Budget Airline Blog

Paris is set to have a rival to the British airport Stanstead when it considers to build Champagne Airport

Ryanair and Wizz Air are among airlines interested in the possibility of turning an airfield in the Champagne region into a hub for low-cost carriers serving Paris, Christelle Riguet, a spokeswoman for Vatry airport, said Friday.

The airfield would provide easy access to Paris, just 39 minutes away from the nearby city of Reims by high-speed TGV rail. Local authorities have pledged to put in place bus service that could reach the Disneyland Paris theme park to the west.

Representatives from the Irish and Hungarian budget airlines attended a presentation about plans to make Paris Vatry, an international freight cargo airport located 100 miles east of Paris, into the French capital’s low-cost airport, Riguet said.

The two low-cost carriers “are interested,” Riguet said.

Flydubai, the cheap airline from the collapsing Middle East emirate is about to take off to India. This will be good news for all those Indian workers who have been dumped due to property and building crashed in Dubai.

Next month, the carrier owned by the Dubai Government will start flying to the northern cities of Lucknow, Coimbatore and Chandigarth, giving the airline an initial network of eight cities.

The destinations mark the first in a series of new routes to India. More than one million residents and labourers from India live in the Emirates. “India is a very important market,” said Ghaith al Ghaith, the chief executive of flydubai. “We are looking forward to a long and successful future serving the needs of customers between the two countries.”

A new budget air carrier will target smaller U.S. cities that it says are not being served by bigger airlines.

JetAmerica said Tuesday it will offer 34 nonstop passenger flights a week starting July 13 at Toledo, Ohio; South Bend, Ind.; Melbourne, Fla.; Newark, N.J.; Minneapolis and Lansing, Mich.