A summary of airline changes at Manchester for the summer season (taken from ACL report which can be viewed
HERE)
Air X - Based 737-500 operating to various Greek destinations for peak summer months
Albastar / Evelop Airlines- operating to a couple of Spanish destinations for Thomson
Austrian / Iberia Express- continue VIE/MAD services which started towards the end of last year
Denim Air - will not operate this summer
Easyjet - add 2 aircraft to their based fleet, taking them to 11
Egypt Air - CAI flights cancelled
Enter Air - no base for Summer 16 after Cosmos ended all charter flights
Flybe - increase in the number of overnighting aircraft from 6 to 9
Germania - no based aircraft for Olympic Holidays this summer
Hainan Airlines - new 4x weekly Beijing service
Iraqi Airways - will not operate
Jet2 - increase in the number of based aircraft for the peak summer months
Cobalt Airlines - hold slots for 3x weekly LCA service (airline yet to start operations so looks doubtful for this summer at least!)
Norwegian / Vueling - New Spanish destinations for the summer.
Ryanair - add one to their based fleet, taking them to 8
Shaheen Air - new ISB flights (3 per week)
Small Planet - 2 based A320's for the summer (one added since last year)
Thomas Cook - add a couple of based aircraft (2 A320's will be leased from Avion Express and MAN based)
Virgin Atlantic - A330 replaces based A340 for peak summer months.
Increased frequencies on lots of flights and many new destinations too - looks set to be a good summer!