Astraeus Airline

Astraeus - a Greek mythological character who was husband of Ares, cursed by Aphrodite. He was the father of the stars and the four winds, Zephyrus, Borras, Notus, and Oesphorus. The airline is a charter and scheduled airline based in Crawley. Astraeus operates charter services to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. They fly from Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, and Exeter. The company was born on 21st march 2002, and commenced operations on the 6th April 2002. In 2004 they started trans-Atlantic flights. Astraeus comprises of eight aircraft, three Boeing 737-300s ... more

Astraeus are a 'No frills' airline flying to mostly european destinations from various british airports including Manchester, Leeds Bradford and Belfast. Check In No Queue, Unbelievable, Nobody, not one, not a bag in site, no screaming children up to early, no chav with a boom box, brilliant. Ticket-less check quick easy and simple. Take-off Although not qualified to comment on the actual take-off procedure, 3 essentials were met: 1. We did not crash and die 2. We left on time 3. I had a seat and could move my legs The flight By the time wehad taken off, I had been for the obligatory post take ... more

We flew to Malta from Manchester with astraeus airlines in April 2005. The check in was using a ticketless system which was all new to us, infact we were a little apprehensive that we had been conned. Checkin was slightly quicker than having tickets, and it all went smoothly. We got on the plane and it appeared a little shabby/old but ok. The staff didn't have a smile between them, and were quite rude at times. There was no entertainment on the plane but thats quite common for a short flight. The plane had quite a worrying vibration/rattle throughout the flight which really didn't help me ... more

We booked through Red Sea Flights for a recent trip to Sharm and were flown out by Astraeus. I had heard from them before as my hubby is an Iron Maiden fan and the lead singer is a pilot for the company (no he didn't fly us) We booked the flights and hotel through imperial Travel buit will book direct with red sea and med hotels next time. The flight was £260. The plane was a 737 so the leg room wasn't as good as could be but I was comfortable and it was a 5 1/2 hr flight. There is no option to upgrade The flight outward was on time and the plane was spotless. The staff were very efficient and ... more

In october 2004 i went to nuweiba in egypt for two weeks with Longwoods, who used astraeus airlines. The planes are all fairly new (within the last two/three years i beleive). Other than being like you would expect a plane to be like, the only drawback was that they had cut their costs by not including inflight movies or radio, so we had to take our mp3 players to amuse us for the 4.5 hours to egypt. Although this bothered me before getting on the plane it didnt really make that much difference. I wasnt to keen on the shepards pie they fed us at breakfast time on the way out but the roast ... more