Feature: Low-Cost Carriers ➔
services pushed the Madrid price to £287.56, albeit still £22.14 short of the BA mark. But if a passenger failed to produce a boarding pass, it would have cost another £40, taking the Ryanair ticket £17.86 over the British Airways price. While there is much now to attract the business traveller to low-cost airlines, the problem for travel managers is always going to be keeping track of the extras that travellers might decide to take up on the hoof. Extras added at the point of
Wizz Air LOW-COST CARRIERS: WHO DOES WHAT
Aer Arann Dublin-based carrier serving destinations across Ireland, the UK and France.
Aer Lingus Serves destinations across Europe from hubs in Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Shannon and London Gatwick. Previously a full-service carrier.
Air Asia
Malaysia-based airline with extensive Asia network, plus long-haul Air Asia X flights to London, Paris, Australia and New Zealand.
Air Baltic Flights from London Gatwick and Dublin to many European destinations via Riga.
Airberlin Germany’s second largest airline with a domestic, European and long-haul network.
Air Southwest Regional services across the UK and Ireland from Plymouth, Bristol and Newquay.
Aurigny Routes from the Channel Islands to the UK and Europe.
Bmibaby Flies from Birmingham, Manchester, East Midlands and Cardiff to 39 destinations in the UK and Europe.
Brussels Airlines Operates from eight UK airports to many European destinations via Brussels.
EasyJet A leading presence on Europe’s top 100 routes and at Europe’s 50 largest airports.
Estonian Air Operates a European network from Tallinn, Estonia, and Vilnius, Lithuania, with connections from London Gatwick and Dublin.
Flybe Has 188 routes serving 13 countries, operating from 75 departure points – 38 in the UK and 37 across Europe.
Fly Baboo Geneva-based airline with flights to London City airport and other European destinations.
Germanwings Serves over 70 European cities from six German bases.
Iceland Express Departures from Gatwick, Stansted and Birmingham connect in to an extensive European network.
Jet2
Operates over 40 European routes from bases across the UK, including East Midlands, Manchester, Leeds Bradford, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast.
Manx2.com Flights from the Isle of Man across eight UK locations.
Norwegian Offers 238 routes to 97 destinations, the furthest southwest being Marrakech and furthest east Dubai.
Pegasus Airlines Turkey-based low-cost carrier operating across Europe.
Ryanair Dublin-based, serving over 150 European destinations.
Transavia Dutch carrier with routes to Southern Europe. Affiliated to Air France/KLM.
Vueling Serves 50 hub airports in 23 countries in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Wizzair Serves an East European network from Hungary and destinations from London Luton, Cork, Liverpool, Doncaster-Sheffield, and Glasgow Prestwick.
bmibaby Air Baltic
sale are fine for those low- cost carriers working through GDSs – but many don’t – and even with those airlines working in trackable distribution channels there is always the chance that a traveller might decide on the spur of the moment that a bit of R&R in a pay-for lounge might be nice.
Sabre has developed systems to cope with unbundled ancillaries while large TMCs like HRG can capture information through its own technology. “It is slightly more difficult
“It is slightly more difficult to book with Ryanair than it is with others who participate in the GDS or who work with us through self-booking tools”
to book with Ryanair, for example, than it is with others who participate in the GDS or who work with us through self-booking tools,” says HRG's Tony Berry. “But it is our job as a TMC to work in partnership with our clients to fulfil their requirements and if that means we have to start the booking on a website and complete it in our system, then that’s what we’ll do.” Meanwhile, as airberlin frets
about its perception among the travel industry, it recently won the Best Brand Expansion category in Germany’s 2011 Brand Awards – an accolade achieved for its successful launch in the business travel sector. Progress at last.
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