easyJetholiday.com website

We see that easyjet has launched a new website, easyJetholiday.com that allows visitors to tie in booking an hotel at the same time as booking an easyJet flight. Not a bad idea you might think for the independent traveller who likes to sort out his own accomodation. Actually it's not a new idea for the low cost airlines, Ryanair and Jet2 for example have accomodation search and booking facilities on their websites and indeed easyJet have the same thing on their main site, so its not exactly a huge leap forwards. It seems you can book the flight and accomodation in one transaction on the new website and there is a map showing the location of the hotels which is quite good. The problem with this site and any other airline's site is that they only show the places that they fly to. The jetnav site gives the independent traveller the complete picture. The routes flown by all the airlines are shown, and hotels can be viewed and prices checked near to all airports, not just the ones served by individual airlines. Jetnav gives you hotels near the departure airport in the UK as well in case an overnight stop is necessary before flying out. Another plus point is that the airport location is shown on the jetnav map as well as the positions of the hotels enabling you to easily get a feel for how far the hotel is from the airport.
Jetnav is the place to start for any traveller wanting to book a flight or accomodation or both.

Open skies not profitable for everyone?

We reported in our main news article posted on the jetnav site yesterday that one of the new transatlantic services from Liverpool to New York JFK operated by FlyGlobespan is struggling to fill the planes. The number of weekly flights is being reduced, and we notice from the website that the proposed winter schedule that was listed has disappeared. Maybe Liverpool is not the airport to choose for a route from the UK to New York, but when the much vaunted open skies agreement kicks in properly and routes to the US are opened up, how many airlines flying how many routes and at what price will there eventually be?

Winter 07/08 Flights on sale now

Look out for the new winter flights that are appearing on the jetnav site almost daily now. Jet2 have released their winter schedule which includes new routes to the popular ski airports of Chambery and Geneva that cover the resorts in the Swiss and French Alps. UK departure airports for the Jet2 routes include Belfast, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and Newcastle, or look at the Chambery airport page for example to see who flys there and when the route starts. FlyGlobespan also offer winter sports flights, mainly from Edinburgh, and they are also offering a range of winter sun destinations such as Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Lanzarote Arrecife, Funchal Madeira, and further afield to places such as Sharm el Sheikh on the Red Sea and Cape Town in South Africa. easyJet are beginning to announce their winter routes also, they tend to roll out their programme airport by airport so keep checking the site which will be updated as and when the flights are announced