Budget airline Jet2.com announces five new routes from Newcastle Airport
Posted on August 25th, 2009
Jet2.com have announced that as of next year there will be 5 new routes flying to Crete, Dalaman, Gran Canaria, Paphos and Sharm el Sheikh, which takes the total number of Jet2 routes to 19 flying out from Newcastle Airport. Chief Exec Philip Meeson added the he expects to add more routes in the near future.
The plan is to get these routes flying out as of May next year,
Mr Meeson said: “We think this will create more than 125 jobs in Jet2 alone, then there are infrastructure jobs in security and baggage.
“These jobs are going to go to local people, all the crews and staff will be based here.
“The jobs will also, hopefully, show our renewed commitment to this great region.”
Newcastle Airport is doing well to escape the problems with the economic downturn on the aviation industry.
In June, Emirates announced it was defying the downturn with significant year-on-year growth in passenger and cargo levels on its flights from Newcastle.
The daily service to Dubai from Newcastle Airport launched in September 2007 and has carried more than 250,000 passengers, as well as more than three million tonnes of cargo.
Mr Meeson also believed that passengers liked to travel from regional airports that were nearer to their homes.
He went on to say: “Newcastle has very good road connections for Cumbria and the west of the country, as well as Edinburgh, and there is the Metro line from the town. When you get here it is a very quick airport to get through.”
Jet2 also announced it was increasing the frequency of its summer service from Newcastle to Tenerife to three times a week and its service to Lanzarote to twice a week.
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Jet2.com announce new route to Tunisia from Newcastle International Airport | Newcastle Airport Parking UK Says:
September 5th, 2009 at 8:13 pm[...] new route comes a week after we announced Jet2.com are starting 5 new routes to Turkey, Gran Canaria, Cyprus, Greece and [...]