RYANAIR PUTS ON EXTRA DAILY FLIGHTS TO DUBLIN
Ryanair has added an extra four weekly flights to its daily Bournemouth-Dublin service. The additional services in the 11-a-week schedule are on Mondays, Thursday, Fridays and Sundays. The carrier estimates that 320,000 passengers have used the service since its May 1996 launch.
TEESSIDE CONSIDERS NEW PARIS SERVICES
Teesside International Airport is holding talks with undisclosed carriers about relaunching services to Paris. The service ended on Saturday after Air France franchise carrier Gill Airways axed the route due to losses (Travel Weekly March 20). A carrier which could possibly take over the route is Air France.
AIR MALTA AND TWA IN CODESHARE AGREEMENT
Air Malta is to codeshare with TWA on flights from Gatwick. The agreement covers services to Maltese capital Valletta and to the TWA hub at St Louis, with onward flights to Los Angeles, Houston and Dallas. The carriers will also co-operate on frequent-flyer programmes.
BIRMINGHAM BOOSTS FLIGHTS TO ASIAN CITIES
Pakistan International Airlines launches twice-weekly Birmingham flights to Karachi on April 16. The Sunday flight stops in Copenhagen and Islamabad and the Thursday service in Copenhagen and Lahore. Also at Birmingham this summer, Uzbekistan Airways starts twice-weekly Birmingham flights to Tashkent and Amritsar and Turkmenistan Airlines increases flights to four-weekly from three to Ashkhabad with the new service also serving Amritsar. The new flights are a result of demand from Birmingham’s large Asian community.