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EasyJet adds Robin Hood links
Chris Gray.
said the new routes were expected to attract
EASYJET will add Robin Hood airport to its business and leisure passengers.
network next spring when it claims it will become EasyJet started flying from Manchester in
the largest airline in the north of England. summer last year, when one aircraft was based
It will fly from the Doncaster/Sheffield termi- there. This year it has now added four aircraft.
Xmas imps fly
nal to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Faro, Palma and Manchester airport commercial director
Prague from April, when it will also base a fifth Andrew Harrison said: “The addition of the fifth
Iceland Express
aircraft at Manchester airport to operate to aircraft at Manchester highlights the confidence
Mahon, Sharm el Sheikh and Zurich. they have in us, despite the tough conditions.”
It will operate 21 departures a week from The airline said it would have 20 aircraft and
NO-FRILLS carrier Iceland Express has decorated Robin Hood airport using an Airbus A319, and ex- 18% of its capacity in the north of England,
its cabins with traditional Icelandic imps pects to carry about 300,000 passengers across carrying six million passengers a year.
throughout the Christmas period. the five routes in the first year of operation. The airline’s emphasis on its northern routes
The Yule Lads, or Jolasveinar, are said to visit Robin Hood airport is owned by Peel Airports, comes as a challenge to Jet2.com, which has built
families over the festive season and wreak havoc whose chief executive Mark Whitworth said it a reputation as a northern no-frills carrier from
during preparations for celebrations. would have double-digit growth in its Leeds Bradford airport base.
They have appeared on aircraft flying the 2010 as a result of easyJet’s move. EasyJet will add other routes
Gatwick and Stansted routes to Reykjavik as part EasyJet UK regional general next spring from Edinburgh, Liver-
of Iceland Express’s festive celebrations. Passen- manager Paul Simmons said the pool, Bristol and Gatwick among
gers will also be offered Icelandic beer, while airline could now tap into the 36 new European services.
children will be given Christmas colouring books. Yorkshire catchment area and Other new UK routes are
Iceland Express will start flying between conurbations such as Sheffield, Bristol to Tenerife and Paphos,
Birmingham and Reykjavik, and Gatwick to Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham, Edinburgh-Lisbon, Gatwick to
Akureyri next summer. Hull, Worksop and Wakefield. He Bordeaux and Liverpool-Rhodes.
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