Ryanair passengers bound for a number of Spanish destinations will be limited to travelling with hand luggage only today.
Strike action by baggage handlers across Spain, the second strike in as many weeks, means the carrier will not accept checked baggage on today’s flights to and from four Spanish airports: Seville, Girona, Granada and Jerez.
source: Times
They now offer flights from Tenerife to Blackpool, Belfast and Newcastle and, within a matter of weeks, from Lanzarote to Leeds.
source: Tenerife News
Low cost airline Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd said it is cautiously optimistic about its business outlook.
Chairman Mark Rowsthorn told its annual general meeting the company is taking more action on the management of its fuel costs.
He said the airline now has fuel hedges in place for over 89 pct of budgeted requirements for the year to June 2007 and some hedging in place for fiscal 2008.
Virgin Blue already has about 33 pct of Australia’s domestic aviation market, making it Australia’s second largest airline after Qantas Airways Ltd.
source: Forbes
In the first six months of this year, low-cost carriers had over 2.8m passengers. Six no-frills airlines are among ten biggest airline operators in Poland. Hungarian WizzAir, Irish Ryanair and Polish Centralwings (LOTâ??s subsidiary) are the most active ones. Tomasz Dziedzic from the Institute of Tourism, expects that the market will continue the rapid growth for at least a year.
source: Pulsbiznesu
Six months after AirTran introduced its low-cost service at Westchester County Airport at White Plains and less than two weeks after it announced service at Stewart Airport at Newburgh, the Atlanta-based airline Monday said it would add three more cities to its Westchester service.
AirTran currently flies from Westchester to Atlanta, West Palm Beach and Orlando. As of December 21, it will add Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers and Tampa.
When it starts Stewart service on January 11, it will fly to Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale.
Source: midhudsonnews.com
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, Brazil’s low-cost, low-fare airline, starts today its operations in Chapeco, in western Santa Catarina state, Brazil. Daily flights will follow the route Sao Paulo – Florianopolis – Chapeco. Passengers from Porto Alegre may fly to the new destination via a connection in Florianopolis.
source: Yahoo! finance
Low-cost airline Flybe is giving football fans the chance to win two return flights and meet their sporting heroes.
The airline is sponsoring three teams in the Coca Cola Championship â?? Southampton, Norwich and Birmingham â?? and is organising a mini “Flybe league” between them.
Fans correctly predicting the scores from three matches between the teams will be entered into a prize draw, with the winner being awarded tickets to a match of their choice, a chance to meet their team’s players and free Flybe flights.
source: cheapflights.co.uk
Wizz Air has announced it is to become the second low-cost airline to operate from Coventry Airport with flights to Katowice in southern Poland from July 2007.
The carrier, which is the largest low-fare airline in central and eastern Europe and the second-largest airline in Poland, plans to run the flights three times weekly, transporting up to 50,000 passengers a year.
source: Leamington Spa Today
Icelandair will begin service to Bergen, Norway, with 3 flights a week and to Gothenburg, Sweden, with 2 flights a week and offer 4 flights a week from Halifax, Canada, starting spring 2007. Icelandair will also increase the number of flights to Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Helsinki and include new afternoon flights from Boston and New York-JFK.
source: PR Newswire
Click Mexicana, Grupo Mexicana’s first low-cost carrier in Mexico, announced the beginning of its services between Los Angeles and Las Vegas to Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. The airline is currently the first low-cost Mexican carrier to offer service outside the Republic.
“We are proud to provide our U.S. customers with this new destination,” said Isaac Volin, CEO, of Click Mexicana. “During its first year of operation, Click Mexicana achieved our goal of fulfilling traveler’s needs and expectations, resulting in high levels of satisfaction when it comes to price and service,” he added.
source: Yahoo! finance
