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Title: Eurociel : New LCC from France
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(Date Posted:10/04/2007 1:57 PM)

There's a new LCC carrier coming : Eurociel. It will operate from Nimes Airport in Southern France. According tothis articlefrom Tour Mag (In french), prices will start at 47 Euro to Ibiza and Palma, 78 Euro to Sevilla, 65 euro to Athens, and 68 euro to Morocco (Rabat and Marrakech). The airline will also serve Beirut in Lebanon, but the price has not been given. They also plan to fly to the islands of Mayotte and Reunion, french territories on the Indian Ocean.It's scheduled to start in march 2008.Here's the quite old fashionedwebsite. Online booking isn't yet possible.

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(Date Posted:10/04/2007 1:57 PM)

There's a new LCC carrier coming : Eurociel. It will operate from Nimes Airport in Southern France. According to this article from Tour Mag (In french), prices will start at 47 Euro to Ibiza and Palma, 78 Euro to Sevilla, 65 euro to Athens, and 68 euro to Morocco (Rabat and Marrakech). The airline will also serve Beirut in Lebanon, but the price has not been given. They also plan to fly to the islands of Mayotte and Reunion, french territories on the Indian Ocean.

It's scheduled to start in march 2008.

Here's the quite old fashioned website. Online booking isn't yet possible.

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(Date Posted:10/07/2007 4:30 AM)

Okay, let's see how things work out.

Historically start-up budget airlines haven't done well in France. Neither fly west (2004-2005) nor Air Turquoise (2005-2006) lasted much longer than a year before being driven out of business.

Significantly, though, both those airlines were trying to set up a domestic network within France - though fly west also operated a route to Ireland towards the end - and this left them having to compete against SNCF's formidable TGVs as well as Air France, not to mention easyJet.

It's always possible that a France-based international LCC might fare better.

If Eurociel picks its routes carefully, its only real competition apart from charter airlines such as TUI-owned Corsair would be the Air France low cost subsidiary Transavia France.

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(Date Posted:11/10/2007 5:10 PM)

No changes here yet, though I am watching Eurociel closely.

You're right - the website looks like it has fallen through a timewarp from 1997.

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