Airline information on-line on the Internet FAQ

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Crossair (http://www.crossair.ch/), has morphed into the new Swiss (http://www.swiss.com) Swiss airline that's filling the hole left by Swissair's demise.

Easyjet (http://www.easyjet.com) is a low fare airline with a hub at London Luton. Site offers routes, reservations, and other info, with garish but easy to read orange and blue graphics. Don't miss the stuffed pilot bear with goggles and faux leather jacket, for only L 5.95. They acquired and absorbed Go, formerly the low fare branch of British Airways.

Eastern Airways (http://www.easternairways.com) flies small planes to cities around the UK with fares ranging from cheap to rather high. Routes, schedules, fares, reservations. Baggage rules say "On board use of the ghetto-blaster type or radio or tape player is an irritant to other passengers and is forbidden."

Finnair (http://www.us.finnair.com/) has schedule info and occasional have seat auctions. They have a reservation system hosted by Amadeus, but for some reason they only let you buy expensive business class tickets through it. Travellers in Finland can apparently access the web site through their cell phones, which is kind of cool.

flybe (http://www.flybe.com) is a low-fare airline with hubs at Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Birmingham, flying mostly within the UK and from the UK to Europe. Schedules and reservations. It used to be called British European, but that name evidently wasn't contrived enough.

GermanWings (http://www.germanwings.com) is a cost airline flying from its base at Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart all over Europe. E-Specials (see tab near top of home page) include ticket sales and hotel discounts.

Globespan (http://www.flyglobespan.com) flies between Scottish airports and mostly Mediterranean destinations. Site offers booking of flights and vacation packages.

Hapag-Lloyd Express (http://www.hlx.com/en/) is a cost airline, flyingfrom Cologne/Bonn and Hannover to airports in Spain, Italy, England and Germany. Schedules, reservations, destination info.

Hellas Jet (http://www.hellas-jet.com/) flies from Greece to major cities Europe. It's a subsidiary of Cyprus Airways. Online booking via a private-label version of ITN, frequent flyer program,

Iberia (http://www.iberia.es/) has schedules and fares in Spanish, English, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, and Russian. Reservations through a private label Amadeus site.

Iceland Express (http://www.icelandexpress.com) is an Icelandic low cost airline linking Reykjavik with London and Copenhagen. Nice icebergs on the web site, and you can change the name on a ticket for only L 20.

Icelandair (http://www.icelandair.com) flies between the US and Europe, via their hub in Iceland. Reservations, flight info, specials. Lucky Fares mailing list offers trans-Atlantic specials most weeks, occasionally at amazing prices.

Jet2 (http://www.jet2.com) fliees from Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, and Belfast in the UK to Spanish and French holiday spots, Amsterdam, Prague and Milan. Schedules, reservations, links to places to buy holiday cottages.

KLM (http://www.klm.com) has a gateway site to national sites all over the world, most of which offer schedules and some offer reservations. The US and Canada sites are actually Northwest's. They're owned by Air France, but the web sites don't seem to have noticed yet.

Lufthansa Info Flyway (http://www.lufthansa.com) offers schedule info (for most airlines, not just LH) and also reservations. Also has a US site (http://www.lufthansa-usa.com/) with info tailored to US customers, including occasional Web Specials live seat auctions.

Luxair (http://www.luxair.lu) flies from Luxembourg to the places that Luxemburgers (or is it the Luxembourgeois) want to go, business and vacation destinations around Europe. Schedules, reservations, destination info including the daily menu specials at the airport restaurant.

Malev (http://www.malev.hu) Hungarian airlines has an attractive site with schedule info. There's supposed to be fare info but it pops up a box saying it's out of order.

Manx Airlines (http://www.manx-airlines.com) has schedule info.

Mytravellite (http://www.mytravellite.com/) is a low cost airline flying from Birmingham (UK) to Ireland and Spain. Schedules, reservations, destination info. Small discount offered for online booking.

Norwegian Airlines (http://www.norwegian.no) is a low cost airline flying from Oslo to Norway and elsewhere in Europe. Site has reservations and info mostly translated from the Norwegian.

Olympic (http://www.olympicairlines.com/), the flag carrier of Greece, has a basic site with online booking.

Ryanair (http://www.ryanair.ie) is a rapidly expanding low-fare airline with a hub at London Stansted and minor hubs in London Luton, Dublin, Shannon, Glasgow, Brussels, Stockholm Skavsta, Frankfurt Hahn, and Milan Orio Al Serio. Web site offers routes, fares, and booking.

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