Note that Thomas Cook Airlines are going back onto the Alicante route from the end of May 2016, operating 2 x weekly (Sunday & Thursday operation, which is different to the Tuesday & Saturday when it previously operated)using the Avion Express A320 aircraft.
With Vueling also coming onto the route 3 x weekly from mid June, it looks like, based on current published schedules, that we will have 7 operators on the route next year, and 56 x weekly services by the August 2016 peak season.
Operators will be Jet 2 (16 x weekly) Ryanair (14 x weekly) Monarch (12 x weekly) Easy Jet (7 x weekly) Vueling (3 x weekly) Thomson Airways (2 x weekly) and Thomas Cook Airlines (2 x weekly)
Looks like another sign of demand shifting back to Spain in light of troubles in other recently popular tourist destinations.