The low cost airlines:

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		Aer Arann Established in 1970 as an air service to the Aran Islands from Galway, the Irish airline now operates more than 500 flights per week across 13 UK, five domestic and three French routes.	Website
		Air Baltic The national airline operates direct flights out of the Latvian capital Riga and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. SAS Scandinavian is a major shareholder in the airline, and Hapag-Lloyd Express is a partner airline. From London Gatwick, Manchester and Dublin airports, Air Baltic flies to several destinations including Baku, Vilnius, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Moscow and Kiev.	Website
		Air Berlin A scheduled German airline with a dense network in Germany, Air Berlin joined forces with Niki, the former F1 driver Niki Lauda's airline, in 2004. From London Stansted, the airline flies to Hanover, Munster, Berlin, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Paderborn and Dusseldorf in Germany as well as Belfast and several cities in Spain, Portugal, Austria, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Switzerland, Tunisia and Turkey. From Manchester, the airline flies to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munster, Nuremberg and Paderborn and Palma, Zurich and Vienna. From Bournemouth, Air Berlin operates a service to Paderborn.	Website
		Aer Lingus Ireland's national airline was established in 1936 and is based at Dublin Airport with additional hubs at Cork and Shannon airports. It is a member of the oneworld alliance. In recent years, Aer Lingus has rebranded itself as a low-cost airline and offers low fares to cities in the UK (Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jersey, Liverpool, London Heathrow and Manchester), Europe, the USA and Middle East.	Website
		Air Scotland Glasgow-based Air Scotland (a trading name of Greece Airways) is a low-cost carrier that flies from Glasgow International Airport and Edinburgh Airport to popular holiday destinations in Europe. From Glasgow, the airline flies to Alicante, Athens, Barcelona (Girona), Malaga and Palma. From Edinburgh, there are flights to Alicante and Malaga. There are also flights from Birmingham and Newcastle to Barcelona (Girona) and from Manchester to Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga and Palma.	Website
		Air Southwest A regional airline dedicated to providing air services to and from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset in the South West of England. Cities served include Bristol, Cardiff, Jersey, Dublin, Leeds Bradford, London Gatwick, Manchester, Newquay and Norwich. In partnership with Skybus, Air Southwest flies from Newquay and Bristol to the Isles of Scilly.	Website
		Alitalia Alitalia is Italy's national airline and has hubs at Milan Malpensa International Airport and Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport. It is a member of the Skyteam alliance with Air France, Delta Airlines, AeroMexico, Korean Air, CSA Czech Airlines, Northwest, Continental and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Alitalia flies domestically and internationally. In the UK and Ireland it flies from London Heathrow and Dublin to Milan and Rome, Birmingham and Newcastle to Paris (CDG) and Manchester to Milan.	Website
B		Airlines	Contacts
		bmi bmi is the UK's second-largest full-service airline and a member of Star Alliance along with carriers such as Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Lufthansa, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and US Airways. Its main operational base is at Heathrow Airport. The airline operates about 1,700 flights a week worldwide and provides regional flights within the UK.	Website
		bmibaby The low-cost offshoot of bmi has been in existence since January 2002. The airline flies from 18 airports around the UK to European destinations including the Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland (Cork, Dublin and Knock), the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands.	Website
		British Airways Although not a low-cost airline, British Airways competes against the no-frills airlines with its regular seat sales. BA is one of the world's largest and most successful international airlines, carrying around 36 million passengers to more than 550 destinations. It is also an oneworld alliance member with Aer Lingus, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, LAN and Qantas. The airline's two main operating bases are London Heathrow and Gatwick. The airline also has five franchisee airlines: BMED, Comair, GB Airways, Loganair and Sun Air of Scandinavia.	Website
		Budget Air Budget Air is the low-cost brand of Budget Travel, an Irish tour operator. The airline flies from Dublin, Cork and Shannon to Europe’s most popular holiday destinations including Alicante, Malaga, Faro, Nice, Bodrum, Corfu, Ibiza and Tenerife.	Website
C		Airlines	Contacts
		Centralwings The low-cost offshoot of LOT Polish Airlines started flying in 2005. The airline flies from London Gatwick to Krakow and Warsaw; Leeds to Warsaw; and Edinburgh to Gdansk, Katowice and Warsaw. From Ireland, there are flights from Shannon to Warsaw and from Dublin to Lodz, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Katowice.	Website
		CSA Czech Airlines The Czech national airline is based in Prague and is a member of the Skyteam alliance along with Delta Airlines, Alitalia, Korean Air, Air France, KLM, Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines. With these partners, Czech Airlines offers a comprehensive network of flights to Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia. The airline flies from London Heathrow and Stansted, Edinburgh and Manchester. From Ireland, the airline flies from Cork and Dublin airports.	Website
E		Airlines	Contacts
		easyJet The orange-liveried airline is one of the pioneers of low-cost travel in the UK. easyJet flies 258 routes across 72 airports around the UK and in Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Germany. In the past couple of years, easyJet has expanded into Eastern and Central Europe with flights to the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia and Estonia. Flights to Istanbul and Marrakesh will start later this year.	Website
		Estonian Air The airline was established in 1991, shortly after the country declared its independence. Privatised in 1996, 49 per cent of the airline's shares are owned by Maersk Air, the Danish airline. Estonian Air flies from London Gatwick and Dublin to Tallinn, Helsinki, Riga and Vilnius and from Manchester to Tallinn and Riga.	Website
		Excel Airways A charter airline with flights from Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, Humberside, London Gatwick and Stansted, Manchester and Newcastle to popular holiday resorts in Barbados, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Gambia, Greece, Italy, Madeira, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey and the US.	Website
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		FlyGlobespan.com Flyglobespan was established in 2002 as an offshoot of the Globespan Group. The airline has bases at Edinburgh, Glasgow and London Stansted and operates 11 aircraft to popular European holiday destinations including Alicante, Barcelona, Faro, Lanzarote, Palma, Malaga, Nice, Prague, Rome and Tenerife. From Glasgow, the airline flies to Orlando, and from Manchester it flies to Cape Town.	Website
		Flybe The airline that was Jersey European and then British European became Flybe in 2002. The Exeter Airport-based airline operates 108 routes to and from 40 airports and spans seven countries. Flybe flies from Birmingham, Belfast, Exeter, Manchester, Southampton, Leeds Bradford, Bristol, Newcastle, Norwich, Edinburgh and London Gatwick to cities around the UK and the Channel Islands, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Austria.	Website
		FlyNordic The airline is a subsidiary of Finnair. From its hub at Stockholm, FlyNordic flies to Lulea, Umea, Kiruna, Ostersund, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Bergen, Berlin, Munich, Dublin, Tallinn, Barcelona and Bordeaux. Flights to Alicante, Malaga and Nice are operated in co-operation with Sterling.	Website
G		Airlines	Contacts
		Germanwings Germanwings is based in Germany and flies from London Gatwick to Hamburg and from London Stansted to Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart. The low-cost carrier also flies from Dublin, Birmingham and Edinburgh to Cologne-Bonn. Lufthansa owns almost half of Germanwings' parent airline, Eurowings. Centralwings, the low-cost offshoot of LOT, the Polish national airline, is its partner in Europe.	Website
H		Airlines	Contacts
		Hapag-Lloyd Express Hapag-Lloyd Express is a German airline, which started flying in 2002. It is a subsidiary of TUI AG, one of the largest travel and tourism companies in the world. The airline has its headquarters at Hanover Airport and flies to 36 destinations in nine European countries from Cologne-Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Berlin-Tegel and Munich airports. Hapag-Lloyd Express departs from Birmingham to Cologne-Bonn, Manchester to Hanover, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart and Newcastle to Hanover. The airline with the New York checkered cab-style livery also flies from Dublin Airport to Stuttgart.	Website
		Helvetic Airways The Swiss airline is based in Zurich and connects the city with London Luton. From Zurich, Helvetic Airways also flies to Alicante, Balaton/Lake Balaton, Barcelona, Brindisi, Cagliari, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme, Malaga, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma, Pisa, Rimini, Skopje and Valencia.	Website
I		Airlines	Contacts
		Iceland Express The privately owned airline is based at Keflavik Airport near Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, and began operations in 2003. Iceland Express flies daily to the Icelandic capital from London Stansted and Copenhagen and three times a week from Frankfurt Hahn.	Website Telephone
J		Airlines	Contacts
		Jet2 Jet2’s home airport is Leeds Bradford with hubs at Manchester and Belfast International. The airline flies from Belfast, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle to popular European cities including Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Budapest, Faro, Ibiza, Malaga, Murcia, Nice, Palma, Paris (Charles de Gaulle), Pisa, Prague, Tenerife, Valencia and Venice.	Website
L		Airlines	Contacts
		Lufthansa One of Europe’s largest airlines, and Star Alliance founding member, Lufthansa has kept up with the budget airlines by featuring regular seat sales across its comprehensive domestic, European and worldwide network. The airline, which took over Swiss International Air Lines last year, flies from the following UK and Irish airports: London Heathrow and London City, Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guernsey, Inverness, Jersey, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle, Teesside and Dublin.	Website
M		Airlines	Contacts
		Meridiana Meridiana was founded in 1963 by HH Prince Aga Khan to promote tourism to Sardinia. The airline connects 17 Italian airports with London Gatwick, Amsterdam, Paris CDG, Barcelona, Madrid and airports in Germany. From London Gatwick, Meridiana flies to Amsterdam, Florence and Olbia.	Website
		Monarch Scheduled Monarch flies to Alicante, Almeria, Barcelona, Faro, Gibraltar, Granada, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Lisbon, Malaga, Menorca, Majorca and Tenerife from a number of airports in the UK including London Gatwick and Luton, Manchester and Birmingham. Monarch Scheduled is part of the Monarch charter airline operation that has its bases at London Gatwick and Luton, Manchester, Birmingham and other regional airports. The charter airline is one of the UK's biggest and flies to Europe, the US, Caribbean, India and Africa.	Website
N		Airlines	Contacts
		Norwegian Norwegian flies from London Stansted to Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Tromso and Trondheim. Norwegian operates 55 routes – nine domestic (Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, Bodoe, Harstad/Narvik, Tromso, Alta and Kirkenes) and 46 international routes from cities in Norway around Europe.	Website
R		Airlines	Contacts
		Ryanair Established in 1991, Ryanair is now Europe's largest budget airline. The Irish airline will carry more than 35 million passengers this year. The airline has become successful by flying to out-of-town airports and cutting costs relentlessly (charging to put luggage in the hold of the aircraft for example). It operates 333 routes across 23 countries and has 12 bases including Glasgow, Shannon, Dublin, Liverpool, London Stansted and Luton, Milan, Brussels-Charleroi, Girona, Frankfurt-Hahn, Stockholm and Rome. Ryanair flies from London Luton, Stansted and Gatwick, and around the UK from East Midlands, Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Blackpool, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Humberside, Newquay, Birmingham, Doncaster Sheffield, Inverness, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and Durham Tees Valley. Ryanair flies from six airports in the Republic of Ireland – Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Kerry, Derry and Knock-Ireland West.	Website Telephone
S		Airlines	Contacts
		SkyEurope SkyEurope flies to 37 destinations in 19 countries from its bases in Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, Prague and Bratislava. From London Stansted, the airline flies to Bratislava, Budapest, Debrecan, Gliwice, Katowice, Kosice, Krakow, Poprad (Tatry), Vienna and Warsaw. SkyEurope also flies from Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham airports. From Dublin Airport, there are flights to Bratislava, Gliwice, Katowice, Kosice, Krakow and Vienna.	Website
		Sterling The no-friller flies within Scandinavia (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Billund and Gothenburg) and to popular European destinations including Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Bordeaux, Faro, Gran Canaria, Crete, Lanzarote, Malaga, Majorca and Tenerife. Sterling flies from London Gatwick to Billund and Copenhagen, Edinburgh to Copenhagen and Helsinki and Dublin to Stockholm.	Website
T		Airlines	Contacts
		Thomsonfly Thomsonfly.com is part of the world of TUI, one of the largest travel and tourism businesses in the world. The airline flies from from 26 UK airports (including Coventry, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield and Bournemouth) to more than 87 destinations in 37 countries. Destinations include Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Faro, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Jersey, Lyon, Malaga, Palma, Paris, Pisa, Prague, Salzburg, Shannon, Tenerife, Valencia and Venice.	Website
		Transavia Transavia (formerly known as Basiq Air) operates a large network of European routes (charter flights for tour operators and scheduled services for individual passengers) from its home bases at Amsterdam Schiphol and Rotterdam. Transavia is a member of the Air France-KLM Group. It flies from London Stansted to Rotterdam and from Glasgow to Amsterdam.	Website
V		Airlines	Contacts
		FlyVLM VLM Airlines started operations in 1993 with a service from Antwerp to London City Airport. Today VLM Airlines offers more flights from London City than any other carrier. There are daily services to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Luxembourg, Rotterdam, Manchester, Liverpool, and Jersey.	Website
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		Wizz Air Established in 2003, Wizz Air is a Polish/Hungarian airline focusing on the markets of Central Europe. Its main bases are in Katowice, Warsaw, Gdansk and Budapest. From these bases, the airline operates 32 scheduled routes to 17 European destinations. From London, the airline flies to Budapest, Warsaw, Katowice, Gdansk, Poznan, Zagreb, Split, Sofia, Bourgas, Ljubljana and Kaunas. There are also flights from Liverpool to Katowice, Warsaw, Gdansk and Kaunas as well as Glasgow to Gdansk and Warsaw. From Cork Airport in the Irish republic, there are flights to Katowice.	Website