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Last post - no more flight blogs

2009-05-07T20:44:00.004+01:00

After much soul searching, I have finally made the decision to stop covering air travel on Eurapart. It will mean big changes to the Eurapart project, but I started Eurapart without airlines and now I am going back to a site without airlines. Although, I could make many excuses to justify why budget airlines should stay on the site, such as them operating the most modern fuel efficient fleets, their low baggage payloads and their high load factors, there is no point. Flying is one form of travel that we can, and in the future will have to do without. It consumes vast amounts of oil and generates more Carbon Dioxide per passenger kilometre than competing forms of public transport such as trains.
The challenge we will all eventually face is to travel without flying, this is a challenge Eurapart will take up now. How do you see travel without flying?

bmibaby sale on until Monday

2009-03-14T17:01:00.002Z

bmibaby is having a sale of seats, starting at £10 plus credit card booking fees. The seats are available on flights up until the 24th of October 2009. The sale ends midnight Monday 16th March 2009.
The £10 routes include
Birmingham to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newquay, West Knock and Belfast,
Cardiff - Edinburgh
Manchester - Cork, West Knock and Newquay
East Midlands - Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh

Flying damages the environment - please consider other travel options and finally offsetting your flight through a reputable scheme.

Ryanair may charge £1 for onboard toilets

2009-02-27T11:12:00.005Z

The BBC reports today that they may charge £1 for using the toilet on their flights. He points out that if you visit a major railway station you will have to pay 20 pence. I believe, the different currencies carried by passengers would make it difficult to find a coin to operate the door that could be used across Europe. Also that there would be increased maintenance as the slots get clogged up with washers,metal discs and wrong currency. I'm sure he has thought this one through ages ago. He is just after more publicity. He is making the point that the airline will continue to look for revenue streams to keep the base costs of tickets down.
Do you think he will implement charges for the toilets?

Sky Europe €33 sale

2009-02-26T11:04:00.005Z

Sky Europe has a sale starting today with seats on offer from €33 one way including taxes and charges. Booking starts today, Thursday February 26 and runs until Sunday March 1, 2009 for travel in March, April and May this year.

Cheap flights to/from Bratislava:

Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kosice, London Luton, Manchester, Paris Orly, Rome Fiumicino
Cheap flights to/from Prague:

Amsterdam, Athens, Milan Bergamo, Bari, Brussels, Copenhagen, London Luton, Naples, Paris Orly, Rome Fiumicino, Venice/Treviso
Cheap flights to/from Vienna:

Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Bucharest, Barcelona, Brussels, Larnaca, Lisbon, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Paris Orly, Thessaloniki, Sofia
Cheap flights to/from Kosice:

Bratislava, London Luton, Manchester

Cheap flights to/from Poprad/Tatry:

London Luton

Ryanair to abolish 'Check In' desks

2009-02-23T16:45:00.002Z

Ryanair is to phase out 'Check In' desks. They already charge for checking in baggage and aim to have only one in five passengers checking in hold luggage in the future.
According to Ryanair 75% of passengers Check In online already. I must say that has not been my experience at airports of late, but they must know.
The aim of the airline is to reduce the cost of the flight by trimming costs to the bone, while charging for everything from paying by card (even though there is no cost free option), hold baggage, in flight meals, prize draws and just announced in flight mobile phone calls and text messaging.

Back after 2 years

2009-02-23T10:26:00.002Z

After a 2 year break my blogs are back. Eurapart us my hobby and a number of factors conspired to ensure that I did not have enough time with work and home commitments to keep this blog updated. I am now on sabbatical and am now updating and revising the Eurapart sites. With the credit crunch starting to bite hard it is this information on affordable travel should help you to get away for a break over the coming months.
Over the last 2 years I have also been considering the environmental effects of travel and as such will be downgrading the prominence of air travel. That said, budget airlines such as Ryanair emit less CO2 per passenger mile than some of the older operators who operate with considerably lower load factors.

30 new routes for easyJet in 2007

2007-01-09T17:28:00.001Z

The orange low fares airline, easyJet added 5 more routes to its timetable today. This will bring the score of new routes for 2007 to 30. The five new routes are:

London Gatwick <> La Rochelle daily from 14 July to 9 September
Madrid <> Palma Mallorca daily from 26 February
Berlin (Schoenefeld) <> Lisbon Daily from 11 May
Berlin (Schoenefeld) <> Venice daily from 11 May
Geneva <> Cagliari daily from 29 June to 7 September

In addition the following routes make up the remaining 25. Some of which have been published on here some of which haven’t as this web site is my hobby and my family and day job have priority.

Belfast <> Krakow 3 X Weekly from 24 April
Belfast <> Ibiza 1 x weekly from 7 July
Bristol <> Bordeaux Daily fro 31 March
Bristol <> Ibiza 1 x weekly from 14 July
Edinburgh <> Munich Daily from 4 April
Edinburgh <> Palma 1 x weekly from 5 May
Geneva <> Bordeaux Daily from 29 June
Geneva <> Oporto Daily from 29 June
Glasgow <> Ibiza1 x weekly from 16 June
London Gatwick <> Pisa Daily from 3 April
London Gatwick <> Palermo Daily from 18 June
London Luton<> Ibiza Daily from 5 May
Lyon <> Rome (Ciampino) Daily from 16 February
Madrid <> Asturias 2 x Daily from 15 February
Madrid <> Casablanca Daily from 22 February
Madrid <> Edinburgh Daily from 25 February
Madrid <> La Coruna 2 x Daily from 15 February
Madrid <> Lyon Daily from 16 February
Madrid<> Marrakech Daily from 22 February
Madrid <> Rome (Ciampino) Daily from 23 February
Madrid <> Toulouse Daily from 25 February
Milan (Malpensa) <> Edinburgh Daily from 21 May
Newcastle <> Krakow 4x weekly from 30 March
Newcastle <> Mahon 2x weekly from 14 July
Paris (Orly) <> Athens Daily from 4 May

easyJet is adding 12 new aircraft to its fleet this Summer enabling them to service 258 routes.

Cardiff <> Barcelona for Thomsonfly

2007-01-04T18:21:00.000Z

Thomsonfly will add Barcelona to its Summer 2007 destinations available to passengers from Cardiff. The airline will operate the route four times per week offering one way fares starting at £22.99 one way including taxes and charges.

Six more new easyJet Summer 2007 routes

2006-12-12T21:43:00.000Z

Another six new routes are on offer from easyJet starting in the Summer of 2007. The breakdown is:
Geneva <> Bordeaux starts 29 June 2007
Geneva <> Porto starts 29 June 2007
London Luton <> Ibiza service starts 5 May 2007
London Gatwick <> Palermo starts 18 June 2007
London Gatwick <> Pisa Starts 3 April 2007
Paris Orly <> Athens starts 4 May 2007

Virgin Express 49.99 Euro Christmas sale

2006-12-12T14:14:00.000Z

Virgin Express the soon to be Brussels Airlines has a week long Christmas offer on at present. They are selling 100,000 seats to all destinations served by the Brussels based budget airline at 49.99 euros per person one way including taxes. Seats are on sale from now until Monday 18 December 2006 for travel from 8 January 2007 to 24 March 2007.

HLX "Nikolaus" £5 / 6 euro flight offer

2006-12-06T21:58:00.000Z

To get us in the festive spirit HLX is selling 66,000 seats at an all in price of £5 or 6 euros one way. The offer is open until Midnight CET on Sunday 10 December 2006. Seats can be booked for travel from January to March 2007.

Cardiff <> Belfast City for flybe

2006-12-05T20:54:00.000Z

Flybe has today added Cardiff <> Belfast City Airport to its Summer 2007 timetables. The airline will start operating the new route twice daily from 17 May 2007. Fares will start at £19.99 one way including taxes.
Announcing the route Mike Rutter, of Flybe said: “The announcement of a new hub at Cardiff is another string to Flybe’s bow. Beginning operations from this key base is a major move for us as we continue to expand across the UK, bringing our low cost, high quality service to Wales for the first time.”

Aer Arann release seven French routes for 2007

2006-12-02T22:32:00.002Z

Aer Arann the small Irish low cost operator is to operate seven routes to France in Summer 2007. The full route line up will be:
Lorient <> Cork, Galway, Kerry and Waterford
Nantes <> Cardiff, Bristol and Cork

Germanwings free flight sale

2006-11-29T22:28:00.000Z

Germany’s second largest low cost airline has a sale on again. They are selling seats on 300,000 flights taken between 12 December 2006 and 28 February 2007 for just the taxes and charges. The offer opens tomorrow at 6pm CET (5pm UK) and runs until Sunday 3 December 2006. The offer applies to flights out of Koln / Bonn, Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

Latest easyJet Summer 2007 routes

2006-11-29T22:20:00.000Z

The latest Summer 2007 easyJet routes are now sale. They include the following new routes:
Belfast <> Krakow
Bristol <> Bordeaux
Newcastle <> Krakow
Newcastle <> Mahon

flybe expands routes for 2007

2006-11-28T19:21:00.000Z

As part of its rapid expansion which includes taking over BA Connect, flybe today claimed 13 new routes for its Summer 2007 line up. I make the full line as:

Belfast <> Newquay from 26 May 2007 1 / week
Belfast<> Rennes from 26 May 2007 1 / week
Birmingham <> Hamburg from 25 March 2007 Daily
Birmingham<> Dubrovnik from 1 May 2007 3 / wee
Birmingham<> Split from 5 May 2007 1 /week
Edinburgh <> Bergerac from 26 May 2007 1 / week
Exeter <> Avignon from 25 March 2007 3 /week
Exeter <> Rennes from 8 May 2007 3 /week
Exeter <> Nice from 9 May 2007 2 /week
Glasgow <> Jersey from 21 April 2007 2 /week
Manchester <> Glasgow from 25 March 2007 6 / day
Manchester<> Brest from 5 April 2007 3 / week
Manchester<> Rennes from 6 April 2007 4 / week
Newcastle <> Limoges from 26 May 2007 1 /week

The above list shows 14 routes in all, so perhaps someone would like to post a comment if they know why? The routes from Birmingham to Split and Dubrovnik in Croatia are flybe's first. There is currently string growth in the former Yugoslavia as holiday destinations.

XL.com update website - flights from £86 rtn

2006-11-27T22:30:00.000Z

XL.com the former Excel Airways has revamped its website. It looks a lot slicker but retains its list of last minute flights starting at £86 return (Birmingham <> Arrecife). It also has some package holidays on offer starting at £69 for a week long vacation in Tenerife leaving Bristol on 28 November 2006.

Monarch 60% extra web discount

2006-11-24T22:17:00.000Z

Book a flight over the internet with Monarch Airlines up until 28 November 2006 and they will increase the web discount to £16 (usually £10) on a return flight. The offer is not valid on Monarch Charter flights.
The Airline flies from a number of UK airports such as London Luton, London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and Aberdeen to Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands.

New Germanwings Summer 2007 routes

2006-11-24T22:10:00.000Z

Germanwings, the low cost operator is to add some new routes to its Summer 2007 schedules. They will be:

Cologne/Bonn <> Alghero (Sardinia), Zadar (Croatia), Sarajevo, Bucharest, Sofia, Burgas (Bulgaria), Varna (Bulgaria), Kavalla (Greece), Mallorca (now 15 times per week)
Stuttgart <> Bastia (Corsica), Mallorca (now daily)
Hamburg <>MallorcaBerlin
<> Balaton (Hungary), Burgas (Bulgaria), Varna (Bulgaria)

The complete Summer 2007 Germanwings timetable is now available for booking on flights departing up to 27 October 2007.

New flybe Birmingham <> Edinburgh and Glasgow shuttle

2006-11-24T21:52:00.000Z

When it acquires BA Connect , flybe will offer a shuttle service between Birmingham and Edinburgh and Birmingham to Glasgow. flybe plans to offer up to 10 flights per day on these routes bewteen the Midlands and Scotland's largest city.

20% off Thomsonfly Winter Routes

2006-11-23T21:12:00.000Z

Thomsonfly has cut 20% off the prices of many of their flights this Winter. A flight to the Salzburg will now start at £15.99 one way reduced from £19.99 while flights to Grenoble have been reduced to £27.99 one way. they also have some outstanding offers on Winter Sun destinations such as Malaga, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.

New bmibaby routes from Birmingham

2006-11-23T20:56:00.000Z

When bmibaby made an announcement earlier this Autumn stating their intention to increase their service from Birmingham International Airport, they did not reveal the new routes. Today they have opened four new routes for booking. The new routes being:

Birmingham <> Barcelona
Birmingham <> Lisbon
Birmingham <> Marseille (Provence)
Birmingham <> Rome (Fiumicino)

In addition they have increased frequencies on the following routes:

Birmingham <> Malaga - 12 / week
Birmingham <> Alicante- 8 / week
Birmingham <> Edinburgh - 4/ day during the week
Birmingham <> Glasgow (International) - 3 / day during the week
Manchester <> Belfast (International) - 4 / day
Cardiff <> Belfast (International) - 2 / day

Jet2 Newcastle <> London Gatwick on sale

2006-11-22T23:37:00.000Z

The latest route from Jet2 is on sale now. The Newcastle <> London Gatwick route will start flights on 25 March 2007. The service will take over when British Airways drop the route from their schedules. Jet2 will operate up to three flights per day on the route.

Aer Lingus £1 seat sale

2006-11-21T21:51:00.000Z

Aer Lingus the Irish flag carrying airline has some very good offers on its short haul routes from the United Kingdom to Ireland over the next couple of days. Hurry because you will need to book by midnight on Thursday 23 November 2006. Here are some of the cheap flights Aer Lingus has on offer for £1 excluding taxes and charges:

London to Dublin
London to Cork
London to Shannon
Manchester to Dublin
Birmingham to Dublin
Edinburgh to Dublin
Glasgow to Dublin
Birmingham to Cork
Bristol to Dublin
Newcastle to Dublin

Ryanair Fly For 10 Pounds/Euros

2006-11-20T23:45:00.000Z

Ryanair have a new flight offer, certain european flights are priced at £10 (from UK) or 10Euros (from EU) Including taxes and charges! The offer ends midnight 23rd of November 2006 and you can book flights from 27th Novemer 2006 to the 31st January 2007.
Fly from London (Stansted) to: Balaton, Poitiers, Perpignan for £10
From Glasgow (Prestwick) to: Barcelona (Reus), Riga for £10
From Doncaster (Sheffield) to: Barcelona (Girona), Dublin, Pisa (Florence) for £10
From Barcelona (Girona) TO: Paris (Beauvais), East Midlands for 10Euros.
There are much more flights listened on Ryanair.com.