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In brief
Jet2 creates 25 jobs to
■ Luton gains no-frills link to Rotterdam
Dutch no-frills airline Transavia.com has started
flying twice-daily between Luton and Rotterdam
and begun charter operations in Denmark to fill a
ease Manchester’s pain
gap left by the collapse of Sterling Airlines.
■ KLM cityhopper gains 10 Embraers
Chris Gray,
It is being moved from Belfast because Jet2 is
KLM cityhopper has added the first of 10 Embraer THE impact on Manchester airport of BMI’s deci- dropping its Belfast-Barcelona flight, as the route
190 E-jets to its fleet based at Amsterdam sion to move two A330s to Heathrow has been was already served by easyJet and Aer Lingus.
Schiphol. The Embraers are replacing Fokker softened by Jet2 bringing in another Boeing 757. Ward said the aircraft would be better used
100s operated by the KLM regional subsidiary. BMI’s move to scrap its long-haul services from developing Jet2’s new routes to the eastern
They burn 9% less fuel than its predecessor and Manchester will mean the loss of about 150 Mediterranean and Turkey next summer. The air-
have leather seats four abreast. The aircraft jobs at the airport when the aircraft move to line will have a total of 22 new routes next year.
have two classes and will be deployed on routes Heathrow in January and Easter. It will boost Manchester, which has seen a
to Edinburgh, Munich and Zurich. But Jet2 had decided to move a 757 from big drop in passenger numbers due to the
Belfast to Manchester, creating 25 jobs when the collapse of XL Airways and decisions by BA and
■ Jet Airways offers ‘festival for children’ aircraft is redeployed in May. BMI to scrap long-haul flights from the airport.
Jet Airways has launched an inflight “festival for Jet2 passenger sales director Philip Ward said Manchester now has about 2,500 fewer flights
children” called World of Wonders. It features a the 235-seat 757, the ninth in Jet2’s fleet, would per month than it did a year ago.
Disney Channel compilation of hit shows and a be used to add capacity on routes to Taba and Jet2’s first flight from Leeds to New York took
“Camp Rock” contest based on the film Camp Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, Heraklion in Crete, off with every seat sold last week, the first of four
Rock that premieres on the channel on December Dalaman in Turkey, and Tenerife. shopping flights run with sister firm Jet2Holidays.
26. The airline is offering a prize for two children
to travel to Hong Kong and visit Hong Kong
Disneyland with a parent. To enter, children aged
five to 16 years can log on to jetairways.com and
fill in the online contest form before December 31.
■ LTE suspends scheduled flights from Norwich
Spanish airline LTE has cancelled all its scheduled
services from Norwich International airport until
the end of March. Managing director Michael
Harrington said it was still operating charter
services and was negotiating with a potential
buyer.
■ Innes-Power returns to Royal Brunei
Alison Innes-Power has returned to Royal Brunei
Airlines as UK sales manager. She previously
worked as a sales executive at the airline from
1991 to 1995, after which she worked for airlines
including Air New Zealand and Qantas.
JET ENGINE: Jet2.com passenger sales director Phil Ward hands over the keys to a new
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provided the most bookings for the airline’s summer destinations between July and
September. With them are Paula Raven (left) and Christie Young of Jet2’s marketing team.
Jet2holidays opens local call centre
THE boss of Jet2’s sister tour operator went back and customers win prizes such as upgrades if one
to the floor to take sales calls to promote the of the featured staff answers their call.
company’s local call centre. Jet2holidays managing director Richard Bodin
Jet2holidays moved its call centre back from joined the sales team to help the campaign and
India to Yeadon in Leeds, creating 30 jobs, in give away a holiday to the customer whose call
October. Staff have been featuring in a local he answered.
radio campaign promoting their local knowledge, The campaign runs to November 17. Through to the boss: Richard Bodin answers customer calls
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