Helios Fly into Durham Tees Valley

Looks like our based Spanair aircraft isn’t happening this summer, with many of last year’s flights now on non-based aircraft on a much reduced programme.

I’m sure this is in part due to BY basing their 738 in town which maybe goes someway to proving that MME cannot sustain a two aircraft charter base in the summer months.

Essentially Spanair will do flights to:
Alicante (Saturday)
Palma (Saturday)
Lanzarote (Thursday)
Menorca (Friday)

It looks as if Astraeus are coming to MME for the first time too:

Reus (Monday)
Ibiza (Friday)

All of the above I imagine still have to be confirmed as some of the timings don’t quite look right.

Finally though, Helios are coming on a Wednesday to do the Larnaca run, which makes sense as I always thought Spanair doing it last year was a little strange.

There are I believe further non-based flights as there usually are for other travel companies, but the vast majority of other flights will be carried out by the BY738.

For completeness, a reminder that WW start flights to Cork and Paris this summer, and we are only days away from Ryanair commencing their daily flight to Rome.

So an increase in traffic most definitely, but we haven’t quite made it yet to having two based charter aircraft.

Regards from the North East… 🙂