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| | TravelTools.net - Europe's No-frills Airlines - easyJet, Ryanair, Virgin Express, germanwings, snowflake, bmibaby, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Now that the no-frills are clearly here to stay in Europe, the traditional big airlines over there have finally come down off their high-fare horses, rolled up their sleeves, and started trying to stem the tidal wave of inter-Continental traffic away from their flag carriers. |
 | | What I mean is, the Big Boys have had to slash their fares to the bone to compete—in several cases after having failed miserably, and at great cost, in ill-guided attempts to beat the low-cost carriers at their own game by creating puppet low-cost subsidiaries. |
 | | Some are financed by major airlines or tourism-industry backers; some are true newbie entrepreneurs; some are old charter services that are revamping to fit the new "no-frills" model. |
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