VIRGIN SUN
Based: Crawley
Staff: 120, including overseas reps – dubbed Customer Care Virgins
Programme capacity: 130,000, rising to 250,000 for summer 2000
Destinations: Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza, Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Portugal, Turkey, Crete, Rhodes and Corfu. Five new destinations being introduced in 2000
Accommodation: Two to five-star, self catering and hotels
Aircraft: Two Airbus A320s based in Gatwick and Manchester. Newcastle and East Midlands new departure airports for 2000.
Lead in price: £129 for one week’s self catering at the Ionian Seas Apartments in Ipsos.