Wizzair

Wizzair web site
Phone number (from UK): 0048 22351 9499
Wizzair is based in Vecses, Hungary
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Wizzair

• The airline operates 9 Boeing 737's
• Flies from its hubs at Budapest (Hungary) and Warsaw, Gdansk and Katowice (Poland)
• Routes are mostly to the UK (taking advantage of the enormous growth in UK-Polish air traffic since migration to the UK became possible), and to Southern European holiday destinations

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VLM

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Phone number (from UK): 020 7476 0757
VLM is based in Antwerp, Belgium
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with VLM

• The airline operates 20 small Fokker 50 turbo-prop aircraft from its hub at London City airport (LCY)
• Flies to destinations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

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Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines web site
Phone number (from UK): 020 7766 9300
Turkish Airlines is based in Istanbul, Turkey
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Turkish Airlines

• The airline operates 60 Boeing 737's and 40 Airbus jets
• Flies all over the world from hubs at Istanbul and Ankara, including services to London Heathrow, London Stansted and Manchester

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Tunisair

Tunisair web site
Phone number (from UK): 00216 70 838111 (Tunisian number)
Tunisair is based in Tunis, Tunisia
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Tunis Air

• The airline operates 15 Boeing 737's and 15 Airbus jets
• Destinations are across Europe, Africa and the Middle East
• In 2005 a Tunis Air flight crashed killing 16 mostly Italian tourists; an investigation revealed that the wrong fuel gauge had been installed in the plane during maintenance

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Transavia

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Phone number (from UK): 020 7365 4997
Transavia is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Transavia

• The airline operates 30 Boeing 737's from its hubs at Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• Routes are almost entirely to Southern European holiday destinations
• 100% owned by Air France-KLM

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Thomsonfly

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Phone number (from UK): 0870 190 0737
Thomsonfly is based in Luton, UK
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Thomsonfly

• This is the largest charter airline in the world - operates 50 Boeing 737's, 757's and 767's
• Flies from several UK airports including London Luton, London Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle
• Routes are primarily to holiday destinations in southern Europe, particularly Spain

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TAROM Romanian

TAROM Romanian web site
Phone number (from UK): 0207 2243693
TAROM Romanian is based in Bucharest, Romania
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with TAROM Romanian

• The airline operates 13 passenger jets (10 Boeing 737's, 3 from Airbus) and 7 turbo-props
• Flies domestic Romanian routes and to destinations across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

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TAP Air Portugal

TAP Air Portugal web site
Phone number (from UK): 0845 601 0932
TAP Air Portugal is based in Lisbon, Portugal
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with TAP Air Portugal

• The airline operates 50 Airbus planes from Lisbon and Porto
• Flies to destinations in Europe, Africa and South America
• Member of the Star Alliance with Lufthansa, British Midland and United Airlines

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Swiss International

Swiss International web site
Phone number (from UK): 0845 601 0956
Swiss International is based in Basel, Switzerland.
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Swiss International

• This airline operates 45 Airbus planes and 25 smaller Avro jets
• Flies from its hub in Zurich, to European and global destinations.
• Swiss International has been bought by Lufthansa; Zurich is likely to become a major new Lufthansa hub as the operations are integrated
  
• Member of the Star Alliance with Lufthansa, British Midland and United Airlines

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Sterling

Sterling web site
Phone number (from UK): 0870 787 8038
Sterling is based in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Sterling

• This airline operates about 30 Boeing 737's from hubs at Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm
• Destinations are mostly in Eastern and Southern Europe
• Flies to London from Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen, Aalborg and Billund (Denmark)

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Spanair

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Phone number (from UK): 0034 971 916047 (Spanish number)
Spanair is based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Spanair

• This airline flies about 50 passenger jets made by Airbus (320's) and McDonnell Douglas
• Destinations are mostly Spanish domestic airports, with some scattered across Northern Europe but none currently in the UK
• Member of the Star Alliance with Lufthansa, British Midland and United Airlines

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SN Brussels

SN Brussels web site
Phone number (from UK): 0870 735 2345
SN Brussels is based in Brussels, Belgium
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with SN Brussels

• This airline operates about 40 small to medium sized jets made by Airbus (319/320's and 330's), Avro and British Aerospace
• The hub of its route network is Brussels (BRU) - destinations are in Africa, and across Europe from Russia to Spain.
• It has been merged with Virgin Express, and the name is being changed to Brussels Airlines

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Sky Europe

Sky Europe web site
Phone number (from UK): 0905 722 2747
Sky Europe is based in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Sky Europe

• This airline operates 20 Boeing 737's
• Flies from hubs at Bratislava, Krakow and Warsaw (Poland) and Prague (Czech Republic)
• Destinations include London (Stansted), Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh
• The largest low-cost airline in central Europe

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Scot Airways

Scot Airways web site
Phone number (from UK): 0870 6060707
Scot Airways is based in Dundee, Scotland
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Scot Airways

• The airline operates 7 small Dornier turbo-prop aircraft
• Flies routes between Scotland, southern England and the Netherlands

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SAS Scandinavian

SAS Scandinavian web site
Phone number (from UK): 0870 607 2772
SAS Scandinavian is based in Stockholm, Sweden
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with SAS Scandinavian

• The airline operates 120 Boeing, Airbus and McDonnell Douglas jets
• Flies from hubs at Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo
• Destinations are all across Europe from Turkey to Spain, with a few in Asia and North America
• Member of the Star Alliance with Lufthansa, British Midland and United Airlines

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Ryanair

Ryanair web site
Phone number (from UK): 09062 70 5656 (Calls charged at 25p/minute)
Ryanair is based in Dublin, Irish Republic
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Ryanair

• Flies 120 Boeing 737's, making it one quarter the size of the largest low-cost airline in the world (Southwest in the US, which has 500); Ryanair's fleet is similar in size to Easyjet's and to British Airways' short-haul aircraft fleet, which is used on European routes
  
• Planes are new - on average less than 3 years old
• Ryanair's main hubs have historically been Dublin and London Stansted, but it is now developing more across Europe, including Glasgow (Prestwick), Brussels (Charleroi), Frankfurt (Hahn), Milan (Bergamo), Marseille, Gerona and Rome
• This is the largest low-cost airline in Europe in terms of the number of passengers flown, and is also the most profitable
• Average revenue per passenger is only £30, so typical ticket prices are low by any standards, and 'no-frills' really does mean what it says
  

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Blue Islands

Blue Islands web site
Phone number (from UK): 08456 202122
Blue Islands is based in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Blue Islands

• This airline operates 7 small turboprop aircraft made by British Aerospace and Britten-Norman
• Flies between Britain's south coast and the Channel Islands

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Portugalia

Portugalia web site
Phone number (from UK): 0161 250 0385
Portugalia is based in Lisbon, Portugal
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Portugalia

• This airline operates 15 small Embraer (Brazilian) and Fokker jets
• Flies from the two largest cities in Portugal, Lisbon and Porto, on routes to destinations in Spain and France

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Olympic Airlines

Olympic Airlines web site
Phone number (from UK): 020 8759 5884
Olympic Airlines is based in Athens, Greece
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Olympic Airlines

• This airline operates 40 planes, mostly old (average age 15 years), a mix of Airbus, Boeing 737's and turbo-props
• Flies more or less everywhere from Greece - domestic Greek routes, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America, as well as destinations across Europe
• In financial crisis for years and dependent on state subsidies, it resembles in these respects a smaller version of Alitalia
• The Greek government has tried to sell this airline, but the EU decided that it had benefited from illegal subsidies and the effort fell through - currently due for another reorganisation in 2007
• Source of some of the worst airline customer service stories we've ever heard, including one from a 'survivor of an Olympic flight from Athens to Greece' - "I'm still waiting for my coffee".

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Airlines flying to Europe from the UK

The 'Big Three' by number of routes flown from the UK:
British Airways - Easyjet - Ryanair

Airlines, A-C:
Adria Airways - Aer Arann - Aer Lingus - Air Baltic - Air Berlin - Air Europa - Air France - Air Malta - Air One - Air Slovakia - Air Southwest - Alitalia - Aurigny Air Services - Austrian Airlines - Blue Islands - British Airways - British Midland - BMIBaby - British Airways - Bulgaria Air - Centralwings - City Airline - CityJet - City Star Airlines - Croatia Airlines - CSA Czech - Cyprus Airways

Airlines, D-N:
Darwin - Eastern Airways - Easyjet - Estonian Air - EuroManx - Excel - Finnair - First Choice - Flybe - FlyGlobespan - Germanwings - Hapag Lloyd Express - Helvetic - Iberia - Iceland Express - Icelandair - Jet2 - KLM - Lithuanian Airlines - LOT Polish - Lufthansa - Luxair - Malev Hungarian - Meridiana - Monarch - MyTravelLite - Niki - Norwegian Air Shuttle

Airlines, O-Z:
Olympic Airlines - Portugalia - Ryanair - SAS Scandinavian - Scot Airways - Sky Europe - SN Brussels - Spanair - Sterling - Swiss International - TAP Air Portugal - TAROM Romanian - Thomsonfly - Transavia - Tunisair - Turkish Airlines - VLM - Wizzair - XL Airways

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Norwegian Air Shuttle

Norwegian Air Shuttle web site
Phone number (from UK): 0047 21 490015 (Norwegian number)
Norwegian Air Shuttle is based in Fornebu, Norway
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Norwegian Air Shuttle

• This low-cost airline operates 20 Boeing 737's
• Serves European destinations from Oslo; UK routes are London Stansted (STN) and Manchester (MAN)

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Niki

Niki web site
Phone number (from UK): 0870 738 8880
Niki is based in Vienna, Austria
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Niki

• This low cost airline operates 5 Airbus planes
• Flies routes from Austria to holiday destinations in Southern Europe and Egypt
• Associated with Air Berlin (which owns 24%), former Formula 1 racing driver Niki Lauda owns the rest
  

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MyTravelLite

MyTravelLite web site
Phone number (from UK): 08702 414335
MyTravelLite is based in Manchester, UK
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with MyTravelLite

• The airline operates about 30 Airbus planes, half based in the UK (Manchester) and half in Denmark (Copenhagen)
• European routes are basically all to Southern European holiday destinations, especially in Spain
• Flies from 24 UK airports, mostly serving the MyTravel tour operator parent company; MyTravelLite is the division which sells low-cost airline tickets on MyTravel planes

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Monarch Airlines

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Phone number (from UK): 0870 040 5040
Monarch is based in Luton, UK
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Monarch

• The airline operates about 28 aircraft, mostly Airbus (some Boeing 757's and 767's)
• Main operating bases are at Birmingham, Manchester, London Luton and London Gatwick
• Routes are to holiday destinations primarily in Europe, the USA and the Caribbean; most of the European destinations are in Spain
• This is a tour/charter company which also sells seats as a low-cost airline

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Meridiana

Meridiana web site
Phone number (from UK): 0845 255 5588
Meridiana is based in Olbia, Italy
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Meridiana

• The airline operates about 20 rather old (average age 15 years) McDonnell Douglas twin jets
• Its hubs are at Olbia and Cagliari on the island of Sardinia, and at Florence airport (FLR)
• Flights to London are Florence-Gatwick (LGW)

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Malev Hungarian

Malev Hungarian web site
Phone number (from UK): 0870 909 0577
Malev Hungarian is based in Budapest, Hungary
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Passenger reports and opinions about experiences with Malev Hungarian

• The airline operates 30 twinjets manufactured by Boeing, Canadair and Fokker
• Flies from its Budapest hub to destinations all across Europe including London Gatwick (LGW); also flies to the Midle East, Thailand, the US (New York) and Canada (Toronto)
• Member of the OneWorld Alliance with British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and American Airlines

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