Sunday, May 18, 2008

Cheap Flights / Charters

I have been recently looking for cheap flights in Europe (especially the ones flying to Turkey). Here is a brief summary about the companies that I found:
  • Pegasus Airlines: It is a Turkish charter company with cheap prices and high on-time take-off rate. It flies to the majority of European countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy etc.). I flew with Pegasus within Turkey and had no problems.
  • SunExpress: Another Turkish flight company. I haven't used this company but never heard of a problem. However its prices are slightly higher than Pegasus.
  • Myair: An Italian charter company flying all around Europe with cheap prices. I flew with this company several times and had no problems but I heard some complains about high number of delays.
  • Germanwings: Germanwings is one of the first companies started charter flight business in Europe. It has a good coverage in Europe and good prices. I used it only once and had no problems but apparently there is no much of improvement in the coverage despite being old.
  • Ryanair: A British charter company leads the way in charter style flight business in Europe. This company is one of the first companies coming to the mind when talking about the cheap flights. It has so many destinations with really good offers. I will test it in two weeks.
Besides the above ones, there are the following well-known flight companies: Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, KLM, Swiss Airlines, Alitalia, British Airways, Air France, Japan Airlines and United Airlines.