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Jet2 boosts agent tie-ups
■ EasyJet adds Gatwick flights to fill XL void
EasyJet is adding more flights from Gatwick to
Turkey, Egypt and Tenerife in October in response
Chris Gray.
week the airline announced four new destinations
to a drop in capacity following the collapse of XL. JET2.COM is offering XML links to more agents as from Edinburgh International. It will start a four-
It is adding four flights to Dalaman, Turkey, 18 it emphasises its trade-friendly outlook. times-a-week service to Dusseldorf next March,
flights to Sharm el Sheikh, and two to Tenerife. Chief executive Philip Meeson said Jet2 was followed by flights to Ibiza, Menorca and Venice
The first of the flights departs on October 13. increasing the number of individual agents and next summer. It is also due to start a weekly
groups but declined to name any new signings. Manchester-Rhodes flight on May 20.
■ Eastern Airways plans Aberdeen-Oslo link “Jet2.com is absolutely agent-friendly and is Meeson said Jet2 had further expansion plans
Eastern Airways will start operating between very happy for agents to sell both our seat-only within its strategy of concentrating on leisure
Aberdeen and Oslo from January with a service and our holiday offering,” he said, adding that trips from the north of England and Scotland.
targeting oil industry workers and short-break Jet2’s stance contrasted with Ryanair’s threat to Jet2 is offering a new Ford Fiesta to the agent
leisure travellers. The six-times-a-week flight to cancel bookings made by agents. who sells the most flights and holidays to Sharm
the Norwegian capital starts on January 12 and Jet2’s parent company, Dart Group, recently el Sheikh and any of its sun and ski destinations.
will use a 50-seat Saab 2000 aircraft. Weekday announced it was on course to make a £30 million Agents must register bookings made to Sharm,
flights leave Aberdeen at 10.20 and Sunday profit for the first half of this year. Alicante, Barcelona, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Majorca,
services leave at 12.20. Meeson (pictured) declined to give figures for Menorca, Sardinia, Tenerife, Chambery, Geneva
the airline itself, beyond saying it was in profit. and Salzburg between October 1 and December 31.
■ Gulf Air trims stopover time to Oman Jet2’s four shopping trip flights from Leeds to
Gulf Air is introducing new schedules between New York City this winter are selling well and last ■ Register at
jet2.com/winacar
Heathrow and Oman from October 26, giving it
the only overnight flight between London and
Muscat. The new schedules will give outbound
customers a stopover of no more than an hour
at its hub in Bahrain, compared with previous
stopover times of about two hours. Introductory
fares start at £338 economy and £118 business.
■ Peltours flies Manchester-Taba with Jet2
Peltours is resuming flights from Manchester
to the Red Sea resort of Taba after finding a
replacement airline for XL Airways. The flights
with
Jet2.com start on October 20. Seven-night
holidays start at £509 half-board.
■ Ski bonanza from Southampton
Virgin Blue touts airpass commission
Three more ski operators are to operate flights
from Southampton airport this winter. Esprit Ski AUSTRALIAN airline Virgin Blue has released between three and eight flights, and agents can
and Ski Total will fly to Chambery, while Ski Peak an airpass paying agents 5% commission on put up to nine passengers on one airpass.
will operate to Grenoble. The Channel Islands domestic flights. A variety of passes are offered, starting from
airline Blue Islands will also start flying between The Virgin Blue Airpass can be combined with A$207 (£91) for three flights. Virgin Blue
Southampton and Zurich. an international flight on any airline and arranged splits Australia into four geographic zones with
for customers in the same booking. It pays agents different starting prices for flights in each zone.
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Conservatives ‘naive’ in opposing Heathrow runway
CHEAPFLIGHTS chief executive Chris preferable to a third ru nway “beggared belief” avoidance of air traffic control and ground
Cuddy (pictured) has joined British and would condemn Heathrow to a permanent handling delays,” he said. “The concept that
Airways boss Willie Walsh in future as the most delay-prone airport in Europe. high-speed rail links to Leeds and Manchester,
condemning Conservative plans to Cuddy said the Conservative idea was “naive”. commendable as stand-alone projects, can meet
scotch proposals for a third Heathrow “A third runway will be good for passengers, the needs of the UK is naive to say the least.”
runway. good for the airlines desperate to keep costs down, Airline group Bar UK also backed Walsh, saying
Walsh said the Tories’ idea that good for the UK as an international business Heathrow would “fade away” as an international
a high-speed rail link would be centre and good for the environment through the hub airport without a third runway.
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