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The château of Foix (Route 6)

Getting There

From the UK and Ireland

Flying to France is much cheaper now than a decade ago. The number of budget airlines has grown at such a rate that the major airlines have found it hard to compete and have reduced their fares accordingly. Budget airlines include:

 Ryanair (www.ryanair.com)

 Easyjet (www.easyjet.com)

 Flybe (www.flybe.com)

 Thomsonfly (www.thomsonfly.com)

 Aer Lingus (www.aerlingus.com)

 bmi/British Midland (www.flybmi.com)

The major airlines include British Airways (www.ba.com) and Air France (www.airfrance.com).

The following table indicates the start points of the eight routes, the nearest airport to each, and which airlines fly there from the UK.

If flying to the nearest airport to the start of a route is not feasible, another option is to fly to Paris and travel on to your destination from the capital. The journey onward from Paris airports to central Paris is described below. From here you can take a train to your final destination.