John Adams, Manager for Asia    

"I have been intrigued for some time by the differences of the route structures between the budget airlines and the mainstream carriers. Not only have the budget carriers opened an era of very cheap travel, they have also opened up some amazing destinations that most people probably do not know exist. As a school leaver I wanted to be a travel agent but instead found myself doing a university degree in Politics follwed by a postgraduate qualification in Information Science, but a five year spell as a travel agent did follow later! As I now have my own business I have the flexibility to take frequent short breaks and from London we fortunately have several budget carriers with extensive European networks and I take the opportunity to travel on them as often as I can. I have been to Malaysia and Indonesia a couple of times and now I will have to become more familiar with the destinations and route networks of the Far East."

Renato Biolcati Rinaldi   

Renato is from Italy and speaks Italian, English and Spanish. He loves jazz and plays the alto sax. He enjoys traveling, reading and writing. Renato also runs the blog night passage

Renato is responsible for maintaining the routes by Aegean Air.

Peter "Bon-Cu" Cubon    

Bon-Cu is 20 years old, lives close to Bratislava airport and is training to become a surveyor. He is also the founder of www.slovak-airports.net, a website for Slovak airline enthousiasts.

Bon-Cu has translated WhichBudget into Slovak and is responsible for maintaining the routes by SkyEurope.

Mario Antonio Della Giacomo   

As you see I have many names, anyway you wish to call me you'll find the same 27 year-old, born in Bucharest, Romania, that spent the last 6 years cruising around the world. I've studied Electrical Engineering and Computers and among other things now I'm working on my PhD also hoping to finish an MsC or an MBA by my 30's. I like aeroplanes and flying, boats and sailing and the "Bella Vita" as italians call it. Now I'm based in Turin, Italy, and thanks to the diversity of travel options offered by the LLCs the pleasure of getting around is satisfied. I've discovered the WB project some time ago and I'm happy to be a part of it. Travel, discover, live ........ "Bella Vita" to you all.

Mario looks after several Italian airlines .

Sergio Gallini, Customer Relations Manager    

Sergio was born in Ferrara, Italy. He has been studying Physics at the University of Padova, Italy, at the University of Paris XI , France and at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. He has a deep knowledge in Material Science and Physics of the Materials, and has published several scientific articles based on experimental works performed at different European research facilities. He is into many not-scientific activities, the most important ones being travelling, helping people to travel cheaper, photography, rollerblading, ice-skating and playing chess. He has tested most European low-cost airlines and has written a Madrid and Paris guide for low budget tourists, which can be found in his website www.sergio-on-the-web.co.uk

Robert Kinkley   

"Robert Kinkley, From Canada. Educated in Switzerland, and currently residing in Switzerland. I enjoy the opportunity to visit countries big and small, and live as a local. I have been lucky to see all of the continents in this globe, and I want to be able to fly to them again and spend the least on these flights. It's an honour to be a manager at whichbudget.com, and I have a zillion stories, just ask me. Ciao.. Rob."

Robert is responsible for maintaining the routes by Air Berlin.

Erik Krogh   

"I am a 45 year old Dane and live in Denmark. As a boy I lived in Greenland and got to fly a lot by plane and helicopter. Later on I mostly travelled on motorbike and by car. Today my wife Liss and I have our own small business which makes us travel to several European countries, mostly the Netherlands and Switzerland. This first half of 2004 we have been in Nice with Sterling (twice), in Stockholm with Nordic Airlink, in Rotterdam with Basiq Air (twice)(and once by car), in Berlin by car and in Zurich twice - with SAS and by car :-(, next time we go to Switzerland we will use Cimber Air to Basel. Prior to 2004 we have not been travelling much by air, so it is only recently that I discovered the budget airlines, and now that I have found WhichBudget.com it is so much easier to find the cheapest fares. I'm glad to be an editor with WhichBudget.com and look forward to dig deeper into the world of no frills airlines to the benefit of other budget travellers."

Erik has translated WhichBudget into Danish.

Noemi Lorente   

"I live in Barcelona, I am 29 years old and I work in a travel agency. The low cost carriers are of great interest to me and I would like to share my knowledge of which companies fly to/from Spain. Sometimes it is difficult to find this information."

Noemi has translated WhichBudget into Catalan.

Angelo Mandarino   

Angelo is a biologist and currently works and lives in Sicily.

Angelo is responsible for maintaining the routes by WindJet.

Grant Palmer   

As well as running WhichBudget Australia operations, Grant owns and manages a travel agency in Southport, Australia. He is a 4x4 and Star Treck enthousiast, cooks a great BBQ and owns both a maltese and a rottweiler.

"I kinda think of the budget carriers as the best thing to happen since sliced bread. I have always made it a high priority to see who's flying where and when to help out clients. In fact I found your site when I was looking for cheap flights CPH to AMS. The cheapest full published was about $800AUD but I found Basiq Air for about $150AUD. My clients loved me for it. What can I say!!! Only 4 years old in the industry though. Before that I spent almost 20 years working as a translator and interpretor for the Japanese Inbound Market here on the Gold Coast. I desperatly needed a change and voila! Here I am."

Peggy Pattakos   

Peggy is Greek, 20 years old, currently studying Italian in Milan, Italy. She loves budget airlines as they allow her to visit her friends in Greece from wherever she is in Europe.

Peggy has translated WhichBudget into Greek.

David Pérez García   

David is a Mexican who lives in Guadalajara, he is a mechanical engineer and he has traveled all around, North and Southamerica, Europe, Central and Southeast Asia, New Zealand and South Pacific Islands, mostly as a backpacker and mostly on budget airlines, that's how he found WhichBudget.

David looks after Mexican budget airlines.

Rutger Pieko   

Rutger Pieko, 26 years old, lives in Groningen, The Netherlands. After completing his studies in Human Geography at Groningen University he has worked for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture but has also travelled around the globe for half a year. He currently works for the Chamber of Commerce and meanwhile is taking a university course in Geographical Information Systems. He uses low-cost carriers for leisure trips as well as for visiting friends who live abroad.

Rutger is responsible for maintaining the routes by Transavia.

Robertas Pogorelis   

Lithuanian by origin, Robertas has studied and lived in the UK, Hungary and Belgium, where he is currently based. As a teenager, he had already travelled with his parents to Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia and Latvia. Robertas started independent travel when he was eighteen. As a member of numerous youth organizations, he then visited Finland, Sweden, Italy, England and Germany. Academic interests additionally led him to Poland, Austria and France. In 1997, Robertas passed a competition to study political science at the University of Cambridge. While studying in the UK, he discovered the world of no-frills airlines. He took his first no-frills flight with Debonair from London Luton to Madrid in July 1998. Since then, he has used no-frills airlines in Europe dozens of times, visiting most European countries. Naturally, Robertas has ardently supported the European no-frills revolution in air travel, has written articles on the subject for numerous Lithuanian magazines, and consulted many people on the internet, presenting the benefits of no-frills travel.

Gianalberto Terziari   

Italian, 39, M.A. in foreign languages, works as a teacher at the Popular University in Rome (Upter) and sometimes cooperates with some Swedish universities, such as the Folk Universitetet. A keen traveller, he dedicates part of his leasure time getting round Europe and testing all the low cost companies leaving from Rome, Copenhagen, and the Swedish Airports, like Malmö or Skavsta.

Gianalberto looks after all the routes fying to/from Rome and Stockholm.

Evren Tosyali   

"I am originally from Istanbul, Turkey working and living in Brussels, Belgium since January 2004. I am a mechanical engineer. I have special interest in budget airlines becuase I like to travel and don't have a lot of money for this. I often fly with Germanwings and Hapag Lloyd Express."

Evren looks after several Turkish airlines.

Christina Vetter   

Christina lives near Frankfurt, Germany and works in sales and marketing. Often travels to Ireland.

Pawel Wierzchowiecki   

"I'm not a contemporary Don Quixote fighting with the individual road vehicles, I just happen to value very much all forms of public transport. Despite the economy rules are making public conveyance clearly too expensive and some inertia or laziness of human nature is also prompting many to prefer roads and private cars over rail and even air travel, the overall potential and efficiency of public networks remains superior to me. It is hard to accept the extent to what European railways have been underused or even abandoned while at the same time heavy lorries are blocking our roads, it is unwise to tolerate half-empty planes on our skies, with fares too costly to lure the passengers. I want to back the efforts on the way to make public transport less expensive and more popular. Budget airlines' contribution to putting it into practice is of great value to me."

Pawel is a medical professional, hobbyist C++ programmer, used to be a radio journalist. His family (including a few children) lives in Central Finland. He is responsible for translating WhichBudget into Polish and Finnish and maintaining the routes by CentralWings.

Zachary Wynne   

Although born in the Midwest of the United States, Zachary fell in love with Europe at an early age and since spends much of his time earning money to return there, learning random European languages, wishing he was sitting in a cafe in his favorite cities of Berlin, Budapest, Sarajevo, and Ljubljana, or looking for cheap flights within Europe and around the World which led him to WhichBudget. Currently a Master's student in European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC, he hopes to help bring the convenience of WhichBudget to his home country.

Zachary helps us add and maintain several US budget airlines.

Birute Zemgulyte, Routes Manager   

Her interest in low cost airlines dates back to 2003, when she started her Recreation ant Tourism studies in Lithuania. She loves independent travel and never travels with travel agencies. Birute has a dream to hitch-hike around the world. Now she has been to many countries of Europe, as well as Turkey, Morocco and Egypt. She found her loving boyfriend through low cost airlines, specifically in a travel forum on the Internet.
Birute took her first low cost flight with Virgin Express from Brussels to Valencia for her studies. Since then, she always tries to fly low cost. She also recommends low cost airlines to her friends and in travel forums.
Now Birute is studying at university and prepares her final work "European low cost airlines in the tourism market".
At present, no day in Birute's life passes without WhichBudget. She loves contributing to a leading low cost independent travel site, which has helped her and many others to grab newly arisen opportunities for affordable travel.

An Vermeersch   

An is PHD student living in Belgium.

An is responsible for translating WhichBudget into Dutch.