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BY OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT
29 August, 2005: SkyEurope has launched ski flights to Salzburg, Innsbruck and Poprad in the Alps and Tatras, hoping to cash in on winter tourism. SkyEurope has started offering direct flights to and from Austrian destinations which connect the Austrian Alps airports to great European cities. The SkyEurope flights will cater to some of the best ski resorts like Kitzbühel, Seefeld, Badgastein and Wagrain.
SkyEurope Innsbruck flights will start in December 2005, with direct scheduled flights four times a week from Paris-Orly, besides three flights a week from Amsterdam.
As of December, Salzburg flights will be twice a week from Barcelona and with two weekly connections from Manchester. Direct SkyEurope flights from Warsaw will be operated on Saturdays.
SkyEurope flights to Italian cities for Italian Alpine ski vacations are offered with Bergamo flights. Besides the existing SkyEurope direct flights from Bratislava, Budapest and Krakow, the company will open one more direct flight from Warsaw for the 2005 winter season.
SkyEurope is also launching winter flights to the High Tatras towns of Poprad in Northern Slovakia from London Stansted. Poprad is also a gateway to Poland’s southern Poland's most famous tourist spot Zakopane. Zakopane is just an hour's drive from Poprad. SkyEurope Poprad flights are scheduled twice a week. There will be a SkyEurope Poprad flight from London in the morning and back from Poprad in the afternoon.
SkyEurope hopes to make a killing this winter with the additional direct flights for winter vacations and ski holiday resorts.
New SkyEurope flights
LONDON – POPRAD 2x per week
Salzberg – Manchester 2x per week
SALZBURG – BARCELONA 2x per week
SALZBURG – WARSAW 1x per week
INNSBRUCK – AMSTERDAM 3x per week
INNSBRUCK – PARIS ORLY 4x per week
WARSAW – SALZBURG 1x per week
WARSAW – BERGAMO 1x per week
SkyEurope is a leading Central European low-cost budget airline, having its bases in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. SkyEurope operates cheap flights to 25 airports spread across 14 countries. The SkyEurope flights are from Budapest, Vienna Bratislava, Krakow and Warsaw bases.
SkyEurope low-budget discount flights from London are offered to Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw and Vienna Bratislava from Ł16 (€24) onwards.
The SkyEurope destinations include 43 routes, to destinations including Manchester, Amsterdam, Dublin (from September 2005), Paris, Nice, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Athens, Rome, Milan, Venice, Stuttgart, Zurich, Zadar, Prague, Split, Dubrovnik and Košice.
SkyEurope has a 15-plane fleet. It is headquartered in Bratislava in Slovakia and is barely 50 km from the Vienna in Austria. Since the distance is so short, it even operates a shuttle bus service called "SkyShuttle Bus" between its Bratislava base and Vienna. Besides Bratislava, SkyEurope also operates from the Košice Airport in eastern Slovakia. SkyEurope also operates flights from Budapest's Ferihegy 2B, and Fryderyk Chopin, Etiuda Terminal and from Balice Terminal in Poland.
BY OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT
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