Vueling to add Manchester-Tenerife flights

VUELING AIRLINES is set for further expansion from Manchester Airport this summer, adding a new route to #Tenerife. The Spanish low cost airline will operate one flight a week to the Canary Island during July and August and two flights a week in September and October. 

The airline already runs flights to Barcelona, and from June will also serve Alicante and Rome. 

Gabriel Schmilovich, network planning, scheduling and slots director at Vueling, said: ‘Along with the Barcelona, Rome, and Alicante routes, Vueling will be offering more than 108,000 seats available in Manchester for the upcoming summer season.’

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More flights to Palma

MAJORCA’S capital city is becoming more accessible as a year-round destination thanks to increased flight connections from the UK. 

Jet2 will start its flight operation from Leeds, Manchester, and Edinburgh from February and March 2016.

Flights from Manchester will start on February 11 twice a week on Thursdays and Mondays, with an increase to three times a week from the March 5 before launching its normal summer schedule of 20 flights a week from May. From Leeds, the route will start on February 26 with two flights a week on Friday and Monday before increasing to the normal summer schedule of 12 times a week. Edinburgh's flights will start on March 3 twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays, increasing to five times a week during the summer months.

For summer 2016 the following airlines have announced an increase in their Palma flights:

Ryanair will increase its operations by 25% from Birmingham Airport with 21 new routes including an increase on its Palma operation from one daily flight to nine times a week.

Vueling will increase the number of seats from Cardiff airport to Palma to three times a week from the March, operating on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday with daily flights between June and September.

Aer Lingus will increase its flights from two to five per week from Belfast, operating on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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Vueling to open three new Edinburgh routes

SPANISH low-cost carrier Vueling is to start three new routes from Edinburgh next year. Three flights a week have been scheduled to Rome Fiumicino, Paris Orly and Alicante.

Airport chief executive, Gordon Dewar, said: ‘It is tremendous that we have two new routes to Rome and Paris, and we have increased our service to Alicante. This offers our passengers even greater choice and is further confirmation of Edinburgh Airport's position as a key driver for Scotland's economy. This expansion in service is good news for business and leisure travellers, for Edinburgh, and for Scotland as a whole.’

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Vueling Airlines adds Alicante and Rome flights

VUELING AIRLINES plans to launch two new routes from Manchester Airport next summer. It will run direct flights to #Alicante and #Rome. 

Flights to Alicante will operate on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday, with flights to Rome on Friday and Monday.

Gabriel Schmilovich at Vueling, says: ‘Passengers from Manchester will have the opportunity to fly to more than 140 destinations across Europe connecting via our hubs in Barcelona and Rome Fiumicino.’

Ken O’Toole, managing director for Manchester Airport, adds: ‘We’re delighted that Vueling Airlines has chosen to expand its route network from Manchester Airport. Alicante and Rome are popular destinations with many of our 22.9 million passengers.’

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Tourism promotion targets Spain for holidays in Ulster

COMMUTERS in #Barcelona are seeing advertisements for Belfast and Northern Ireland in metro stations and on buses on the city’s busy thoroughfares. #Tourism Ireland has teamed up with Visit Belfast and Vueling for a promotional campaign which aims to raise awareness of Belfast as a city break destination and to drive sales of Vueling flights from Barcelona to Belfast this autumn. The campaign also includes online advertising and e-marketing.

The campaign includes extensive online advertising on newspaper and travel websites. E-mail marketing will reach 1.3 million potential holidaymakers in this part of Spain and a further one million people on Vueling’s own database.

‘In 2014, we welcomed approximately 32,000 Spanish visitors to Northern Ireland, up by 23% on the previous year,’ says Barbara Wood, Tourism Ireland’s manager in Spain. ‘We are undertaking an extensive programme of promotions throughout 2015, to grow Spanish visitor numbers to Northern Ireland. Our campaign with Visit Belfast and Vueling is an important element of that programme, to boost travel to Northern Ireland during the autumn months.

‘As an island, the importance of convenient, direct, non-stop flights cannot be overstated – they are absolutely critical to achieving growth in inbound tourism.’

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Spanish airport workers set for September strikes

A SERIES of #strikes has been called by Spanish airport workers over four days in September. The action is expected to affect airports in #Madrid, #Barcelona, #Alicante, #Malaga, and #Majorca from next Friday.

The airport handlers are due to walk out in the peak morning and evening periods on September 4, 11, 18, and 25.

The Workers’ Commission Union, one of the three unions involved, warned that easyJet and Vueling would be the airlines most affected.

The threatened stoppages – from 4.30am to 7.30am and 7.30pm to 9.30pm – are being blamed on a decision by handling firm Menzies Aviation Iberica to postpone a collective bargaining agreement.

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Up in the air............

UK’s aviation sector worth £52bn in GDP … and 960,000 jobs:

The UK’s aviation sector is worth £52 billion in overall GDP, 960,000 jobs and £8.7 billion in tax revenues, according to study by Oxford Economics.

The study, commissioned by leading players from the aviation and tourism sectors, shows that all three elements of the sector’s contribution to the UK economy have grown.

Essaouira......Morocco:

THE Moroccan port resort of Essaouira will move a step closer for British travellers next year with the launch of direct flights from London Luton Airport ...... easyJet will start the service on May 1.

Currently British holidaymakers visiting Essaouira must head first to Marrakesh, before taking a two- to three-hour taxi transfer to the coast – at a cost of up to £100 each way – or fly via Paris or Brussels.

New Belfast-Barcelona service:

EUROPEAN airline Vueling will start a twice-weekly Belfast-Barcelona service next May.

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