Budget Airline Blog

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is to fund Australian budget airline Virgin Blue through its financial woes. The carrier has admitted to fears of full-year losses

The Virgin Group, who own 25.5 per cent of Virgin Blue, has committed to buying 305 million further shares in the company. Branson aims to inject £40m to help out the carrier, which is predicting losses of over £80m for this financial year.

Whilst Virgin Blue, Australia’s second-largest airline, continues to make profits from its short-haul flights, where their market share has increased to 30 per cent, their long-haul wing, V Australia has been hit hard by the recession, making massive losses.

In an attempt to raise capital, the airline has also released heavily discounted shares, raising $133 million (AUD) so far from institutional investors, with an additional $98 million expected from retail investors.

We have experienced overcrowding on trains and buses but now face the horror of it happening on planes.  A famous Irish Airline wants to introduce a standing area on planes to fill up more space and save the air carrier 20 per cent in costs and allow it to fit 30 per cent more passengers on its planes.

Allocation on arrival, you will be given a stool and an attached seat belt, nice to see  that they are taking their safety seriously- not!

Discussion are in the making for the new planes to install these standing areas.  They are even considering asking the passengers to even carry their own luggage on board and the worst to come, pay for toilet use when on board the plane.

Whatever ever next, they might even ask the customers to fly the plane.

A recent survey taken on budget using airline customers have proved that cheap does not always mean cheerful.  Budget Airlines are failing to provide the measured expectations.

The cheaper airlines carry more bad mannered and loud customers. Cramped seats, delayed flights, long check in queues, hidden charges such as extra baggage costs, screaming children and rude and unhelpful staff are the delights we now face with these budget carriers.

Is  taking the budget airlines verses scheduled ones actually now worth taking the difference?

Budget airlines swept through the UK and Europe in the 1990s and have today a firm footing in the business of flying people on short haul flights.

Initially you paid a set amount in the expectation that you did not have to pay more, apart from some snacks on the place. Now you have to pay for everything and there is even more bad news for the big boned who like to travel with more than hand luggage.

You are the new target for budget airlines because of three things…

1. You are more likely to snack and therefore buy food on board

2. You will have to pay for two seats if you cannot fit your backside in a normal seat

3. unless you can cram all your travel gear into hand luggage you will be charged more!

So there we have it. If you are fat and carry a lot of luggage then the message is clear – budget airlines need you!

Many of the World’s budget airlines are considering charging passengers extra if they want to sit in the seats that give more leg room.

The seats are the ones at the front of the sections and for the emergency exit seats too.

So is the going to be a penalty for tall people? Should the same penalty not go to fat people that take up too much room?

Although we cannot state the name of the airline we can suggest that their planes are often coloured Orange.

Yes this budget airline is really struggling with the fuel prices and are soon going to announce  a majoe change to their business model.

Come back soon for more info!

First a little history…

I wanted to find on the Internet a definitive list of all the worlds budget airlines which was up-to-date and nicely categorised by country.

Well, I couldn’t find it. So I decided to write it so everyone can benefit from the huge savings available from flying all over the world with budget airlines.

This blog will give you a central point where you can find all the most recent news surrounding every budget airline.