Travel News for Flyers in February 2008

• SkyEurope launches Istanbul to Bratislava service (29/02/08)
• Ryanair announce 27th European base at Edinburgh (29/02/08)
• Lufthansa sees increase in passengers for January (28/02/08)
• Increased flights between Stansted and Manchester (28/02/08)
• Centralwings flies into trouble (28/02/08)
• Record number of travellers use Luton Airport (27/02/08)
• bmibaby adds new routes from Manchester (26/02/08)
• Iceland to become new destination for germanwings (26/02/08)
• Ryanair asks why its not included in the delayed baggage top league (25/02/08)
• Virgin Atlantic does test flight with biofuel in jumbo jet (25/02/08)
• League of airlines with worst baggage delays (24/02/08)
• A380 superjumbo has its first glitch and passengers stranded (24/02/08)
• British Airways pilots vote to strike (23/02/08)
• British Airways stops London City to Milan flights (23/02/08)
• British Airways increase fuel surcharges (22/02/08)
• BAA luggage system fails at Heathrow Airport (21/02/08)
• Wizzair doubles cost of checking in luggage (21/02/08)
• Manchester to Murcia in Spain with Monarch (20/02/08)
• Over half million people travelled through Birmingham Airport in January (20/02/08)
• Wizz Air carries 10 millionth passenger (19/02/08)
• First no clothes flights fully booked by nudists (19/02/08)
• No more lost luggage as BAA start bag tracking trial (18/02/08)
• London City Airport receives Best UK Airport award (18/02/08)
• Silverjet improves valet parking at Luton Airport (18/02/08)
• Smartwings to start new route from Prague to Valencia (17/02/08)
• London to Sierra Leone and Kazakhstan (17/02/08)
• 24 hour strikes affect flights to and from Greece (17/02/08)
• Aer Lingus launch new flights from Belfast to Paris (16/02/08)
• easyJet add two new routes from Geneva (16/02/08)
• Stansted to Dubai with EOS Airlines (16/02/08)
• Flybe announces new route from Jersey to Nice in French Riviera (15/02/08)
• Ryanair invests in new base at Reus in Spain (15/02/08)
• Birmingham to Toulouse to restart by Flybe (15/02/08)
• bmibaby starts new services to Poland (14/02/08)
• Vueling to fly from Madrid to Canaries (14/02/08)
• Vueling to become first cheap flight airline to offer flights from Spain to Canaries (13/02/08)
• Airbus forecast 24 000 more planes in sky by 2026 (13/02/08)
• Bag tax earns easyJet bags of money (12/02/08)
• easyJet to fly from East Midlands to Palma (12/02/08)
• British Airways considers long haul flights from Gatwick (11/02/08)
• London to Doha in India with Qatar Airways (11/02/08)
• Ryanair website to be offline February 16th to 18th (11/02/08)
• Manchester to Krakow in Poland with Polands LOT Airlines (10/02/08)
• London to Athens in Greece flights with Aegean Airlines (10/02/08)
• Silverjet celebrates its first birthday (9/02/08)
• easyJet officially open their 19th base at Paris Charles de Gaulle (9/02/08)
• Canberra to Sydney service started by Virgin Blue and Capital Jet (8/02/08)
• Monarch reaches its millionth passenger on the Gatwick to Malaga route (8/02/08)
• Cardiff Airport predicts a bright future (7/02/08)
• Delta Airlines to offer lie flat seats in busness class (7/02/08)
• Spanish budget airlines at proverbial crossroads (6/02/08)
• Biometric security trials at Heathrow Airport (6/02/08)
• SAS improve economy class on long haul flights (5/02/08)
• Germanwings eurowings and TUIfly to merge (5/02/08)
• Additional flights to Europe with Eastern Airways (4/02/08)
• centralwings to start flying to Lisbon and Amsterdam from Polish cities (4/02/08)
• easyJet completes acquisition of GB Airways (3/02/08)
• British Airways to launch business class only flights from London to New York (3/02/08)
• bmibaby sale with flights from 18 pounds (2/02/08)
• Airbus A380 superjumbo to fly from London to Singapore (1/02/08)
• SkyEurope fly to Alicante from Italy and Czech Republic (1/02/08)