Cebu Pacific Air start services from Manila to Vietnam

Cebu Pacific Air from the Philippines has opened a new budget airline service. It will fly a daily service over to Vietnam.

The Philippine budget airline will carry passengers on four flights each week starting on April 1st, departing from Manila and arriving in Ho Chi Minh City. Then a further three flights a week from the Philippine capital to Hanoi.

The airlines will use Airbus A319, A320 and A321 planes for these proposed new routes.

This new air service will be in competition with Philippines Airlines who also offer daily flights between Manila and Ho Chi Minh City.

Air Downunder, Budget flights from the UK to Oz and NZ?

This website airdownunder.com came to my attention today. It claims to be a budget airline that can take you from the UK to Oz from AU$899 rtn / £380 rtn or Auckland to London from NZ$1099 rtn.

Here is some of the information from their site;

"Air Downunder is set for take off from Melbourne to London Stansted towards the third quarter of 2008. Flights from Auckland should take off towards the end of 2008. Online booking will be available in February 2008.

Air Downunder are currently in talks with a major Asian airline to acquire two Boeing 747 jets for their two opening routes. Air Downunder names top management, aims to offer lowest fares from UK to Australia Nov 2007, Melbourne

Australia's newest budget carrier Air Downunder has unveiled its top management. At the same time, it is serving notice to rivals that it aims to be the lowest priced carrier in the region.

Paul Moss, a veteran of the pharmaceuticals industry, was named as Air Downunder's chief executive. William Smith, the managing director and co-founder of Air Downunder will be the airline's chairman."


Its an interesting website which really is lacking in quality of content, however it's not April 1st so I will keep an eye on.

Expect a fresh blog as soon as the first plane load of Air Downunder passengers happily arrive at their destination.

FlyYeti, Nepal's First Budget Airline

If you are currently looking at one of the limited and expensive flights in and out of Kathmandu, then look no further, as Nepal welcomes it's first ever budget airline, FlyYeti.com.

Air Arabia and Yeti Airlines have joined forces to start Nepal's first low-cost airline.

Air Arabia is already an established budget airline that carries passengers around the middle East region and Yeti Airlines are Nepals leading domestic carrier.

FlyYeti's maiden voyage was from Kathmandu this week to Sharjah.

"This newest hub will give air travellers who use Air Arabia access to new destinations in India and wider south Asia, as well as the Far East and central Asia," said Adel Ali, chief executive of Air Arabia.

FlyYeti will give passengers an inexpensive way to connect Kathmandu with India,the far east, South Asia and central Asia.

This is the fantastic news all those budget travellers and backpackers have been waiting for.

AirAsia X, New Malaysian budget airline starts.

A new budget airline opened this week offering cheap flights from Kuala Lumpar to several main destinations across the world.

AirAsiaX will fly you to Australia, the far East, the middle East and Europe, with prices starting for as little as $99.

The airline is a subsidiary of AirAsia, another low cost airline. One of the new owners of AirAsia X include billionaire Sir Richard Branson.

The fleet of aircraft will include the smart new Airbus A330.

This new airline is great news for people looking for international budget flights.