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Finding budget airlines in Europe

I have a very cool website to share with you today. Low Cost Airline Guide shows you which budget airlines fly where you want to go in Europe. All you have to do is click twice, once on the airport you're leaving from and once on the airport you're arriving in. For example I tried a search where I was leaving from London Luton (LTN) and arriving in Amsterdam (AMS). The website told me that I shoudl try the budget carrier easyJet.com and linked to their site for me. There I found a flight for 23 GBP which seems like a great price to me.

Clearly, if you'll be flying within Europe and you want to make sure you check the budget carriers, you should search this site. If you want to see how many budget carriers there are in Europe, visit the page of low cost airlines this site covers. I thought this was pretty interesting because there are a number of low cost carriers I had never heard of.

The page on budget airline routes was also pretty interesting. It lists the airports in Europe and you click on where you're leaving from or going to. For example I clicked on flights to Vienna, Austria (VIE) and then saw a list of flights from various ariports in Egypt, France, Greece, Malta, Spain, Turkey, etc.

I can definitely see some vacation itineraries taking shape after using this site. It should be no problem to fly to London, then to Amsterdam, then to Vienna, then to Istabul, then back to London. Interestingly we end with kind of a circle as the only discount airline listed on the Istanbul departures page to London is easyJet going to London Luton...

Posted by James Trotta at February 7, 2007 11:17 PM | TrackBack