XL.com is a charter airline that offers flights from London Gatwick, Luton and Stansted airports and Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, Humberside, Manchester and Newcastle to popular holiday resorts such as Tenerife, Las Palmas, Tobago, Funchal, Sharm El Sheikh, Arrecife and Paphos. Website   Z   Airlines Contacts   Zoom Airlines The low-cost airline is based in Ottawa and offers flights from several airports around the UK to cities in Canada. Zoom took to the skies in 2002, the brain child of two Scottish brothers John and Hugh Boyle. It now flies from London Gatwick, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast to Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. Website