Thomsonfly Routes Launch

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Slightly long winded so apologies!! Copy of our press release regarding new low cost routes for Summer 2007. Sign up to the Thomson & Thomsonfly programme on CJ and you will earn 2% on all charter flight bookings and £2 per booking for low cost flight bookings.


Thomsonfly today continues its growth and ownership of the skies by announcing it will be expanding its summer network of scheduled low fares flights in 2007.

An additional 28 new low fares routes go on sale this week and more are expected to be announced later in the year. This strengthens Thomsonfly’s position as the UK airline offering the widest range of low fare flights from more UK departure points than any other airline. It also shows Thomsonfly’s commitment to meeting the changing needs of travellers who want more convenience and choice and are increasingly turning to the internet to find the cheapest flights available for short city breaks, business travel and summer holidays.

The growth in low cost flying for the coming summer will see scheduled low fares on no less than 11 new routes from Manchester and on five new routes from Gatwick. Also added are new scheduled flights to the Balearic Islands, Spain and Cyprus from Nottingham East Midlands, to Faro from Cardiff, to Prague from Bournemouth and Luton, and to Valencia from Bournemouth. This new service will meet the needs of the sailing community on the South Coast travelling to the 2007 America’s Cup, hosted in Valencia

Today’s announcement means that Thomsonfly now offers more routes than any other airline from Manchester Airport. On sale today are exciting new scheduled low fare routes, all operating at least four times per week, on sale to Faro, Menorca, Paphos, Venice, Naples, Salzburg and Dubrovnik with prices starting from £19.99 one-way including taxes and charges. This is in addition to our low fares flights to Malaga, Alicante, Palma and Ibiza, and new low fares services to Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Corfu and Lanzarote. Additional new routes for summer 2007 will also be announced and on sale soon. To achieve this level of growth Thomsonfly will be basing extra aircraft in Manchester.

More low fares flights to Spain and the Balearic Islands from across the UK reinforce Thomsonfly’s commitment to these destinations, with a new low fares service to Menorca from Manchester, Gatwick and East Midlands; Palma served with high frequency flights from 11 UK airports, Ibiza from 9 UK airports and Malaga and Alicante from 8 UK airports. Thomsonfly remains one of the biggest airlines flying to the Canary Islands, with low fares flights to Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote available from Manchester and Gatwick. With over 100 weekly departures to Palma in the peak of summer across its whole network, Thomsonfly has a local low fares service within an hour of everyone in the UK.

Currently boasting the widest coverage of any UK carrier, with daily flights from some airports during peak ski season, Thomsonfly’s low fare flights will operate from Coventry and Manchester next summer, with prices as low as £19.99 one way.

Prague is proving so popular as a new low fares route from Luton for this winter that the airline has decided to extend this route into the summer months as well as offering low fares flights to the Czech Capital from Bournemouth and Doncaster-Sheffield.

Thomsonfly remains committed to providing a high level of customer service and offers allocated seating on all flights unlike the majority of low fares airlines, as well as offering passengers the opportunity to book inflight meals and extra legroom. Thomsonfly also offers the most generous baggage allowance among low fares airlines – 25kg with flexibility for passengers to choose how they split this between hand luggage and hold luggage.

Guy Stephenson, Thomsonfly’s commercial director, said: “The announcement of our expanded flight programme for next summer makes Thomsonfly an even more serious player in the UK’s low fares market. With fares from just £19.99 including taxes and charges, customers will benefit from a range of brilliant destinations, a fantastic choice of regional departure options, really attractive prices, allocated seating, a flexible 25kg baggage allowance and a selection of great products to buy to make the journey even more comfortable. We believe this matches what our customers are telling us they want, and we are convinced our new routes will be a great success.”

The airline is building on its reputation as one customers can trust – unlike several of its competitors Thomsonfly did not cancel any flights during the recent security disruptions.

Thomsonfly is now offering low fares flights to over 80 destinations from 20 UK airports.

Full list of new routes:

· Manchester to: Salzburg, Venice, Naples, Dubrovnik, Faro, Paphos, Mahon, Tenerife, Corfu, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote,

· Gatwick to: Paphos, Mahon, Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, Corfu

· East Midlands to: Alicante, Palma, Ibiza, Mahon and Paphos

· Cardiff to: Faro

· Bournemouth to: Valencia and Prague

· Luton to: Prague, Corfu and Paphos

Other low fares routes also going on sale today are:

· Coventry to: Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Ibiza, Valencia, Barcelona, Pisa, Faro and Salzburg

· Doncaster Sheffield to: Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Ibiza, Pisa, Faro, Prague

· Bournemouth to: Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Pisa and Faro

· Manchester to: Malaga, Alicante, Palma and Ibiza

· Cardiff to: Malaga, Alicante, Palma and Ibiza

· Luton to: Malaga, Palma and Ibiza

· Gatwick to: Malaga, Alicante, Palma and Ibiza

· Newcastle to: Malaga, Alicante, Palma and Ibiza

· Birmingham to: Palma

· Glasgow to: Palma