Budget Travel - New routes for NE(SkyEurope)

From today local news : SkyEurope is planning to open new interesting routes in 2008 from their BTS (Bratislava, 60km from Wien) home-base to :
- Tel Aviv :confused:
- Istanbul
- Moscow @:-)^.

What do you think about these routes for a LCC?

From today local news : SkyEurope is planning to open new interesting routes in 2008 from their BTS (Bratislava, 60km from Wien) home-base to :
- Tel Aviv :confused:
- Istanbul
- Moscow @:-)^.

What do you think about these routes for a LCC?

Any idea which airport in Moscow?

Great airline. One of the best LCC's. I keep waiting for them to add BWI!

Great airline. One of the best LCC's. I keep waiting for them to add BWI!Well, uh, ... yeah, me too.

I've flown them a couple of times and was just fine, but I wasn't aware they had any plans to fly across the pond. Might be a stretch, since their entire fleet is 737's. :)

Might be a stretch, since their entire fleet is 737's. :)

You could always do it the way they did it waaaay back when and fly BTS-KEF-BWI or something along those lines...

Is this the first LCC into TLV?

well they have all these free planes now since closing down shop at KRK and BUD,
I flew them twice this summer, no problems, efficient service, a bit tight on the legroom but assigned seating

From today local news : SkyEurope is planning to open new interesting routes in 2008 from their BTS (Bratislava, 60km from Wien) home-base to :
- Tel Aviv :confused:
- Istanbul
- Moscow @:-)^.

What do you think about these routes for a LCC?

What's there to think, except that this is excellent news? :)

It just extends the far-off destinations to which you can easily and cheaply get, presuming you can get a cheap enough ticket to Europe in the first place.

Any idea which airport in Moscow?
NE fly to main airports. So my bet is : DME Domodedovo.

From local guys there are infos about plans of expanding to the East {Ukraine,Russia} and the Balkan.
So I am awaiting routes to
Kiev,Lvov, St.Petersburg, Rostov
Moscow (flight permit ready if I have the right infos with Aeroflot as code-share partner {20seats/flight reserved for Aeroflot})
Odessa, Sochi as season flight
from Balkan to Western Europe (CDG,AMS,BCN,STN,DUB)
Croatian city as next base.

Tel Aviv announce was a small surprise for me because BTS-TLV route is already operated by AirSlovakia (GM) with B-733 once weekly with low load factor (<70%)

BWI is in plan for "SkyEurope-X" flight :D

Is this the first LCC into TLV?
Thomsonfly/TUIfly and Air Baltic go to TLV currently. Israir also resembles an LCC somewhat and flies to a number of European destinations from TLV.

Well, uh, ... yeah, me too.

I've flown them a couple of times and was just fine, but I wasn't aware they had any plans to fly across the pond. Might be a stretch, since their entire fleet is 737's. :)

I haven't heard anything about Sky Europe going across the pond, and would not expect them to be looking in that direction. Spanair did for a while, but stopped.

The one that has stated that it is gearing up to do so is Ryan Air.

Moscow (flight permit ready if I have the right infos with Aeroflot as code-share partner {20seats/flight reserved for Aeroflot})


I bet CSA will be really pleased by this development. :eek:

when do you think they might post prices and flights from Dubrovnik to Prague for next spring and summer??