New Deal with Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport
30.04.2004 Thomson signs a new deal with Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport to offer low fares flights and holidays for 2005
Thomsonfly has announced a second base for low-fares flights at Britain's newest airport, Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield. Sister company Thomson Holidays will also be operating package holidays from the new airport.
Thomsonfly launched its first low fares flights from Coventry airport in March this year. With almost 200,000 seat sales so far to 11 destinations, including Malaga, Palma, Valencia, Ibiza, Naples, Rome, Pisa, Venice, Jersey, Marseille-Provence, and Nice, the announcement of our new base shows that Thomsonfly is going from strength to strength. Thomsonfly are planning to fly to a number of destinations including Jersey, Malaga, Valencia, Palma, Alicante, Ibiza, Barcelona, Nice, Marseille, Rome, Naples, Pisa, Venice, Prague, Salzburg, Belfast and Amsterdam. Flights will be available from under £20 and will go on sale before Christmas 2004. Details of the new routes will be available on the thomsonfly.com. Register now on the website to be kept up to date on the new destinations.
Alex Hunter, chief commercial officer for Thomsonfly said: “We are delighted that Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield is the base for the next stage of development of our new low fares airline which has seen such a successful start at Coventry. We look forward to providing our customers with an excellent range of destinations at low-fares from their local airport.”
As well as low cost flights, the new agreement also means that package holiday deals and charter flights with Thomson will be available for the summer 2005 holiday season. Thomson has confirmed it will offer holidays to Palma, Ibiza, Mahon, Gerona, Alicante, Malaga, Faro, Las Palmas, Tenerife, Naples, Malta, Corfu, Rhodes, Paphos and Venice. The holidays for summer 2005 went on sale on 29 April through travel agents or by calling Thomson direct on 0870 550 2555 or visiting the website, www.thomson.co.uk.
Chris Mottershead, Thomson Holidays managing director, said: "This is a very exciting development for Thomson and shows that we're committed to offering a wide range of great value holidays and flights from local airports. We believe in offering holidays to suit people’s lifestyle, whether that’s booking a low cost flight, a five star weekend or a family beach break and we’ll have a fantastic range of holidays available from Robin Hood airport next year. We know that people like flying from airports which are convenient to get to and from, which is why we’re so pleased to add Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield to our flying programme.”
