Jet2 expand from Manchester after Ryanair pull out
18.08.09
Low cost airline Jet2 has announced the addition of three new destinations to its Manchester Airport schedule – hours after rivals Ryanair announced it was axing almost all of its flights from the hub.
From summer 2010 Jet2 will fly to Kos, Venice and Gran Canaria, which it claimed would create in the region of 250 jobs – although it did not say if these would be directly created by the airline. The airline is also increasing frequency to Lanzarote, Dalaman, Sharm el Sheikh and Tel Aviv from summer 2010 and is basing one more 737 aircraft at Manchester, taking its total to seven. The airline said the expansion represented an extra 100,000 seats from the airport.
Earlier yesterday Ryanair announced plans to end or move nine of its ten routes from Manchester to rival airports after the airport ‘refused to lower its charges’ to reflect the lower fares being paid by passengers in the recession.
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