For Cheap Flights in Europe and Cheap Flights in Asia...
The UK's third largest low cost airline kicks off 2009 with a modest offering of 10 million flights across the UK and Europe. The cheapest flights to Belfast City can be found for £22, but otherwise you're looking at £30-40 including taxes for one-way flights to Nice, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Brussels, Hamburg...
North England's own budget airline, Jet 2 plans to expand its route network in 2009, flying to many more sunshine destinations - including Cornwall, Croatia and Cyprus.
In fact, next year, Jet 2 will fly more low cost routes to the Mediterranean, Adriatic & Dalmatia than ever before - not only from the North of England, but also from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It's official! Europe's most successful no-frills carrier plans to launch a sister-airline to fly the Atlantic, offering unprecedentedly low fares.
If you're an anti-aviation eco-activist, this probably sounds like your worst nightmare, so join in our debate on anthropogenic global warming. If not, you may be happy that transatlantic low fare flights, first introduced by Sir Freddie Laker may yet re-emerge in the 21st century.
You wait years for an LCC, then 4 come along at once. This autumn, Wizz Air, germanwings, Germania & Air Arabia all start flying to Ukraine.
The former Soviet Republic has long only been accessible via flag carriers such as British Airways and Austrian Airlines. At last, no-frills carriers will make transit to cities such as Kyiv and L'viv affordable.
Air Asia will fly beyond the borders of Southeast Asia with new routes to both India and Bangladesh.
Attempts by other cheap Asian airlines such as Mihin Lanka, Nok Air & Fly Yeti to operate low cost flights across the Bay of Bengal, linking South Asia with Southeast Asia have so far all failed. Only the Indian LCC AI Express currently links Thailand & Singapore to India & Bangladesh.
Sri Lanka's only low fare airline, grounded for most of 2008, expects to take to the skies again in December.
Mihin Lanka is uniquely placed to offer inter-regional low cost routes linking the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia. But the revived carrier will now face increased competition from aggressively expanding low cost rivals AI Express and Air Asia.
Air Asia will fly beyond the borders of Southeast Asia with new routes to both India and Bangladesh.
Attempts by other cheap Asian airlines such as Mihin Lanka, Nok Air & Fly Yeti to operate low cost flights across the Bay of Bengal, linking South Asia with Southeast Asia have so far all failed. Only the Indian LCC AI Express currently links Thailand & Singapore to India & Bangladesh.
The largest, best established budget carrier in the Middle East, Air Arabia has set its sights on Europe.
The low fare airline will commence flights to Ukraine on October 15th, 2008, and plans to establish a new base in the Moroccan capital Rabat from which it will fly to many Mediterranean destinations in both North Africa and Europe.
India's pioneering no-frills airline Air Deccan has been swallowed up whole by Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher. The phoenix rising from Deccan's ashes is Kingfisher Red.
Crucially, this means that what was once the cheapest air network in India has now been superceded by leaner, meaner competitors such as spiceJet, IndiGo and also GoAir, based out of Goa. And in India, of course, there's always the train...
In March 2007, Stelios Haji-Ionannou's easyBus launched its first new route in three years, from central London to Stansted Airport.
Meanwhile other budget intercity operators such as Terravision, megabus, megatrain and NX Funfare continue to expand their networks. A greener alternative to flying?
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