London
is the heart of the European low cost budget airline network.
easyJet, UK's largest
lowest low cost airline and Ryanair,
an Irish low cost airline with a major base in the UK are by far the
largest companies in the European low cost market.
Stansted Airport
is the London Airport that is dominated by this sector. EasyJet and
Ryanair have major hubs here. EasyJet also has significant hubs at
Luton and Gatwick
airports. Ryanair is beginning to establish flights from Luton and
Gatwick, but frequencies are much higher from Stansted.
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Although
easyJet and Ryanair dominate they don't have it all to themselves.
Germanwings
and Air Berlin
offer a range of flights to most key cities in Germany from Stansted.
Iceland
Express and Norwegian
offer flights to Iceland and Norway also from Gatwick and Stansted
respectively.
Central Europe is a battleground at the moment. As well as easyJet,
new airlines Wizzair
and Sky Europe
compete head to head to Budapest, Warsaw, Gdansk and a few others.
Other airlines have come and gone.
Many of the original full service scheduled airlines are now competitive,
especially if you factor in the extra time and expense in getting
out to Stansted.
British Airways Gatwick operations have particularly good fares
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Ryanair
An Irish airline with a very large hub at London's
Stansted airport. Ryanair have a
reputation for offering the lowest fares of all the budget airlines.
Ryanar are infamous for operating into secondary airports of cities
in order to cut costs.
In addition to Stansted, Ryaniar also operate into Gatwick and are
beginning to develop flights from Luton.
Full details of Ryanair operations into London are on our Ryanair
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easyJet
The largest carrier with Ryanair is easyJet
, The airline was based at Luton Airport, but has rapidly expanded
at Gatwick and Stansted.
easyJet competes with the scheduled carriers operating into many major
European city hubs.
Full details of easyJet operations are on our easyJet
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Air
Berlin
An established German leisure airline, Air Berlin have
now joined the low-cost budget boom and operate to most of the major
cities in Germany and beyond.
Full details are on our Air Berlin page. |
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Germanwings
A low-cost budget airline from Germany offering services
from Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart into London Stansted.
Full details on our
Germanwings page |
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