From yesterday's San Jose Mercury News: New low-fare airline, Germanwings, offers service between Cologne-Bonn and Barcelona, Berlin, Istanbul, London, Madrid, Milan, Nice, Paris, Rome, Vienna and Zurich. One-way fares start at about $19, including taxes and fees. Go to www.germanwings.com<BR><BR>Haven't been to the site yet, just thought I'd pass along the info for interested Fodorites.

I think this airline is not related to the original Germanwings that went bankrupt about 10 years ago.

<BR>There has been a growth of no-frills lines to and from Germany.<BR><BR>Ryanair, http://www.ryanair.ie, ++44 870 156 9569, flew in November from Frankfurt<BR>at ?20 to Stansted, Bournemouth, Glasgow, and Shannon<BR>at ?20 to Stockholm ?20 and at ?30 to Oslo <BR>at ?20 to Montpellier and Perpignan<BR>at ?10 to Bologna-Forli <BR>at ?20 to Milan, Pisa, Pescara and Rome<BR>at ?20 to Gerona<BR>Air Berlin from Germany to many Mediterranean and north African airports. http://www.airberlin.com<BR>Germanwings, http://www.germanwings.de, from Cologne-Bonn to London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Nice, Rome, Zurich, and Vienna, from 27 October 2002. <BR>Low Fare Jet http://www.lowfarejet.com/ from Hanover to Paris, from 1 December 2002<BR>TUI and Hapag Lloyd Express, http://www.hl-express.de. from Germany to London, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona and Madrid<BR>Germania, http://www.germania.flug/, Cologne to Berlin 77 euros, Frankfurt 99 euros. <BR><BR>A site for cheap flights from Germany is http://www.traveloverland.de: search the &quot;Top-Angebote Europa&quot;<BR>For frilled airlines http://www.opodo.de<BR>The Empore in Halle C at Frankfurt airport has one of Europe's largest last minute travel markets.<BR><BR>Welcome to Europe<BR><BR>Ben Haines<BR>

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This is a terrific compilation to add to other lists of low cost air lines. Thank you Ben - - and likewise to Betsy for starting the thread.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

Ben,<BR><BR>I hope you will forgive me for quoting your post verbatim to someone who wanted info like this on eurotrip.com<BR><BR>See http://www.eurotrip.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=87552<BR>

<BR>Please do quote me: I am not registered for eurotrip. The Ryanair fares shown as in a currency called ? were in fact in euros. I doubt they have much relevance now, as airlines are back to usual fares for Christmas and the New Year. You may like to tell the enquirer that two web sites cover a good deal of this ground: http://www.flybudget.com and http://www.openjet.com To the e mail copy of this note I am attaching the full text of my disc note on no-frills flights.<BR><BR>Do you notice that the anonymous figure on the correspondence Train Etiquitte who used the word exactly has not told us why he used it and with what meaning ? And now he has been edited out, poor man. He might have been able to explain what looks to me like sloppy or aggressive writing.<BR><BR>Ben Haines<BR><BR><BR>

I thought this was interesting, so just spend a while on their website. Although it shows all the destinations &quot;from 19 Euro&quot;, I tried Cogogne to Madrid and Cologne to Istanbul for at least a dozen dates either between now and the end of March -- as far as they let you book. The cheapest flight I could find was 99 euro, but the range was from 99 to 210 euro. So where are the 19 euro flights??

Patrick, try Cologne to Berlin or Vienna; I got lower fares for those.