Jet2 adds Santorini
flights and packages
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays has added Santorini, its 14th Greek destination, for summer 2020. The company will operate twice-weekly flights from Manchester and weekly flights from Birmingham and Stansted from May to October.
Jet2.com also confirmed the departure days of its twice-weekly flights to Lisbon from Manchester and Birmingham from April 2020.
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Tui adds winter-sun flights for 2020-21 from UK regions
Tui has added a raft of winter-sun airline seats for winter 2020-21. There will be 74,000 extra seats
from Doncaster Sheffield. New routes from the airport are to Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, both Egypt, Cape Verde, Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, and Cancun, Mexico. There are also additional
flights from Doncaster Sheffield to Lanzarote on Mondays and to Tenerife on Thursdays for next winter. Newcastle gains 38,000 extra
seats for winter 2020-21 with the reintroduction of holidays to Sharm as well as new routes to Tunisia and Hurghada. In Scotland, Tui has added
10,000 winter 2020-21 seats to Sharm from Edinburgh and weekly flights to Hurghada and Sharm from Glasgow from November. The new services are part of
the 400,000 seats Tui announced it would add to its 2020-21 winter programme in November.
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Saga’s new ship targets wine, cricket, food and Beatles fans
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Saga is offering five special-interest voyages in the debut programme of its first new-build river ship. The 190-passenger Spirit of the Rhine will sail its
maiden voyage – the Inaugural Cruise with the Bootleg Beatles – from Amsterdam on March 23, 2021. Prices for the sailing start from £1,249. The six-night sailing will feature a performance by
well-known tribute act the Bootleg Beatles and a private tour of the Beatles Museum in Alkmaar. Other ports of call include Hoorn, Enkhuizen and Zaandam. Bookings for Spirit of the Rhine’s maiden season of
15 itineraries – spanning the Rhine, Moselle, Main, Danube and Dutch waterways – opened on Monday. Other special-interest voyages include a Gilbert and
Sullivan on the Rhine cruise and a From Rembrandt to Rubens sailing for art lovers.
Enable Holidays’ new website aims to help agents find suitable holidays
Accessible travel operator Enable Holidays has unveiled a new website designed to help agents quickly find destinations and hotels to meet disabled clients’ requirements. The search tool allows accommodation to be identified by the adapted facilities required by the holidaymaker, and has live chat and call back options.
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Eight celebrities are lined up to give talks and make
appearances on some of the sailings. They include gardening expert Charlie Dimmock,
DJ Johnnie Walker, cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew and wine connoisseur Jilly Goolden. In addition, Scottish celebrity chef Nick Nairn will provide a signature dish for the speciality à la carte restaurant, where passengers will be able to dine once a week. There will be a minimum of three included shore
excursions on each seven-night cruise. A 14-night cruise will have five excursions included. Saga is dedicating its Resplendent Rhine sailing, on
November 15, to solo travellers and arranging singles groups on two other cruises. Prices start from £1,599. Robert Goodwin, director of product and purchasing,
said: “We can have as many single travellers as we want. Each season, we will have one cruise for solo travellers.”
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