Low Cost Airline News - Europe.Oct 16, 2006 EasyJet EasyJet raised its full-year profit guidance following a strong final month. The UK LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. now expects pre-tax profit growth for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 to be slightly ahead of the forecasted 40%-50%, putting year-end earnings in the [pounds sterling]115-[pounds sterling]124 million ($216.6-$233.5 million) range, up from [pounds sterling]82.6 million in the previous year. Full-year revenues rose 20.6% to [pounds sterling]1.62 billion on an 11.5% lift in passengers to 32.9 million. EasyJet will announce preliminary full-year results on Nov. 14. Oct 9, 2006 Ryanair Ryanair will base three new 737-800s at Madrid Barajas and open 14 routes from the airport beginning Nov. 22, making it its second Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. and 18th European base. The LCC will fly daily to Dublin, Eindhoven, Faro Faro, town, Portugal Faro (fä`rō), town (1991 pop. 31,966), capital of Faro dist. and of Algarve, S Portugal. The southernmost town in Portugal, it is a seaport from which fish, fruit (especially dried figs), wine, and cork are , Porto, Marseille Marseille or Marseilles City (pop., 1999: city, 797,486; metro. area, 1,349,772), southeastern France. One of the Mediterranean's major seaports and the second largest city in France, it is located on the Gulf of Lion, west of the French Riviera. and Paris Beauvais. It will fly thrice-weekly to Bournemouth, Gothenburg, Malmo and Shannon and four-times-weekly to Billund, Brussels Charleroi, Nottingham East Midlands The East Midlands is one of the regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It consists of the combined area of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and most of Lincolnshire. and Oslo Sandefjord. Approximately 1 million passengers will travel each year on the new routes, Ryanair said. Oct 10, 2006 Wizz Air Wizz Air is a Polish/Hungarian low-cost airline focusing on the markets of Central Europe. Its main base is Katowice International Airport (Poland). It also has bases at Budapest Ferihegy International Airport (Hungary) , Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (Poland), Gdańsk Lech Wizz Air will launch six new routes from Katowice for the summer schedule, increasing capacity from the airport by 50%. The carrier will base a new A320 there from May 2007. New services are to Belfast and Eindhoven (both thrice-weekly from May 29), Bourgas and Heraklion (both weekly from June 2), Bournemouth (thrice-weekly from July 14) and Coventry (thrice-weekly from July 28). Summer flights to Athens and Barcelona also will resume. Oct 10, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Oct 9, 2006 |
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