Low Cost Airline News - Europe.Apr 23, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet transported 3.1 million passengers in March, up 12.3% from the year-ago month. Load factor fell 1.9 points to 84.4%. Apr 18, 2007 Laker Airways Laker Airways was a wholly privately owned, Independent British airline founded by the late Sir Freddie Laker in 1966. It originally was a charter airline flying passengers and cargo worldwide. Bumpy landings: low-fare failures over the Atlantic Pioneering budget airline Laker Airways collapsed in 1982 five years after Sir Freddie Laker Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August, 1922 – 9 February, 2006), was a British airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went spectacularly bust in 1982. launched his London to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Skytrain service as the second designated UK transatlantic carrier under the new Bermuda II Bermuda II is a Bilateral Air Transport Agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States signed on July 23, 1977 as a renegotiation of the original 1946 Bermuda Agreement. bilateral agreement. Initially a success, Laker placed orders for McDonnell Douglas DC-10s “DC10” redirects here. For the Ibiza nightclub, see DC10 (nightclub). The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American three-engine medium- to long-range widebody airliner, with two engines mounted on underwing pylons and a third engine at the base of the vertical . There are several theories behind its spectacular bankruptcy: rival airlines in the UK and USA lowered fares to stifle the competitive threat posed by Laker as the recession bit others believe Laker borrowed heavily at too high a rate of interest. Apr 17, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair announced changes to its schedule from Stockholm Skavsta comprising new services to Marseille (four-times-weekly from May 7), Treviso (thrice-weekly from May 23) and Alghero (four-times-weekly from May 24) and a cessation of flights to Brussels Charleroi (from May 22), Gdansk (from May 22) and Kaunas (from May 23). Apr 19, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair sets out long-haul plans No-frills trendsetter trend·set·ter n. One that initiates or popularizes a trend: "The Golden State, ever the trendsetter, reformed its property tax" New York. to launch low-cost airline to USA with premium cabin to attract high-yield business travellers Apr 17, 2007 ZZ Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please 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 AirGuideFlightTracker is a new, free service that aims to keep travelers informed flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Apr 16, 2007 |
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