Low cost airline bmibaby is celebrating after performance analysis website, www.flightontime.info, has released statistics for quarter one of 2009, hailing bmibaby as the most punctual low cost carrier in the UK.
According to Flightontime.info, from January to March 2009, 86.8 per cent of bmibaby flights departed within 15 minutes of their scheduled departure time.
Flightontime.info uses data from the Civil Aviation Authority and shows that the average number of flights from low cost carriers departing within 15 minutes of the scheduled departure time was 77.8 per cent, so bmibaby is exceeding the industry standard.
Crawford Rix, managing director, bmibaby, said:
“At bmibaby we work extremely hard to ensure all our flights are on time for our passengers. Our results for quarter one of 2009 are excellent. This result coupled with our excellent customer service and fantastically low fares, is why passengers choose bmibaby.
“Our top result also blows apart the myth that in order to maintain a punctual operation, customers must suffer the stress of not being allocated a seat in advance, or have to pay to stand at the front of a queue. bmibaby customers always know in advance which seat they have been allocated which avoids the ‘crush and rush’ situation.”
Ryanair, the World’s favourite airline, today (4 Aug) released 1 million recession busting €1 seats (which include all taxes and charges) on sale for travel in October and November. These are available for booking on www.ryanair.com until midnight Thursday (6th August).
These €1 tickets exclude only optional fees for discretionary services, so any passenger paying by Visa Electron, travelling with hand luggage only and declining the convenience of priority boarding can fly on hundreds of Ryanair’s routes for a total one way fare of just €1.
Ryanair’s Daniel de Carvalho said:
“Today’s 1 million €1 seat sale will allow thousands of passengers to travel right across Europe in October and November for just €1. These seats can be booked until 24:00hrs Thursday 6th August, but are sure to be snapped up fast. So let the recession stay at home as you go for a sun tan! Book your seats today on www.ryanair.com, before they all sell out”.
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, announced it would open its 33rd base at Porto (Northern Portugal) with two based aircraft and four new routes (16 in total). Ryanair will offer 50 weekly return flights to/from Porto in an investment worth over $140 million.
Ryanair’s four new routes from Porto to Basel, Eindhoven, St Etienne and Tours from September and a doubling of flights to Paris Beauvais (to twice daily) will increase Ryanair’s traffic at Porto to 1.5 million passengers p.a. which will sustain 1,500 well paid local jobs.
Ryanair celebrated its new Porto base, two new aircraft, 16 routes and 1.5 million passengers by releasing 1 million €9 seats for travel across its European network for travel in late August, September and October which are available for booking on www.ryanair.com until midnight Sunday (5th July).
In Porto, Ryanair’s Michael Cawley said:
“Ryanair is delighted to announce Porto as our 33rd base and our first base in Portugal. Our four new routes from Porto go on sale today. With a total of 16 low fare routes from Porto, passengers can beat the recession by choosing Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges to exciting destinations all over Europe. Ryanair’s 1.5 million passengers will sustain 1,500 jobs locally in Porto.”
EXISTING ROUTES:
Barcelona (Girona); Birmingham; Bristol; Brussels (Charleroi); Frankfurt (Hahn); Liverpool; London (Stansted); Madrid; Marseille; Milan (Bergamo); Paris (Beauvais); Pisa
NEW ROUTES:
Basel; Eindhoven; St Etienne; Tours
The Heritage Av Liberdade Hotel, one of the five charm units from the Heritage Hoteis chain, has just been nominated by Tablet Hotels as the Best Value World’s Hotel. As it for now it leads the TOP 10 as Best Value Hotels category.
This unit also earned the distinction of the Best European Hotel in this international site www.tablethotels.com that evaluates boutique & luxury hotels worldwide. The Heritage Av Liberdade Hotel leads both categories in the last 12 months.
TabletHotels.com was founded in 2000 on the principle that people would prefer the unique and the substantial over the ornate and the ostentatious, if only they had a chance to be exposed to it.
This is one more recognition of the manifest satisfaction to our concept with relation to quality and price that we seek to infuse to all Lisbon Heritage Hotels” says Manuel Duarte Fernandes, the Managing Director of this 100% Portuguese chain.
The Heritage Av Liberdade Hotel is situated in this same noble with it’s name, where can be found 42 rooms distributed by seven floors. This unit from the Heritage Hotels chain also has the Thé Bar, a Fitness Room with a Jet Pool and a Library. The Hotel was totally restored, a project entrusted to the Architect Miguel Câncio Martins, in which the original XVIII century draft was kept along with some elements from the past, all together in a modern and functional decoration.
Besides the most recent Heritage Av Liberdade Hotel, the Hoteis Heritage Lisboa consist in As Janelas Verdes, a XVII century house with a library overlooking the Tagus River, next to Ancient Art Museum; the Hotel Britania, found in a quiet street just of Lisbon’s main avenue, in a 40’s building design by the famous architect Cassiano Branco and recently renovated into its original Art Deco style; The Hotel Lisboa Plaza situated next to Avenida da Liberdade and property of the same family since its construction in 1953; and Solar Do Castelo, situated within the walls of São Jorge Castle, a reconstructed 1765’s Palace.
