Erm, take it you missed the announcement about the new ema base for Flybe on wednesday?

Erm, the Flybe announcement was about regional UK routes and flights to European hubs (CDG, AMS), which is what you'd expect them to do, not the "bucket and spade" routes, which is where Monarch will fit.

Monarch has said on the Facebook page they are releasing new destinations on Tuesday.
Does anyone have any ideas? Are they to be routes from current bases or from new bases?

East Midlands base coming this summer.

Well yes I gathered that much :hmm:

Must be more new routes, i would gather......just have to wait till tue to find out now....:ok:

Yip, will more than likely be some more new routes from MON, did you say this coming Tuesday ?
If so, i wonder where ... ? New base/Existing base or what ?

Malaga, Alicante, Palma and Faro are the only ones announced from EMA so far. You'd imagine Tuesday will be the full list.

Id expect TFS to be one as well. TFS operates from all 4 current bases and it is extremely popular.

Does anyone else find it strange that Monarch would announce a new base but not put the routes on sale till the next week?

Are they not losing vital momentum ahead of short sale period for this summer?

Just asking - Its only that I cant remember an airline doing a base annoucnement this way!?

Thoughts anyone?

They jumped in VERY quickly to mark their territory.
Detailed planning will take a few days at least - deciding timings, start dates, modifying the website, increasing or redeploying fleet, crewing, supplier negotiations, etc.
I think if they get a full plan ready to reveal next Tuesday, they will have worked very quickly.

As an ex BMI Baby customer wanting too get a good deal reebooking my holiday I had hoped it would be up stright away.

Just looked at the Cosmos flights website, Looks like that they have added a few new routes there e.g Fuchal, Munich and freidrichshafen?

And I saw a new Route: Birmingham to Genoble


Note: Most of them start in the Winter even Late December!

No East midlands Flights on there yet...

BHX Monarch
 

Showing on Avro and Cosmos
BHX-SSH (2 weekly), October Start
BHX-GNB (3 weekly) December Start
BHX-MUC (4 weekly) October Start
BHX-FNC (2 weekly) October start

No show of the BCN flights from BHX so still some more to come

In the meantime Jet2, who are already at East Midlands, have announced 8 new routes! Not sure that Monarch have got it right!

Well as most of Jet2s routes are for S13... I believe they haven't got it wrong launching this year! Jet2 cannot fill the market this year, Monarch can!

Any chance of monarch coming to BHD?

Monarch have also loaded flights from Leeds Bradford to Munich (x2 weekly) and Grenoble (x3 weekly) for Winter 12/13 as well.

LBA
 

Am I missing something - nothing on sale for Monarch at all from Leeds on their website???

It was on the Cosmos system, the routes are still there, but availabilty has been taken down.

Anyone know what aircraft will be based at EMA?
Thanks.

Very likely to be an A321.

Good to see MON expanding however where are the extra a/c coming from? are they cutting capacity elsewhere?

Monarch announce a new route from Leeds-Grenoble, and within half an hour Jet2 launch a new route from Leeds-Grenoble. If that isn't saying :mad: off Leeds is well and truly ours, then I don't know what is!

Munich - first choice for skiers?
 

Surprised to see Munich being described as a great ski gateway - seems an odd choice for so many new services and surely very congested at peak times for slots??

A 2 hour coach from Munich will take you to a nice ski resort, very popular with schools.

How is a whole based aircraft going to be sustainable at EMA with only 4 routes at the current time? I heard more were to be announced today but seems not?

I was kind of expecting some winter ski flights from East Mids. Have to say two routes from Leeds is a bit of a surprise.
Monarch have tried the smaller airports before, notably Blackpool & Newquay, neither lasted very long.

I suspect the finer details of their EMA schedule are still being planned?

A shame Monarch could not have tried a Grenoble / Innsbruck route on a W pattern to Bournemouth for the winter . Always been very popular with skiers and the like who now have to make there way to LGW or BRS .

Shame MON do not look at CWL, there is a massive void to fill since Baby's departure, although VY have cut a little of the slack. Still hugely popular destinations like Murcia, Faro, etc that need extra capacity !

All depends on the frequency of the routes

Hardly a "massive void" to be filled from CWL. I'm sure that MON get approached by most UK airports in some form or another and have considered that they would lose a bucket load of cash if they operated from there.

It's not as if BRS is a million miles away and there's plenty of service from there.

Good news about the new routes but when are the ones from EMA announced and where are these extra aircraft going to come from?

By the way just posted the new routes on the flightradar24 forum so all new routes should be working on flightradar24.com when they start:

Post 600 on here:
New routes to FR24 database - Page 60

Well TartinTon, i can assure you that MON have looked at CWL many-a-time, which is why they decided to operate the SFB weekly charters from there. So, they also looked into scheduled ops and an expansion of charter ops earlier this year, to destinations that would fill the "Massive Void".

AirGuru.

With ITX flights, it is the tour operator(s) that "decides" to operate a series of flights, and then contracts an airline to operate the flights.

Yes i know that, by i was just saying they were looking at getting a larger presence at CWL ...

..and the "weekly" SFB charters rapidly became fortnightly.....I wouldn't hold your breath for a CWL based unit any time soon...unless a tour operator asked them to base it there.