Monarch Scheduled has added an extra return flight from Tenerife to Manchester on January 5 to bring back passengers who might otherwise have lost their holidays or been left stranded by the collapse of seat-only supplier CT2.
The airline’s managing director Tim Jeans said: “There is enough capacity going out. We will add extra return flights if necessary.”
The 235-seat aircraft will fly out to Tenerife empty and return in the afternoon.
The Civil Aviation Authority called in the £7 million bond of CT2 on December 13, with 37,000 forward bookings and 1,000 clients abroad. The Manchester-based company primarily sold flights to the Canary Islands, with the bulk of its traffic through the local airport.
Jeans said Monarch had studied the affected routes and found return flights from Tenerife in the New Year was “the one big pinch point”.
He added that Monarch took 800 bookings to Tenerife from Manchester in the immediate aftermath of CT2’s collapse, three times its normal rate of sales.
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