New Ryanair MAN routes and more bases

Ryanair have announced yet another tickets blitz campaign to coincide with their new Manchester routes to Girona, Bremen, Marseille and Milan. Over a million tickets are to be sold for £10 including charges, with new bases at Angouleme (France) Arad and Constanta (Romania).

Other locations will benefit from route expansion. Ryanair have also announced a sharp drop in profits which is attributable to increasing fuel costs, but stress that the airline is still trading firmly in the black.

Emirates to launch low-cost division as a standalone unit

The hugely successful Emirates Group is to set up a lowcost division to operate in the Gulf and surrounding area.

Previous entrants to the market have been Jazeera, NAS and others. The Dubai based group will operate the “Emirates Lite” style carrier as a standalone business unit within the group but not as a division of the airline itself. Other carriers such as Qatar Airways and Etihad will operate regional services themselves, with Gulf Air having already launched their Gulf Traveller brand using 767-300ER aircraft to lower yield destinations.

More details here

Rule 240

Bit off topic but I found this article on Rule 240 this morning. makes interesting reading for US airline passengers!

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/traveltips/03/12/rule.240/index.html