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Wondering how you are going to get to your holiday home without breaking the bank? A new website, Flycheapo.com, could have the answer. The idea is so simple that it is surprising that no one else thought of it before, especially, since, as a rule, these airlines do not feature on other sites such as Expedia. which tend to confine themselves to the traditional carriers.

All you do is punch in the place you want to go, and from where, and the site comes back with a list of the budget airlines that operate the route. All the obvious ones, like Ryanair, easyJet and Bmibaby are included, but there are also some more exotic names such as Geneva based Flybaboo, Barcelona’s Vueling and Sicilian Windjet. (There is also a handy list of now defunc, or deceased, as they put it, airlines such as EU Jet, Flying Finn and MyTravel Lite, which only goes to show what a perilous business the low cost industry is).

You cannot actually book off the site directly, presumably because it would be too complicated, technically. This can mean checking out various airlines to get the best price if you are flying somewhere obvious such as Prague or Barcelona. But it can still throw up some unexpected links. Just flicking through it, for example, I discovered that it possible to fly to Pula, in Croatia, a place I am extremely fond of, but which is not otherwise that well served, on an airline called Fly Globespan from Glasgow or Edinburgh. (Not terribly useful for me since I live in London, but convenient for Scots and people in Northern England.)

There is also a news section that flags up the latest new route announcements: Ryanair, I learnt, for example, is about to start flying from Doncaster to Pisa. So, all in all, a very useful tool and worth spending a few minutes flicking through, even if the net effect may be to encourage more people to fly and to add another degree or two to the temperature of the planet.

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