Monarch Increase Flights To Lanzarote This Winter

Monarch airlines has announced the addition of extra flights to Lanzarote and other hot spots in the Canary Islands this winter.  As the low cost flight operator anticipates increased demand for winter holidays amongst British consumers – despite the current economic conditions.

Extra flights to Lanzarote will be departing from major UK airports such as Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham throughout the Christmas and New Year period.

According to Liz Savage from Monarch:” The additional flights are great news for Monarch customers looking to get away this Christmas. Early indicators show that our customers are considering the Christmas getaway as important as ever and are continuing to snap up Monarch’s low fares in their droves. With 64 additional flights being added into the flying programme offering in excess of 12,000 further seats, getting away for Christmas has never been easier”.

Monarch has in fact already beefed up services to Lanzarote during October in order to cope with increased demand across the half term break.  With extra flights from Gatwick departing to Arrecife airport every Thursday.

Owners of apartments and holiday villas in Lanzarote will be amongst the main beneficiaries of this increase in business.  As hotels only account for one third of Lanzarote´s official tourist capacity of around 65,000 beds. With the rest allocated to apartment complexes and privately owned holiday properties.

Despite the credit crunch demand for holidays in Lanzarote has remained buoyant in both the UK and Ireland.  With visitor numbers from both of these countries up versus 2007 figures for the year to date.

In a further vote of confidence for the islands tourist industry newly launched airline Kiss Flights – an operation set up by Gatwick based aviation broking company Meridian Aviation – has also entered the market.  And have just started selling seats to Lanzarote for the summer 2009 season.