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2025 UK New Routes

Below is a list of new routes for 2025. The page will get updated as routes start or new routes added. Any errors, please contact @SeanM1997 via twitter/X: January: 4 January - easyJet - Newcastle to Lyon 18 January - easyJet - Leeds/Bradford to Geneva February: 4 February - Jet2 - Bournemouth to Tenerife South 6 February - Jet2 - Bournemouth to Lanzarote 9 February - Jet2 - Bournemouth to Gran Canaria 9 February - Scandinavian Airlines - London Heathrow to Salen/Scandinavian Mountains 14 February - easyJet - Liverpool to Berlin 14 February - easyJet - Liverpool to Sharm El Sheikh 19 February - easyJet - Liverpool to Fuerteventura March: 4 March - Jet2 - Liverpool to Malaga 27 March - Jet2 - Birmingham to Porto 30 March - British Airways - London Heathrow to Tbilisi 30 March - easyJet - Edinburgh to Milan Linate 30 March - easyJet - Leeds/Bradford to Palma de Mallorca 30 March - easyJet - London Gatwick to Dusseldorf 30 March - easyJet - London Southend to Enfidha 30 March - easyJet ...
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2024 UK New Routes

Below is a list of new routes for 2024. The page will get updated as routes start or new routes added. Any errors, please contact @SeanM1997 via twitter/X: January 2024: 13 January - Ryanair - Liverpool to Warsaw Chopin February 2024: 3 February - easyJet - Birmingham to Salzburg 3 February - easyJet - Bournemouth to Lyon 4 February - easyJet - London Southend to Grenoble 8 February - Wizz Air - London Luton to Salzburg 10 February - Jet2 - Edinburgh to Chambery March 2024: 3 March - Royal Jordanian - London Stansted to Amman 6 March - Royal Jordanian - Manchester to Amman 8 March - Jet2 - Edinburgh to Rome Fiumicino 18 March - easyJet - Birmingham to Antalya 18 March - easyJet - Birmingham to Barcelona 19 March - easyJet - Birmingham to Alicante 19 March - easyJet - Birmingham to Tenerife South 20 March - easyJet - Birmingham to Larnaca 21 March - easyJet - Birmingham to Enfidha 21 March - easyJet - Birmingham to Malaga 23 March - SunExpress - London Stansted to Antalya 24 March - Sun...
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2023 UK New Routes

Below is a list of new routes for 2023. The page will get updated as routes start or new routes added. Any errors, please contact @SeanM1997 via twitter: December 2023: 24 December - TUI Airways - East Midlands to Turin
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Should Jet2 order the A321XLR?

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Jet2 is currently the UK's third largest scheduled airline in the United Kingdom and second largest tour operator in the UK (behind TUI), but has rapidly grown its reputation and presence across the United Kingdom - offering flights and holidays from the United Kingdom to leisure destinations across Europe. Until 2019, Jet2 faced competition with Thomas Cook until the Thomas Cook Group entered compulsory liquidation - allowing Jet2 to grow operations. Yet this collapse has presented an opportunity - long haul leisure routes. TUI grew long haul operations following the collapse of Thomas Cook - shifting operations from Orlando Sanford to Melbourne/Orlando to be closer to Port Canaveral where TUI's Marella Cruises sail, as well as adding Varadero to its network - entering the Cuban market. However, Jet2 focussed on growing its European network, but with capacity in excess of pre-COVID levels in many markets, should Jet2 look to the underserved leisure long haul market to grow? Th...
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Have Flybe missed an opportunity?

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22 March 2022 Flybe have announced its first routes - 23 in total, operating from 16 airports including 12 in the United Kingdom. Belfast City and Birmingham are its initial bases and Belfast has over half of the routes served. However, is there a missed opportunity for Flybe? Based on the initial new routes, Flybe will face competition on 16 of the 23 routes including 11 out of 12 serving Belfast City. Of the 19 that are to operate year round, just 3 do not face any competition: Amsterdam - East Midlands Belfast City - East Midlands Leeds/Bradford - London Heathrow Here lies problem number 1 for Flybe - they are targeting routes already served. There is a benefit to this strategy, the market is known, customers are already flying the routes and Flybe can enter with attractive fares to shift consumers from one airline to another. Yet, serving routes with an existing carrier is unlikely to bring deals with airports for better fees. After all, why would airports subsidise a second carrie...
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2022 UK New Routes

Below is a list of new routes for 2022. The page will get updated as routes start or new routes added. Any errors, please contact @SeanM1997 via twitter:
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3 airlines partner on UK domestic flights - is this the new Flybe?

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3 UK domestic carriers - Aurigny, Blue Islands and Loganair have announced a new partnership to  widen their working relationship to offer seamless travel connections across their route networks; aim to coordinate their benefits for frequent flyers; and launch a new programme of co-operation to harness their collective buying power.   Existing partnerships between Blue Islands and Aurigny, and Loganair and Blue Islands, will be strengthened and a new partnership for connecting flights linking the networks of Loganair and Aurigny will be introduced. This will open-up a wide range of connections to and from Guernsey in particular, offering new connections to the north of England, Scotland and the Isle of Man at airports via including Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham where the airlines’ networks meet. Existing links between the Loganair and Blue Islands networks – centred on Southampton and Manchester today – will also be expanded. The map below shows the existing UK opera...
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