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The orange low fares airline, easyJet added 5 more routes to its timetable today. This will bring the score of new routes for 2007 to 30. The five new routes are:

London Gatwick <> La Rochelle daily from 14 July to 9 September
Madrid <> Palma Mallorca daily from 26 February
Berlin (Schoenefeld) <> Lisbon Daily from 11 May
Berlin (Schoenefeld) <> Venice daily from 11 May
Geneva <> Cagliari daily from 29 June to 7 September

In addition the following routes make up the remaining 25. Some of which have been published on here some of which haven’t as this web site is my hobby and my family and day job have priority.

Belfast <> Krakow 3 X Weekly from 24 April
Belfast <> Ibiza 1 x weekly from 7 July
Bristol <> Bordeaux Daily fro 31 March
Bristol <> Ibiza 1 x weekly from 14 July
Edinburgh <> Munich Daily from 4 April
Edinburgh <> Palma 1 x weekly from 5 May
Geneva <> Bordeaux Daily from 29 June
Geneva <> Oporto Daily from 29 June
Glasgow <> Ibiza1 x weekly from 16 June
London Gatwick <> Pisa Daily from 3 April
London Gatwick <> Palermo Daily from 18 June
London Luton<> Ibiza Daily from 5 May
Lyon <> Rome (Ciampino) Daily from 16 February
Madrid <> Asturias 2 x Daily from 15 February
Madrid <> Casablanca Daily from 22 February
Madrid <> Edinburgh Daily from 25 February
Madrid <> La Coruna 2 x Daily from 15 February
Madrid <> Lyon Daily from 16 February
Madrid<> Marrakech Daily from 22 February
Madrid <> Rome (Ciampino) Daily from 23 February
Madrid <> Toulouse Daily from 25 February
Milan (Malpensa) <> Edinburgh Daily from 21 May
Newcastle <> Krakow 4x weekly from 30 March
Newcastle <> Mahon 2x weekly from 14 July
Paris (Orly) <> Athens Daily from 4 May

easyJet is adding 12 new aircraft to its fleet this Summer enabling them to service 258 routes.

Thomsonfly will add Barcelona to its Summer 2007 destinations available to passengers from Cardiff. The airline will operate the route four times per week offering one way fares starting at £22.99 one way including taxes and charges.

Another six new routes are on offer from easyJet starting in the Summer of 2007. The breakdown is:
Geneva <> Bordeaux starts 29 June 2007
Geneva <> Porto starts 29 June 2007
London Luton <> Ibiza service starts 5 May 2007
London Gatwick <> Palermo starts 18 June 2007
London Gatwick <> Pisa Starts 3 April 2007
Paris Orly <> Athens starts 4 May 2007

Virgin Express the soon to be Brussels Airlines has a week long Christmas offer on at present. They are selling 100,000 seats to all destinations served by the Brussels based budget airline at 49.99 euros per person one way including taxes. Seats are on sale from now until Monday 18 December 2006 for travel from 8 January 2007 to 24 March 2007.

To get us in the festive spirit HLX is selling 66,000 seats at an all in price of £5 or 6 euros one way. The offer is open until Midnight CET on Sunday 10 December 2006. Seats can be booked for travel from January to March 2007.

Flybe has today added Cardiff <> Belfast City Airport to its Summer 2007 timetables. The airline will start operating the new route twice daily from 17 May 2007. Fares will start at £19.99 one way including taxes.
Announcing the route Mike Rutter, of Flybe said: “The announcement of a new hub at Cardiff is another string to Flybe’s bow. Beginning operations from this key base is a major move for us as we continue to expand across the UK, bringing our low cost, high quality service to Wales for the first time.”

Aer Arann the small Irish low cost operator is to operate seven routes to France in Summer 2007. The full route line up will be:
Lorient <> Cork, Galway, Kerry and Waterford
Nantes <> Cardiff, Bristol and Cork

Germany’s second largest low cost airline has a sale on again. They are selling seats on 300,000 flights taken between 12 December 2006 and 28 February 2007 for just the taxes and charges. The offer opens tomorrow at 6pm CET (5pm UK) and runs until Sunday 3 December 2006. The offer applies to flights out of Koln / Bonn, Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

The latest Summer 2007 easyJet routes are now sale. They include the following new routes:
Belfast <> Krakow
Bristol <> Bordeaux
Newcastle <> Krakow
Newcastle <> Mahon