Ryanair and Monarch - New Routes

Ryanair has unveiled four new routes from Manchester to Alicante, Faro, Madrid and Tenerife.  The no-frills airline will also increase the frequency of its Manchester to Dublin route from 4 to 6 flights a day.

However, Ryanair has withdrawn a summer service to Alicante from the Cornish airport of Newquay blaming the £5 charge per departing passenger imposed by airport owner Cornwall Council in 2006.  The move is the second blow for Newquay after Air Southwest announcied it was dropping flights to Gatwick. 

Monarch Airlines has brought forward its launch of scheduled flights to Paphos this summer in the face of strong demand for Cyprus, announcing it would start twice-weekly services from Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham to Paphos from May.  Now is has brought forward the start of the Gatwick and Manchester services by 3 weeks to 13 April.  The Birmingham flights will be launched as originally planned on 4 May.