If you're flying to your next destination: have you packed your lunch?
London, November 7 2006
Low-cost airlines can save you a small fortune on air travel, but getting a bit peckish or thirsty up in the sky can make those savings diminish rather quickly. Cheapflights.co.uk, the UK’s leading flight comparison website has conducted a survey to find out where menu prices can erode savings made on the ticket price.
The survey compared the prices of in-flight meals and other items such as a ham sandwich, Coca Cola, a gin and tonic and a cup of tea across 22 airlines that travel from the UK. Those flying on the major airlines such Air Berlin, Air France and British Airways can breathe a sigh of relief as all of these items come complimentary with the flight.
Don’t board hungry on Air Scotland, easyJet, Flyglobespan or Ryanair as no in-flight meals are available at all, only snacks. For those after a little tipple on the flight, you can find the cheapest G&T on Thomsonfly at £3.35 while Ryanair has the most expensive G&T at £4.80.
Coca Cola costs an astounding two and half times more on Germanwings and Iberia (£1.70*) than on Flyglobespan (65p). These remarkable differences continue with Iberia’s in-flight meal (£6.78*) costing double the price of Germanwings (£3.39*) and Iberia’s ham sandwich (£4*) is also 68 per cent dearer than Germanwings (£2.37*).
A cup of tea, however, is a significant 90 per cent more expensive on Flybe and Ryanair (£1.90) than on Iberia who sell the cheapest cup at £1.
To see the full table of results visit: The cost of airline food
* Prices have been converted from euros for ease of comparison.
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For further information please contact:
Cass Helstrip
Rooster
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email: cass.helstrip@rooster.co.uk
Notes to Editors
Cheapflights Ltd. Founded in 1996 and profitable since launch, Cheapflights is the UK’s leading UK flight price comparison web and pioneered the travel price comparison model in the UK and also introduced pay-per-click in the UK in 2000.
Cheapflights does not sell any travel products. Each day, it displays over one million constantly updated prices supplied by hundreds of travel partners worldwide. These deals can be accessed online or by telephone direct with the advertiser from links or information on our site. This makes Cheapflights one of the most comprehensive independent publishers online of flight and other travel deals available
Leading online measurement company Hitwise has described Cheapflights as ‘the UK’s favourite travel price comparison site’. Hitwise's statistics also show Cheapflights as being the UK's top vertical search and comparison site for the past 15 quarters. The Company's unique user numbers globally reached 5.25 million in January 2006.
Cheapflights estimates that it generated travel product sales of over £1 billion for its advertising partners in 2005. These advertisers read like a Who’s Who of the travel world - ranging from British Airways, Thomson, Expedia, Travelocity and Thomas Cook to specialist operators like STA Travel , Mark Warner and Iglu.com.
Cheapflights is one of the few British internet companies successfully to establish an operation in the USA with Cheapflights.com. Launched in May 2003, with 2 million unique users a month it is already in the top 13 USA travel sites. The Company has launched UK and USA "Flight News" blog sites These are now major interactive communities which inform and assist travel consumers.
Cheapflights' independent status as an online travel price search and comparison and travel news site makes it a natural starting point for finding travel deals and up-to-date travel industry information.
