British Airways to fly from Stansted

BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) says it will begin flying from Stansted Airport, establishing a presence at London's third airport for the first time and bringing it into direct competition with budget carrier Ryanair on leisure routes. 

Starting in May, BA will fly to Faro in Portugal, Ibiza, Malaga, and Majorca from £49 one way.

The full-service operator, which provides complimentary refreshments on flights, will compete directly on those routes with no-frills Ryanair, whose cheapest flights in May cost approximately £25 one way.

BA's move into secondary airport Stansted enters traditional budget carrier territory, a change from a wider trend of low cost airlines increasingly flying from a city's main airport and stealing market share from full-service airlines.

Stansted, 35 miles north of London, will become BA's fourth airport in the south east of England. It already flies from Heathrow, Gatwick, and London City airports.

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Rental car exit charge at Portugal’s airports

€15 (£11) charge for hire cars collected from mainland Portuguese airport car parks will be levied from March, says Economy Car Hire.

The Portuguese Airport Authority (ANA) will be enforcing the charge from March 1.

The charge will apply initially to mainland Portuguese airports including Lisbon, Oporto, and Faro. But it is understood the ANA is looking at applying it to rental cars collected from airport car parks on Madeira and the Azores.

At Faro Airport, the majority of holiday car hire suppliers work from the airport’s Car Park 4, with around 80% of all cars rented in the Algarve area collected from there.

Economy Car Hire managing director, Rory Sexton, said: ‘Holidaymakers have recently been landed with a new toll charge for using the A22 to cross the Algarve, and now many will have another €15 snatched from them by Portuguese airports.

‘Portugal relies heavily on tourism to prop up its ailing economy. If they want to encourage more Brits to travel there this summer, they've got a funny way of showing it. Portugal is a fabulous place to visit, but if it starts to get a reputation for squeezing tourists for their euros before they've even got out of the airport car park, holidaymakers will simply go elsewhere.’

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