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New Zealand looks set to benefit from cheap domestic flights thanks to the proposed launch of budget carrier Kiwijet.

Kiwijet originally planned to launch in 2008, offering flights within New Zealand to 8 destinations. However, the high price of fuel delayed this.

Following the recent drop in the cost of aviation fuel the airline is one again looking at starting up. Cheap flights should provide a welcome boost for New Zealand tourism.

Channel Islands’ operator Aurigny Air has posted a financial loss of over £1 million for the first 8 months of 2008. The deficit is twice the estimated figure and has been revealed by States of Guernsey Treasury Minister Charles Parkinson at the end of 2008.

Budget carrier Norwegian has moved quickly to capture the gap in the market left by the collapse of Sterling Airlines. Norwegian has opened up a base at Copenhagen’s Kastrup International Airport and is already offering new low cost flights to Aalborg, Alicante, Malaga, Nice and Stockholm. It plans to add further connections to Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Krakow, Pisa, Prague and Rome in the near future. As the airline is a budget carrier the flights look set to be superb value for money.

Norwegian have not been the only budget carrier to quickly mop up the spills left by Sterling. EasyJet will launch cheap flights from London Gatwick to Copenhagen on 15th January ‘09. This is in addition to its existing 3 flights per week to the Danish Capital from London Stanstead.

Austrian Airlines has announced plans to expand its medium haul “Premium” service to include the Jordanian capital of Amman. The flight will operate four times per week and will be launched in May 2009.

The Airbus A320 aircraft will be fitted with a Business Class cabin for increased passenger comfort.

The new route provides an additional service in to the Middle East region, where the airline already operates “Premium” flights into Dubai, Damascus, Astana, Tehran, Cairo, Erbil, Riyadh and Jeddah.

The route introduction is sure to please business travellers, travelling to and from the Middle East.

Budget carrier Air Asia X has announced plans to launch the highly anticipated London – Kuala Lumpur service in March 2009. The carrier, famous for low cost flights in Asia, will offer a daily service between the two capital cities.

An Air Canada Airbus A330-300 has been leased and will operate the route, which will fly into London’s Stanstead Airport.

Air Asia began operating long haul flights as Air Asia X in 2007, initially serving the Australian Gold Coast. Rapid expansion has followed, with flights from Kuala Lumpur into other Australian cities, plus Hangzhou in China.

The Kuala Lumpur to London Stanstead daily,budget flight will commence from the 11th March 2009.