Ecuador unwraps
cacao promotion Ecuador has launched a summer incentive to promote one of its most important products, cacao. To win chocolate bearing the ‘Ecuador, The Origin of Cacoa’ trademark, or other goodies, agents should email details of bookings registered between June 6 and July 31 to
ecuador@wearelotus.co.uk
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Jet2.com unveils 2024-25 ski flights to seven destinations
Jet2.com has put its ski programme on sale from10 of its UK bases earlier than ever for winter 2024-25. Reporting “strong demand”
from customers wanting to book ahead, the airline is offering seven ski destinations – Chambery, Geneva, Grenoble, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Lyon and Turin. The ski flights on sale run
from mid-December 2024 to March 31, 2025. The programme totals 34
routes, with more than 60 weekly flights during peak periods. Fares start at £62 one way from
Birmingham to Chambery.
jet2.com/ski
Virgin promotes its São Paulo service with the help of Strictly Come Dancing stars AJ Pritchard and, right, Anton Du Beke
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Virgin trumpets new routes to Brazil, India and Dubai
Samantha Mayling
Virgin Atlantic has revealed more details about its planned new routes to Brazil and India, and the resumption of services to Dubai. The carrier will return to Dubai after a hiatus of
more than four years when flights from Heathrow start on October 28. The four-times-a-week service will operate from
October to March on Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Return fares start at £505. The carrier stopped serving Dubai in March 2019
after 12 years, following a review of its network in 2018. The reinstated service will bring Virgin Atlantic into
direct competition with British Airways and Emirates between the London hub and the Gulf destination. Virgin will start services to São Paulo in Brazil and Bengaluru (Bangalore) in India next year.
Classic Collection to host webinar promoting LGBTQ+-friendly resorts
Classic Collection is marking Pride month during June by hosting an agents’ webinar promoting LGBTQ+-friendly destinations. The West Sussex-based operator will also be a sponsor of Worthing Pride, which is being held on July 7-8. For details of the webinar, which takes place on June 23, visit the Classic Collection agency Facebook page or join the operator’s WhatsApp group.
facebook.com/groups/classicagents
travelweekly.co.uk The daily service from Heathrow to São Paulo’s
Guarulhos International airport will be the airline’s first route to South America. Flights will start on May 13, 2024. Tickets will
go on sale in August, with fares from £655. Bengaluru will become Virgin’s third destination
in India – and its fourth daily service to the country – when flights start on March 31. Virgin will also introduce flights between
Manchester and Las Vegas next summer. The service will operate on one of the carrier’s
newest aircraft, the Airbus A350-1000. Fares will start at £770. On June 14, the airline introduced an inter-island
service in the Caribbean. Virgin claims to be the only UK airline allowing travellers to hop from Barbados to Grenada or St Vincent and the Grenadines.
virginatlantic.com
China Southern Airlines launches
daily Beijing link from Heathrow China Southern Airlines has started a daily service between Heathrow and Beijing Daxing International airport, operated by 314-passenger Airbus A350 aircraft. Return fares to Beijing start at £495 in economy, £1,683 in premium economy and £3,385 in business-class. The airline also resumed a daily Heathrow-Guangzhou service in April.
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