LEVEL Is Commencing Short Haul Operations (This Month!)

Already booked VIE-LGW-VIE on Friday for travel in mid August for just 48€ return. Absolute steal

@ Chris - oh wow - so they've loaded fares now? This article has been in the queue over the weekend. That's an excellent price!

Wizz Air is no longer charging for hand luggage. As of November 2017 they do allow a hand luggage sized trolley free of charge.

However, like Ryanair, it wil be placed in the cargo if no Priority Boarding is booked.

Wizz air doesn't charge for hand luggage.

Flights have been loaded. London to Vienna is for less than £25.

I live in Vienna and just today LEVEL announced that on July 3rd the first 50.000 tickets are sold for 1 Cent each. Thats an unbeatable launch sale. In the long run I think that competition will help lower the prices in Vienna, the Lufthansa group has to big an influence in my opinion, they are so strong that they more or less dictate the prices here.

I am from Vienna and just today LEVEL announced that the first 50.000 tickets sold on July 3rd will cost 1 Cent each, which makes for an amazing launch offer. I think that in the long run the low cost boom will help lower the ticket prices because the Lufthansa group will have less market share in Vienna and wont be able to dictate the prices as much as they do today. So I am really glad that LEVEL launches its first routes this month.

Wizz air and Wow don't charge for hand luggage

@alex Wow Air does, as only a personal item is allowed on board. Otherwise it's about 40€ each way just to bring a cabin trolley onboard.

Wizz Air did in the past, but has discontinued this strategy.

Wizzair seems to have increased their allowance but Wow still does - only a small personal bag is free.

More competition is not always a good thing as for example where it is backed by an oligopolistic market participant and used to drive out independent operators with less financial power.

@Tam Agree totally with this. IAG are not good competition and not good for consumers. Also people be warned this is basically Vueling in disguise - I would be reluctant to fly them no matter how low the price.

@James
You didn't tell us what airline you ended up booking with for your flight to Olbia.

I too am intrigued why Level rather than Vueling.
One possibility is that IAG will be getting rid of the Vueling name, perhaps due to the scheduling snafu last year?

Or does Vueling, or its pronunciation in Spanish ("Buelain"?) mean something unfortunate in German?
(Rather like the car called Nova that did not sell very well in Spain)

It could even be a mixture - perhaps Vueling means something unfortunate in E.g. French, and in order to expand across Europe they are switching to Level?

Personally I think using a common word as a company name is ridiculous.
E.g. "I flew Level today?" "Do you normally fly roller-coaster style?!"

I tried to book a couple of those 1 cent tickets tonight but I think I hesitate a bit to much. They vanished in less than 20 minutes. Too bad... but at least I've learned something.

The official company registration running these flights is Vueling and all the crew etc will be from them, so I am sceptical how good they can be given the horrendous experience Vueling offers, in particular their actively offensive cabin crew. This is Vueling in all but name.

I managed to buy LGW-VIE return for 0.02 euro. Website almost died and I wasn't able to buy more tickets as payments took ages and prices of tickets started to change.

It looks to me that many of your readers have a lot of experience flying on LCCs. Yet many of your blogs are about business class and first class.
Maybe time to include blog reports on more LCCs, do you want reports from me on Larnaca to Europe ? I fly regularly Wizz, Ryan Air , EasyJet and will be looking at Level now

I rarely fly LCC but for 0.02 euro can live with cattle class 😉 And Gatwick is stone throw from me. Wouldn't bother with flights from Luton or Stansted.

I used to fly Wizz due to good flight times but that was before they introduced fee for standard size hand luggage. Never bothered again, they change rules again and again. Never flew Ryanair and only a few times Easy Jet.

Afaik, the reason why IAG is using the LEVEL brand and a different AOC is so they can avoid Vueling's collective bargaining agreement, although reputation probably plays a part too.

Is anyone else getting an access denied error when visiting the FlyLevel website? It’s so strange.