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Route news: Jet2 opens Bristol, Loganair returns to Teesside, Iberia Express adds to Manchester

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Some airline route news:

Jet2 opens new base at Bristol Airport

Jet2 is hoping for a big post-Covid summer season next year. It will station three aircraft at Bristol Airport in order to serve 33 European destinations.

Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Turkey will all see direct flights from Bristol.

Four routes will be completely new to Bristol Airport: Almeria, Kalamata, Lesvos and Izmir.

Loganair returns to Teesside

After a three year absence, Loganair is relaunching at Teesside International with routes to five destinations.

It will use an Embraer 145 aircraft to operate Aberdeen and Belfast City from 1st February, whilst Dublin, Jersey and Newquay are set to launch over the summer.

Loganair will go head to head with domestic competitor Eastern Airways, which also plans to operate four of the five new routes. Only Jersey is currently unserved since Flybe pulled out last year.

Loganair returns to Teesside

Manchester gets Iberia Express flights

Following on from our coverage of the three new Avios redemption opportunities from Newcastle over the Christmas holidays with Iberia Express, Manchester has also received a boost.

Iberia Express will run 16 flights to Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Madrid from the 26th December until 3rd January.

Comments (63)

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  • Nick says:

    Well done to the whole HfP team for the five nominations in the 2020 Business Travel Journalism Awards and all the very best for success in achieving them!

  • TripRep says:

    Congrats on the nominations

    Teesside appears to be spelt correctly everywhere apart from the Title.

    “Bits: HfP shortlisted for 5 awards, Jet2 opens Bristol base, Loganair returns to Teeside”

    Can you use Avios on those LoganAir routes?

  • ChrisC says:

    Oh Rhys

    Naughty lad and you were doing so well in previous columns with this.

    Teesside with two ‘s’ please. It’s the side of the Tees not the side of the Tee!

    (I’m originally from Stockton-on-Tees)

    • Rhys says:

      I must have missed that because I consciously added two S writing this article!

  • TomH says:

    Congrats to the team on the nominations, although how one can be up for Best Newcomer twice is a little surprising!

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      😀 I’m guessing that there weren’t a whole lot of “new” travel journalists in the year you couldn’t travel….

      • Rhys says:

        The rules are that anyone who has spent less than 3 years in the industry is allowed to enter!

  • mr_jetlag says:

    So good he “arrived” twice! 😉

  • Michael C says:

    Congrats to all, and I’m sure we’ll all be celebrating at the Xmas party with you.
    In July ;o)))

  • Kevin says:

    Congratulations to everyone for being shortlisted for the nominations

  • ChrisBCN says:

    Those is somewhat optimistic and misleading… ‘big post-Covid summer’ – we won’t be post-Covid for some time (although in all likelihood in a much better position than today)

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