Travelling within Europe gets easier nowadays with so many low cost carriers (LCC). Cross checking each of them can bring some benefit in terms of cost savings. However, you can only get a brief idea how much the ticket is, but not the total amount to pay. You will noticed the deeper you searched into those online low cost website for fare, the clearer you can see the difference among them.
You can get the full/almost full list of those LCC from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_low-cost_airlines). Normally, you will start with Easyjet and Ryanair because they are the big brothers of LCC in Europe. The possibility of searching the other carriers depends on where and how is your flight plan. Since we planned for Paris, Barcelona, Venice and Rome, we also looked at Vueling Airlines and MyAir.
Summary of what I found searching through Easyjet, Vueling and Ryanair last Oct;
1) No zero fare for Easyjet, and their tax was the lowest.
2) Zero fare was easy to find for Ryanair, but after loading in the taxes and baggage fee, the final price became E78.
3) Baggage fee was at E20/pc, compared to Airasia RM5 (E1).
4) Credit card handling fee was applicable, at E7.50/transaction. Soon, this will be a normal thing for our local carriers.
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