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European Budget Airlines


Flying around Europe used to be as expensive mile for mile as anywhere in the World. Now with Airlines like Ryanair and EasyJet driving down prices, that is all changing, cheap flights are in abundance! In fact the budget airlines are actually undergoing explosive growth while the rest of the industry goes into decline. We have flown with the no frills carriers a number of times and got some really cheap flights:
  • Manchester - Prague £64 return*
  • Liverpool - Madrid £45 return*
  • London Stansted - Riga £24 return*
  • Liverpool - Barcelona £17 return*
In the course of researching thus site I regularly come across flights such as Liverpool - Berlin for £10 return.
*All prices include tax and charges.

Finding a good deal
Although there are plenty of cheap flights out there, getting one is not always easy. Please note the following points when looking for a good deal.
  1. The cheapest tickets are mainly sold on a "First come, First served basis. You will need to look for tickets as soon as they are released. Get on the mailing lists for the airlines.
  2. The cheapest tickets are for Mid Week flights. They are almost non-existent at Holiday periods such as Easter.
  3. Sometimes the Airports used are a lot further from the Cities served than conventional carriers. Up to 100 Kilometres away.

One last point though. A number of budget airlines have gone out of business. To protect yourself pay for your flights with a credit card, this will incurr a surcharge but will mean that you stand a good chance of getting refunded by the credit card company if your airline goes into receivership.


Another source of cheap flights is Opodo:
The traditional airlines also sell lots of cheap flights in Europe. Look up:
British Airways
Air France UK

For some very competitive deals.

Getting to the airport
Travel to the airport is another cost consideration whether by train or car. In the UK parking costs vary depending upon the length of stay but you can get some good deals online.  is one car park operator with some very competitive rates.
Travelling by train is possible to a number of airports such as Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester. To look up trains on the main UK Rail network try the .


You are probably aware that air travel damages the environment. Please consider this when booking flights. Have a look at www.climatecare.org for ways of mitigating the adverse effects of your flight.




Budget Airline URL's  
Major operators Full List
AirBerlin.com www.airberlin.html
bmibaby.com www.bmibaby.com
easyJet www.easyJet.com
flybe.com Flybe routes and URL
German Wings www.germanwings.com
Hapag Lloyd Express www.hlx.com
Jet2.com www.jet2.com
Monarch Monarch routes and URL
Opodo
Ryanair www.ryanair.com
SkyEurope www.skyeurope.com
Thomsonfly www.thomsonfly.com
Virgin Express www.virgin-express.com
Vueling Vueling routes and URL
WizzAir Wizzair routes and URL
XL Airways XL Airways
 Air Berlin Europ'e third largest budget airline at Manchester
Latest Cheap flight deals


Departures Destinations
Air Berlin + Niki
London Stansted
Manchester
Berlin
Palma
Alicante, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Dortmund, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Faro, Hamburg,Hannover, Ibiza, Jerez, Karlsruhe, Koln / Bonn, Leipzig, Linz, Lisbon, London Stansted, Osnabrook, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Muhouse/Basel, Munich, Munster / Osnabruck, Murcia, Nuremberg, Paderborn, Palma, Paris CDG, Rome Fiumicino, Rostock, Saarbrucken, Salzburg, Seville, Southampton, Stuttgart, Valencia, Warsaw, Vienna, Zurich
bmibaby
East Midlands
Manchester
Cardiff
Teeside
London Gatwick
Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, Cork, Jersey, Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan (Bergamo), Paris (CDG), Prague, Nice, Geneva, Toulouse, Barcelona, Palma, Alicante, Murcia, Malaga, Faro, Pisa, Bordeaux, Knock
 easyJet
London Luton
London Gatwick
London Stansted
Liverpool
Nottingham
Aberdeen, Alicante, Almeria, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Basel, Belfast, Bilboa, Bologna, Bratislava, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen,Dortmund, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Glasgow, Ibiza, Inverness, Koln, Krakow, Liverpool, London Gatwick, Ljubljana, London Luton, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Marseille, Milan, Naples, Nice, Palma, Majorca, Munich, Newcastle, Nottingham East Midlands, Prague, Rome, Toulouse, Turin, Venice, Warsaw,
flybe
Southampton
Blackpool
Aberdeen - Belfast City - Birmingham - Blackpool - Bristol - Brussels - Cork - Dublin - Edinburgh - Exeter - Geneva - Guernsey - Glasgow - Isle of Man - Jersey - Leeds Bradford - London City - London Gatwick - London Heathrow - London Luton - Malaga - Milan - Murcia - Newcastle - Shannon - Southampton - Toulouse
Germanwings
London Stansted
Cologne-Bonn
Stuttgart
Athens, Barcelona, Berlin-Schonefeld, Bologna, Budapest, Cologne-Bonn, Dresden, Dublin, Edinburgh, Faro, Hamburg, Helsinki, Ibiza, Istanbul Sabiha, Izmir, Krakow, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malaga, Milan Malpensa,Munich, Nice, Oslo, Palma, Paris, Prague, Rome Fiumicino, Split, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich
HLX
Cologne /Bonn
Stuttgart
Bari, Berlin, Bilboa, Cologne / Bonn, Coventry, Dublin, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Hannover, Klagenfurt, Majorca, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Munich, Naples, Newcastle, Olbia, Palermo, Pisa, Rijeka, Rome, Salzburg, Shannon, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Valencia
Jet2.com
Leeds Bradford
Manchester
Belfast
Belfast, Amsterdam, Prague, Venice, Geneva, Nice, Barcelona, Malaga, Palma,
Alicante, Murcia, Faro
Monarch
Manchester
Luton
Gatwick
Tenerife, Gibraltar, Faro, Malaga, Alicante, Almeria, Palma, Menorca, Barcelona, Madrid
Ryanair
London Stansted
Liverpool
Aarhus, Alghero Sardinia, Ancona, Biarritz, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brussels S. (Charleroi), Carcassone, Cardiff , City of Derry, Cork, Dinard, Dublin, Edinburgh, Esbjerg, Forlì Bologna, Frankfurt Hahn, Genoa, Glasgow Prestwick, Gothenburg Save, Hamburg Lubeck, Kerry, Knock, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, London Gatwick, London Luton, London Stansted, Malmo Sturup, Manchester, Milan Bergamo, Montpellier, Nimes, Oslo Torp, Paris Beauvais, Perpignan, Pescara, Pisa, Salzburg, Shannon, St Etienne, Stockholm Vasteras, Riga, Santander, Stockholm S. Skavsta, Teeside, Trieste, Turin, Venice Treviso, Verona Brescia
Thomsonfly
Coventry
Doncaster Sheffield
Bournemouth
Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bournemouth, Cologne/Bonn, Coventry, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Faro, Ibiza, Jersey, Malaga, Palma, Paris, Pisa, Prague, Shannon, Valencia, Venice
Virgin Express Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen, Faro, Geneva, Gothenburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Malaga, Milan, Nice, Rome
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