Jet2.com expands Manchester schedules
Jet2.com has unveiled three new routes for summer 2010 from Manchester airport to Kos, Venice and Gran Canaria.
The announcement came as Ryanair dislcosed plans to cut routes from the airport (see separate TravelMole story).
Kos and Venice are new scheduled services not previously served by the airport.
Jet2.com has also increased its frequency of its summer 2010 services to Lanzarote, Dalaman, Sharm el Sheikh and Tel Aviv.
It will base a 737 aircraft at the airport, taking the total number of Jet2.com aircraft at Manchester to seven.
Destinations and starting fares for summer 2010 now on sale from Manchester include:
• Venice from £29.99 one way including taxes departing from 3 March 2010
• Kos from £69.99 one way including taxes departing from 26 May 2010
• Gran Canaria from £59.99 departing from 1 May 2010
• Budapest from £29.99 departing from 28 March 2010
• Rome from £29.99 departing from 28 March 2010
• Nice from £29.99 departing from 13 May 2010
• Pisa from £29.99 departing from 27 May 2010
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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