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Swiss and Austrian increase flights in Winter 2019. Starting February 2019, Swiss will add a 16th weekly flight to its Manchester-Zürich route: LX390 ZRH 0655 MAN 0800 Daily LX394 ZRH 1205 MAN 1305 Sat, Sun LX380 ZRH 1710 MAN 1810 Daily LX391 MAN 0840 ZRH 1140 Daily LX395 MAN 1345 ZRH 1635 sat, Sun LX381 MAN 1850 ZRH 2145 Daily  Mix of equipment used At the same time, Austrian will add a 6th weekly Vienna Service: OS463 VIE 1015 MAN 1155 daily ex Tue OS464 MAN 1300 MAN 1625 daily ex Tue A320 used on Sat flight. Austrian also run a Saturdays only Innsbruck service in winter, so, Saturday sees 2 Austrian Airbus flights.

Pegasus to add Istanbul Sabhia Ghoken flights Starting July 1st 2019, Pegasus will add a 5 weekly flight from Istanbul SAW to Manchester: PC1179 SAW 0915 MAN 1140 Wed PC1179 SAW 0930 MAN 1155 Mon, Tue, Sat, Sun PC1180 MAN 1240 SAW 1850 Mon, Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun B737-800 and A320N operates Turkish Airlines currently serve MAN-IST twice daily and Pegasus already run a seasonal Dalaman flight.

Ryanair winter 2019 changes As of 15/3/19, Ryanair have the following changes to their winter 2019 schedules from Manchester. New routes: Prague 9 weekly from October 27th Katowice 3 weekly from 29th October Milan Malpensa 5 weekly from 28th October. New winter routes (previously summer only): Kiev Boryspil 2 weekly Thessaloniki 2 weekly Bordeaux 2 weekly Billund  2 weekly Gothenburg 2 weekly Marseilles 2weekly Nantes 2 weekly Marrakesh 2 weekly Increases: Lisbon increases from 6 weekly to daily Barcelona increases from daily to 9 weekly Berlin Schönefeld increases from daily to 9 weekly Milan Bergamo increases from 8 to 10 weekly Alicante increases from 10 to 12 weekly Decreases: Madrid from daily to 5 weekly Hamburg from daily to 4 weekly Belfast from 13 weekly to 2 weekly Faro from daily to 5 weekly Malaga from 9 weekly to 7 weekly Palma from 4 weekly to 3 weekly Other changes remain highly likely.

Manchester new destinations in 2019. With the addition of Katowice, this bring the number of previously unserved destinations starting this year to 10. For this brief analysis, this post looks at destinations that were not served in the 2018 period, but will be in 2019. The routes are: Aarhus. SAS begin the route 3 weekly from April Bari. Easyjet begin the route 3 weekly from June. Gothenburg. Ryanair begin the route 2 weekly from April. As a side note, British Airways do serve this route 4 weekly but is not open for public booking, hence this route being added on the list) Jerez. Easyjet begin the route 3 weekly from July. Katowice. Ryanair begin the route 3 weekly from November. Kiev. Ryanair begin this route 2 weekly from April. Lamezia Terme. TUI begin this route 1 weekly from May. Londonderry. Loganair begin the route 6 weekly from May. Marsa Alam. TUI begin the route 2 weekly from November. Poitiers. Ryanair begin this route 2 weekly from July. It’s also worth n

Ryanair adds Manchester-Katowice flights Starting 2nd November, Ryanair adds a 3 weekly Katowice-Manchester flight. FR6812 KTW 1000 MAN 1145 Tue, Thu, Sat FR6813 MAN 1210 KTW 1545 Tue, Thu, Sat B737-800used, this route is currently unserved from Manchester

Ryanair adds Manchester-Prague flight. Starting 27th October 2019, Ryanair will add a 9 Weekly Manchester-Prague flight: FR6842 MAN 0700 PRG 1015 Mon and Fri FR6838 MAN 1725 PRG 2040 Daily FR6843 PRG 1040 MAN 1205 Mon and Fri FR6839 PRG 2105 MAN 2230 Daily B737-800 used. Jet2 and Easyjet also serve this route pair.

easyjet increase Belfast and Budapest. Starting this summer, Easyjet will increase Belfast and Budapest flights. Belfast increases to 22 weekly with 3 extra flights: Monday sees 4 daily Tuesday sees 2 daily Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday sees 3 daily  Friday sees 5 daily Saturday sees 2 daily  Budapest sees an increase to 3 weekly: EZY1857 MAN 0600 BUD 0945 EZY1858 BUD 1010 MAN 1245 Mon, Wed and Fri. The new flight is on Wednesday.

Jet2 summer 2020 increases Jet2 today released its initial Summer 2020 programme, with the following increases: ( the > symbol indicates the increase from original frequency) Antalya 6>7 weekly Bergerac 1>2 weekly Corfu 4>5 weekly Izmir 3>4 weekly Kefalonia 3>4 weekly Lanzarote 8>9 weekly Larnaca 5>6 weekly Further changes as well as new routes are expected.

SAS increases Oslo-Manchester flights From July 2019, SAS will increase the number of flights from 7 to 12 weekly (7 being the number of flights operated last July) SK4607 OSL 0740 MAN 0845 Tue SK4607 OSL 0840 MAN 0945 Mon SK4609 OSL 0930 MAN 1035 Thu SK4609 OSL 1130 MAN 1230 Sun SK4607 OSL 1230 MAN 1330 Sat SK4607 OSL 1425 MAN 1530 Wed  SK4607 OSL 1445 MAN 1545 Sun SK4609 OSL 1805 MAN 1910 Mon, Tue SK4609 OSL 1820 MAN 1925 Fri SK4607 OSL 1905 MAN 2010 Wed SK4609 OSL 1906 MAN 2010 Thu SK4608 MAN 0935 OSL 1235 Tue SK4608 MAN 1035 OSL 1335 Mon SK4609 MAN 1115 OSL 1415 Thu SK4610 MAN 1310 OSL 1605 Sun SK4610 MAN 1420 OSL 1715 Sat SK4610 MAN 1610 OSL 1910 Wed SK4610 MAN 1625 OSL 1920 Sun SK4608 MAN 1950 OSL 2250 Mon, Tue SK4608 MAN 2005 OSL 2305 Fri SK4610 MAN 2050 OSL 2350 Wed SK4608 MAN 2050 OSL 2350 Thu B737/A320 And CRJ900 operate on the flights. Norwegian also operates to Oslo and Ryanair to Torp.

Easyjet add 3 routes to Manchester In addition to Bari, Easyjet add 3 more routes to Manchester this summer. Nice from June, the latter 2 from August. Nice: EZY1883 MAN 0710 NCE 1040  Thu EZY1883 MAN 1230 NCE 1600 Sun EZY1883 MAN 1620 NCE 1950 Tue EZY1884 NCE 1120 MAN 1240 Thu EZY1884 NCE 1640 MAN 1800 Sun EZY1884 NCE 2030 MAN 2150 Tue Jerez: EZY1809 MAN 0720 XRY 1120 Tue, Thu EZY1809 MAN 1535 XRY 1935 Sat EZY1810 XRY 1205 MAN 1410 Tue, Thu EZY1810 XRY 2020 MAN 2225 Sat Kalamata: EZY1899 MAN 0605 KLX 1200 Tue EZY1899 MAN 0745 KLX 1340 Sat EZY1899 KLX 1245 MAN1450 Tue EZY1899 KLX 1425 MAN 1630 Sat Nice is currently served by British Airways and Jet2, Kalamata by Thomas Cook, but, Jerez is a new destination.

Turkish Airlines schedules A330 Manchester Service. Starting April 2nd 2019, Turkish Airlines will once again schedule an A330 on Manchester flights. TK1993 IST 0730 MAN 0935 daily A321 TK1995 IST 1320 MAN 1530 Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun A321 TK1995 IST 1320 MAN 1530 Tue, Thu, Sat A330-300 TK1994 MAN 1040 IST 1650 Daily A321 TK1996 MAN 1630 IST 2235 Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat A321 TK1996 MAN 1700 IST 2300 Tue, Thu, Sat A330-300 Flights also used the A330 last summer, however, this is a longer season of usage this year.