Flybe launches winter schedule
Flybe has put its winter 2017/18 programme on sale, with a choice of 2,680 flights a week on 121 key routes.
The programme starts on October 29 and includes ski and winter-sun routes as well as four new routes: Edinburgh and Aberdeen-Heathrow; Cardiff-Rome and Aberdeen-Southampton.
Ten ski routes start in December: to Chambery from Birmingham, Cardiff and Exeter: to Geneva from Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Isle of Man, Jersey and Southampton: and new weekly flights from Manchester to Innsbruck.
Seven winter sun routes – to Alicante from Doncaster Sheffield, Exeter and Southampton; Faro from Cardiff and Exeter, as well as Malaga from Doncaster and Exeter – have been added.
In addition, there will be up to three flights a day between Newquay and Gatwick.
In total, Flybe will have 3.6 million seats available between October and the end of February 2018.
Flybe CEO, Christine Ourmieres-Widener said: "This will be our first season of our plans to optimise and standardise our route network with a renewed focus.
"The schedule has been carefully designed to satisfy those wanting to book convenient affordable business travel as well as for those looking for short weekend leisure breaks over the autumn/February half-terms and Christmas/New Year holidays, and for those wanting to use Flybe services to connect seamlessly on to worldwide destinations with our airline partners."
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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