AF and low budget airlines

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> Ryanair’s Guide To The World
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>Prestwick-also known as Glasgow.

I don’t really have a problem with that, it’s official name is Glasgow Prestwick International Airport… It’s as misleading as calling Stansted or Luton ‘London’, really.

www.gpia.co.uk

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 06-09-02 AT 04:00 PM (GMT)]-:)

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Ryanair’s Guide To The World

Charleroi-also known as Brussels South.
Beauvais-also known as Paris.
St Étienne-also known as Lyon.
Perpignan-also known as Barcelona.
Carcassonne-also known as Toulouse.
Biarritz-also known as Bordeaux.
Hahn-also known as Frankfurt.
Lubeck-also known as Hamburg.
Turin-also known as Milan
Bergamo-also known as Milan Orio.
Bresica-also known as Verona.
Forli-also known as Bologna.
Torp-also known as Oslo.
Prestwick-also known as Glasgow.
Skavsta-also known as Stockholm.
Vasteras-also known as Stockholm.
Malmo-also known as Copehagen.

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Not that bad Saab :).

Actually they don’t fly to Paris (Neither CDG nor ORY) but to Beauvais Tille. This is small airport 100km noth of PAris.

I flew with them ealry January and that’s ok. Car park is for free, safe and their fares are so low (49€ for one leg Paris Dublin) that it’s worth it.

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lol!

Milan Bergamo = Rome North.
Liverpool = London North.

Imagine their theoretical US expansion…

Reykjavik = New York North
Kansas City = Los Angeles East

Unless I had a few days to kill (and nothing better to do than waste time) I probably wouldn’t use Ryanair. However, Easyjet do seem to actually fly to some proper airports!

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Paris East? 😉

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Just to let you know, Ryanair are starting a new route from London Stansted to Strasbourg on 31st October 2002. They are also increasing frequency on Milan Bergamo from 2 to 3 flights a day and Rome Ciampino from 3 to 4 flights a day!

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I read somewhere that Lufthansa pilots are paid a fortune – USD 350,000 for an A310 captain.

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Good suggestion. We all wonder why they always achieve what they wnat. Pilots in Iberia…are like God….You don´t know how powerful they are.

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>France is not a country famous for liberalizing markets.

How you know that 😉

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>Easyjet isn’t a French low fare airline, its from the UK!

I know of course, but my statement is about low fares airlines in France, when I buy a ticket from Paris to Nice at 29€ I’m not interested by the nationality of the carrier.

So on domestic lines in France there is 2 low fares airlines the french and soon dead Air Lib Express and the british and still alive Easy jet.

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Why not ensure that all new pilots are contractually non-unionised?

Or why not hire new pilots for the low cost outfit?

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Bad for French consumers. I suppose it´s due to France is not a country famous for liberalizing markets. And Air France, it´s a part of France. I think the grips of the airline in the country are still too strong for a real competition. But time comes, and under the EU regulation, many sectors have to allow other operators in their market. Lufthansa Empire is fading and in France Low cost will have to be accepted, whatever AF likes it or not. In Spain things are slightly different. There are not real oposition to Iberia. But Iberia is private and wants to participates in the low cost market. So I anounce a new low cost called Iberia Express. But the main problem is that the Pilots trade union which is really strong won´t allow a shift of flights from Iberia to Iberia Express and it´s expected that it happens what happened with Viva Air. The first low cost, belonging to IB but closed for that reason. I hope, now, being a private airline the CEO will be able to broke the pilots backmail.

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talking of which, Reporting Scotland report that AF are about to start a thrice daily service from CDG to ABZ.

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 03-09-02 AT 03:21 PM (GMT)]Easyjet are launching AN Orly-Zurich and applications to serve Belfast,Edinburgh and Glasgow to CDG have also been applied for.

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Easyjet isn’t a French low fare airline, its from the UK!

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We have two low fares airlines in France Air Lib Express and….Easy jet on the most popular route (Paris to Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Montpelier).

Not sure that we need more, but it’s true that Hexagon and FlyEco (by the former chairman of Corsair) will fly before the end of the year.

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 03-09-02 AT 12:47 PM (GMT)]There has been rumours of two French low cost airline going around in the past year.Hexagon (was supposed to start operations in September) and FlyEco. (supposed to start operations at the end of the year)If any of these ever get going is another question!

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Right. AirLib operates a very limited number of routes.
EasyJet , Ryanair, Buzz are also here , but there is no real French budget airline.

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Doesn’t Air Lib Express operate low cost flights?Also you have Easyjet and Buzz doing low cost flights in France.But I see what you mean,there doesn’t seem to be as many low cost carriers compared to other European countries.