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XL Airways was to add Paphos before it collapsed, but GB Airways and bmibaby have now stepped in
“Due to a reduction in capacity No-frills and scheduled
to Samos by other operators, airlines
Thomson Airways will offer EasyJet has retained all the Greek
its own weekly flights from routes it inherited when it bought
Manchester and Gatwick.” GB Airways, and added others.
Olympic Holidays commercial It has added Bristol and
director Photis Lambrianides said Manchester to Corfu, Gatwick
there were “no capacity issues” in to Santorini and Manchester to
either Greece or Cyprus. Athens.
“XL seats accounted for less than Rhodes, Thessaloniki, Mykonos
10% of our 2008 flight capacity, and Larnaca are available from
and we had no problem finding al- Gatwick; while Corfu, Crete,
ternatives where we needed Dalaman and Paphos are available
them,” he added. from Gatwick and Manchester.
“A couple of routes may have Athens and Istanbul services
disappeared, but they would prob- operate from Gatwick and Luton.
ably have been consolidated for Monarch offers year-round
2009 anyway.” scheduled flights to Larnaca from
Small independent operators Gatwick, Luton and Manchester,
feared big charter airlines would with flights from Birmingham
dominate after XL’s demise, and al- launching on March 29. Fares
though that has proved to be the start from £77.50 one way
case they have found alternatives. (£153.99 return).
Sunvil operations director Chris Monarch is also a major sched-
Wright said: “Scandinavian uled operator to Turkey, serving
operator Viking, which had Dalaman, Bodrum and Antalya
aircraft based in Crete, saw the from Gatwick, plus Dalaman
chance. It will have two aircraft from Manchester.
based in Gatwick and one in Jet2 is in expansionist mood,
Manchester this summer, and adding a weekly flight to Dalaman
has picked up a lot of XL flying from Manchester and Leeds
for independent operators.” Bradford. New flights from Leeds
Akin Koc, managing director of Bradford also operate to Larnaca
Turkey specialist Anatolian Sky and Rhodes, plus Manchester-
Holidays, said: “There is no doubt Rhodes.
XL left us with some capacity prob- Full service carrier Aegean
lems, but we did manage to find Airlines has added a third daily
extra capacity with Monarch and frequency on its Stansted-Athens
Cyprus Turkish Airlines. We had service, with connections to 16
to contract some other carriers Greek destinations including
including Jet 2 and Viking.” many islands.
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