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ASH UPDATE - Charter and leisure flights take off again

•Wednesday, 21 April 2010•3 min read

Thomson Airways flights due to return 1,800 passengers to Newcastle airport were all diverted to Gatwick, Stansted and Birmingham airports last night following the CAA’s announcement to re-open all UK airports.

Thomson Airways will be operating selected outbound UK flights from tomorrow (Thursday).

"We have taken the decision that the repatriation of those who are currently overseas is our priority," the airline said.

Monarch resumed flights from Uk airports in the early hours of this morning.

Flights from Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham and Manchester will be operating.

Monarch plans to run 75 scheduled flights between the UK and mainland Spain, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Portugal, Cyprus and Gibraltar.

There will be 19 charter services operating to destinations including Goa, Sharm el Sheikh, the Maldives, Grenada and Tobago.

Flights from the UK will operate as standard Monarch operations and passengers holding bookings for these flights should proceed to the airport and check-in for these flights as normal.

Inbound flights will operate as repatriation flights.

Monarch passengers stranded overseas are able to book onto these flight via

www.monarch.co.uk or by calling the airline’s customer contact centre on 08719 40 50 40 (or +44 8719 40 50 40).

Only passengers holding an existing flight booking for a Monarch scheduled flight will be able to book onto the repatriation flights, the carrier said.

*Details on all flight schedules and information on how to transfer flight bookings can be found on

www.monarch.co.uk .