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Monarch, the scheduled leisure airline, has elevated its programme of cheap flights to Sharm El Sheikh from Manchester this winter due to phenomenal demand from its clients.

The new route, which was announced by the airline in July, has been so very well received that Monarch is now adding a Monday flight involving 07 November 2011 and 19 March 2012, in addition to the present flights on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The added Sharm El Sheikh flights from Manchester are readily available to book now via the Monarch web-site with fares beginning from GBP 173.99 return which include all taxes and charges.

Commenting on the additional flights to the Red Sea, Managing Director of Monarch Airlines, Kevin George stated, “We have observed powerful demand for our new scheduled solutions involving Manchester and Sharm el Sheikh in the initial month of announcing the new route. As a result we are delighted to be adding an further flight per week, bringing the total quantity of flights in between Manchester and Egypt’s Red Sea Resort to 4 a week throughout the winter season.

“This new flight will permit even considerably more users to take benefit of Monarch’s revolutionary ‘build your very own class’ service, which gives buyers the capacity to tailor their flight package to their exact needs, offering a higher sense of freedom and personalisation. Optional extras such as additional legroom seating and pre-ordered meals in addition to awesome value fares, makes Monarch a terrific option for longer flight durations such as Egypt.”

Monarch’s scheduled flights are available to book until October 2012. Consumers now booking flights will also advantage from zero debit card charge charges and a fixed charge for all credit card bookings, regardless of the transaction value or number of customers travelling.

Notes to Editors

Monarch’s added Monday flight in between Manchester and Sharm el Sheikh will operate among 07 March 2011 and 19 March 2012.

About Monarch

Monarch, the scheduled leisure airline, operates flights to Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt and Greece from Birmingham, London Gatwick, London Luton and Manchester airports. In addition to year-round reduced fares, Monarch also delivers a bespoke “put together your own class of travel” array of items and solutions each on the ground and inflight. All users are allocated a seat at examine-in but for those wishing to choose where in the cabin they sit to guarantee that families and groups are seated with each other, seats can be pre-booked from GBP 4.99 per one-way flight. For users looking for additional comfort, further legroom seats are also on the market offering up to six inches of extra area from only GBP 9.99.

Consumers travelling on scheduled flights can also keep clear of booking charges by paying for their flights implementing a debit card or for a fixed GBP ten fee, can pay by credit card – regardless of the value of the transaction or the number of men and women travelling.

They can also take advantage of internet check-in, which is offered in between 18 days and 4 and a half hours prior to departure. With a remarkable assortment of tasty hot and cold meals that can be pre-booked or purchased onboard, flying with Monarch absolutely could not be simpler.

In addition to flights, Monarch also now gives you a large range of marvelous worth holidays, accommodation possible choices, car employ and travel insurance coverage.

For more advice or to book Monarch flights, Monarch Holidays or Monarch Hotels, please go to www.monarch.co.uk .

Contacts: For additional media data get hold of: Monarch Leah Rosewell Press Workplace 01582 398241 leah.rosewell@monarch.co.uk

If your youngsters are asking continual inquiries about their school project on ancient Egypt, you can now take them to the ancient Egyptian web-sites with new weekly flights from Glasgow. Commencing in November Thomas Cook is supplying packages to Sharm el Sheikh on the red sea not far from Luxor and the Valley of the Kings. A family members of four staying B&B in a 3-star hotel, departing Glasgow on November 20 is (pounds) 1558 which includes flights. Call Clifford International Travel on 0141 572 1370. In the meantime you can find out more on a virtual tour on the Egyptian government’s new archaeology site www.eternalegypt.com l Considerably more and further UK households are heading to the wild west for holidays as figuring out to rope and work cattle and living like a cowboy appeals to most age groups. Concentrate Ranch, in the upper end of the Little Snake River Valley, Colorado (www.focus ranch.com) and the Colorado Cattle Corporation, (www.colorado duderanch.com) the two give actions aimed particularly at little ones. For considerably more log on to www.colorado.com or call 01564 794 999 for a absolutely free manual.

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For the primary time ever Thomson has extra a new route to its Newcastle flying programme for Winter 2004/05.

Egypt’s Red Sea Riviera resort of Sharm el Sheikh will be readily available from November 2004 on a weekly immediate service with Thomson Flights. This will be a welcome move for Thomson clients residing in Newcastle and the surrounding regions as they can now jet off to this popular winter sunshine destination from their local airport not having the hassle of receiving to London.

Chris Mottershead, Thomson managing director, said: “This is a very exciting improvement for Thomson and exhibits that we’re committed to supplying a wide array of good worth holidays and flights from regional airports.”

He extra: “The Red Sea Riviera is a great new vacation destination which the Egyptians have invested a massive quantity of capital in. The hotels provide very large excellent, the diving is planet class and it has assured sunshine.”

Mike Luddy, commercial director of Newcastle International Airport stated: “The addition of this very first route to Egypt from Newcastle International reinforces Thomson’s commitment to the airport and its desire to widen the variety of destinations served from the North East. This is great news for passengers and we expect there to be a robust demand from holidaymakers in the region seeking for something a bit diverse from the a whole lot more conventional sunshine destinations across Europe.”

Thomson launches its new Egypt brochure for winter 2004/05 on June 3rd. A additional 22 hotels on the Red Sea Riviera have been selected to attribute in the brochure ranging from 2T to 5T A La Carte providing a alternative of bed and breakfast, half board, full board as nicely ten newly featured all inclusive hotels which include the Hotel Tropicana Grand Oasis in Sharm El Sheikh and the Hilton Longbeach in the resort of Hurghada.

New twin and triple centre holidays are available to Sharm El Sheikh and Cairo, as the effectively as Nile cruises combined with Luxor, Cairo or the Red Sea. There are impressive loved ones features such as a 50 per cent reduction for the initial little one on holidays to Luxor.

Costs start from pounds 285 per person for a seven-evening bed and breakfast remain at Hotel Cleopatra Tsokkos in Sharm El Sheikh, departing December 2004.

“This is the second time in two weeks the safety board has sent investigators to help in aircraft accident investigations in Africa,” the National Transportation Security Board (NTSB) announced January five. NTSB investigators will guide in the investigations into the Dec. 25 crash of a B727 at Benin and the Jan. five crash of a B737 at Sharm el-Sheikh. The fatal accident rate in Africa is additional than 20 times greater than in Europe, North America and portions of Asia (Japan, Australia). Lack of capital, lack of infrastructure, lack of coaching, and operation of second and third-hand aircraft are contributing factors.

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Egypt specialist Peltours fears a pricing bloodbath in the Red Sea this winter as a lot more operators launch debut programmes and the massive 4 enhance capacity.

The region’s popularity has soared in the past couple of years as UK operators have switched their focus from Egypt’s cities to Sharm el Sheikh and other beach resorts, prompting the area to be dubbed the Red Sea Riviera.

Sales and marketing director Darren Panto warned Sharm el Sheikh was facing a particular trouble.

“We go to Sharm only on tours, but others are piling capability into the resort,” he mentioned.

“Argo and Planet have announced programmes for the primary time and Thomson is trebling capability.

Byline: By Gayle Tomlinson

The lure of the Egyptian sun is assisting to send one particular of Newcastle Airport’s new routes sky high.

Geordies are snapping up bargain holidays to the Red Sea soon after the airport launched the new package holidays to Egypt.

The airport, which has just opened a pounds 7m extension, stated it has had an overwhelming response for the route to Egypt’s top rated beach resort Sharm el Sheikh and the initially flight has not even taken off but.

Tour operators Thomson and Thomas Cook are running 1 flight a week to the Red Sea where North East folk can bask in the winter sun, scuba dive or travel to take in the ancient websites of Cairo.

The package tours start on October 31 and have been advertised in vacation brochures considering the fact that June.

Newcastle Airport chief executive, John Parkin, stated they had been delighted with the response. “It is going nicely beyond expectations and it is specifically especially famous location for men and women who like diving,” he mentioned.

“Egypt has place a substantial investment into Sharm el Sheikh‘s hotels and infrastructure and visitors are assured decent weather.”

“What it does demonstrate is that there is an appetite for points that are several. That is why so plenty of of the new routes we have started out have executed so well, as a result of it has not been supplied just before.”

A spokeswoman for Thomson Holidays said trips leaving from Newcastle Airport had been doing even superior than other airports in the south. She mentioned: “We are particularly pleased with the way sales are going for flights from Newcastle to Sharm El Sheikh.

“The most favorite months so far are November and December. Newcastle is in reality outselling the southern airports in terms of flights to this sunshine location.”

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A flight from Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, to Moscow, Russia, was delayed for two hours right after the flight crew and passengers refused to fly with two Chechen females on board.

The females had boarded the KrasAir flight and locked themselves in the aircraft’s toilet before take-off, prompting fears that they may have been terrorists. Female Chechen suicide bombers are thought to have been behind two fatal attacks on Russian aircraft at the end of August 2004.

Flight crew asked the Egyptian authorities to eliminate the ladies from the flight. The girls at some point left the aircraft, which took off for Russia two hours behind schedule, reports the Moscow Instances.

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The families of the 134 French tourists who died when an aircraft of Egyptian-based mostly Flash Airlines crashed in the Red Sea in January 2004 have accused French investigators of withholding facts.

The Boeing 737 crashed minutes soon after takeoff from the diving resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing 148 individuals. A spokesperson for the families of the French victims stated that the following nine months the French authorities have failed to explain the causes of the crash.

The households went on to say that the French civil aviation authority had shirked its responsibility to passengers as it knew the dire monetary and safety levels of Flash Airlines, and the accident could have been avoided, reports Reuters.

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Historically, Egypt has been a late-booking location. We have, nonetheless, observed a shift in booking patterns considering that the troubles of last year and the industry to Egypt has bounced back highly immediately. Our most effective- selling tours are Splendours of Egypt, Delights of the Nile, and the Nile to the Red Sea. The tours are more trendy than ever and advance bookings very much more powerful than in earlier years. Demand for Egypt is growing in general, even even though most of the development appears to be to Sharm el Sheikh and Taba.

Paul Riches, sales and marketing director, Libra Holidays