Even further afield, Air New Zealand is offering discounted fares to New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga and Cook islands from or via London Heathrow - bookings must take place no later than February 4th and travel must take place before December 2008. Fares to Wellington, Christchurch or Auckland, including two free domestic flights are £689 (ca. €940).

Book by February 3rd and fly by March 13th, Korean Air is offering Los Angelses to Tokyo flights as low as USD 858 (add USD 100 for flights departing on Friday, Saturday or Sunday). taxes and charges not included.

Research from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and Oxford Economics, shows that international tourist arrivals worldwide increased for the forth year in a row and by 6 percent in 2007, to 900 million visitors. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) international air traffic grew 9.3 percent year-over-year, up to and including November 2007. According to WTTC president Jean-Claude Baumgarten, the fastest growing tourist area is the Middle East.

EasyJet has started it winter clearance sale across its network on flights during February and March with flights at €20 and lower.

Starting June 5th, Norwegian will start a 3 times daily route between Oslo Gardermoen and Kristiansand, with tickets starting at 194 NOK (ca. €25 Euro), one-way including taxes.

Starting at just USD 129, Delta Airlines has great deals to Mexico from various destinations in the US. Book by January 31st and travel by mid-March. Fares are one way and exclude taxes and charges.

Lufthansa will start twice daily flights from Frankfurt to the Norwegian city of Bergen starting with the summer schedule.

Jet2 has announced an up to 50 per cent cut on fares for its service between London Gatwick and Newcastle, with fares starting at £9.99 (including taxes) between Newcastle and Gatwick, and in the opposite direction available from £19.99 (including taxes).

easyJet will add flights from their Geneva base to Ajaccio, Split (both from 29th June 2008) and Nantes (from 31st March), and from Basel to Cagliari (from 29th June). They will also begin a new schedule between Berlin (Schoenefeld) and Thessaloniki from 31st March.

Air Baltic are set to launch a new route from Billund to Riga starting May 1. The route will be operated twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays.

easyJet has announced that they will launch five new flights from March 31. The first two to be launched will fly from Geneva to Nantes and Berlin Schoenefeld to Thessaloniki, while routes from Geneva to Ajaccio and Split, and a route from Basel to Cagliari will debut on June 29.

Aer Arann will from May 1, launch two new routes from West Ireland to Amsterdam. The routes will travel from Waterford and Galway (via Waterford) to Amsterdam on a four-times a week basis.

Austrian Airlines will from April launch two new routes from Wien to Russia. The services will be operated three times weekly to the cities, Sochi and Nizhniy Novgorod. With the two new routes, Austrian now operates seven routes to Russia.

Ryanair are set to launch a new route between Shannon and Palma. The route will begin on March 14.

SkyEurope has extended its offer of tickets on sale to all their destinations. “Pay no taxes and no charges” is the offer, and save up to DKK 504 per return trip. Travel until March 18. Book until January 18.

TAP Portugal will add six extra daily services on the route between Copenhagen and Lisbon. Between June 1 and September 15, all weekdays except Wednesdays, will get an extra daily morning service on top of the already operated afternoon service.

FlyBe will launch a new route from London Gatwick to Aberdeen - a service that British Airways cancelled last year. The route will be operated three times a day, beginning on March 30. Fares are available from £ 24.99 (ca. € 37.5).

Ryanair will make Birmingham their 25th base, launching new routes to Barcelona, Biarritz, Billund, Bologna Forli, Bratislava, Bydgoszcz, Dinard, Gdansk, Olbia, Oporto, Oslo Torp, Perpignan, Pisa, Poitiers, Reus, Rzeszow, Stockholm Skavsta, Trapani and Trieste. Routes will start from April 1. To celebrate the new launches, Ryanair is offering a free bonus flight, if you take advantage of their new routes from the Birmingham base.

Aer Arann will launch a new summer route, starting May 17 and flying until September, from Cork to Brest. The flight will operate on Wednesday and Saturday, and one-way tickets start from € 69.

Aer Lingus has announced that they will stop their route between London Heathrow and Shannon, replacing it by a daily route between Belfast and London.

As a direct response to Aer Lingus’s decision to end the route between London Heathrow and Shannon, Ryanair has decided to increase their frequency on the same route. Ryanair operates flights from Shannon to its three London bases: Gatwick, Stansted and Luton. They will now operated seven daily flights on the three routes.

American Airlines has been voted as best international airline by reader of Travel Weekly infront of British Airways, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic. American Airlines has announced new routes for 2008 from Chicago to Moscow, Milan and Barcelona.

Virgin Atlantic won first prize in Wallpaper Awards for the fastest airport check-in for its business class passengers.

On June 1st Northwest Airlines begins nonstop service from Seattle to London Heathrow, bringing to six the number of nonstop European flights out of Seattle Tacoma. Air France flies to Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG), Lufthansa to Frankfurt (FRA), Northwest to Amsterdam, British Airways to London Heathrow and Scandinavian Airlines fields service to Copenhagen (CPH).

Irish carrier Aer Arann has launched a one million seat January sale, with many tickets available for as low as €20 (£25) one-way, including taxes. The offer includes airports such as Dublin, Cork, Cardiff. Luton, Waterford, Galway, Sligo, Manchester, Edinburgh, Kerry, Belfast City, Bristol, Leeds Bradford, and Newcastle.

Ryanair is extending its network at Bournemouth Airport. They will open five new routes on April 3 to Malaga, Munich, Nantes, Palma and Wroclaw. They will run during the summer schedule, until October 24. At the same time, they will increase the frequency on the service between Bournemouth and Glasgow. Bournemouth will now become Ryanairs 24th European base.

Starting March 17, FlyBe will launch a new route between Cardiff and Jersey. The route will run on Mondays and Fridays, as well as Saturdays between May 24 and September 27.

Delta Air Lines will resume their direct flights between Edinburgh and Atlanta. The route will be operated three times weekly between June 2 and June 30, and daily between July 1 and September 30.

British Airways is set to operate a new route between London Heathrow and Hyderabad, India. It is set to be launched on October 27, offering five weekly flights.

SkyEurope will launch new routes from their base in Vienna. Beginning in mid June, routes will go to Olbia and Catania.

Monarch Scheduled will from March 19 launch new routes from London Gatwick to Larnaca and Mahon.

Sterling has today launched its ninth and tenth international route from Billund. The routes opened to Prague and Sardinia.

bmibaby is having a “super bonanza” sale, includes tickets offered at up to 50 per cent discount. Fares are available to destinations all across Europe. Travel between January 14 and April 30. Book by midnight on Wednesday, January 9.

FlyBe has announced that they will suspend their flights from Manchester to Guernsey and Norwich for more than two months, because of the low passenger numbers, that makes it hard to justify economically and environmentally. The routes will be suspended from today till March 17 for the Norwich route, and March 19 for the Guernsey route.

easyJet has put 23 brand new routes on sale from their bases in London Gatwick and Manchester. Most of the new routes, are former GB Airways routes, which easyJet purchased at the end of 2007.
From Gatwick routes will go to Ajaccio, Arrecife, Bastia, Funchal, Gibraltar, Heraklion, Las Palmas, Malta, Montpellier, Mykonos, Nantes, Paphos, Rhodos and Tenerife (Sur), as well as routes to Dalaman (Turkey) and Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt).
From Manchester routes will go to Innsbruck, Heraklion, Malta, Paphos and Tenerife (Sur).

The Polish airline Jet Air has launched a new route from Copenhagen to Bydgoszcz, in the north of Poland. The route will be operated twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, while the flight will take approximately one and a half hour.

Virgin Atlantic is having a sale on flights around the world. Fares are available as return flights, and prices are including taxes and charges. Travel is for selected dates between January and May. Flights are available to destinations such as New York, Delhi, Havana and Johannesburg, with prices starting from £ 270 (ca. € 405). Book by January 22.

bmi will drop its daily flight between Inverness and London Heathrow come March 29, double the number of flights between London Heathrow and Moscow Domodedovo, as well as increase the frequency on the service between Manchester and London Heathrow.
In other news, bmi is having its “biggest sale ever” with flights available across Europe, and some destinations further away. The fares will be available from a total of 11 airports in the UK, and will offer destinations as Amsterdam, Cairo, Chicago, Venice and Palma. Some fares will be sold as one-ways, and others only offered as return tickets. Book by January 13.

SkyEurope is offering return tickets on sale to all their destinations. “Pay no taxes and no charges” is the offer, and save up to DKK 504 per return trip. Travel from January 8 to February 29. Book until January 13.

Atlas Blue is set to launch two new routes between Spain and Tangier, in Morocco. Starting March 30, routes will fly from Barcelona and Madrid.

Sterling has put their new 2008 summer routes on sale. The new routes are from Billund to Olbia and Prague, from Copenhagen to Naples, Olbia, Trieste, Varna and Venice Marco Polo, from Gothenburg Landvetter to Bourgas, and from Stockholm Arlanda to Bourgas and Naples.

Centralwings is set to launch three new routes from their base in Gdansk, starting April 1. The routes will go to Manchester, Girona and Amsterdam. Another route will be launched at the end of March, flying between Wroclaw and Rome Ciampino.

easyJet has decided to move their flights from Bucharest from one airport to the other. The flights from London Gatwick and Milan Malpensa will now arrive at Baneasa airport instead of Otopeni airport.

Brussels Airlines is offering summer fares to all their destinations across Europe and some new destinations in Africa. Round trips are available to Kenya, Uganda, Senegal and Gambia from € 499, while over 50.000 seats are on sale to European destinations from € 29.99. Travel to Africa from January 31 until June 20 (last return July 20). Travel in Europe from January 31 until August 31. Book before midnight on January 6.

Sterling is offering 50 % on all routes in their New Years sale. Tickets are limited, so hurry up and book them.

Meridiana, an Italian low-cost airline, will begin flying between London Gatwick and Olbia. Weekly services will begin from April 5.

Sterling has announced the launching of two new routes for the summer schedule in 2008. Routes will go from Edinburgh to Scandinavian capitals Copenhagen and Stockholm. Prices for one-way tickets will start at £ 44 (€ 66) to Stockholm and £ 74 (€ 111) to Copenhagen.

Virgin Atlantic is offering deals from London Heathrow to Tokyo. Travel between January 9, 2008 and February 29, and return tickets, including taxes and charges, will be available from £ 549 (€ 824). Book before 10 pm (GMT) on December 31.

Sterling is offering January getaway fares from Copenhagen. Travel to cities as Bruxelles, Paris and Nice from DKK 249, one-way including taxes and charges.

SkyEurope has launched a winter getaway sale, with all inclusive tickets available from DKK 199. Travel from January 7, 2008 to February 29. Book before January 1, 2008.

Zoom Airlines will launch two new routes from London Gatwick Airport to USA. Starting in May, twice-weekly flights will be available to Fort Lauderdale, with tickets beginning from € 599, including taxes and charges. Flights to San Diego will debut in June, also twice a week, with prices from € 675, including taxes and charges. Both routes will be the first links to Europe from their respective cities.

Lufthansa will from April 1, 2008 launch a new route between Frankfurt and Angola’s capital Luanda. The route will be Lufthansa’s 15th destination in Africa.

Ryanair has announced 50 new routes across Europe, all starting in 2008. The majority of the flights will be connections between destinations already served by the airline. Other destinations will be new, such as Augouleme and Constanta.
In order to mark the expansion in good manner, Ryanair is offering two million seats across all its European routes for £10/€10, one way including taxes and charges. Book before midnight on Thursday, December 20.

GB Airways will stop operating flights between London Gatwick and Fez from February 2008.

easyJet will begin flights from London (Gatwick) to Biarritz on July 4th 2008. Flights will operate four times weekly - Sunday, Moday, Wednesday and Friday with tickets starting at £17,99 (ca. €25) including taxes and charges.

Centralwings will begin twice weekly flights between the German city Dortmund and Szczecin in north west Poland, starting with their summer schedule on March 31st, 2008. Flights will operate on Mondays and Fridays and are currently available at €19,99 excluding taxes and charges. As mentioned in an earlier blog, Centralwings will also start flights from their Krakow base to Birmingham, Amsterdam and Hamburg (Fuhlsbuettel).

Sky Europe are expoanding their Prague base with flights to Malaga beginning on May 25th, 2008, to Zadar from June 6th and Varna from June 12th. The Malaga flight will operate on Sunday’s, Varna on Thursday’s and Sunday’s and Zadar on Tuesday and Saturday.

Book by 22:00 on New Years Eve and take advantage of a special offer from Virgin Atlantic to Japan with outbound travel between London Heathrow and Tokoyo between January 9th and February 29th, and fares starting at £549 return (€760) including taxes and charges.

Air France is to start a twice daily service between Shannon Airport in Ireland and Paris Charles De Gaulle, starting on February 4th, 2008.

Air Berlin is offering a number of flights for £24 (€33) one-way including taxes and charges, e.g. Hamburg to Manchester, Berlin to London Stansted, Stansted and Manchester to Paderborn/Lippstadt.

In other news Ryanair will offer summer flights from Cork to Carcassonne, operating three times weekly on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, from the end of May until the first week of September. To celebrate this route, Ryanair is putting 50,000 seats from Cork on sale for €10 one-way, including taxes.

Escape the pre-Christmas madness or the post-Christmas blues and save up to 40% off winter flights with Monarch Airlines (up to 19th Mar 08). Even flights over the Christmas and New Year period are included so get booking now before midnight Tuesday 18th December 07.

Book by Christmas Eve and travel until February 10th, Sterling are offering one way tickets between Copenhagen and Brussels, Dortmund, East Midlands, London, Aalborg, Stockholm and Amsterdam, one-way for 249 DKR (€33) including taxes.

In a similar deal, SkyEurope have put 150.000 seats on sale for €0 where you only pay taxes and charges. This offer ends midninght on December 16th and applies for flights from January 10th to March 18th, 2008.

Icelandair will start twice daily flights between London Heathrow and Reykjavik starting with its summer program. Icelandair also flies to Manchester and Glasgow in the UK and in all 25 US and European destinations.

German carrier Condor is offering flights starting at 19€ (including taxes and charges) from Munich to a number of Europe’s major cities in it’s winter schedule, including Istanbul, Rome and Barcelona.

Lufthansa will from next year offer two new routes from Germany to China. From March 31, 2008, a new service will be offered between Frankfurt and Nanjing. The route will be operated five times a week. The other new service will go from München to Shenyang via Seoul, three times a week starting June 8.

Northwest Airlines is set to launch three new routes from London Heathrow to North America. Services will open to Minneapolis/St. Paul (starting March 29, 2008), Detroit (May 1) and Seattle (June 1). All routes will be operated daily.

Ryanair will be stopping their service between London Stansted and Brussels Charleroi early next year. At the same time they will launch five new routes from Brussels Charleroi to Bergerac, Limoges, Perpignan, Porto and Zaragoza.
In other news, Ryanair is offering a bunch of flights to and from London Stansted from £ 5 (ca. € 8), including taces and charges. Travel between December 21 and March 12, 2008. Book before midnight, on December 13.

Staring March 13, 2008, bmi will start operating flight between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv. Flights will be operated daily, with return tickets starting at £ 243.60 (ca. € 365), including taxes and charges.
In other news, they have increased the frequency on their Manchester – Barbados route to three times per week.

Aer Lingus has set up a base at Belfast International Airport, where the first flights took off today (December 10). Flights to Amsterdam, Barcelona and Geneva began today, while services to Budapest, Faro, London Heathrow, Malaga, Nice and Rome will be beginning early next year.

Cimber Air will from January 14, 2008, add an extra morning flight from Billund to Copenhagen, and an extra evening flight going back to Billund. It will come at the expense of the Copenhagen – Basel service, which will lose one of its three daily services.

easyJet has announced five new routes starting next year. Routes will open between:
Luton and Pisa – daily flights starting March 30, 2008,
Glasgow and Faro – three weekly flights starting April 22, 2008,
Edinburgh and Nice – three weekly flights starting April 24, 2008,
Bristol and Olbia – three weekly flights starting April 26, 2008,
Bristol and Split – two weekly flights starting April 26, 2008.
One-way fares start from £ 21.99 (ca. € 33).

In other news, easyJet is selling late getaway deals, available in December and January. International and domestic flights are available from the UK. Prices start from £ 17.99 (ca. € 27).

SkyEurope is celebrating their best quarter financial result ever, by offering 150.000 “free” tickets, which means you only pay the taxes and charges. Travel between January 10, 2008 and March 18. Book before midnight on Monday, December 10.

Polish carrier Centralwings have put three new routes on sale from their Krakow base. They will begin flying from Krakow to Birmingham, Amsterdam and Hamburg (Fuhlsbuettel). Amsterdam flights will start on March 30th, operate Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday and fares start at €19,99. Birmingham flights will start on April 1st, operate on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and flights start at £14,99 (ca. €21). Hamburg flights start April 1st and will operate on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with flights starting at €19,99. also excluding taxes and charges. Fares are one-way and exclude taxes and charges.

Starting April 1st, Wizz Air will begin flying twice weekly from Durham Tees valley to Warsaw - flights will operate on Tuesday and Saturday and fares are currently available as cheap as £0,99 exclusing taxes (£22,29 including taxes). This marks the first service from Durham Tees Valley for Wizz Air.

easyJet will begin flying from Bristol to Biarritz (Sunday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday) starting in April 2008.

Wizz Air has announced that it will start new flights from Warsaw to Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood Airport, starting on April 1st, with 3 weekly flights on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (varying times). One-way tickets starting from £16.99 (€23).

EasyJet is offering skiers and snowboarders the possibility to check-in ski’s and snowboards for free on all bookings made before December 7th. Find the fare on momondo, and when transferred to the easyJet site and enter the promotional code SKI2008 when prompted to do so at stage 3 of the booking process and the discount will automatically be applied.

Starting today, December 5th, Air Baltic will, in line with a number of other low cost other carriers, charge passengers for checking in baggage. For each piece of baggage, economy class passengers will pay EUR 4.5 (when buying ticket on airBaltic.com) or EUR 7 (at the airport) on each flight segment.

In other news from Air Baltic, it will start flights from Vilnius to Charles de Gaulle airport offered three times a week – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Passengers will fly on Boeing 737-500 aircraft with flight duration of 2 hours and 45 minutes. Ticket prices will start at LTL 150 (€42) including airport fees and flights start on March 31st, 2008.

Air China has put flights from London Heathrow to Chinese destinations on sale. Travel before December 13, to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou, with return tickets available from € 669. No minimum stay applies, but two month is the maximum stay.

Ryanair is having a seat sale, with tickets available from € 7.5 one-way, including taxes and charges. A wide selection of routes is on offer, to destinations as Nice, Porto and Barcelona. Travel from December 14, 2007 to March 12, 2008, on Monday to Thursday and on Saturday. Blackout period runs from February 8, 2008 to February 18. Book before midnight (GMT) on Thursday, December 6.

Emirates has put a number of flights on sale, with return tickets to and from all around the world starting at € 564, including taxes and charges. Travel from airports around the UK to destinations as Dubai, Beijing, Bangkok and Sydney. Travel between January 1 and March 12, 2008. Minimum stay is three days, and the maximum stay is 12 month. Book by Monday, December 31.

As expected, SAS will keep operating the route between Copenhagen and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, in its summer schedule. Re-debuting in May 2008, the route will be operated every Monday and Friday through the summer.

easyJet has put a long list of destinations for ski-enthusiasts on sale from € 34.49. Travel to Basel, Grenoble, Geneva, Innsbruck, Ljubljana, Munich, Sofia, Turin and Zurich. Remember that the earlier you book, the better price you will get.

Flybe will add new flights from Jersey to Aberdeen and Doncaster from May 3, 2008. Tickets are available for booking.

Clickair is launching two new routes from their base in Barcelona to the Canary Islands. From January 23, 2008 they will begin operating flights to Arrecife, and from January 26 to Fuerteventura.

Finnair will, starting this Monday, up their number of flights from Helsinki to Bangkok to two per day. They will keep flying two-a-days until March 29, 2008. Come June 2008, Finnair will launch their 11th route to an Asian destination, Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

EasyJet will start a new three-time a week service from London Gatwick to the Greek city of Thessaloniki starting on January 30, with one-way tickets starting from £27.99 (€40). In addition, easyJet has also announced the launch of a new route from Newcastle to Murcia, starting on May 17 with flights operating on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday with one-way tickets starting from £23.99 (€34).

EasyJet will also launch daily flights from their Madrid base to the Moroccan city of Tangier starting February 1st 2008. Tickets start at €16 one-way including taxes.

Passengers travelling between London Heathrow and south-west London can now take advantage of the 111 service Heathrow - Kingston, which has been extended from December 1st and will run a half hourly journeys throughout the night, seven days a week.

From Birmingham to,
Milan Bergamo three times a week, with prices from €37.99 (Routes will be launched on April 1, 2008)
Madrid six times a week, with prices from €37.99 (from December 7)
Krakow three times a week, with prices from €32.99 (from February 12, 2008)

From Cardiff to,
Gdansk two times a week, with prices from €32.99 (from February 9, 2008)
Warsaw six times a week, with prices from €32.99 (from February 10, 2008)

From East Midlands to,
Nice three times a week, with prices from € 37.99 (from April 1, 2008)
Gdansk three times a week, with prices from €32.99 (from February 9, 2008)
Warsaw three times a week, with prices from €32.99 (from February 10, 2008)

All fares are including taxes and charges.

Air Southwest has put their flights to Chambéry for next winter (08/09) on sale. Starting December 20, 2008, Air Southwest will begin flying to the ski-destination from both Plymouth and Newquay.

Sterling is also launching a route to Chambéry, and other ski-destinations. From December 22, weekly Saturday services will be launched between Copenhagen and Chambéry, Genève and Salzburg. There will also be launched a route between Billund and Chambéry, debuting on January 19, 2008.

SkyEurope is offering 15 per cent off one-way fares in their “Make a Christmas Wish” sale. Travel from January 10 to March 18, 2008. Book before December 2.

In other news, they are offering Copenhagen - Prague one-way tickets, including taxes and charges from DKK 159.

WizzAir is adding a new aircraft at its Sofia base resulting in daily flight London, starting July 12th, instead of the current four flights a week. In addition WizzAir will start a new domestic flight to Varna, as well as flights to Milan-Bergamo, Valencia, Barcelona and Izmir (Turkey), and will increase frequencies on existing services to Rome and Dortmund

Zoom Airlines is to begin a new Belfast to Vancouver route this winter, as well as an extra weekly flight between London Gatwick and the Canadian destination, which will now opearte 3 times a week

In other news, Zoom is to double its flights from Gatwick to Montreal to two per week, and will continue to fly weekly from Glasgow and Manchester to Vancouver and Calgary.

FlyBe has completed its summer 2008 schedule, with more than seven million seats on sale across the UK and Europe. It includes four new routes, from Inverness to Birmingham, Exeter, Manchester and Southampton. The Birmingham route will begin on March 30 and operate daily, with fares beginning at £24.99 (€35) one-way, including taxes and charges. The daily Exeter route will start on May 8, starting at £32.99 (€45).

British Airways has announced plans to launch new routes from London City Airport (as mentioned in yesterday’s blog), London Heathrow and London Gatwick next year.

Flights from Heathrow to Malaga, and from Gatwick to Alicante, Faro, Gibraltar, Ibiza, Malaga, Palma and Tunis will start flying from March 30, 2008. The Heathrow to Malaga route will fly daily, as will the Gatwick to Alicante, Gibraltar, Palma and Ibiza (from June, 2008) routes. The Gatwick to Faro route will have 13 flights per week, Gatwick to Malaga will be twice daily and Gatwick to Tunis will be five times per week.

BA will suspend its flights from Gatwick to Aberdeen, Nice, Prague, Reykjavik and Split, and from London City to Milan Malpensa.

Centralwings are set to begin flying between Manchester and Poznan. Four times weekly flights will begin operating on March 30, 2008.

Due to higher demand on flights to China, SAS will increase the number of weekly routes on their Stockholm to Beijing service up to six. The changes will take place from March 2008.

Sterling has launched two different sales – a “Ski sale” and a “Christmas shopping sale”. They are offering one-way fares to Ski-destinations as Salzburg, Milano and Chambéry from DKK 549. The Christmas sale includes cheap one-way tickets to Big Cities as Stockholm, Berlin, Amsterdam and London from DKK 260.

bmi has launched a sale, with return tickets available from € 112.50, including taxes and charges. The offer runs until April 1, 2008. Booking must be made at least seven days in advance. Travel must be finished before April 9, and a Saturday night is required as minimum stay. Deals are available on routes to Glasgow, Zurich and Copenhagen, amongst others.

Delta Air Lines is offering fares from the UK to America, with prices starting at € 316.50 for a round-trip. Travel until March 20, 2008, stay at least one Saturday night, but no more than 12 month. Destinations on sale include Atlanta and New York.

Book by November 30th and Emirates have reduced fares to a num ber of international destinations across its network, for travel between Aopril 16th and June 30th.

Book by December 4th and Australian carrier Quantas has reduced prices to Australia and New Zealand on flights between April 16th and June 15th next year.

Starting May 17th, Wizz Air will operate flights from its base in Budapest to Barcelona-Girona in Spain. Flights will operate twice weekly, on Tuesday’s and Saturday’s leaving at 5am from Budapest and 7:50 from Girona.

Monarch is offering return tickets from € 53, including taxes, in their latest sale “festive fares”. Routes are on offer to sunny destinations as Alicante, Malaga and Lanzarote. Book by midnight (GMT) on November 22.

easyJet will be offering two new flights to Jersey. From March 31, 2008, daily flights will be available from Liverpool John Lennon Airport, while flights from Luton will debut on April 21, 2008, also operating daily. The routes will be easyJets first to the Island of Jersey.

With the ski season already begun, easyJet has put many ski-destinations on sale, with return tickets costing from € 49.47, including taxes and charges. Flights are available to Basel, Geneva, Grenoble, Innsbruck, Lyon, Munich, Turin, Venice and Zurich, wherefrom more than 20 ski resorts are accessible.

Iceland Air have announced a weekly flight from Reykjavik to Warsaw with the first flight on May 21st 2008. Flights can be searched via momondo and flights leave Reykjavik on Wednesdays at 14:35 and leave Warsaw at 21:30.

Centralwings have begun flights from their Katowice base to Hurghada in Egypt. They will fly weekly on this route until the middle of March 2008, leaving Hurghada at 15:50 and Katowice at 20:30 on Thursday’s.

Centralwings have started four time weekly flights to Dublin on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday which can be booked via Momondo.

Finally note that Centralwings offers a 20% discount for children.

Eastern Airways has just launched their first route to France. The service, which debuted Thursday November 15, flies from Southampton International Airport to Angers Loire. They will operate the flight three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Aer Lingus has announced three new routes for the upcoming summer season. New routes will open between Dublin and Ibiza, Belfast and Nice, and between Cork and Jersey. Introductory fares begin at € 19, one-way, excluding taxes and fares.

In other news, Aer Lingus has announced that flights from Dublin to Copenhagen, Helsinki, Gatwick, Bucharest and Lanzarote, and from Cork to Munich, now will be operated all year round. Also, the frequencies on routes from Dublin to Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Naples, Krakow, Orlando, Rome, San Francisco, Washington Dulles and Zurich, and from Cork to Malaga, Rome and Berlin will increase.

From March 29, 2008 Continental Airlines will launch twice-daily flights from both New York (Newark) and Houston to London Heathrow.

Wizz Air will launch three new routes from their base in Bucharest (Baneasa Airport). The new routes wil go to Milan Orio al Serio and Brussels Charleroi (both operated three times per week), and to Cluj-Napoca (operated four times-weekly).

Ryanair has just launched a new service from Doncaster Sheffield Airport to Alicante, Spain. The route is operated three times weekly.

In addition Syrian carrier, Syrian Air, with destinations throughout the world.

Norwegian Air Shuttle will start new routes to from Oslo to Ibiza, Kos, Rhodes, Venice, Rijeka (Croatia) and the northern Norwegian city of Kirkenes starting with their summer schedule next year. Tickets are already on sale.

Wizz Air have added two more flights from Cluj-Napoca in Romania bringing the total number of flights from this base to 8, including Luton, which started on November 13th. Flights to Valencia and Milan will commence on May 15th.

In other news, WizzAir have extended until Monday November 19th their offer of 800.000 one-way flights starting at €25, all inclusive.

Transavia have added more flights to the Paris (Orly) base. Starting next month, Transavia will fly Las Palmas (leaving Paris on Friday’s at 13:35 and las Palmas at 17:15) and Tenerife (leaving Paris Saturday evening at 21:40, returning on Sundays early morning) during the winter season.

Transavia will launch a new flight from their base in Paris Orly to Marrakech, Morocco. Flights will begin from March 28, 2008.

Lufthansa has announced that it will introduce a new three-time daily flight between Frankfurt and Bristol. Flights will begin on March 30, 2008, and prices will start from € 54, including taxes and charges.

SAS have announced that they will start flights to San Francisco and New Dehli, starting in October 2008. Tickets aren’t yet on sale, but watch this space for more news.

Monarch Airlines has put thousands of seats on sale for £13.99 one-way, including taxes to, amongst others, destinations such as Alicante, Almeria, Faro, Malaga and Murcia from Aberdeen, Birmingham, London Gatwick, London Luton and Manchester. This offer ends Thursday November 15th.

SkyEurope is giving tickets away on flights starting December 1st across many of its destinations. You pay only taxes and charges.

MyAir will from December 17 open a new route between Barcelona and Bari. The route will fly three times per week until the end of March 2008.

Bmibaby will launch two new routes from February 12, 2008. The routes will go from Birmingham to Krakow and from Glasgow International to Knock.

In other news, bmibaby is offering winter destinations on sale from € 27, one-way including taxes and charges. Travel from Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands and Manchester to places like Amsterdam, Geneva and Rome. Book by Tuesday, November 13.

bmibaby has announced new routes from Birmingham to Krakow in Poland and from Glasgow to Knock in Ireland. Birmingham to Krakow flights will begin on February 12, with tickets costing from £21.99 one-way and operating on Tuesday’s and Saturday’s. Flights between Glasgow and Knock, in western Ireland, will also begin on February 12, with tickets beginning at £18.99 one-way, including taxes and operate on Tuesday’s, Thursday’s and Sunday’s.

Ryanair continues its sale of seats and has started from its new Bristol base with flights to Budapest, Derry, Knock, Milan, Porto, Riga, Wroclaw, Bratislava, Dinard, Poznan, Rzeszow and Wroclaw.

Travellers to London Stansted can from the new year take advantage of 13 additional train services per week, especially early mornings. 40% of passengers getting to and from the airport use public transport.

German flag carrier Lufthansa is to increase its fuel surcharge for long-haul flights by €10 per leg on long-haul tickets sold from November 14th. The surchage per longhaul segment will now be €77 (£53.60).

In other news, Sterling has put 500.000 tickets on sale for prices under DKK 500. The offer counts flights to all of Sterling’s routes, which counts over 40 destinations in Europe. Travel until April 30, 2008. Book by November 14.

SkyEurope has launched its “Freezing Days – Hot Fares” sale, with 100.000 tickets available from DKK 199, all-inclusive. Travel between November 25 and March 18, 2008. SkyEurope operates four times weekly flights from Copenhagen to Vienna and Prague. Book by November 11.

Iceland Express will operate new summer routes next year. Routes will be established from Copenhagen to both Akureyri and Egilsstadir, and also from Reykjavik and Stockholm Arlanda and Oslo International.

Flynordic will also start operations to Bordeaux from Stockholm Arlanda. Starting April 3rd, flights will operate on Thursdays leaving Stockholm at 9:30 and returning from Bordeaux at 13:00 and Sundays leaving Stockholm at 7:00 returning at 9:30. Fares start at around €20 one way inclusinve taxes.

Croatia Airlines will start operations from Zagreb to Copenhagen in May 2008, operating on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Bmi has announced it will commence a 3 time weekly flight from London Heathrow to Dammam in Saudi Arabia. The routes will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays leaving Heathrow at 11.30 reaching Dammam at 22:35, returning the following day from Damman at 00:01 (and 00.50 on Sundays) arriving in London at 5:55 (6:45 on Sundays).

Icelandic Sterling will operate daily flights (except Saturday) between London Gatwick and Malmo in Sweden beginning on March 24, 2008 and operating until October 25th. Leaving Malmø at 19:15 and arriving at Gatwick 20:15, returning at 20:45 arriving in Malmø 23:50pm - except on Sundays where flights leave Malmø at 15:40 and Gatwick at 18:45. Flights can be booked already now with fares as low as €2 one way exclusive taxes (e.g. Gatwick to Malmø April 15th to 18th).

FlyNordic will launch two new routes from their base in Stockholm Arlanda. From March 30, 2008 a route will open to Tallinn, Estonia, being operated four times a week. The week after, the other route will open to Bordeaux, France.

EasyJet is celebrating New Year early with a 20 per cent sale on every seat, every route, everyday on all flights for travel from January 1 to March 19, 2008. Book before midnight on November 6, 2007.

SAS will add an extra daily flight, and that way double the number of daily flights, on the route between Copenhagen and Moscow, starting from March 2008.

easyJet has launched its four-times weekly schedule between Liverpool and the Portuguese capital Lisbon. The route will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with an 8:15/8:30 departure from Liverpool.

Austrian Airlines is offering “redticket” fares to Vienna from London Heathrow for travel starting November 15th and until March 31st, for £99 return including taxes and charges. Other destinations are added from April 1st including Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg and Klagenfurt. Austrian flies from London heathrow, London City and Manchester.

Virgin Atlantic has cut the fares to the Caribbean and America from its UK base - but bookings must be made by November 13th.

EasyJet has launched a new route to Krakow, in Poland, from Bournemouth. The route, that was launched yesterday (October 30), is being operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and prices start from € 37.99 one-way including taxes.

Air Southwest will add new routes from their bases in Newquay and Plymouth. The new routes will premiere on April 28, 2008. Newquay will get routes to Newcastle and Glasgow International, while Plymouth will get routes to Newcastle, Glasgow International, Dublin and Cork.

Iceland Express has announced the launch of five new summer 2008 routes. Beginning in the end of May 2008, routes will fly from Reykjavik to Basel, Eindhoven, Frankfurt Hahn, Gothenburg Landvetter, and Paris Charles de Gaulle.