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Thanks, Don. Are these low cost airlines like Ryanair and MyAir legit? Jet planes or cropdusters? Have you ever flown them? Thanks, Ang.

Angelo, if you haven’t already found them on whichbudget , go here:
http://www.alpieagle…
flew them a few years back, Athens-Venice (Marco Polo)
jade green leather seats – cool

There is no ferry from Athens to Venice. Athens is on Greece’s east coast. Italy is west of Greece. There are ferries from Venice to Greece’s west coast, but they are overnight.

Alpi Eagles offers direct Venice-Athens flights. There are also countless indirect options.

quote:Thanks, Don. Are these low cost airlines like Ryanair and MyAir legit? Jet planes or cropdusters? Have you ever flown them?

Yes, they’re legit. The small airlines in their first year… I’d be a bit hesitant because it’s so difficult to make a go of the airline business. But most of the 60 or so low-cost airlines in Europe that have sprung up in the last 5 years have done remarkably well, with maybe only 10-15% having gone under. Alpi Eagles have been around for a while, and I wouldn’t hesitate with them.

I’ve flown Ryanair, Norwegian, and Intersky, and soon will be giving Sterling a nice bit of business. The "cropdusters" aren’t so bad—depending on airline. The engines that USAir and other commuter airlines used to put on those Dash-4s and Dash-8s were noisy and not so smoothe. There are much better engines for these aeroplanes (Pratt and Whitney, for example) that except at taxi and take-off, you’d never know it was a turboprop. I’ve flown Widerøe several times, Intersky, and SAS with the smoother, quieter Dash 4s and 8s. It’s 2×2 seating the same size as a regional jet, and usually all-leather seating. They’re not bad atall.