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Tui adds capacity and 16 hotels for summer 2019
Ben Ireland
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Tui’s 2019 summer programme has 720,000 additional seats and 16 new concept hotels across its Tui and First Choice brands.
The operator has increased capacity in Greece, Turkey and Croatia based on demand. It has also ramped up its
operations from regional airports, with 500,000 of its additional seats from six airports: Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster Sheffield, East Midlands, Glasgow and Manchester. Five more aircraft will operate on 40 new routes from 15 airports. Almost two-thirds of the routes
are unique to Tui and half are to Turkey, Greece and Croatia. An additional 200,000 seats
will be available to year-round sun destination Cape Verde. Tui’s long-haul programme will
see its first flight from Doncaster Sheffield to Orlando Sanford, Florida, where it will offer more villa and self-catering options.
AVIATION
Virgin and Delta to add 500,000 seats from UK to US this summer
Virgin Atlantic and its joint-venture partner Delta Air Lines will increase capacity from the UK regions to the US this summer. More than five million seats will be available from London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast.
CRETE: Tui Sensimar Insula Alba will open next summer
New flights to Cancun from
Bristol and Manchester, and extra capacity to the Mexican airport from Glasgow and Newcastle will also be added for summer 2019. Tui will also open five adult-only Sensimar hotels for summer 2019: in Crete, Zante and Santorini, Greece; Dalaman, Turkey; and Agadir, Morocco. A new Tui Family Life resort in
Antalya, Turkey, will increase the portfolio to 24 in 18 destinations. First Choice will add two
Holiday Villages, in Lanzarote and
Tunisia, and new Splashworlds in the Dominican Republic and Marsa Alam, Egypt. A Magic Life will also open in Bodrum, Turkey. Five new First Choice SuneoClubs will also open: in Kos and Crete, Greece; Hurghada, Egypt; Menorca, Spain; and Dalaman, Turkey. Tui, which said around one
million customers book its concept hotels, is also to make more 10 and 11-night durations available for summer 2019 as more
customers seek flexibility.
tui.co.uk
Virgin Atlantic is trebling the number of seats available between Belfast and Orlando, raising capacity between Manchester and JFK from May, and reintroducing seasonal flights between Manchester and Las Vegas, San Francisco and Boston. It is also adding a sixth daily Heathrow-JFK flight,
while Delta is introducing larger Airbus A330-200s on its twice-daily Heathrow-JFK service to boost capacity. Delta is to resume direct services from London to Salt
Lake City from April 2 and Portland, Oregon, from May 4.
virginatlantic.com delta.com
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MOVERS & SHAKERS
› P&O Cruises has promoted Rosy Sims to trade engagement and onboard sales director following Shane Riley’s move to Virgin Voyages. Sims, who has worked for P&O Cruises for 10 years, had been senior business manager, sales strategy for the line. She took over Riley’s responsibilities last month on an interim basis when Riley’s departure was announced.
› Riviera Travel has appointed Paul Mellon as the line’s first field-based sales development manager, covering the south of England. Mellon, previously at Wendy Wu Tours, Funway and Super Break, started in his new role on Tuesday.
› Veranda and Heritage Resorts has appointed Simon McDermott to the new role of sales executive for the north, Scotland and Ireland. McDermott previously worked at Hurtigruten, AmaWaterways and Scenic. He will work with Sarah Ryan, who remains sales executive for the south of England and London.
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