Low-cost airfare. More expenses to take into account

So you bought your perfect low-budget airfare. Everything is the way it should – the timing, the destination and the price. You started packing your stuff but was only when you took a closer look at the ticket that it transpired that you were not going to London Heathrow, as you had assumed you would, but to London Stansted.

For those of you who have never been to London and wonder what it implies – well a difference of some 37.5 miles or 60.3 km. And, we would have forgotten, quite a few quid.

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We keep tabs on what is happening in the aviation world and as usually, we start the week with some fresh updates about new routes and services from both low-cost airlines and traditional airlines.

We begin with the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizzair which, it seems, will finally set up its long-announced operating base in Belgrade in April. Wizzair has also announced it would launch routes Belgrade – Rome, Belgrade – Malmo, Belgrade Stockholm-Skavsta, Belgrade – Eindhoven and Belgrade – Munich-Memmingen.

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We begin this week with an update on what is new the schedules of various carriers worldwide – both low-cost airlines and traditional carriers – so that you are well-informed.

We start off with the Luton-based easyJet and its new route from London Gatwick to Zagreb. The new route will connect London and the Croatian capitol five times a week. Fares start at £25.99 one-way. There is more news from easyJet – another new route will carry all Sun-loving travellers from Belfast to Malta twice a week. Malta will thereby become the carrier’s 25^th destination available from Belfast. The cheapest February fare at the time of writing is £55.99.

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Have you planned a trip with a stopover in Airport Venice Treviso or maybe you head straight to Venice and that is where you are supposed to land? If the date of your trip is sometime between June 01 and September 30, 2011, you may want to know that the airport is going to be temporarily closed.

The reason for closing the airport is the necessity of performing maintenance work and installing devices allowing planes to land even in unfavourable weather conditions such as thick fog.

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At the time of writing Christmas is just a few days away and thousands of thousands of travellers are heading home to celebrate this special time. Are you one of them? Will you by any chance travell with the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air? Let’s find out how many of your possessions you can carry with you.

Carry-on baggage

When it comes to hand-baggage, Wizzair allows its passengers to carry one piece of baggage with the maximum dimensions 55x40x20 and not exceeding 10 kilograms. Apart from that, one is permitted to carry on board the following items:

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Low cost airline Ryanair, known mainly thanks to its low fares and many weird fees proposals, grows steadily. The airline transported 7.68 million passengers in August. This means this low cost carrier transported more passengers than Air France – KLM.

Europe’s largest low-cost airline (in millions of people transported in 2009) are Ryanair with 66.5, easyJet with 45.2, Air Berlin 27.9, Norwegian 10.7, Vueling 8.2, WizzAir 7.8 and GermanWings 7.2.

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Slawomir Budziak Airfare Deals, Airlines, WizzAir

Low cost airline WizzAir announced at a press conference in Budapest that it would launch new routes and increase frequencies of a number of existing services by adding a fourth Airbus A320 aircraft to its Budapest base, starting on July 24, 2010.

London Luton will be served three times a day versus the current double daily operation. Services from Budapest to Brussels Charleroi and Eindhoven will be increased to 11 times a week from daily, each. Frequencies to Malmo-Copenhagen, Turku and Bourgas will also be increased. WizzAir will re-start the Budapest – Frankfurt Hahn route three times a week and launch Budapest-Bari twice a week initially.

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Low cost airline WizzAir changes its baggage policy rules. After April 1, WizzAir eliminates the excess weight fees and makes booking  easier. The airline will apply a single fee for a piece of checked-in baggage regardless of the weight (up to 32 kg per baggage). The fee will be €15 per bag if purchased at the time of booking and €30 if paid at the airport.

Carry on baggage policy doesn’t change. However, WizzAir announced that it would be strictly applying a €60 fee for oversized/overweight hand luggage at the gate and these bags will have to be checked in. For more details continue to wizzair.com.

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Low cost airline WizzAir announced that it would launch a new route from Gdansk to Tampere taking the total number of routes from the capital of the Pomerania region to 19. The new flights will start on June 12 and will initially operate twice a week.

Airline tickets are already on sale on wizzair.com with fares starting from as low as €17,49 one way all inclusive. Tampere is the airline’s second destination to Finland after Turku. For more details continue to wizzair.com.

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