Jet2 MAN-LGW
 

Jet2.com Announces £15 London Route
Manchester’s low cost airline, Jet2.com, which announced nine exciting European destinations in September, has landed another coup – it will launch the city’s first low cost service to London Gatwick, starting on 17th January.

The airline today announced that it will fly to the capital three times a day with fares starting from £15 one way including taxes, cheaper and quicker than a coach or train fare to the capital.

Executives at the airline said that the announcement was part of a planned growth strategy aimed at giving the people of the Greater Manchester area access to affordable travel for all. Philip Meeson, boss at Jet2.com, said:

“No airline has yet offered the people of Manchester truly affordable travel to London– we are proud that Jet2.com will be the city’s first.

“We believe that if you add the existing demand for flights to London with the additional passengers our low fares will entice, we will have a very busy service on our hands.

“Gatwick is perfect for London short breaks as it’s just a 30-minute train journey from the airport to London Victoria, and we expect a lot of custom from passengers on shopping and theatre trips.
Our customers can also now fly low cost to Gatwick with Jet2.com and fly on to one of the hundreds of long-haul destinations on offer from there.

“We’re also not underestimating the potential demand for sporting breaks, not least because of the two great football teams in Manchester and those in the surrounding region.

“The first fixtures that will appeal are United’s evening game at Arsenal on February 1st and the City – Chelsea clash four days later. We have evening flights from Gatwick to Manchester meaning fans can make it there and back in a day.

“Outside London, Gatwick is incredibly convenient for the South coast and we’re sure that beautiful Brighton will be hugely popular with Manchester travellers, while Kent and the Garden of England is right on the doorstep, too.

“When we launched, we said our aim was to become the number one airline for leisure travellers in the North – in addition to opening up routes in Europe, today we have announced our first domestic mainland flight and we’re sure London Gatwick will be hugely popular for leisure breaks in the South.”

London Gatwick is Jet2.com’s tenth destination from Manchester. For fares, timetables or bookings on its routes to Budapest, Faro, Geneva, London Gatwick, Malaga, Murcia, Nice, Pisa, Valencia and Venice, visit the links below.

Source: http://www.dartgroup.co.uk/jet2/press/en041016_lgw.html

Great News!
 

Great News phil_2405

but hay........

Thanks to the folk of Yorkshire,

bye bye Leeds :mad:

Wey hey
 

It's about time someone came in and took away BA's monopoly on the MAN-LGW route. Pitty someone like bmi hadn't taken the opportunity before now, but at least this competition should lower the fares on BA.

HS

Don't forget,BA "inherited" the route from DanAir[London].....ah BAC111s :ok:
watp,iktch

always thought it was a BCAL route rather than danair

Yep, BCAL did it but Dan did too!
watp,iktch

would be reluctant to use it to connect in to a long haul service at LGW - if the Jet2 service is late then you are stuck and Jet2 wouldnt want to know!

Dan-Air took on BA on the Heathrow route - then used BA as their handling agent at LHR...doh!! I wonder why it did not do too well?

Vuelo, hence you use BA to connect onto any long haul flights ;)

If my memory serves, when BA took over BCAL they had to drop some routes to keep the competition bods happy. MAN-LGW was one of these, and Dan Air took it up.

Quote "If the Jet2 service was late"

Having traveled on the BA MAN-LGW many many time I can tell u one thing for sure its hardly ever on time!!

The Jet 2 service will be a welcome break from the BA norm.