The Travel Observatory: The Explosion Of Low Cost Airlines
In the last ten years low cost airline companies have completely turned our travel habits inside out. liligo.com has integrated these 70 companies into their flight search engine. Today,not all travellers are equal when faced with a "low cost" of
Online, December 17, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Stacking up low cost airlines
TOP 15 low cost airline companies (Number of routes available)
1-Ryanair 3087
2-Easyjet 1659
3-Air Berlin 1512
4-Vueling 699
5-Flybe 660
6-Wizz Air 530
7-Air Baltic 411
8-Meridiana 395
9-Germanwings 365
10-Pegasus Airlines 311
11-Condor 242
12-Jetairfly 201
13-Air Asia 171
14-FlyNiki 166
15-Transavia 165
TOP 10 airlines departing from the UK (Number of clicks)
1-Easyjet
2-Ryanair
3-Flybe
4-Wizz Air
5-Thomson Airways
6-Bmibaby
7-Aurigny.com
8-Norwegian Air
9-Jet2
10-Germanwings
Stacking up countries: Italy leads in low cost service
TOP 5 countries serving the most cities with low cost flights
1-Italy
2-Spain
3-Germany
4-France
5-United Kingdom
Italy is at the head of the pack with more than 2300 routes available. That's 50% more destination cities than the UK.
UK cities do not offer equal low cost service
TOP 10 UK cities (Number of cities accessible by low cost airlines)
1-London 648
2-Manchester 152
3-Birmingham 108
4-Bristol 73
5-Liverpool 65
6-Glasgow 61
7-Leeds 56
8-Edinburgh 54
9-Belfast 52
10-Nottingham 40
The most accessible European cities with low cost airlines
TOP 15 cities (Number of routes to the city)
1-London 452
2-Paris 421
3-Barcelona 316
4-Rome 298
5-Milan 252
6-Madrid 238
7-Berlin 195
8-Palma de Majorque 174
9-Brussels 171
10-Malaga 155
11-Bucharest 142
12-Amsterdam 130
13-Alicante 114
14-Vienna 112
15-Ibiza 110
Low cost flight prices
Route Minimum price (€)1 Average price (€) Airline company
London Paris
48 106 Easyjet
London Edinburgh
45 86 Easyjet
London Amsterdam
51 100 Easyjet
London Dublin
12 59 Ryanair
London Madrid
28 142 Ryanair
London Budapest
48 91 Wizz Air
Manchester Pisa 45 86 Ryanair
Manchester Geneva 55 70 Easyjet
Glasgow Belfast 54 68 Ryanair
Glasgow London 12 45 Ryanair
1 Flight prices (round trip) found on liligo.com from July-October in 2010
About liligo.com
liligo.com is the first travel search engine to integrate more than 250 sites and allows travellers to access travel solutions easily from all corners of the web, sorted and presented in a cohesive and objective manner. Available in 10 domains, liligo.com is a product of Findworks Technologies, an enterprise of 40 people.