British Airways launches year round services to Milan

BRITISH Airways is launching new year-round services to #Milan, Italy from two London airports in April. 

The new routes to Milan’s Linate Airport will start from London City Airport on April 24 and from Stansted Airport on April 29. 

There will be two flights a day on week days and one a day at weekends from London City and two a week from Stansted.

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National Express boosts Stansted connnections

NATIONAL EXPRESS is making it easier to travel to Stansted Airport with new routes adding almost 5,000 extra seats a day.

The new services will for the first time see the UK’s largest coach operator serve Stansted from new London stops at Paddington, Waterloo, and Southwark Additionally, stops at Golders Green, Marble Arch, Baker Street, and Victoria coach station will also all benefit from increased frequencies, with some journey times slashed by up to twenty minutes.

Fares start at £5 one-way.

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easyJet to launch summer Zakynthos flights

EASYJET has announced it will launch a new route to #Zakynthos (also known as Zante) from London Stansted Airport. It will operate weekly throughout the summer with the first flights commencing on May 28. 

The route is expected to be popular among leisure passengers; the airline is expecting to fly 5,400 passengers between the destinations annually.

Neil Slaven, commercial manager at easyJet, said: ‘Zakynthos is widely renowned for its great beaches which combined with small harbour towns make it a great summer holiday destination for families, but with plenty of vibrant night life available for those who seek it.

‘Our #Greek routes are proving extremely popular for those who wish to get some easy and affordable summer sun.’

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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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Ryanair to launch Gatwick-Belfast route

RYANAIR is to start a service from London Gatwick to Belfast. It will operate four times daily from March as part of the airline’s summer schedule.

Ryanair will also increase its Gatwick to Dublin service to seven times daily from March, offering 18 daily return services in total between London and Dublin, including Stansted.

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Germany’s top attractions

WHEN thousands of international visitors from 40 countries have voted online to decide Germany's Top 100 attractions, South-West #Germany took the No l spot, and had a total of five in the top 11. 

Here are three of them:

Europa-Park – Germany’s largest theme park – in Baden-Württemberg was voted the best attraction. Visitors in December will see thousands of Christmas trees throughout its 13 European-themed areas. 

With eight Michelin stars, the Black Forest village of Baiersbronn claims to be Germany's culinary capital.

Baden-Württemberg has 60 palaces, castles, and monasteries, many of which are become backdrops for traditional Christmas markets, one of the best of which is at Schloss Bruchsal.

There are bonfires, plus guides who lead tours of the 18th century palace. 

There are daily flights to Stuttgart Airport from Birmingham, London Heathrow, and Gatwick, and frequent flights from Manchester and London Stansted. 

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Pegasus expands Israel flights

PEGASUS AIRLINES has added Israel’s Eilat (Ovda) Airport to its expanding network, bringing its total number of destinations to 101.

Pegasus flights to Eilat, its second destination in #Israel after #Tel Aviv, are scheduled to start on December 1, with three weekly flights between London Gatwick and Stansted Airports and Ovda via Istanbul.

Fares including taxes and charges for the Ovda Airport route from London Stansted via Istanbul start from £72, and £74.66 from London Gatwick.

The route is now open for bookings via the airline’s website … 

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Southend Airport tops Which? Poll; Stansted & Luton tie for bottom place

LONDON SOUTHEND airport has been named the best in Britain by a Which? Passenger survey. The airport topped the poll for the third year running with a customer score of 86%, a 1% increase on the score it achieved last year.

The airport also achieved five-star ratings in four of the seven categories assessed – queues at bag drop, queues at security, passport control, and baggage re-claim.

Stansted and Luton tied at the bottom of the list with a 40% customer score.

The results were compiled following a survey completed by 11,226 Which? members this summer. Those polled were asked about their experiences of flying from a UK airport in the past year and were quizzed on queues at check-in, bag drop, airport security, baggage reclaim, seating, food outlets, and passport control.
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