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easyJet

easyJet has extended its Keflavik route that was not due to operate after mid April. It will now operate at 2 x weekly until 9 June which means that for about a month in May and early June it will run in competition with the new WOW route to Keflavik operating at 3 x weekly .

WOW has recently put its Keflavik route into its booking engine for next winter at 2 x weekly. With easyJet due to resume KEF at the end of October there will be at least 4 weekly rotations next winter across both airlines.

In the past easyJet has operated KEF in winter at 3 x weekly. It remains to be seen whether there will be enough passengers for both airlines, albeit the winter months have proved busier than the summer months on BRS-KEF since the route opened in 2013 which until this year has been a year-round route for easyJet, and WOW has its transatlantic connectivity.

Thomson

Thomson summer 2017 programme has appeared on the Internet in recent days and shows additional rotations on a number of routes plus new ones for Thomson to Chania, Girona and Catania albeit these are already operated by Ryanair (the first two) and easyJet.

Early indications also suggest that Thomson will resume its routes to Mexico and Florida in summer 2017 operating respectively on Saturdays and Sundays. Both routes were axed after the summer 2013 programme.

It has to be said that history tells us that early versions of such networks don’t always come to fruition in entirety but these initial signs might be seen as a positive signal in general.