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Euromost Route Finder Guide Can Save You £s €s & $s
The route finder guide gives you an overview of who flys to where in Central,Southern, Eastern Europe, The Baltic States and Scandinavia. Select your preferred airline and your chosen departure airport. Check for destination city.. If your carrier does not fly that route check another airline. This guide is useful on popular european routes as it enables you to identify airlines who are in direct competition and offering low cost bargain flights. Some airlines offer different prices on outward and inbound journeys this guide makes it easy to find the lowest price seats availabe on a one way trip.
Being prepared to use different airlines on outward and return trips means you can can pick and mix cheap flights even If an airline offering a cheap flight on your outward outward flight has no similarly priced return flight or vice a versa. This formula is very effective where individual low cost airlines have limited promotional offers on the same routes for example Berlin Bratislava Budapest Dubrovnik Gdansk Krakow Posnan Prague Riga Tallin Vilnius & Warsaw.
There have been several fatal airline crashes in the last couple of years. Most of these crashes have been outside the European Union and have involved airlines with a poor record for maintenance and safety. Some of these airlines are banned from European Air Space. For the benefit of visitors who might unknowingly be thinking of booking with these airlines Euromost names these companies. More.
There was a time, not so long ago, when it was possible list the individual routes of major European airlines on this page and add new routes as they were announced. The accelerating expansion of Ryanair alone no longer makes that formula viable and as we have it on good authority their present business model is set to continue we have to move on.Instead we now provide links to the route maps of the airlines concerned. More.
The 'lowest fares search' is a direct link to the websites of airlines with an online 'low fares' search facility'. From our experience the airlines listed in this section genuinely offer cheap fares.
Euromost will not provide links in this section to those who supplement their apparent low fares by applying excessive fuel charges and high administration and booking fees.
Neither will Euromost provide links in this section to airlines who advertise low cost fares which our researches repeatedly cannot book. All airlines listed in this section are regulary monitored for this meeting the above criteria.
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Euromost 'Who Fly's Where' Routefinder Guide
easyjet
300 routes flying between 79 key European airports serving the UK, France, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Czech Republic, Greece, Germany, and Portugal. Especially prominent in the North Mediterranean Also has sevices to Casablanca and Marrakech in Morroco.
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Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the modest son of a shipping magnate founded easyjet in 1995. In 1998 its decision to sell airline tickets online strengthened it public profile In 2002 it took over Barbara Cassani''s very successful all singing and jingling Go Fly airline. Since then it has becoming one of Europes largest low fares airlines. Euromost researchers use this airline (anonmously) regularly and it seems to have the happiest cabin crews anywhere. Easyjets winter and summer sales are legendary and offer exceptional value to all destinations - even at weekends. They increasingly offering spontaneous deals on their website and have a early email notification of these offers for subscibers.
jet2
xx routes to over 30 destinations predominately on the Costa del Sol, the Spanish islands and central europe from the UK. Also flys to Berlin Budapest Krakow & Salzbug.profile
JET2 started flights from Leeds Bradford in Febuary 2003 and since established bases at Manchester Newcastle Belfast Blackpool and Edingburgh. New sevices to Crete and Madrid start in 2008. The airline is diversifing into package Holidays offering private taxis, hotels and selfcatering accomodation.
skyeurope
44 destination in 19 European countries most emimently in Eastern Central and Southern Eastern Europe - east of the Aegean. Also has services to France Italy Portugal Denmark Cyprus and Greece. .
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This airline began flying five months after 9/11 in a very weak trading enviroment. It initially concentrated its operations on Bratislava Slovakia on the premise that the airport was close to Vienna and the borders of the Czech Republic and Hungary. Initially passengers figures were not unsupringly dissapointing. The companies difficulties may have been compounded in 2004/2005 by repeated technical difficulties with the booking programme on the website which made it impossible on numerous occasions especially at night for euromost researchers to take up advertised offers.
In 2006 the airline became more focused - droppimg uneconomical routes and negotiating terms for a new base at Vienna International Airport. In 2007 further route consolidation an improved website have improved the company's public profiles. These measures and a more transparent policy in the final cost of a seat in accordance with forthcoming European legislation may enhance future prospects
air berlin
xxx routes across western Europe centred on Berlin and other Getman cities. UK operations based from London and Manchester. Prominent carrier to the Costa Del Sol, Spanish islands in the Mediterranean, southern Italy and Greece
profile
The company was set up in west Berlin in 1979 by an ex Pan AM pilot and registered in the US as only companes tegistered in Allied countties could land there. In 1990 after German reunification the majority of the airline's shares were bought by German investors and it was registered as a German company. In the late 90's its core international business was on routes to Barcelona, London Vienna and Zurich.
In 2004 it bought a 24% in Nikki and then in 2006 it accquired dba. In March 2007 it took over the charter airline LTU followed by the purchase of 49% of the shares in Belair the owned by the Swiss tour operator Hotelplan. In September 2007 it bought out Condor Airlines. This deal gave Thomas Cook a 30% stake in AirBerlin.
Though it uses many business features common to low cost airlines it does not claim to be a low cost carrier. It does offer frills such as beverages and newspapers to its patron but at prices well below the national carriers it competes with. These prices rarely compare with the market leaders in low cost european flying except on highly competitive routes like Stansted to Berlin
Where promotional offers are available it can be very difficult to obtain the same fare both ways if you are returning in three or so days. The additional fuel surcharge (18€ Oct 08) is not an attraction to those where prices are key.
briitish airways
UK national flag carrier that once served every major European city at inflated prices. Has sold or withdrawn services some at very short notice to the detriment of passengers from several such destinations over the last year and this consolidation may increase in 2008.
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A carrier that seems to have lost its direction both in strategy and service standards on a par with its innate capacity for loosing passenger's luggage which in 2007 reached new heights.
Over the last ten years it has drastically cut staffing levels at airports and in its maintenance hangers. The former economy and its consequences are well documented whilst the latter is a underlinig concern. Please see BA SAFETY CONCERNS.
The range of experiences that euromost researchers have had with BA are not endearing. We are, like many economy passengers, no longer surpised by the welcome and farewell messages from their pilots which repeatedly stress a warm welcome to business class travellers. They (the business traveller) are after all the same as everyone else in the shower or loo but when business class is empty the welcome seeems a little silly in todays cosmopolitian society.
Euromost was once asked in Dubrovnik to pay £25 to replace a lost ticket even though the airline had become ticketless since the original ticket was issued. When we reluctlantly produced the cash they refused it as they did not accept 'Sterling' - which for the British flag carrying airline seemed even more incredible. They insisted we pay by credit card forcing us to incurr a further 20% fee to cover their inflated exchange rate. Their failure afterwards to reply to an application for a refund was even less impressive.
The company hierachy seem unable to grasp that passengers (including an increasing number of business travellers) on short haul flights do not want to pay a sum three figures higher than the cost of the low cost flights so as to qualify for a free newspaper and the 'sad' baguettes The baguettes remind one of British Rail buffet catering in the 1960s. The aircraft on these shorthaul services generally are older than those flown by low cost carriers.
Neither do they grasp the damage to their commercial reputation applying fuel surcharges over and above exppressed ticket prices. Whether these surcharges were ever 'reasonable' is arguable but the fact that years after their first application the charges are several fold higher than the increased fuel costs is simply a disgrace. It equates with deception and insults the intelligence of their former patrons many now fly with lost carriers where inclusive tickets prices can be lower than BA's fuel surcharge. Most other airlines are in the level and build the fuel costs into their ticket prices - but then they employ management accountants. British Airways street cred rating - bring back Dick Turpin all is forgiven.
ryanair
550 routes flying across all of Europe Scandinavia and Morroco. Very active in the United Kingdom France Italy and Portgual Spain and Southern Scandinavia. Good connections for Eastern Europe generally and extremely strong in Poland and Hungary.
profile
Born out of a successful aircraft leasing company its first attempts to be a commercial carrier failed until the analytical intervention of accountant Micheal O'Leary. In 1994 he restructured the airline importing many aspects of the model of the first American low cost carrier Southwest Airlines. Ryanair substituted its spacious business class seats with cabins full of economy seats in planes which scheduled to the maximise their daily air miles. These factors combined with a policy of fares far lower than the norm attracted frequent flyers from more expensive competitors and opened the and opened the door for millions more. Within months the writing was on the wall as BA gave up its once lucrative Dublin - Heathrow route.
Opportunist marketing followed, some of it controversial by design (and at times subtly poltical) has given Ryanair the public exposure that money cannot buy. Since 9/11 the airline's core business has extended vertically to include income from periphal products such as accommodation car rental and insurance. These supplements now account for 16.1% of the turnover of Europes most profitable low cost airline.
Ryanair tend to offer free or nominally priced seats on their new routes and always have promotional offers on their website which change at midnight mondays and Thursdays.
wizzair
48 European destinations centred on Budapest in Hungary and several Polish cities including its base at Katowice. It is also expanding servives in southern and Eastern Europe notably to Bucharest in Romania and Rome Italy. Increasing it's UK prominence as it flys from 10 airports
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Shrewd American investors timed this London registered airline's inaugral flight to take off less than three weeks after Hungary and Poland joined the EU. Its CEO József Váradi was the former boss of Malev Hungarian airlines.
Inspite of the difficulties and challenges affecting the airline industry post 9/11 and the war in Iraq this low cost airline which is arguabley still in its infancy has carried close on 6 million passengers. It has it sights on further expansion in the Aegean notably Croatia.
Euromost researchers have used (anonmously) this airline and noted that not only its levels of customer services are high, most of its frontline staff are bi or tri- lingual. and even at the end of the day the aircraft are suprisingly clean. Defintely a major player in the making -b watch this space.
airbaltic
Over 70 destinations to over 20 European countries with most of these direct services from Riga and Vilnius. Very comprehensive services within the Baltic States, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Other destinations incude Austria, Belarus, Cyprus, England France Germamy Ireland, Israel, Italy, Greece Moldova Russia Spain Switzerland Turkey and the Ukraine.
profile
Airbaltic was set up in 1996 by the Latvian Government and SAS Scandinavian Air Services . The partners hold 52.8% and 47.2% of shares respectively. Within four years, under the guidance of SAS airbaltic was operating in full compliance of JARS - the European Aviation Operating Standards.
Its close relationship with SAS has enabled it to provide regular flight from Riga and Vilnius to Copenhagen and Stockholm. It has also several codeshare agreements with leading airlines in Eastern Europe including Aeroflot Estonian Air and Georgian Airways. In the last year its traffic has increased by over 30% and it is expected to increase its current fleet of 18 aircraft to nearer 30 in the next two years. Fares are mid range and the service effecient.
flybe
UK based low cost carrier flying 155 routes to 12 countries from 23 UK airports that together cover 32 European destinations. Very strong across France and Germany and prominent in the northern Mediterranean. Also has services to Dubrovnik Milan Salzburg & Split.
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An airline that will carry close on 8 million passengers this year and who definetly will be even more popular next year. There is a distinctly 'contemporary air' about their marketing which is very evident on their website and equally refreshing. In 2007 they accquired the former floundering British Airways subsidary BA Connect and their innovative input has benefited the company and its passengers. Have endeavored to retain the former BA business class customers by introducing the Flybe Rewards4All option. Also has a 'frequent flyers' package. Going places.
bmibaby
UK based low cost airline serving 28 destinations in 9 countries - and flying from 10 UK airports. With the exception of Newquay these are from Cardiff northwards. Offers a good range of services to the northern med especially France Portugal and Spain. Has an established service to Prague and seems to be looking East with new services to Gdansk and Warsaw.
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Our researchers and people generally think that this airline formed by its parent company British Midland Airways in 2002 has a calm air about it. This may account for its surpisingly noteable collection of travel industry awards in its short life-span including the Guardian / Observer and notably the Best No Frills Airline Award from three times from the Daily Telegraph.
It has a healthy reputation for its promotional offers but as its marketing is not in your face so passengers need to check on the company website whats availabl - the site is content is contemporay and simple to navigate - almost cute!
germanwings
Formidable airline network offering numerous international routes to and within Germany covering every major German city and key international European cities. Very strong in Germany and prominent in Southern and South Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean islands, Greece and Turkey. It initiated low cost flights to Moscow from Germany in 2004 and now offer several European wide routes to St Petersburg and Moscow, including a direct service from London Stansted to the latter. Also is offering an increasing number of services to Helsinki and Stockhom.
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An ultra effecient airline which has a very obvious culture of service which is rooted in its policy of staff training. Popular with business travellers partly because of it prices but equally because of its capacity to deliver it policy of providing where ever possible 'connecting flights' as scheduled.
Standard ticket prices are slightly higher than other low cost airlines, but the company often offer seats at zero cost plus taxes especially on long term bookings. The charges reflect the true costs. A transparent and dependable company.
List Of Air Carriers Banned From EU Community Air Space - Brcause Of Safety Concerns
General List:
AIR KORYO
People Republic
of Korea
(DPRK) AIR WEST CO. LTD 004/A AWZ Sudan
ARIANA AFGHAN
AIRLINES Afghanistan
BLUE WING
AIRLINES (BWI) Surinam
MAHAN AIR Islamic Republic of Iran
SILVERBACK CARGO FREIGHTERS Rwanda
TAAG ANGOLA
AIRLINES Angola
UKRAINIAN
MEDITERRANEAN AIRLINES UKM Ukraine
VOLARE AVIATION ENTERPRISE Ukraine
All carriers from Democratic Republic of Congo including:
AFRICA ONE
AFRICAN AIR
SERVICES
COMMUTER
AIGLE AVIATION
AIR BENI
AIR BOYOMA
AIR INFINI
AIR KASAI
AIR NAVETTE
AIR TROPIQUES
BEL GLOB AIRLINES 4
BLUE AIRLINES
BRAVO AIR CONGO
BUSINESS AVIATION
BUTEMBO AIRLINES
CARGO BULL
AVIATION
CETRACA AVIATION
SERVICE
CHC STELLAVIA
COMAIR )
COMPAGNIE
AFRICAINE
D’AVIATION (CAA)
DOREN AIR CONGO
EL SAM AIRLIFT
ESPACE AVIATION
SERVICE
FILAIR
FREE AIRLINES
GALAXY
INCORPORATION
GOMA EXPRESS
GOMAIR
GREAT LAKE
BUSINESS COMPANY
I.T.A.B. –
INTERNATIONAL
TRANS AIR
BUSINESS
KATANGA AIRWAYS
KIVU AIR
LIGNES AERIENNES
CONGOLAISES
MALU AVIATION
MALILA AIRLIFT
MANGO AIRLINES
PIVA AIRLINES
RWAKABIKA BUSHI
EXPRESS
SAFARI LOGISTICS RL
SAFE AIR COMPANY
SERVICES AIR
SUN AIR SERVICES
TEMBO AIR
SERVICES
THOM'S AIRWAYS
TMK AIR
COMMUTER
TRACEP CONGO
TRANS AIR CARGO
SERVICE
TRANSPORTS
AERIENS
CONGOLAIS (TRACO)
VIRUNGA AIR
CHARTER
WIMBI DIRA
AIRWAYS
ZAABU
INTERNATIONAL
All carriers from Equatorial Guinea,
including:
EUROGUINEANA DE
AVIACION Y
TRANSPORTES
GENERAL WORK
AVIACION
GETRA - GUINEA
ECUATORIAL DE
TRANSPORTES
AEREOS
GUINEA AIRWAYS 738
UTAGE – UNION DE
TRANSPORT AEREO
DE GUINEA
ECUATORIAL
All air carriers from Indonesia, including:
ADAMSKY
CONNECTION
AIRLINES
AIR TRANSPORT
SERVICES
BALAI KALIBRASI
PENERBANGAN
EKSPRES
TRANSPORTASI
ANTARBENUA
GARUDA
INDONESIA AIRASIA
KARTIKA AIRLINES
LION MENTARI
MANDALA AIRLINES
MANUNGGAL AIR
SERVICE
MEGANTARA
MERPATI
NUSANTARA
AIRLINES
METRO BATAVIA
PELITA AIR SERVICE
PT. AIR PACIFIC
UTAMA
PT. AIRFAST
INDONESIA
PT. ASCO NUSA AIR
PT. ASI PUDJIASTUTI
PT. AVIASTAR
MANDIRI
PT. ATLAS
DELTASATYA
PT. DABI AIR
NUSANTARA
PT. DERAYA AIR
TAXI
PT.DERAZONA AIR
SERVICE
PT. DIRGANTARA
AIR SERVICE
PT. EASTINDO
PT. EKSPRES
TRANSPORTASI
ANTARBENUA
PT. GATARI AIR
SERVICE
PT. GERMANIA
TRISILA AIR
PT. HELIZONA
PT. KURA-KURA
AVIATION
PT. INDONESIA AIR
TRANSPORT
PT. INTAN ANGKASA
AIR SERVICE
PT. NATIONAL
UTILITY
HELICOPTER
PT. PELITA AIR
SERVICE
PT. PENERBENGAN
ANGKASA SEMESTA
PT. PURA WISATA
BARUNA
PT. SAMPOERNA AIR
NUSANTARA
PT. SAYAP GARUDA
INDAH
PT. SMAC
PT. TRANSWISATA
PRIMA AVIATION
PT. TRAVIRA UTAMA
PT. TRIGANA AIR
SERVICE
REPUBLIC EXPRESS
AIRLINES
RIAU AIRLINES
SRIWIJAYA AIR
SURVEI UDARA
PENAS
TRANS WISATA
PRIMA AVIATION
TRAVEL EXPRESS
AVIATION SERVICE
TRI MG INTRA ASIA
AIRLINES
TRIGANA AIR
SERVICE
WING ABADI
AIRLINES
All air carriers from the Kyrgyz Republic, including:
AIR CENTRAL ASIA
AIR MANAS 17 MBB
ASIA ALPHA
AIRWAYS
AVIA TRAFFIC
COMPANY
BISTAIR-FEZ
BISHKEK
BOTIR AVIA
CLICK AIRWAYS
DAMES
EASTOK AVIA
ESEN AIR
GALAXY AIR
GOLDEN RULE
AIRLINES
INTAL AVIA
ITEK AIR
KYRGYZ TRANS
AVIA
KYRGYZSTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
AIRLINES
MAX AVIA
OHS AVIA
S GROUP AVIATION
SKY GATE
INTERNATIONAL
AVIATION
SKY WAY AIR
TENIR AIRLINES
TRAST AERO
WORLD WING
AVIATION
All air carriers
cfrom
Liberia &
Sierra Leone,
including:
AIR RUM, LTD
BELLVIEW AIRLINES
(S/L) LTD
DESTINY AIR
SERVICES, LTD
HEAVYLIFT CARGO
ORANGE AIR SIERRA
LEONE LTD
PARAMOUNT
AIRLINES, LTD
SEVEN FOUR EIGHT
AIR SERVICES LTD
TEEBAH AIRWAYS
All air carriers from Swaziland, including:
AERO AFRICA (PTY)
LTD
JET AFRICA
SWAZILAND
ROYAL SWAZI
NATIONAL AIRWAYS
CORPORATION
SCAN AIR CHARTER,
LTD
SWAZI EXPRESS
AIRWAYS
SWAZILAND
AIRLINK
LIST OF AIR CARRIERS WITH OPERATIONAL RESTRICTIONS:
AIR
BANGLADES
AIR SERVICE
COMORES
KMD C
HEWA BORA
AIRWAYS
ALX
PAKISTAN
INTERNATIONAL
AIRLINES
PIA
All fleet
with the
exception of: all
B-777;
B-747-
300;
B-747-
200.
A-310
All fleet with
the exception
of: AP-BHV,
AP-BHW,
AP-BHX,
AP-BGJ, AP-BGK,
AP-BGL,
AP-BGY,
AP-BGZ;
AP-BFU,
AP-BGG,
AP-BFX,
AP-BAK,
AP-BAT,
AP-BEU,
AP-BGP,
AP-BGR,
AP-BGN,
AP-BEC,
AP-BEG
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