Airlines Launch New Ski Routes
Airlines Launch New Ski Routes
Published : 03-Jun-2012 09:21
Several airlines have announced new routes for winter 2012-13 which are already available to book.
Monarch Airlines will launch 10 new 'ski routes' including flights to Grenoble in France and Friedrichshafen and Munich in southern Germany as well as departures from Leeds Bradford International Airport for the first time.
British Airways has not announced new routes but it is increasing the number of flights to two of its most popular European ski destinations from Gatwick next winter.
From December 18th BA flights to Turin in Italy will increase to 10 a week and flights to Salzburg in Austria will increase to five a week from the south London airport. The extra return service to Turin will operate on a Sunday and extra return services to Salzburg will operate on Thursday and Saturday.
"These routes are already very popular with winter travellers and skiers in particular, so we have taken the opportunity to boost our winter schedule with the extra flights," said Sophie McKinstrie of British Airways Gatwick.
Monarch says that with its new routes alongside its year round services to Milan, Venice and Verona it can now give British skiers access to routes in to the Alps and Dolomites from north, south, east and west.
"The launch of these routes for winter 2012/13 marks an exciting new era for Monarch as we introduce our first programme of scheduled ski flights and target a new customer base of skiers looking to fly to Grenoble, Friedrichshafen, Munich as well as via our numerous Italian destinations," said Kevin George, Managing Director of Monarch Airlines.
The new routes are four flights per week from London Gatwick to Friedrichshafen and four flights a week from London Luton to Munich. From Manchester there'll be two weekly flights to Friedrichshafen, three to Grenoble and four to Munich and from Birmingham three to Grenoble and four to Munich weekly. The new routes from Leeds Bradford are to Grenoble three times per week and to Munich twice weekly.
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