Here here Kev, well said! Low cost airlines have only added to the choice in European air travel, most certainly not taken away from it.

For example, last year you would not have been able to fly from London direct to Bratislava, now easyJet, Austrian, and SkyEurope all offer the route, now that’s what I call choice! In addition, notice how only two of those are low cost airlines.

The same goes for Prague from Gatwick, last year no one operated the route, now we’ve got BA, CSA, easyJet, Smartwings and bmibaby (although bmibaby are dropping the route). It’s all enhancing the choice and making travel more affordable, excellent news all round surely?

Milan Bergamo is actually closer to Milan than Malpensa, and Ryanair aren’t the only airline to call it Milan, in fact it’s actually officially assigned as Milan’s third airport and has been for many years prior to the arrival of the locos.

With regards to the Fokker 70’s at LCY, Air France operated them into the airport for a short while, but that’s been it so far. Why KLM continue to use the F50 instead of F70 into LCY I don’t know!!

Shamrock, you have posted yet another biased and completely uneducated post. I know several guys who are in the right hand seat at Ryanair and they are having a dreadful time of it, many of them are saying they’d rather be back at Oxford Aviation flying Seneca V’s without being paid as opposed to being paid a pittance, being given no respect, no stable roster and being messed about every hour of every day. The Ryanair staff are really having an awful time of it and I recommend you step away from you’re Michael O’Leary propaganda and look at the situation as it really is.

Ask any of the guys actually in the industry or in training and you will be told exactly how good Ryanair really are.

Sun-Air operate BAe ATPs on behalf of BA to Billund as well as J41s and J31s. So the aircraft isn’t actually owned or operated by BA, it’s just a franchise. There are still a few ATP operators, the newest is FlyJem just down the road at Liverpool.