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Site Scramble: LCC Awards

September 12, 2006 at 9:45 AM | 0 Comments

It's time for the third installment of our Site Scramble feature to come to an end. This time, we focused on European discount carriers, of which there are many. There were enough to make our eyes glaze over, but we prevailed, and now it's time to pick the winner, losers, and merely laughable.

Best Overall: SkyEurope

Who would have guessed that JetBlue's sister is a smokin' hot Central European beauty? Yup, this LCC, with hubs in Prague, Budapest, and Bratislava (among others) won us over with clean site design, easy and useful searches, and a general sense of order not present on many of the other sites. Plus, look at those flight attendants!

Worst Overall: AlpiEagles

We respect them for flying to Tirana. But can we have an English translation of the site, pretty please? Otherwise it's tough to tell where we're going to be flying. Obscure taxes and fees didn't help the AlpiEagles cause much, either.

So Close, and Yet So Far: EasyJet and Wizz Air

These are both solid LCCs, with good reputations. We think they'd make excellent choices as far as carriers go, but the color schemes of their sites make our brain hurt. Orange? Purple and Pink? While they might be good for decorating a notebook in 1987, they're not the easiest to read, marring an otherwise excellent experience.

Coolest Feature: Air Berlin displays the number of remaining seats on flights you're considering, in case you need to know how much time you have to think it over.

Worst Feature: Many airlines don't initially display taxes and fees. C'mon, if we buy the ticket, we're going to find out eventually.

Still Makes Us Laugh: Ryanair's header of CHEAP FLIGHTS. What is this, 1996?

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