Southwest, too, has an excellent flexible date tool (look for "Low Fare Calendar" on the site's homepage).
The survey showed that six low-fare carriers had seats available for 85.6% of the requests made.
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One reason for this is that low-fare airlines tend to have smaller credit-card tie-ins.
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Several of the local carriers are loss-making, although the biggest low-fare carrier, InterGlobe Aviation Ltd.
M1, and more recently its burgeoning airport, famous as the home of the low-fare EasyJet airline.
Fares on the Newark-Cincinnati route can be high, with no low-fare carrier competition.
While U.S. low-fare airlines such as AirTran and JetBlue also sell tickets this way, most major carriers do not.
AirAsia last month announced it plans to set up a domestic low-fare airline in India with the Tata Group.
When the airline declined the invitation, Ornstein quit to take a job running entrepreneur Richard Branson's new low-fare Virgin Express airline.
ValuJet halted operations recently at the FAA's request following a series of maintenance problems discovered during a probe of the low-fare carrier.
Both low-fare carriers still have plenty of advantages over their tired rivals.
Past low-fare startups by legacy carriers lost money and were discontinued.
The low-fare airline reduced its fleet from 15 to 11, at the request of the FAA, and canceled nine of its 59 flights Saturday.
That would leave Lufthansa with the main part of BMI and its low-fare offspring BmiBaby, which are rumoured to be under offer from others.
United won't release specifics, but spokesperson Jeff Green insists that United has made "double-digit market share" gains on routes where Ted competes with low-fare carriers.
Last February, it launched its own low-fare operation, called "Ted, " which flies 156-seat Airbus planes and goes head-to-head with the discounters, mainly in Chicago, Denver and Washington, D.
She has vocal support from low-fare airlines, such as EasyJet and Ryanair, whose business is still booming as they cut fares further to keep their aircraft profitably filled.
If you book a flight today on the low-fare carrier Allegiant Air, www.allegiantair.com, you will notice that it bumps up the round-trip total by adding taxes and fees.
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Survivors at trial spoke of a harrowing early-morning ride, testifying that the low-fare Sky Express bus swerved from side to side and changed speeds erratically before careening off the interstate.
An ultra-low-fare model gives carriers such as Allegiant and Spirit more flexibility in unbundling the costs of air travel, Cordle said, but other airlines will be watching the carry-on fee closely.
Stiff competition among low-fare carriers like Southwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines (along with the dominant United Airlines) has reduced average fares to and from Denver by about 28% over the last decade.
The research unearths a tip for travelers having trouble using their frequent-flier miles: It might be easier to get "free" tickets using miles on low-fare carriers than it is on big carriers with global networks.
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Successful low-fare ventures like EasyJet and Ryanair, which are looking to expand in Eastern Europe, have not yet begun flights to Poland, the largest country in the region, which is joining the European Union next May.
But the reality is that big airlines that fly to both Los Angeles and London from New York face low-fare airline competition on the domestic route, but not the international route, and so they charge far more.
The low-fare blast is squarely aimed at siphoning off traffic from United and other legacy airlines like AMR , Delta Air Lines , Continental Airlines , Northwest Airlines and US Airways Group as the industry starts its fall season slowdown.
China's ZTE, which has somehow silently risen through the ranks to become the world's number six phone manufacturer by volume, is said to be prepping a renewed global assault that will see it move beyond its typical role as a provider of low-end dumbphone fare to occupy the low-end smartphone niche, a market with traditionally limited choice.
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The reason for this buzz of activity is a fear that Britain's low-skilled workers will fare worse and worse as globalisation intensifies low-wage competition.
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