Winter flight challenge (MDB)

[P&C@29]

Newcastle

I travel to Palma from Newcastle and the earliest flights are at the end of April so Feb would be Great for Scotland. Can all u guys who use Newcastle please get in touch with your MP and put pressure on the airlines to improve our flights.

 

[Luckyone]

Majorca Daily Bulletin
(24/07/15 online)

Mike, do you have the e-mail address to encourage winter flights from Scotland?
Prestwick in my opinion will never be a viable option to encourage winter Scottish flights. Glasgow and or Edinburgh will be the best financial winter options for airlines to gain sufficient passengers (this worked with the former Globespan, flights 2/3 times a week were full).

 

[mike_dublin]

Mike, do you have the e-mail address to encourage winter flights from Scotland?
Prestwick in my opinion will never be a viable option to encourage winter Scottish flights. Glasgow and or Edinburgh will be the best financial winter options for airlines to gain sufficient passengers (this worked with the former Globespan, flights 2/3 times a week were full).

The e-mail address is on the bottom of the Majorca Daily Bulletin page -
Majorca Daily Bulletin

editorial@majorcadailybulletin.es

 

[mike_dublin]

Winter flight MSP quiz » Opinion » Comment » Majorca Daily Bulletin

I know it’s hot but in ten weeks, airlines will begin cancelling flights to the UK.

On Monday, the Bulletin, on behalf of the over 2,000 people who have complained to us over the past year about the lack of winter flights to the UK, in particular none to Scotland, will be raising the issue with former Royal Marine and veteran of the Falklands War, Keith James Brown, Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities, a position he has held since 2014.
Brown was the Minister for Transport and Veterans when the Scottish government bought the loss-making Prestwick Airport for one pound and the airport is still losing millions every year at the expense of the Scottish taxpayer.

What the Bulletin wants to impress upon the minister more than anything is that there is a definite need for at least one flight per week between Scotland and Palma: not only for the thousands of Scots who own holiday homes here or fancy a winter break on the island, but also the large number of Majorcan residents who Visit Scotland (the tourist board) could attract to Scotland. Everyone would be a winner from winter flights.

Brown has said that regular meetings have been held to discuss ways of turning Prestwick around, so why not start by attracting airlines in to operate flights to and from Palma in the winter?

So, if you have any questions or comments for the minister please email the Bulletin before Sunday.

Thank you for your support.

 

[Luckyone]

Winter flight MSP quiz » Opinion » Comment » Majorca Daily Bulletin

Hi Mike,

I sent my contribution to the MDB on 27 July :

"Winter flights are needed from Scotland.

Flights from Glasgow International or Edinburgh would be most viable, passengers in numbers being able to access Glasgow and or Edinburgh from all over Scotland.
This used to be the case when the former Globespan provided winter flights which were fully loaded or almost.
Best options would be flights on Mondays and Fridays allowing for long weekends and periods of 5 or 7 days. This would fit in with City Breaks in Palma as well as all other parts of the island.

Prestwick is not financially viable as flights would be far from full, this airport is not in a central location for flyers (hence its financial difficulties).

So come on Airlines provide what the customer needs, short direct flights and the Majorcan Tourist Industry can be truly all year round with so much to see and do when the weather is not so hot".

I really want winter Scottish flights to succeed and to have this work Prestwick will Not do the business (MSP's have their own agenda as they put money in to a non viable site). To make it work for passengers and airlines in winter it needs passengers from across Scotland thus Glasgow and or Edinburgh are the testing options.

PS - in the past when using Globespan from Palma to Edinburgh there were lots of Majorcans using this flight to visit Edinburgh and wider Scotland.

 

[mike_dublin]

More winter joy for Majorca » Balearics » News » Majorca Daily Bulletin


The winter flight situation between Majorca and the UK is going to be better this winter, although Scotland will remain isolated for most of the low season and Ryanair says operating flights from Scotland to Palma are not worth it.
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[see full article on MDB website]

 

[ragdollabbi]

More winter joy for Majorca » Balearics » News » Majorca Daily Bulletin


The winter flight situation between Majorca and the UK is going to be better this winter, although Scotland will remain isolated for most of the low season and Ryanair says operating flights from Scotland to Palma are not worth it.
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[see full article on MDB website]

Once again the Scots people are being penalised...........Why

 

[snowy2007]

Ryanair Stansted to Palma Jan 2016 £20:00 return book quick good flight times also depart STN 13:30

 

[Tangoman]

Must admit snowy, I thought that you had lost your marbles when I saw your last post, so I checked it out myself, and yes it is unbelievable!!!

 

[P&C@29]

flights

Once again plenty of flights from down south, people living north of Manchester (which is in the midlands check map) no flights at all October - March! North south divide just gets bigger!

 

[mike_dublin]

Bulletin to quiz Scottish minister for infrastructure over lack of winter flights » Balearics » News » Majorca Daily Bulletin

After having had no direct flights to Majorca or the Balearics as a whole since October, Scots are beginning to enjoy direct access to the island again, but the issue of the lack of winter flights is one that the Scots are not prepared to let drop.


The Bulletin, on behalf of its readers, has been pushing and campaigning for more direct winter flights from the UK as a whole for the past three years and it would appear that Jet2 has this year taken note to the winter demand and already begun operating demand flights to Palma from locations in northern England as well as Scotland.

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full article on MDB website

 

[Harters]

We'd been looking for a Saturday flight from Manchester for April. Could only find one at an unacceptable "middle of the night" time. Widened the search to Liverpool and Leeds/Bradford with a similar lack of success.

In the event, we've booked a Friday flight - still early but not ludicrously so - and will have an extra night in a hotel.

 

[Sparky]

Ryanair have announced that they will be flying twice weekly from Edinburgh to Palma through the winter of 2016/17 .

Full story here :- Scotland winter flights » Balearics » News » Majorca Daily Bulletin.

 

[meg1973]

just had a look and pretty well priced £42 one way pp not bad flight time leaving at 4 oclockish from Edinburgh

 

[Bircho]

Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere, but they are also flying 3 times a week from Manchester (on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday):

Welcome to Ryanair!

 

[fil6699]

Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere, but they are also flying 3 times a week from Manchester (on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday):

Welcome to Ryanair!

If this is correct then add that to Monarchs Monday and Friday flight in the winter that is almost u full service through winter that would be fantastic

 

[joey36]

Ryanair also fly to Palma Wednesday and Sunday from Birmingham all winter

 

[P&C@29]

Newcastle airport

Still no flights from Newcastle until end of march, Edinburgh 100 miles, Manchester 120 miles, so long trip before you get on a plane. We live in Carlisle Cumbria and feel isolated from Spanish resorts in winter, only flights Canaries for some warmth.

 

[El Gordo]

Ryanair also fly to Palma Wednesday and Sunday from Birmingham all winter

That's great for you in the south!!

Unfortunately people think that Manchester is the "North"... when in fact its in the middle!! 208miles to Berwick, 224 miles to Southampton!!

What we need is a service from somewhere between Manchester and Edinburgh!!...May I suggest Newcastle

 

[Bircho]

That's great for you in the south!!

Unfortunately people think that Manchester is the "North"... when in fact its in the middle!! 208miles to Berwick, 224 miles to Southampton!!

What we need is a service from somewhere between Manchester and Edinburgh!!...May I suggest Newcastle

Easyjet go from Liverpool That's somewhere in the north west int it?

(PS I needed to go over twice in the winter - out on a Thursday and back on a Monday for one and Friday to Tuesday for the other. From South Yorkshire. One involved a trip to Gatwick setting off from home at 3 am, the other was from Stanstead setting off at 4 am. Am I pleased they are going from Manchester in the winter?)