{"id":193327,"date":"2025-03-31T21:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/european-budget-airlines-no-connecting-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:30:17","slug":"why-european-budget-airlines-dont-really-offer-connecting-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=193327","title":{"rendered":"Why European Budget Airlines Don&#8217;t Really Offer Connecting Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, flying on a budget airline typically comes with a 10-15% reduction in fare price, something that European ultra-low-cost carriers would simply laugh at. Flying on easyJet,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255010\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ryanair\/\"  >Ryanair<\/a><\/span>, or Wizz Air will often come at a third or even less of the price of flying with a full-service network carrier like British Airways, Air France, or Lufthansa. This is 100% by design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair, for example, does not offer connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,7814,1608,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-connecting","category-european-aviaton","category-low-cost-carrier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193328,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193327\/revisions\/193328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}