New Routes thread

[Clive]

Thought it might be a good idea to have a thread to place all new route announcements in.

We have had a bit of a flurry of new route announcements in the last wee while, with among others Play to KEF, easyJet to OPO, LIS and SOU, TUI to EFL plus the resumption of Sal, Sharm, Naples and Enfidha; and today we got news of Lufthansa to MUC. Just maybe this is a beginnings of a better spell for the airport with the new CEO and new route development managers in place.

So let’s put new route announcements in this thread to keep track of them as well as having individual announcements when good news breaks.

[Clive]

Jet2 have added Malta as a new route for winter 24/25.

[Iain]

I see the first PLAY flight is tomorrow - and FI is a 763!

[awwdabaaby]

Loganair adding additional service to Donegal, 3rd weekly service operating Wednesday now on sale

[GeorgeNTravels]

Thought it might be a good idea to bring all the new routes announced recently together in one place, with frequencies provided as well

2nd November 2023 - easyJet Southampton 2x week
3rd November 2023 - TUI Sal 1x week
8th November 2023 - easyJet Hurghada 2x week
14th November 2023 - WIZZ Air Budapest 2x week
17th November 2023 - WIZZ Air Bucharest 2x week
16th December 2023 - Lufthansa Munich 1x week
23rd December 2023 - TUI Verona 1x week (was Summer only)

3rd April 2024 - Southwind Antalya 1x week
8th May 2024 - Jet2 Verona 1x week
3rd November 2024 - Jet2 Agadir 1x week (2x week in April 25)
4th November 2024 - Jet2 Marrakesh x2 week

[Clive]

easyJet have added routes to PRG, RAK, FUE and ACE from the start of the winter schedule.

[will1983]

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/sco ... ew-routes/

Press release.

PRG year-round.

[Bearsden]

easyJet have added routes to PRG, RAK, FUE and ACE from the start of the winter schedule.

Sadly all routes either operated or announced by other based airlines with the only net gain being Prague from S25

[Bearsden]

Thought it might be a good idea to bring all the new routes announced recently together in one place, with frequencies provided as well

2nd November 2023 - easyJet Southampton 2x week
3rd November 2023 - TUI Sal 1x week
8th November 2023 - easyJet Hurghada 2x week
14th November 2023 - WIZZ Air Budapest 2x week
17th November 2023 - WIZZ Air Bucharest 2x week
16th December 2023 - Lufthansa Munich 1x week
23rd December 2023 - TUI Verona 1x week (was Summer only)

3rd April 2024 - Southwind Antalya 1x week
8th May 2024 - Jet2 Verona 1x week
3rd November 2024 - Jet2 Agadir 1x week (2x week in April 25)
4th November 2024 - Jet2 Marrakesh x2 week

Of course, Southwind never happened and Wizz Air Bucharest finishes on Sunday with no sign of a restart in W24/25

[Iain]

easyJet have added routes to PRG, RAK, FUE and ACE from the start of the winter schedule.

Sadly all routes either operated or announced by other based airlines with the only net gain being Prague from S25

Yes, it looks like a pretty obvious attack on LS, particularly given the head to head same day ops on RAK and PRG, I don't believe that's an accident! How long before LS quietly drop these routes?

As usual it's always one step forward and two back with EZY, because LIS appears to be suspended for W24 (although given the fares over summer I'd be very surprised if it's dropped completely) and we're left with a patchy SOU schedule and weird seasonal BHX schedule which will drive pax - particularly biz pax - eastwards.

I think the chances of getting EZY to launch the likes of MAD and CPH are realistically zero tbh - which make FR all the more important, but that seems like a dead end too.