Low-cost airline easyJet PLC has said it will start a new four-times weekly service from London Gatwick airport to Biarritz, in the south of France, from July 4, 2008.
The service will run every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, easyJet said. The carrier also launched a six-times weekly service from London Gatwick to Innsbruck earlier today.
source: Hemscott
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., the parent company of Brazil’s low-cost airlines GOL Transportes Aereos S.A. and VRG Linhas Aereas S.A., announces that GOL has begun daily operations to Presidente Prudente, located in western Sao Paulo state.
The route will connect Presidente Prudente to both Sao Paulo’s capital and Cuiaba, in Mato Grosso. Presidente Prudente has one of Brazil’s leading cattle ranching industries and is known as a center for the quarter horse and the Nelore Mocho cattle. The Animal Exposition held during the first two weeks of September is one of the largest events in Brazil, attracting thousands of business and leisure travelers. The city is also recognized as home to a number of important universities and other educational institutions.
source: Fox Business
Spanish low cost airline Vueling Airlines, announced yesterday it is to run a Madrid/Malta flight from 31 March, adding to the growing ranks of low cost carriers plying the Malta route since the government opened up the airline travel sector.
In a statement, Vueling said tickets for the new route would run at an all-inclusive e40, at a frequency rate of three flights per week – from Madrid on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and from Malta on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
source: The Malta Independent
Ryanair is to launch 50 new routes in 2008 departing from seven airports across the UK to destinations in France, Spain, Germany and Italy.
Flights to Girona airport, a little over 60 miles from Barcelona, will be available from Birmingham, Manchester and Newquay airports. Alicante is another Spanish route set to launch in the new year from Durham Tees, Edinburgh and Newquay airports, as well as another route to Malaga (from Liverpool).
Also new for 2008 are flights to the Italian city of Pisa from Edinburgh and Birmingham, to Milan from Manchester, and to the Portuguese city of Faro, in the Algarve, from London Stansted.
Germany will also be served by the budget airline – with flights from Edinburgh to Frankfurt and Bremen, and Manchester to Frankfurt.
Holidaymakers looking for cheap flights to France will have the option of travelling to the southern French city of Marseille from Birmingham, Edinburgh and Manchester, and to Angouleme, close to Bordeaux, from London Stansted. Liverpool to Nantes flights are also set to start next year.
source: Travelbite.co.uk
Budget airline easyJet is to begin flights from Manchester as part of a massive expansion of its services in the north west.
Planes carrying the airline’s famous orange and white logo are set to lift off for foreign destinations from the airport for the first time late March.
Bosses at easyJet say the move, which is subject to approval by regulators, will make it the north west’s biggest operator.
source: manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Virgin America is launching flight service between Seattle and San Francisco, and Seattle and Los Angeles.
The new airline, which launched in August, said it would open service between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and San Francisco in March 2008, with three daily round-trip flights. Service between Sea-Tac and Los Angeles will follow in April, also with three daily round-trip flights.
Virgin America said it would add a fourth Seattle-Los Angeles daily round-trip flight beginning in May.
source: Business Journal
Details about the new air routes that will be opened up to competition by the “open skies” agreement between the USA and the European Union next year are beginning to emerge.
This week, Northwest Airlines and KLM confirmed that they will provide services from London’s Heathrow airport to a number of major cities in America’s Midwest and on the west coast.
Along with flights to Detroit and Minneapolis, Northwest’s hub airports, the joint venture partners will provide a daily flight from Heathrow to Seattle from June 2008.
British Airways is currently the only operator serving this destination, and is a very expensive, highly lucrative route. Competition is likely to bring considerable benefits for air passengers aiming to get to the north-west USA’s biggest and most economically important city.
source: holidaylettings.co.uk
Aer Lingus will make history today with the start of its services from Belfast International Airport.
Belfast Internatinal Airport is the airline’s first ever base outside the Republic, and follows the company’s controversial decision to end flights between Shannon and Heathrow and to transfer the slots to the North.
BMI, the UK’s third-largest airline, will start daily non-stop flights from London Heathrow to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport in March, becoming the second British carrier to fly that route. British Airways Plc had been the only UK airline allowed to operate between London and Tel Aviv.
The UK and Israeli governments agreed in September to allow another British carrier to operate the route.
source: The Jerusalem Post
Indian low-cost carrier Jet Airways launches daily flights from the eastern Indian metropolis of Chennai to Toronto and New York, both via Brussels, starting tomorrow.
The flight involves a two-hour layover in Brussels, from which passengers can fly to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport or John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The airline is introducing the route with an economy return fare of 36,000 rupees (US$913) plus taxes, and a premier class return fare of 157,500 rupees (US$4,000) plus taxes.
source: Wall Street Journal
