Monday, 12 May 2008

Airline Route Maps

I was recently offered the chance to stay in France with friends in a 'Gite' for a week, it just remained for me to find cheap flights for the family... easier said than done... A few years ago, cheap flights were available for all sorts of destinations (I flew to Edinburgh for £1 once), but the cheap flights have got a little more expensive and a little more difficult to find. If you know your destination, then you need to find out which airlines fly to the nearest airport(s), and which airports you can fly from.
You can do this by trawling the internet for flight details from each airport, or recently I have discovered the Budget Airline Route Map. This site has a fantastic European Map with all destination airports marked as red dots, hover over a destination and the airports that fly to this destination show up as yellow... This is a great way of quickly working out the most efficient route to take, you could even work out inter-connecting routes very quickly with this system.
Clicking on an airport takes you to a page dedicated to that specific airport, giving links to the companies that fly there, and a list of the airports you can fly from.
Next time I need to plan a European holiday, I will start with the Low Cost Airline Guide...

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