Like it or not
Low Fares Carriers often betray their nature. Paris-based "Capital" a monthly economic magazine endeavoured to publish a focused article by comparing the most famous with AF.
Their yardsticks
3 different cases
-one peak return
-one week-ender
-one basic single
-advance purshase
-last minute purshase
the airlines, all versus Air France and country of destination flag carrier
-EasyJet, over the route Paris-Nice
-Ryanair, over the route Paris-Barcelona
-German Wings over the route Paris-Cologne Bonn
-SkyEurope, over the route Paris-Vienna
-Volare over the route Paris-Milan
Common bias shared by all contenders,
-the attractively priced seats are no more avialable at D-60 ! So from D-59 to 0, better plan a visit to AF and its "established" competitor !
-there is a service charge when buying on line and paying by plastic.
SkyEurope and Ryanair get you respectively to Bratislava and Skavsta, where you are up to pay for an additional road transfer,
while AF duly drops you at Schwechat and Arlanda.
SOUTHWEST yeah this one is a real FULL-time low fare airline.
Alain