November 26th, 2008
London Gatwick – Weeze with Ryanair
Ryanair will launch a new route from their London (Gatwick) base to Weeze next year. They will begin operating flights on this route from 09 January 2009.
November 24th, 2008
helvetic to fly to Jerez
helvetic are to launch a new route from their Zurich base to Jerez in Spain next year. They will fly weekly on this route from 20 May 2009. This appears contrary to their announcement earlier this year that they were planning to give up scheduled flying.
November 20th, 2008
Ryanair to expand at Charleroi
Ryanair will base an additional aircraft at Brussels (Charleroi) next year and launch three new routes at the same time. From the end of March 2009 they will begin flights from Brussels (Charleroi) to Reus, Trieste and Bratislava.
Germanwings to begin flying to Lourdes
Germanwings have put a new route on sale from their Cologne-Bonn base to Lourdes. They are to begin flying twice per week on this route from 18 May 2009.
Transavia to open Copenhagen base
Transavia, the Dutch low-cost airline, have announced that they will open a base at Copenhagen, in place of the recent bankrupted Danish airline Sterling. From 08 December 2008 they will operate 10 routes from Copenhagen including flights to Malaga, Alicante, Arrecife, Las Palmas, Tenerife (Sur), Faro, Rome (Fiumicino), Nice, Salzburg and Innsbruck.
All of these flights are available to book now at www.transavia.com.
November 19th, 2008
Crete flights from Manchester with Jet2
Jet2 will launch flights from their Manchester base to Heraklion next summer. They will fly weekly on this route from 18 May 2009. Flights can be booked now at www.jet2.com.
London Gatwick – Copenhagen with easyJet
easyJet will launch flights from London (Gatwick) to Copenhagen next year – they will begin flying this route from mid-January 2009. They are also planning to launch flights from Paris (Charles de Gaulle) to Bastia in mid-February 2009.
Wizz Air to launch Oslo – Kiev flights
Wizz Air will begin flying between Kiev and Oslo (Torp) next year. They are due to begin flying twice per week on this route frmo 05 January 2009.
New Spanish Ryanair routes from Gatwick
Ryanair have put on sale two new routes from London (Gatwick) to Spain, bringing their total number of routes operated from Gatwick to 5. From 18 December 2008 they will begin flying from London (Gatwick) to Girona and Alicante.
November 13th, 2008
Ryanair to fly to Lourdes
Ryanair will launch a new route from London (Stansted) to Lourdes this winter. They will begin flying weekly on this route from 20 December 2008.