Ryanair (FR/Dublin) has converted options for additional 10 B737-800s that will be delivered in 2008. It has also announced its next major route expansion using its growing fleet of B737-800s:
Dublin-Almeria: 2x weekly service starting on January 23
Dublin-Billund: 4x weekly service starting on January 24
Dublin-Bologna Forli: 4x weekly service starting on February 9
Dublin-Friedrichshafen: 3x weekly service starting on December 19
Dublin-Grenoble: 3x weekly service starting on December 19
Dublin-Madrid: daily service starting on February 8
Dublin-Oslo Torp: daily service starting on December 19
Dublin-Pula: 3x weekly service starting on February 8
Dublin-Rzeszow: 2x weekly service starting on January 24
Dublin-Seville: 3x weekly service starting on January 23
Dublin-Tampere: 4x weekly service starting on December 20
Dublin-Vitoria: 4x weekly service starting on January 24
Frankfurt Hahn-Biarritz: 3x weekly service starting on October 31
Frankfurt Hahn-Nantes: 3x weekly service starting on October 31
Frankfurt Hahn-Sarmellek: 3x weekly service starting on October 31
Frankfurt Hahn-Valencia: daily service starting on October 31
Glasgow Prestwick-Eindhoven: 5x weekly service starting on October 31
Glasgow Prestwick-Riga: 4x weekly service starting on November 1
London Luton-Fez: 3x weekly service starting on October 31
London Luton-Marrakech: 4x weekly service starting on November 1
London Stansted-Deauville: 3x weekly service starting on October 31
London Stansted-Pula: 3x weekly service starting on October 31
Shannon-Bournemouth: 3x weekly service starting on October 26
Shannon-Edinburgh: 3x weekly service starting on October 26
It will however give up several routes by the end of October instead:
Dublin-Humberside
London Gatwick-Knock
London Luton-Stockholm Vasteras
Milan Orio al Serio-Liverpool
Milan Orio al Serio-Newcastle
Shannon-London Luton
Monarch Airlines (ZB/London Luton) has announced new routes for next year's summer season:
Birmingham-Ibiza: 5x weekly service starting on May 24
London Gatwick-Ibiza: 4x weekly service starting on May 24
London Luton-Almeria: 4x weekly service starting on May 3
London Luton-Ibiza: 4x weekly service starting on May 24
Manchester-Ibiza: 5x weekly service starting on May 19
Manchester-Jerez de la Frontera: 4x weekly service starting on March 25
It will add two additional ex-bmi british midland (BD/Nottingham) A321-200s in 2007. Monarch will give up its Blackpool-Malaga route on October 27.
Flybe. (BE/Exeter) is reportedly considering launching new services from Guernsey and Jersey to Paris CDG. It will give up its routes from Bristol, Norwich and Southampton to Bordeaux by the end of October.
easyJet (U2/London Luton) has finally launched three times weekly B737-700 service from London Luton to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen on August 1, it will operate daily from September. The launch of the route had been delayed earlier because easyJet did not get traffic rights for the route in time for the planned launch. In addition, it has announced more new routes:
Basle/Mulhouse-Munich: 2x daily A319-100 service starting on October 30
Bristol-Paris CDG: daily A319-100 service starting on October 30
Geneva-Hamburg: daily A319-100 service starting on December 1 operated by easyJet Switzerland (DS/Geneva)
Geneva-Prague: daily A319-100 service starting on October 29 operated by easyJet Switzerland (DS/Geneva)
Milan Malpensa-Amsterdam: daily A319-100 service starting on October 31
Milan Malpensa-Prague: daily A319-100 service starting on December 15
Nottingham-Ibiza: weekly seasonal A319-100 service between July 15 and September 9
It will suspend various routes by the end of this summer timetable period:
Basle/Mulhouse-Palma de Mallorca (October 29)
Belfast Intl-Inverness (October 29)
Belfast Intl-Nice (October 28)
Belfast Intl-Palma de Mallorca (October 29)
Berlin Schoenefeld-Krakow (October 29)
Berlin Schoenefeld-Valencia (November 5)
Bristol-Budapest (October 29)
Bristol-La Rochelle (October 29)
Bristol-Valencia (October 30)
Dortmund-Paris CDG (November 5)
Geneva-Palma de Mallorca (October 29)
London Gatwick-Cork (October 1)
London Gatwick-Knock (October 1)
London Gatwick-Shannon (October 1)
London Luton-Bratislava (October 1)
London Luton-Rimini (October 28)
Newcastle-Berlin Schoenefeld (October 30)
Newcastle-Budapest (October 30)
It has transferred an additional A319-100 aircraft from its UK fleet to easyJet Switzerland. In other news, Saudi Arabian charter carrier National Air Services (Jeddah) has expressed its interest in using the easyJet brand as a franchisee in the Middle East. NAS is planning to launch a low-cost carrier later this or early next year.
GB Airways (GT/London Gatwick) will add Fez to its network on October 2 when it will launch three weekly triangle A320-200 services from London Gatwick operating either inbound or outbound via Marrakech. The British Airways (BA/London Heathrow) franchisee will move the route to Heathrow in early November when it will also launch a daily nonstop service from Heathrow to Marrakech in addition to the existing services on the route. It will continue to operate up to two daily services between Gatwick and Gibraltar but will give up its daily London Heathrow-Gibraltar service on October 28.
SkyEurope Airlines (NE/Bratislava) has announced various new routes:
Bucharest Baneasa-Rome Fiumicino: 4x weekly B737-700 service starting on January 12, 2007
Budapest-Bucharest Baneasa: daily B737-300 service starting on February 1, 2007
Prague-Grenoble: weekly B737-700 service starting on December 23
Prague-Turin: 2x weekly B737-700 service starting on December 26
Salzburg-Paris Orly: 3x weekly B737-300/700 service starting on September 15 (replacing Innsbruck-Paris Orly route)
It will operate its last service between Budapest and Bologna on September 19. SkyEurope is expected to add Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen to its network soon.