Who Flys Where and When?

[spork]

I've done some searches on Pprune, and either found nothing on this, or a bit too much to handle. So here we go... Can anyone point me in the direction of a website (probably) where I can find who flys where and when? I'm mainly interested in Europe. As an example, if Almeria (LEI) is close to where I want to go, and say, Alicante (ALC) is there a convenient way of finding who serves those sites?

At the moment I'm finding a deluge of information I don't want, some of which is at ludicrous prices with extremely long flight times, flying via Madrid for example.

[Nothrills]

Hope this helps:

http://travel.airwise.com/schedules/index.html

[ALLMCC]

You could also try the airline links on www.justplanes.com

[brabazon]

I don't think there is any one site that will do everything that you want, all require access to a map to see where the airports are in relation to your destination (if it's not a main city or town with its own airport).

Try this:

www.skyscanner.net

for access to no-frills flights

[lowfaresbuster]

also openjet.com (http://www.openjet.com) has a nearby airports option, if you don't find the low fares connection you need, use the nearby airports option to amend your search.

[Jordan D]

Will any of these work, is I'm looking for point-to-point routes, with any airline (not neccessarily direct)?

Jordan

[charterguy]

openjet.com has already had its first run-in with FR. MOL stated publicly that they will not entertain 'middlemen' and has barred openjet.com from accessing Ryanair's booking engine. The idea behind openjet is that it enables customers to find connecting 'no-frills' flights. You can mix and match, and openjet.com will then book everything in one smooth transaction, for which they add a cool EUR 10.00 per passenger. MOL obviously didn't fancy the idea that someone charges EUR 10.00 on a flight that he is selling for 1 EUR.
Anyway, by the looks of it, you can now have the same service for free at skyscanner.net.

[lowfaresbuster]

charterguy, the booking fee is on openjet (http://www.openjet.com) is Euor 10 per booking, not per passenger, as you stated. Also, they now have Ryanair fares on their site, but you cannot book them.
As I understand it MOL was in contravention of Article 82 (b) [(b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers] of the European Competitions Act, and had to let them back in, but there was no PR involved.

[charterguy]

lowfaresbuster

You are absolutely right, the booking fee only applies to the booking, rather than individual pax. However, why pay someone EUR10 to book a EUR1 fare, when you can have that service free of charge on skyscanner.net ????

And as regards PR, MOL did go public saying that he wouldn't entertain middlemen and that that was the reason he had disabled access to his booking engine.

CG

[spork]

Many thanks everyone for your assistance on this. These are some extremely useful sites that I would probably never have found. It’s interesting that MOL would even want to consider having his airline EXCLUDED from the punters’ view. Very strange.

[lowfaresbuster]

Hi charterguy - obviuosly the information is free on openjet too, it is only when a person should decide to use the openjet booking service they pay the fee. You can use openjet as a search engine for flights too- for free. As far as i am aware no-one asks for money unless you want to use a service.

I have quite happily paid the fee when openjet have found me 4 sectors- it saved me hours of searching, at least 30 minutes of booking, and I know the connections should work- it's a service and people have a choice if you want to use it or not.

With regards PR- openjet now have Ryanair again, there was no Press Release mentioning this from either party!