Low-cost airline offers new flights

The new flights are due to start on 11 July

A new low-cost airline offering six return flights a week from Stansted to Bratislava in Slovakia is being launched this week.

Slovakia-owned SkyEurope will start services on 11 July and will be operating a Boeing 737 aircraft.

Flying two return flights on three days a week, the new carrier is beginning with £17 fares.

"Bratislava is only 45 minutes by road from Vienna, so effectively we are the only low-fare airline serving the Austrian city now that Ryanair has dropped the route following its takeover of Buzz," said a SkyEurope spokesman.

Meanwhile, Kyrgyzstan Airlines, the national carrier of the former Soviet Union republic, is to start a service from Gatwick to its capital Bishkek on 12 July, with flights going on to Delhi.

On 1 August, Middle East carrier Emirates will launch an extra daily service from Gatwick to Dubai.