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Jet2 owner sees profits rocket
JET2.COM OWNER Dart Group has recorded a 38% increase in profits thanks to the airline’s improved load factors and higher ticket prices. Dart made a profit of £38.7 million for the six months to the end of September, compared with £28.1 million for the same period in 2009. The company, which also owns a distribution business, said Jet2’s load factors had increased to 87.5% for the half-year – an improvement of 6.2 percentage points on last year. Dart chairman Philip Meeson said: “Aviation
revenues rose by 25% to £270 million as a result of increased passenger volumes, higher average revenues per passenger and continued growth in
Jet2holidays.com “Ticket yields increased by 8% year-on-year,
partly as a result of the change in mix towards longer-haul destinations.” Jet2 is increasing its seat capacity for next summer by 26% by opening its eighth UK base at Glasgow and by adding services from East Midlands, Newcastle and Manchester. In addition, winter capacity for 2010-11 will
be driven up by 29% due to Jet2’s new winter services from East Midlands.
Southampton now ‘gateway to France’
SOUTHAMPTON AIRPORT has laid claim to being the UK’s main gateway to France after Flybe launched three new routes to the country. Flybe’s new summer 2011 services to Beziers,
Clermont-Ferrand and Pau bring the number of Southampton-France routes to 13, which the airline said was more than any other UK airport. Starting in May, the Beziers and Pau routes will
run twice a week and Clermont-Ferrand three times a week. Jan Halliday, Southampton director of market-
ing and communications, said they would appeal to tourists and businesses wanting to fly to central and southern France and the Pyrenees. Flybe chief commercial officer Mike Rutter said they would make Southampton the most convenient gateway to southern England for French tourists.
24 26.11.2010
CityJet: trade can help us take off
Chris Gray. CITYJET IS planning more routes to the UK and aims to improve facilities at its London City base, starting with mobile phone check-in within the next few weeks.
The airline, a subsidiary of Air France-KLM,
started routes to Brive in the Dordogne and Deauville in Normandy in June, targeting tourists and second-home owners. It is starting a daily Florence service from January 10, with seven services running from December 22 to January 9. Christine Ourmieres, who took over as CityJet
chief executive in October, said the airline was not changing its core focus on business travellers but was also aiming to capture leisure travellers, adding that Florence would appeal to the city break market. Ourmieres also said the airline’s ability to
attract more passengers relied on improving facilities at London City. Options were limited because of the lack of lounge facilities there, she said, but CityJet’s soon-to-launch mobile phone check-in would speed up progress through the airport. Ourmieres added that CityJet was unlikely to
Ourmieres: brand promotions will target UK agents
be in profit this year, but would be back in the black for the 2011-12 financial year. She accepted the airline needed to improve
awareness of its brand among UK trade and consumers, and said it was planning more trade activity next year as well as increasing its presence on Twitter and Facebook to reach out to more consumers.
She said it was also planning to harness more of the marketing power of Air France-KLM to help promote CityJet, even though the airline remained a separately managed entity.
cgray@ttglive.com
020 7921 8003 Chris Gray
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