European Low Cost Airlines Guide

• Low Cost Airlines
• (External) Aer Arann Aer Arann currently operates over 600 flights per week across 35 routes in Ireland, the UK and France. The airline has launched a total of 12 new routes for summer 2006, half of which are UK services including Cork to Cardiff and Newquay, Galway to Liverpool, Dublin to Inverness and the newly announced Cardiff to Dublin and Galway.
• (External) Air Italy Operate low cost internal flights to major cities including Rome, Naples, Milan, Bari and Catania
• (External) JAT Airways A Belgrade based airline that is the former Yugoslav Airlines or "Aeroput"
• (External) AVRO plc Avro is the UK's leading charter flight-only company. In business for over 20 years, we have become the No.1 provider of charter flight seats to the travel trade, selling over 1,000,000 seats every year. Avro is part of The Cosmos Group, owned by the international Globus Group.
• (External) Air Baltic With hubs at Riga and Vilnius flies mostly to Easter European countries.
• (External) Aer Lingus Irish National Carrier that has now gone low cost, with destinations around the world
• (External) Air Berlin Air Berlin is also constantly expanding its routes outside Germany, for example from London and Amsterdam to Majorca, or within Spain from Palma de Mallorca to 14 destinations on the mainland and on the Balearic Islands.
• (External) Air Plus Comet Part of a larger holding campany that specialises in tourism, flies between Italy and Spain.
• (External) Air Prishtina Kosovan Airline flies to mostly Germany but also to Antalya, and Verona
• (External) Air Southwest Air Southwest is a new regional airline dedicated to providing air services to and from Devon , Cornwall and Somerset.
• (External) Alpi Eagles Italian Airline with destinations mostly in Italy but also some Spanish and one to Bucharest
• (External) Arkia Click Arkia provides cheap flights from Israel (charter flights) to many destinations in Europe.
• (External) Atlantic Express Now flying twice daily between Jersey and Stansted.
• (External) Atlas Blue Has international regular schedule service between the Moroccan cities of Marrakech and Agadir to different European countries.
• (External) Atlas Jet Atlas Jet is Turkish Airline that flies to Turkish airfirelds only.
• (External) Aurigny Airlines 'Aurigny' is the Norman name for Alderney, the northern Channel Isle, where Aurigny Air Services was launched in 1968.
• (External) Baboo Airways Based in Geneva, has flights to Florence, Prague, Venice and Nice.
• (External) Belle Air An Albanian airline based in Italy with flights to inland Italy, Greece and Albania.
• (External) Blu Express Formed from the merger of Blue Panorama Airlines, Distal & ITR Airlines. Now one of the largest low-cost airlines in Italy, with destinations all over Europe.
• (External) Blue 1 Finnish low-cost airline with flights all over Europe including London.
• (External) Blue Air Romanian Airline with flights to Italy, France, Istanbul and Brussels
• (External) Blue Islands Airlines Channel Islands Airline originally from Alderney to Bournemouth, but now also to and from Jersey and Guernsey
• (External) BMI Baby Formed in 2002 as an extension of BMI, now of the largest low cost airlines in the UK
• (External) BravoFly A member of the BravoFly Group, one of the largest European operators in the travel world.
• (External) City Star Airlines Scotland' newest airline, with services running from Aberdeen to Kristiansand, Stavanger, Groningen and Oslo
• (External) Click Air Clickair’s base of operations is Barcelona’s El Prat airport, the starting and end point for most of its routes, including London.
• (External) Club Air Italian Low cost airline that specialises in Eastern European destinations.
• (External) Condor Airlines Originally a Thomas Cook Airline, Condor was formed as long ago as 1955 and is based in Germany with flights all over the world.
• (External) Corendon Turkey-based with flights to Belgium, Holland and Germany.
• (External) Cyprus Turkish Airlines Flies between North Cyprus and Turkey as well as many UK Airports.
• (External) DAT Danish Airline that covers the Baltic Region
• DBA Airlines Sizeable German low-cost airline with flights all over Europe.
• (External) Directfly Inland Polish Airline with Polish routes only.
• (External) Easy Jet Easy Who!?
• (External) Estonian Air Not really fitting the mold, but its on the list anyway.
• (External) Evolavia Based in Ancona with flights to Moscow, and Paris.
• (External) Excel Airways Charter Airline turned low cost with many UK departure points.
• (External) Finn Comm Serves Finnish destinations only.
• (External) Fly Globespan Flyglobespan is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Globespan Group Plc a company established in 1974. The airline commenced its first flight in April 2002 and now operates 21 aircraft to a wide range of destinations within Europe, Africa, Canada and the USA. Bases are located in Edinburgh and Glasgow and a new base at London Stansted commenced operation in early November 2005.
• (External) FlyBe Originally formed as a Channel Islands Airline, but now carries 10m passengers a year.
• (External) Fly Nordic Another Sweden based airline that do mostly the Nordic region plus France and Ireland.
• (External) Fly on Air Do Paris - Pescara - Spilt only.
• (External) FlyProvence.com Low cost airline flying into Marseilles
• (External) Fly Thomas Cook No intro needed
• (External) German Wings Flies from Germany to Stansted.
• (External) Germania Express German Airline flies to Moscow, Portugal etc.
• (External) Golden Air Swedish Airline does Sweden only.
• (External) Hapag Fly Based in Hanover Langenhagen, Hapag-Lloyd Flug GmbH has one of the newest and most modern fleets in the European skies.
• (External) TUIFly.com TUIFly.com is a 100% subsidiary of TUI AG, the largest travel and tourist company in the world. The airline has its headquarters at Hanover Airport and commenced flight operations on 3 December 2002.
• (External) Helvetic Helvetic focuses on direct, non-stop flights to attractive destinations, to which until today no direct flights from Zurich are offered.
• (External) Intersky.biz German Airline does central Europe only.
• (External) Iceland Express Iceland's low-fare airline flies every day to Reykjavík from both Copenhagen and London Stansted, and three times a week from Frankfurt Hahn, offering flexibility and the lowest fares available.
• (External) Israir Airlines Flies from Eilat all over Europe including London.
• (External) Jet2.com Jet2.com has been flying commercial aircraft for over 25 years, exclusively under the name, Channel Express (Air Services) for the first 20 years.
• (External) Jet 4 You Flies between Morocco, Paris and Belgium
• (External) Lagun Air Spanish Inland Airline.
• (External) LTU German holiday airline flies all over the world.
• (External) Malmo Aviation They do Sweden, Brussels and Nice
• (External) Manx Airlines Provide regular flights between the Isle of Man and London Stansted, Leeds/Bradford, Blackpool and Belfast.
• (External) Meridiana Fly from LGW to Florence but also have a number of other European routes.
• (External) Monarch Airlines As well as being one of the UK's major providers of low-cost scheduled flights from bases at London Gatwick, London Luton, Manchester, Birmingham and Malaga airports, Monarch is a key supplier of airliners to the tour operating industry.
• (External) My Air Italian operation with routes all over Europe.
• (External) Nordic Regional Sweden Only Airline.
• (External) Norwegian.no Fly all over Europe incl. London Stansted.
• (External) Onur Air Turkey only.
• (External) Red Sea Flights UK to the Red Sea Only.
• (External) Ryanair Vaguely familiar to most of us...
• (External) Sky Europe A low cost airline with its technical base in Bratislava Airport itself, Sky Europe has probably the youngest fleet of aircraft in Europe. It flies to 44 cities in 19 European countries, including London Stansted and Luton. The airline was only established in 2002 and since then it has grown to an airline carrying 3m people. Flying to Bratislava also allows you to transfer to Vienna, which is just 40kms
• (External) Sky Express Sky Express is a regional charter Airline based in Heraklion Crete.
• (External) Skysouth Airlines Skysouth is a small airline based out of Shoreham (Near Brighton) Airport and fly to Le Touquet, Paris, Le Havre and Caen
• (External) Sky Ways Stocholm based airline with many European destinations.
• (External) Smart Wings Czech-based airline with many European Routes.
• (External) Snow Flake Sidekick of SAS that does Stockholm, Helsinki and Oslo.
• (External) Snowjet Snowjet is the exciting new low cost provider of ski flights to Chambery Airport in France. Chambery is the the airport that is located closest to the best and most snow sure ski resorts in the Alps. Fly to Chambery and transfer to the resorts of Meribel, Val d'Isere, Tignes, Courchevel, and many more in little over an hour. With Snowjet you get free Ski or Snowboard Carriage, a generous 20kg baggage allowance and flights on brand new Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
• (External) Stockholms Planet Stockholms Planet do a few obscure places near Sweden.
• (External) Sverige Fly Currently the lines Visby-Stockholm and Helsingborg/ Ängelholm-Stockholm are operated by Gotlandsflyg and Kullaflyg respectively.
• (External) Thomson Flights Thomson Flights to holiday destinations from many UK airports
• (External) Thomson Fly Large charter airline turned low-cost, owned by Thomson Travel Group.
• (External) Transavia Large low cost operation based in the Netherlands
• (External) Virgin Express Based in Brussels
• (External) VLM Airlines VLM Airlines started operations in May 1993 with a scheduled service between Antwerp and London City Airport.
• (External) Volareweb Italian Airline that does only Italian Routes and another to Paris Orly
• (External) Vueling Based in Seville with varied European routes.
• (External) Welcome Air Austrian Airline that serves many German and Nordic Destinations
• (External) Wideroe Airlines Mostly Inland Norwegian Airline that also has routes to Aberdeen, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Copenhagen.
• (External) Wind Jet Originally a Sicilain Airline that now goes as far as Moscow.
• (External) Wizz Air The first flight took off on 19th May 2004 from Katowice. Today Wizz Air has 5 operating bases in the region: Katowice, Warsaw, Gdansk in Poland, Budapest in Hungary and Sofia in Bulgaria. Wizz Air also offers flights from a number of other cities in CEE region and as a part of its Eastern European expansion.
• top   

Associated Pages:

• Book Shop
• Europe My Way
• Car Hire in Europe
• Travel Extras
• Forums
• Responsible Travel
• RSS Feeds
• Travel Advice
• Coach Travel
• Write a Review
• Events Guide
• Travel Writing

Other Useful Information