southflyer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 7:43 pm
easyJet has put new route on sale from Glasgow to Hurghada in Egypt
First flights will take off from 6 November to Hurghada
Seats are now on sale on easyJet.com and via the mobile app with fares starting from £35.99*
easyJet, Scotland’s largest airline, has today announced it will be launching three new winter routes to its Scottish network, meaning customers can choose from an even greater range of destinations to enjoy this winter and book early to get the best fares.
Launching this winter flights from Scotland to Egypt’s scuba diving hotspot Hurghada. Flights will launch from Glasgow twice a week starting from 8 November operating year round.
easyJet is the number one carrier from the UK to both Egypt and North Africa, which continue to prove popular with UK holidaymakers for guaranteed winter sun, vast sandy beaches and world-renowned coral reefs.
In May the airline announced it would be launching nine new routes this winter including the only route from the UK to Akuyeri in Iceland and with eight additional new routes on sale from today from the UK, customers have even more choice when looking to book their next winter getaway, whether they’re hitting the slopes, browsing Europe’s best Christmas markets, planning a magical family holiday or chasing the winter sun.
Flights on new routes for this winter are now available to book at easyJet.com and via the mobile app starting from £35.99.*
The PR/social media team are a total distaster, crap grammar and can't even get their facts right
Cut & Paste!
This is GLA's website announcing one route yet begs the question what the other two are . . . EDI (Hurghada and a short season to Rovanemi)
So they get the dates mixed up by firstly quoting the EDI start date
Shamateur from the press office but you expect nothing less these days.
Good news on the destination front though, we've got to welcome almost anything, but flight times not too braw in my opinion.
Thought I’d compare the actual EasyJet announcement to GLA’s and found an interesting snippet in that Hurghada will be year round from GLA. Not sure if this therefore means we will be losing another destination, shuffling round of routes with EJU covering even more or indeed if we might be lucky enough to gain a 6th aircraft… probably going too far at the end there.
Gla1 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:13 pm
Thought I’d compare the actual EasyJet announcement to GLA’s and found an interesting snippet in that Hurghada will be year round from GLA. Not sure if this therefore means we will be losing another destination, shuffling round of routes with EJU covering even more or indeed if we might be lucky enough to gain a 6th aircraft… probably going too far at the end there.
Good spot there to see that it's year round, that makes it even better news! Theyd have to do quite a lot of shuffling to fit two of those very long sector returns into a 5 aircraft summer timetable, so hopefully it might mean a sixth based aircraft could appear.
Gla1 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:13 pm
Thought I’d compare the actual EasyJet announcement to GLA’s and found an interesting snippet in that Hurghada will be year round from GLA. Not sure if this therefore means we will be losing another destination, shuffling round of routes with EJU covering even more or indeed if we might be lucky enough to gain a 6th aircraft… probably going too far at the end there.
Good spot there to see that it's year round, that makes it even better news! Theyd have to do quite a lot of shuffling to fit two of those very long sector returns into a 5 aircraft summer timetable, so hopefully it might mean a sixth based aircraft could appear.
GLA should encourage (ie discount deals) for non-based sectors in between the based Jet2/TUI waves
bill wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:48 pm
Shamateur from the press office but you expect nothing less these days.
Good news on the destination front though, we've got to welcome almost anything, but flight times not too braw in my opinion.
Is the press office in house or is it done by a third party in AGS’ behalf?
Back to the subject, clearly this is about easyJet Holidays setting up in the Hurghada area. Very happily for GLA we haven’t been ignored and are part of this wider picture. Hopefully our market will support it so that we feature in future developments like this.
WRT a sixth aircraft - fingers and toes crossed because there are many shorter-haul Euro city destinations that we really need easyJet to cover. MAD is a glaring example now that they are doing the likes of BCN and LIS from here.
As much as I'd love to see aircraft 6 (and 7 and so on) I can't see the base growing until the 5th aircraft is based on a year round bases. I could be wrong of course.
Gla1 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:13 pm
Thought I’d compare the actual EasyJet announcement to GLA’s and found an interesting snippet in that Hurghada will be year round from GLA. Not sure if this therefore means we will be losing another destination, shuffling round of routes with EJU covering even more or indeed if we might be lucky enough to gain a 6th aircraft… probably going too far at the end there.
Good spot there to see that it's year round, that makes it even better news! Theyd have to do quite a lot of shuffling to fit two of those very long sector returns into a 5 aircraft summer timetable, so hopefully it might mean a sixth based aircraft could appear.
GLA should encourage (ie discount deals) for non-based sectors in between the based Jet2/TUI waves
We've been saying that for years now. So many opportunities.
bill wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:48 pm
Shamateur from the press office but you expect nothing less these days.
Good news on the destination front though, we've got to welcome almost anything, but flight times not too braw in my opinion.
Is the press office in house or is it done by a third party in AGS’ behalf?
No idea George. Either way, it's pretty poor constantly.
