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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

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...

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...

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:

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...

Flybe was previously one of Europe's largest previous carriers before its collapse in March 2020 and was the biggest airline in the domestic market in the United Kingdom - with 46.4% of seats in UK domestic regional market (excluding London). The airline had its largest bases in Birmingham and Manchester, with a significant market share in Belfast City, Exeter, Newquay and Southampton, among others. With the Flybe CEO rumoured to be coming to the UK next week and Flybe's website receiving an update in recent weeks, is the relaunch of Flybe imminent and what could we expect from the relaunch? Since the collapse  of Flybe in March 2020,  airlines including Aer Lingus, Aurigny, British Airways, Blue Islands, Eastern Airways, easyJet, Loganair and Ryanair have grown the number of UK routes. All bar two domestic routes which were operating at the time of Flybe's collapse have now been picked up - these being Edinburgh-Manchester and Exeter-London City, with both having regular r...

Following the loss of Ryanair in early 2021 and the travel restrictions imposed during the COVID-19, City of Derry Airport looked to be suffering. It had lost its two busiest routes (Edinburgh and Liverpool), with charter flights to Palma de Mallorca cancelled for the summer due to uncertainties in travel restrictions. This left the airport with just one airline (Loganair) and two routes - Glasgow and London Stansted for 2021. However, the airport has turned its fortunes around and have recently announced a series of new routes and increased frequencies, with Loganair today announcing a new City of Derry to Edinburgh route from May 2022. In March, Loganair announced a third route to Liverpool, with four weekly flights, increasing to seven weekly in late June and were further increased to nine weekly flights in peak summer. Whilst this was less seats than offered under Ryanair, it did involve more flights and were more attractive to those wanting to be flexible with their travel. Additi...