Flights
Norwegian launches new route from London Stansted
Norwegian, Scandinavia’s largest low fares airline, will start a twice weekly operation from London-Stansted to Tromsø from the 8th of December.
easyJet voted Best Low Cost Airline
Readers of Condé Nast Traveller Magazine have again voted easyJet their favourite low cost airline. easyJet offers travellers top business and leisure destinations, with convenient flight schedules to suit every diary. Great products such as online check-in and Speedy Boarding make easyJet the airline of choice for the discerning traveller.
Celebrate Ramadan with Emirates
Emirates customers visiting Dubai during the Holy Month of Ramadan can avail of two nights’ accommodation in their hotel of choice from as little as US$66 per person per night.
Emirates’ longest range aircraft touches down
Emirates recently welcomed the first of its 10 Boeing 777-200LRs on order, bringing the fast-expanding airline's fleet count to 108. This new aircraft also represents the 50th Boeing 777 to have joined the fleet of the multi award-winning airline.
Emirates towers over Newcastle
Britain's newest air traffic control centre was today christened The Emirates Tower as the Dubai-based international airline announced a new sponsorship partnership with Newcastle International Airport.
TAP to introduce signed in-flight safety videos
From September, TAP is introducing new items in the Safety Instruction videos shown on board its aircraft in an effort to meet the needs of its passengers. In addition to this, besides the regular narration in Portuguese and English, videos will now have a sign language “window”, also in both languages.
TAP launches extra daily fights to Nice and Toulouse
From September 15 TAP will operate more daily flights to Nice and Toulouse with departures from Lisbon, reinforcing its offer of flights to France – one of the most representative markets of the Company’s European network. The range of destinations served now operates with a basic 19 flights a day available rising to 20 during peak periods.
Thomsonfly to service Tenerife, Madeira & Paphos
Book now to avoid another British wet summer and bag your place in the sun next year! On sale now are more low fare Thomsonfly flights for summer 2008, including new summer services to Tenerife from Doncaster Sheffield and Glasgow, to Funchal, Madeira from London Gatwick and to Paphos, Cyprus, from Birmingham and Newcastle.
Ryanair celebrates busiest ever month
Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline, today (Wednesday, 5th September 2007) celebrated its busiest ever month, having carried over 4.8 million passengers during August.
Success for Aer Arann’s Waterford-London Luton route
The Waterford-London Luton route carried 9,106 passengers in August 2007 – the first time any cross-channel route by Aer Arann has passed the 9,000 passengers per month mark. The Galway-London Luton route carried 9,001 passengers in August 2007 – coming a close second.
August washout creates mass exodus to Europe
Award-winning low fares airline Monarch is celebrating yet another record breaking month after carrying 459,056 passengers on scheduled flights in August 2007, almost 100,000 passengers more than last August and the third month in a row that the airline has flown in excess of 400,000 passengers in one month.
Ryanair launches biggest ever seat sale
Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline, today (4 September) announced its biggest-ever seat sale by releasing a record 6 million seats for free - just pay the taxes and charges.
17 new bmi destinations from Heathrow go on sale
bmi, Heathrow’s second-largest carrier, today announced the largest-ever expansion of its route network, with the opening of sales to 17 new destinations, including Baku, Tehran, Beirut, Amman, Almaty and Yerevan. The new routes, starting 28 October 2007, will operate from Heathrow’s Terminal 1 with an improved timetable for business travellers and with a new enhanced in-flight product.
Spanair extends flight plus hotel product range
By choosing marsans.com as its new supplier, Spanair has extended the scope of its online Flight+Hotel product, which facilitates both types of reservation in a single purchase. Since the start of the summer, the company has been offering customers the possibility of room bookings at 30,000 hotels in Spain and 100,000 worldwide in both urban and resort destinations, including those of the main hotel chains.
Aer Arann says no to check-in charges
Aer Arann, one of Europe’s fastest growing airlines, confirmed today that it has no plans to introduce check-in charges on its domestic and international routes in the wake of other airlines adding yet more surcharges to the cost of their flights.