Luton and Shannon will get B737-800s in September, Stansted will already be an all B737-800 base from mid-July
I am afraid I really have to stick with the taxi as there isn’t even a way to access PIK from Ayr or Kilmarnock by public transport before 6.30. I am completely aware of the fact where the airport is located but I have never been to a city where there is no public transport to the “local” airport Ryanair operates some 80-180 kms away :-). There is always a shuttle bus leaving at hours like 4.30, 5.00 in the morning for the first flights out of such airports. Looks like public transport in the UK is really that worse as everybody in Continental Europe thinks.
Swiss did the same, KLM and Austrian are about to do the same. I think this is the way the industry will go.
According to OAG, Ryanair is using the BAe 146-300s on the following routes out of London Stansted:
-Blackpool
-Brest
-Groningen
-Kerry County
-La Rochelle
-Limoges
-Londonderry
-Tours
Best regards
Thomas
No, HLN is the three letter code of Air Holland. Air-Scotland.com is more or less nothing but a low-cost tour operator chartering the Air Holland planes.
Odette Airways currently only operates a single MD-83 on ethnic charters between Zurich and Pristina, Kosovo. However, it will start low-cost operations with several Fokker 100 aircraft in cooperation with Germania at the end of October.
InterSky is actually a descendant of Rheintalflug, we started operations some 10 days before Swisswings was forced to give up operations.
I actually work for a low-cost carrier having its homebase in Berne, Switzerland, although we are an Austrian company our homebase is in Switzerland, so I’d call InterSky an Austro-Swiss low-cost carrier. We operate two Dash 8-300s on scheduled flights from Berne to Berlin Tempelhof, Paris CDG and Vienna with fares starting at 39 CHF one-way. We also operate a seasonal scheduled flight between Munich and Elba Island and lots of charter flights (from Berne to Elba Island, Figari, Palma de Mallorca, Sarajevo, Tortoli and Tuzla and from Altenrhein to Elba Island). Check http://www.intersky.biz for more information or drop me an e-mail.
From what I heard, French charter operator Euralair will be operating the flights with a B737-800 which will be ferried to LBA on Thursdays and fly back to CDG on Sunday evening.