Air France:
New Routes:
Nantes (NTE) (1x weekly E170)
Lyon (LYS) (1x weekly E190)
Both routes are operated by 'Regional' and start on Sat 30th June operating until the beginning of September.
Aurigny:
Alderny - Much the same as last year with the usual explosion of end of week flights at peak times!
Blue Islands:
Guernsey - Pretty much as it was last year - around 3x daily all on J31/32's.
Jersey - The first two flights are as last year (J31/32's) but the evening flight has been upgraded to an ATR 42 500 and operates daily ex. Saturday.
Eastern:
Aberdeen - Operates around twice daily for the Summer, a reduction compared to previous years with the weekday flights all down as J41's and the Sunday flight via DTV as a S2000.
Dijon - Not currently bookable or on the SOU sites schedules but this routes was put on sale quite late last year and it remains on the route map so we will have to wait and see! If it returns I would expect it would be as last year - 3x per week on a J41.
Flybe:
Some of the domestic and longer running regional French routes seem to have some reletively small reductions in frequency although there are no really significant changes.
New Routes:
Tours (TUF) (2x weekly Q400) Starts 16th May
Norwich (NWI) (1x weekly Loganair/Suckling Airways D328) Starts 19th May
Dropped Routes:
Pau (2x weekly E95) The slack seems to have been taken up by extra flights to Beziers and Palma (Both up to 3x weekly)
Brussles (6x weekly Q400) Ends 28th February
Isle of Man (6x weekly Q400) Ends 29th February (Aircraft flew IOM-SOU-BRU-SOU-IOM) hence why both routes are being dropped.
Salzburg (1x weekly Q400) Has operated for the last couple of Summers but no sign of it this year, will almost certainly return in time for the Ski season!!
Skybus:
Much the same as last year 3x weekly rising to 6 in the peak season with most off-peak flights operating via NQY.
Thomas Cook:
New route - Ibiza (IBZ) (1x weekly BE E195)
PMI and MAH both return as well meaning all 3 or the balearic isles are now served from SOU!!
Thomson:
Have dropped their weekly SOU-PMI flight, was down to the operated by Flybe but they have decided to focus on their more major airports.
Vueling:
New route - Barcelona (BCN) (3x weekly A319) Starts 23rd June currently bookable until mid-September.
Well we've all been waiting a while for this one!!
