Here’s the statement from their website :

Please be advised that SkyEurope has suspended its sales and operations immediately.

Those of you who have purchased flights with a credit card, please turn to your credit card issuing bank to seek refunds for unused portions of SkyEurope’s flights.

In case you have paid directly to SkyEurope in other means than credit card (e.g. bank transfer, cash), please be advised that a refund may not be possible.

If you have ordered your flight tickets via a travel agency or organizer, you should discuss the matter with them first.

If you are already at the destination or have rented a car through SkyEurope’s business partner, you may stay at the hotel and use the vehicle during the period originally agreed. You must, however, order a return flight from some other airline at your own expense.

You may also wish to contact your insurance provider to seek further guidance and support.

We regret for the inconvenience that have been caused to you.

In what must be a relief for rivals such as wizz air it is of course a personal tragedy for Sky Europe’s hard working staff, their investors and not least their passengers some of whom will now be stranded around Europe.

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“We’ve thus far had no complaints of any passengers who are annoyed by their cathedral-like sanctity of a Ryanair flight being besmirched by somebody on a mobile call“

Here is why I think Ryanair / Michael O’Leary should publish a blog :

• They are already the kings of free publicity. This would help cement their position and feed the flames.

• The blog would get hundreds of comments on every post, partly just because of who he is but also because each post would most likely be controversial and would incite comments from all over the world.

• As above but for inlinks from other blogs and websites. This will help the blog and the Ryanair website in search engines.

• The Ryanair blog could be used in the same way the Ryanair news section is now – to announce route changes, special offers and the more “political” manoeuvrings such as threatening to close bases if this and that doesn’t happen in Ryanair’s favour.

Airlines with successful blogs include Iceland Express and Southwest airlines. A lesser known example is the flyforbeans blog which doesn’t have many posts but has at least got articles from the most of the management of this long planned start up airline. Richard Branson also has a blog.

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Air France - http://twitter.com/AirFranceUK

Air New Zealand - http://twitter.com/flyairnz

Air Southwest - http://twitter.com/AirSouthwest

British Airways - http://twitter.com/British_Airways

Cathay Pacific - http://twitter.com/Cathay_Pacific

Thomas Cook - http://twitter.com/ThomasCookUK

KLM - http://twitter.com/klm

Iceland Express - http://twitter.com/icelandexpress

Jet2 - http://twitter.com/Jet2com

Qantas - http://twitter.com/qftravelinsider

Qatar Airways - http://twitter.com/qatarairways

SAS - http://twitter.com/SASGroup

Singapore Airlines - http://twitter.com/SQairlines

Swiss International - http://twitter.com/SwissAirLines

Transavia - http://twitter.com/transaviacom

Virgin Atlantic - http://twitter.com/VirginAtlantic

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Economy Class passengers now have a baggage allowance of 30kgs – up from 20kgs, the Business Class allowance has increased from 30kgs to 40kgs, and First Class from 40kgs to 50kgs.

These new, generous allowances, which are effective for all tickets issued on or after 4th May, have been implemented across the airline’s extensive global network of over 100 destinations.

Carriers such as British Airways have an Economy Class checked luggage allowance of 23kgs per passenger, whilst the Economy Class allowances on Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific are from 20kgs per passenger.

Nabil Sultan, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President Revenue Optimisation, said: “Emirates has moved to these new free baggage levels to further demonstrate our commitment to putting the passenger first. By offering travellers the flexibility to carry significantly more baggage we will be allowing them to take more gifts for family and friends or take advantage of the outstanding shopping in Dubai and across the extensive network of Emirates destinations.”

Gold and Silver Members of Skywards, Emirates frequent flyer programme are entitled to an additional baggage allowance of 16 kgs over their ticketed allowance for Gold members and additional 12 kgs for Silver. Codeshare passengers travelling on Emirates operated flights are also eligible for the revised free baggage allowances.

Emirates‘ regular rates will be applied to baggage in excess of these new allowances.

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Premium passenger numbers have plummetted in 2009 with airlines in the Asia region rumoured to be suffering as much as 25% declines in first and business class passenger numbers compared to last year with capacity stable. One analyst told airline-news that while passengers are trading down to economy the economic decline means that even overall load factors and holding up.

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It is hard to make direct comparisons because some airlines charge the credit card fee per booking while others charge per passenger or the most harsh per passenger, per sector. Ryanair has more than doubled it’s credit card charge in less than two years.

Air France (UK) – £4 per passenger per booking.

Air New Zealand – No credit card charge.

Air Southwest – £6.00/€8 per booking on credit card, £1.00/€1.30 on debit card.

bmi – £4 per person on credit card, no charge with debit cards.

British Airways- £4 per ticket on credit card, no debit card charge.

Brussels Airlines – No extra charge.

easyJet – 2.5%, minimum £3.50 on credit cards, £1.95 debit cards except Electron.

flythomascook – £2.50 per passenger, per sector for all except solo and Electron and Mastercard debit.

KLM (UK) -£4 credit card fee (all), zero debit card fee (all).

Jet2 – Solo and Electron free, credit cards 4.75% charge, min £4.99, debit cards 3% minimum £2.49.

Qantas – No extra charges.

Ryanair – £4.75 per passenger, per sector all cards except Electron.

Swiss International – No extra charges.

Virgin Atlantic – 1.3% credit card charge. No extra charge for debit card.

In all cases the charges stated above were taken from the UK version of the mentioned airline websites. Either for a test flight booking for travel in March or from the FAQ section of the website.

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That’s according to the results of  a superbrand survey which is decided by a panel of experts along with 1’500 individual business professionals that have either purchasing or managerial responsibility. The business brands are assessed on three separate criteria : quality, reliability and distinction. Below we have got the list of the airlines that appear in the survey. In brackets is the position of the brand in the overall survey.

1. VIRGIN ATLANTIC (25)

2. BRITISH AIRWAYS (36)

3. EMIRATES (68)

4. Singapore Airlines (78)

5. easyJet (308)

6. QATAR AIRWAYS (318)

7. BMI (413)

8. Swiss International (430)

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Virgin Atlantic chief executive Steve Ridgway said, “One day it’s Iberia, then it’s American, and now Qantas. The only strategy BA seems to have is to lock-up some of the busiest routes in the world, against the consumer interest”.

Virgin Atlantic, 49 percent owned by Singapore Airlines (SIA), but controlled by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, competes with British Airways (BA) on the transatlantic route. SIA competes with Qantas from/to Australia.

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A
ATA Airlines
Adam Air
Aero Airlines
Aero California
African Safari Airways
Air Bee
Air Corridor
Air Midwest
AirClass Airways
Airlines Tonga
Aladia
Aloha Airlines
Alpi Eagles
Angkor Airways
Ankair
B
Big Sky Airlines
Boston-Maine Airways
BritishJET
C
Cameroon Airlines
Carib Aviation
Champion Air
City Star Airlines
Club Air
Coast Air
D
Dalavia
DayJet
E
Eos Airlines
EuroManx
F
Far Eastern Air Transport
FlyNordic
FlySur
Focus Air Cargo
Freedom Air
Futura Gael
Futura International Airways
G
GB Airways
Galaxy Airlines (Japan)
Gemini Air Cargo
Girjet
H
Hansung Airlines
I
Interavia Airlines
J
Japan Asia Airways
K
Kato Airline
L
LTE International Airways
LagunAir
Landsflug
M
Mihin Lanka
MyTravel Airways
N
Nationwide Airlines
Nova Air
O
Oasis Hong Kong Airlines
Ocean Airlines
Omskavia
P
Peau Vava?u
S
Silverjet
Skybus Airlines
Skyway Airlines
Sterling Airlines
Swazi Express Airways
T
TESIS Aviation Enterprise
V
Vintage Props and Jets
X
XL Airways
Z
Zoom Airlines
Zoom Airlines Limited

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Airlines lost in 2008

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1 www.easyjet.com
2 www.nationalrail.co.uk
3 www.ryanair.com
4 www.britishairways.com
5 www.thomsonfly.com
6 www.thetrainline.com
7 www.bmibaby.com
8 www.flybe.com
9 www.rac.co.uk
10 www.jet2.com

Agencies are as follows:

1 www.expedia.co.uk
2 www.thomson.co.uk
3 www.lastminute.com
4 www.firstchoice.co.uk
5 www.travelsupermarket.com
6 www.thomascook.com
7 www.uk.mytravel.com
8 www.cheapflights.co.uk
9 www.teletextholidays.co.uk
10 www.ebookers.com

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Most visited airline sites

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