9 New destinations ready for take off at Leeds Bradford this summer

As the peak holiday booking season takes off, LBA is offering exciting new summer routes offering a relaxing beach holiday or an exciting city break.  For those travellers who have a property overseas the new flights will provide more flight choice and frequency  to Greece, Turkey, Malta, Italy and Spain.

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays are offering 4 new routes from LBA to Malta, Tunisia, Greece (Cephalonia) and Turkey (Antalya) providing a total of 42 destinations this summer.

Monarch and Cosmos Holidays have introduced Naples (Italy) offering a direct flight to gain easy access to Sorrento, Capri and the Amalfi Coast. Meanwhile the addition of Alicante (Spain) widens their choice of summer flight only and holiday routes to 10 from Leeds Bradford.

The UK’s largest tour operator Thomson and First Choice have introduced new all inclusive holidays and packages to Crete, Omega Holidays have commenced a Lakes and Mountain programme flying to Friedrichshafen, whilst Ryanair have reintroduced services to Riga the capital of Latvia, offering a new city break option for this summer.

Tony Hallwood, Leeds Bradford Airports’ Aviation Development Director commented;

‘’ January is the peak time for holidaymakers to start choosing and booking their summer holiday and with exciting new destinations on offer there has never been a better time to choose Leeds Bradford, flying locally from Yorkshire. ’’

For more information on the new summer 2015 routes from Leeds Bradford Airport visit the destination section on our website www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk. 

            -ENDS-

For more information or to arrange

an interview please contact

Tony Hallwood on 07793-709188

or email tony.hallwood@lbia.co.uk

Notes for Editors

Leeds Bradford International Airport       

• Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) is Yorkshires’ international gateway airport
• LBA was the fastest growing airport in England in 2013/14.
• LBA serves 70 direct destinations across 23 countries flying with 10 major airlines.
• LBA offers flights to 8 capital cities and provides multi daily frequencies to 3 major hub airports of London Heathrow, Amsterdam and Dublin which offer over 100 connections to worldwide destinations.
• 3 new airlines have commenced operations at LBA over the last 2 years; British Airways, Aer Lingus and Monarch.
• LBA plays an important role delivering air links worldwide for the business and tourism sectors alongside supporting new inward investment opportunities to the region working with a diverse range of regional stakeholders.
• LBA is increasingly being chosen as the airport of arrival for overseas visitors and students studying in Yorkshire.
• Leeds Bradford Airport completed an £11 million terminal investment in 2013.