The term cheap airline (also short cheap airline, cheap flier, English Low Cost carrier, NO frills airline) is used for airlines, which offer line flights for prices far below average.

Characteristic

The characteristics from cheap airlines are:

• extreme cheap offers, with which advertisement is made ("“99 cent"”), applies only when early reservation and/or only to a limited, relatively small contingent.
• only one passenger class, no Business and Economy Class.
• low free luggage quantities. Multi-luggage is transported against surcharge
• only one type of aircraft in the employment, saves repair and training costs (for example Ryanair Boeing 737-Serie, Easyjet with Boeing 737 and airbus A319)
• more intensive fleet use (DAILY so mentioned utilisation, for example with Easyjet approx. 10.7 hours per day opposite line flier British Airways only 7.1 hours)
• short soil service lives (Turnaround usually 25 minutes between two flight events)
• free seat choice on board the airplane.
• only direct flights, no transfers
• inexpensive secondary airports without large traffic, small forwarding fees.
• no free on-board service. Beverages and Snacks in the sales (NO frills concept) or the expenditure of the food supply is strictly reglementiert (usually maximally 1 beverage per flight passenger).
• Personal: according to the legal minimum crew (crew Complement so mentioned), high flexibility (for example Boarding by flight companions), low salaries.
• Cost savings by direct sale, in particular by call centers and Internet, check in automats.
• little administrative staff (for example Germanwings in Cologne: about 50 coworkers).

Emergence & development

The model of the cheap airlines originates from the USA and by Southwest Airlines 1971 in the life was called there. Ryanair took over the model 1991, and expands since 1995 European-wide. 1994 if only approximately 3 million passengers flew Low Cost, most with Ryanair, then there was already 1999 about 17.5 of million passengers. 1995 decided British Airways the establishment of its own Low Cost section with the name "“GO"”, which took up 1998 the enterprise starting from the Londoner airport Stansted. In the same year Easyjet took up the flying operation starting from London Luton. KLM followed the example British Airways in the year 2000 in that it the Low Cost airline "“Buzz"” to the market brought. In Europe EasyJet and Ryanair belong to the most successful cheap airlines, which could increase their passenger numbers with the Deregulierung in the air traffic enormously. Since Ryanair opened 2002 100 km in February far away from Frankfurt/Main with Frankfurt cock a basis and in the autumn 2002 with Germanwings and are started HLX two German cheap airlines of the airport Cologne Bonn, the cheap fliers boomen also in Germany.

Interesting

The world largest cheap airlines:

In the year 2004 and present fleet existence carried passengers

• Southwest Airlines, the USA: 70,9 million/432 Boeing 737
• Ryanair, Ireland: 26,583 million/86 Boeing 737
• EasyJet, England: 25,716 million/64 Boeing 737 and 32 airbus A319

The word "“cheap airline"” found already in the year 2004 the way into the Duden - in the 23. Edition is explained as follows the word: "„An airline, which offers too much flights to low prices "“. The Duden differentiates thereby between the correct expression "“cheap airline"” and the colloquial term "“cheap flier"”.

Problems around the cheap airlines

Quick tasks

There are again and again cases of new cheap airlines, which flew only short time and after few months, partly even after few days the enterprise adjust must. In Germany the most well-known case was the flop of Berlin jet, but in Europe there are still further cases.

Irish short time flier JetGreen Airways

So the Irish enterprise JetGreen Airways had to reset the flying operation after only one week in May 2004. The 40,000 booked tickets could not be refunded back. After medium reports more than 400 aircraft passengers sat to 12. May 2004 in the Spanish destinations of the society and Alicante firmly. The society had required inclusive taxes and fees for its flights of Dublin into the Spanish destinations of entrance prices of 1 "€. Although the society operated at the beginning of only with an airplane, Boeing 757, negotiations with further Mediterranean goals were under way after firm names. After the end of JetGreen Airways criticized politicians, travel agencies and other airlines the Irish aviation authority because of the Lizenzvergabe.

The flop Berlin jet

2002 created the three entrepreneurs of olive A. Heinz, Torsten makes (before operators of an Internet agency) and Klaus Marzinamit (ex Lufthansa pilot) the BJ air passage GmbH, which offered inexpensive flights from to Berlin jet under the designation to Munich, Paris, Milan and Nice. Since Berlin jet had no own flight license, airplanes should be chartered completely with crew.

For September 2002 flights for 9 were sold for the first time "€ plus taxes, which were however never accomplished, since there were allegedly problems with the partner Iberia. On 10 February 2003 Berlin jet started for the first time with MD airlines , had however the flights for financial reasons on 20 February 2003 again to already give up. Due to the following insolvency of the enterprise the costs of, however the not taken place flights already booked were not refunded.

Further Pleiten of cheap airlines

• V Bird (flew from 23 October 2003 by 8 October 2004 with the basis air haven Duesseldorf Weeze, Niederrhein)
• Volareweb.com: The cheap flight daughter of the Italian volume acres announced bankruptcy on 23 November 2004. Already on 30 October 2004 the society had at short notice stopped the flights from Germany to Italy. Up-to-date still a future of volume acres one discusses and for investors one searches. In June 2005 the flying operation was again taken up of volume acres. The route network contains mainly connections in Italy and few distances abroad European.

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Meanwhile there are reestablishments of cheap fliers on the European market hardly still. The number is removing actually. As examples of the consolidation in the cheap flier market the insolvencies specified above can be called. Further fusions are added: In October 2002 easyjet and Go fused to the new larger easyjet. In January 2003 Ryanair Buzz bought up, also under KLM UK admits been. Since April 2005 delivered gexx the majority of his distances to dba. In response numerous airplanes were leased by the gexx owner Germania to dba in Wet leasing.

This trend will in all probability continue. Meanwhile management consultants assume growth in the industry will amount to until 2010 only approx. 13% per year. In the years before 2005 still ratios could be achieved of 50%. Just as Michael O'Leary publicises, now also the management consultant McKinsey assumes only three or four cheap airlines will survive in the long term. McKinsey calls thereby in particular Ryanair, easyJet and air Berlin.

Cheap airlines in Europe

See list of the European cheap airlines.

Cheap airlines in other countries

Asia:

• Air Asia
• Jet star Asia Airways
• Jump airlines
• Tiger Airways

Australia and New Zealand:

• Freedom air
• Jet star
• OzJet
• Virgin Blue

Combined Arab emirates:

• Air Arabia

Oman, Bahrain and combined Arab emirates:

• Gulf air Traveller

United States of America:

• AirTran Airways
• Allegiant Airways
• American of Trans air
• Frontier airlines
• JetBlue Airways
• Primaris airlines
• Song (subsidiary of delta air LINEs)
• Southwest Airlines
• Spirit airlines
• Sun Country airlines
• Ted (subsidiary by United Airlines)
• The USA 3000 airlines
• US Airways
• America west airlines

Canada:

• Air Canada "“Tango"”, "“jazz"” and "“express"”

Latin America:

Mexico:

• Volaris
• Interjet

Brazil

• GOL Linhas Inteligentes

See also

• Charter flight
• Overview tourism

Related links

• Price fight for the sovereignty in the air - study to the cost time comparison of cheap and line airlines
• McKinsey to cheap airlines

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