Low-cost airlines have cheap airfares and discounted tickets on flights from Europe to EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (BSL, MLH, EAP) in Switzerland and France.
Around 20 airlines fly from Basel Airport (BSL) to over 50 destinations in Europe. Low-cost airlines, especially easyJet, Air Berlin and TUIfly, have a strong presence at Basel resulting in low airfares and cheap prices on many flights. Some holiday destinations have flights from Basel only during the summer season.
Low-cost airline easyJet started flying from Basel Airport in 2004 and is currently the market leader. It flies as (British) easyJet (EZY) from EuroAirport to Berlin-Schönefeld, Liverpool, London-Luton (LTN), and London-Stansted (STN). As easyJet-Switzerland (EZS), it flies to Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Cagliari (summer), Hamburg, Istanbul, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech, Naples, Nice, Olbia (summer), Palma de Mallorca (summer), Porto, and Rome-Ciampino.
German low-cost airline Air Berlin (AB) flies from Basel Airport mostly to Mediterranean holiday resorts including Fuerteventura, Heraklion (summer), Kos (summer), Lamezia Terme (summer), Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes (summer), and Tenerife-South.
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair (FR) has cheap flights from Basel to Alicante, Barcelona-Girona, Dublin, Stockholm-Skavsta, and Valencia.
German low-cost airline TUIfly (X3) has scheduled flights in addition to a large number of charter flights from Basel Airport to Bari, Faro (summer), Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion (summer), Hurghada (summer), Kos (summer), Korfu (summer), Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Menorca (summer), Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes (summer), and Tenerife-South.
German airline Lufthansa (LH) flies from Basel to its three main German hubs Düsseldorf (twice daily), Frankfurt (four times daily), and Munich (five times daily). Swiss International Air Lines (LX), which belongs to Lufthansa, flies from Basel to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Brussels, Budapest, London-City (LCY), Manchester, Nice, Prague, Warsaw, and Zurich. Lufthansa is planning to increase the number of flights on Swiss from Basel.
Several other airlines have cheap scheduled flights from Basel. The number of flights and airlines flying to Antalya in Turkey increase dramatically during the summer season.
Air Transat flights in summer from Montreal and Toronto-Pearson in Canada are the only scheduled intercontinental flights to Basel Airport (BSL).
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