Low Cost Airline News - Europe.Aug 6, 2007 Air Berlin Air Berlin transported 2.2 million passengers in June, up 13.9% on the year-ago month. Load factor was up 0.5 point to 80.3%. Jul 31, 2007 Clickair Clickair, the fast expanding Iberia spin-off The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. , has launched its first Scottish route with daily non-stop flights A non-stop flight in the aviation industry refers to any flight which does not involve any intermediate stops. Many laymen mistakenly assume that a "direct flight" is similar to a "non-stop flight". between Edinburgh and Barcelona. Aug 3, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet announced on Friday a new baggage policy that will see passengers charged two pounds (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $4.07) for every bag put in the plane's hold. Aug 3, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet announced the following new routes: Daily London Gatwick-Gdansk and daily Milan Malpensa-Bari starting Oct. 1; daily MXP-Barcelona from Oct. 8; flights from Bucharest Baneasa to LGW LGW London, England, United Kingdom - Gatwick (Airport Code) LGW Laser Guided Weapons LGW Linux Gaming World (website) LGW Launch Gross Weight LGW Logical Gateway LGW Line Gateway LGW Local Gateway LGW Lan Gateway (daily) and Madrid (four-times-weekly) from Oct. 29; thrice-weekly flights to Gdansk from Edinburgh and Bristol beginning Oct. 30; daily Madrid-Paris Charles de Gaulle from Nov. 1; daily Nice-Brussels from Nov. 5; flights to Innsbruck from LGW (six-times-weekly) and Bristol (thrice-weekly) beginning Dec. 14. Gdansk, Innsbruck and Bari Bari (bä`rē), city (1991 pop. 342,309), capital of Bari prov. and of Apulia, S Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. It is a major seaport and an industrial and commercial center. are new destinations for the airline. Aug 3, 2007 easyJet British budget airline easyJet on Wednesday identified Blackrock as the buyer of a stake of more than 5 percent in the carrier. Aug 1, 2007 EasyJet EasyJet has announced it will introduce flights from Glasgow International Airport
Glasgow International Airport (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanail Glaschu) (IATA: GLA to Paris Charles De Gaulle. The new daily service will commence on October 29. The airline, which carried close to 2 million passengers from its Glasgow base in the last year, expects to carry almost 100,000 passengers on this new route in the first 12 months of operation. This is the eighth new route easyJet has announced from Scotland this year. Aug 1, 2007 Ryanair In an unprecedented statement, Ryanair says it will sit seven of its 40 Stansted-based Boeing 737-800s on the ground this winter. With the list price of each aircraft between $70.5m and $79.0m ([pounds sterling]35m to [pounds sterling]40m) this represents something in the order of [pounds sterling]270m of aircraft doing nothing. Aug 1, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair is set to start operating a new route between Budapest and Franfurt-Hahn from Oct. 28. Aug 1, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair posted a better than expected 20 percent rise in first quarter net profit on Tuesday, and said it would beat its full-year profit goal by cutting capacity at Britain's Stansted Airport this winter. Jul 31, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair Q1 Profit Jumps 20 Percent. Ryanair posted a better than expected 20 percent rise in first quarter net profit on Tuesday, and said it would beat its full-year profit goal by cutting capacity at Britain's Stansted Airport this winter. Europe's biggest low-cost carrier A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as a no-frills or discount carrier / airline) is an airline that offers generally low fares in exchange for eliminating many traditional passenger services. said profit after tax in the three months to the end of June rose to EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 138.9 million euros (USD$189.9 million) from EUR115.7 million in the same period of 2006 after passenger volumes on its growing network rose 18 percent. Jul 31, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair said average ticket prices had been flat in the first three months of its business year and that its outlook for yields remained cautious. Ticket prices in the second quarter are expected to be "slightly down" on a year earlier while a drop of 5 to 10 percent is likely in the second half, Ryanair said. Net profit for the 12 months to March 2008 is now expected to rise 10 percent versus an earlier forecast of 5 percent. Passenger volumes would now rise by 18 percent to 50 million versus the 52 million previously indicated. Ryanair, which now expects unit costs to rise 5 percent this year against an earlier 6 to 7 percent forecast, said the move should keep down costs and help stabilize stabilize See peg. yields. Jul 31, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair, which is engaged in a war of words with the British government over increased duties for airline passengers and has repeatedly criticized airport operator BAA Baa See BBB. over higher airport charges, said it would cut UK capacity. Jul 31, 2007 Ryanair Ryanair announced the following new routes: From Bristol to Turin (weekly from Dec. 22); from 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. to Belfast City (daily from Oct. 30), Grenoble (weekly from Dec. 22), Poznan (thrice-weekly from Nov. 8), Salzburg (weekly from Dec. 22) and Tenerife (twice-weekly from Oct. 28); from Liverpool to Belfast City (daily from Oct. 30), Budapest (four-times-weekly from Oct. 31), Bydgoszcz (twice-weekly from Oct. 28), Fuerteventura (thrice-weekly from Oct. 30), Grenoble (weekly from Dec. 22), Lodz (twice-weekly from Oct. 29), Salzburg (weekly from Dec. 22) and Tenerife (thrice-weekly from Oct. 30); from Glasgow Prestwick to Belfast City (daily from Oct. 30), Budapest (thrice-weekly from Nov. 1), Grenoble (weekly from Dec. 22) and Kaunas (twice-weekly from Oct. 28). Jul 30, 2007 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 base a second A320 at Bucharest Baneasa and launch new thrice-weekly services to Parma and Treviso from Feb. 28. It also will increase frequencies on its six other routes from BBU BBU Battery Backup Unit BBU Battery Back-Up Bbu Borrelia Burgdorferi BBU Boston Bluegrass Union BBU Bimbo Bakeries USA (Fort Worth, Texas) BBU Beefmaster Breeders United (TX, USA) and will operate 38 weekly flights by next March. 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