Manchester Airport news

Travel company Jet2 is adding thousands of seats and additional holidays to winter sun hotspots from Manchester Airport.

The leisure airline and package holiday company is expanding in the region with an additional 45,000  seats, bringing the total for its 2017 Winter programme at Manchester Airport to over 575k.

The move represents a year-on-year increase in capacity of 8.4%.

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will now operate more flights and holidays to popular winter sun and city destinations such as Alicante, Faro, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Malaga.

The company said it will also deploy larger aircraft and run more frequent weekly services.

Budget airline Flybe is also expanding its flight network with a new domestic route connecting Manchester with London Southend Airport.

The flights will operate up to three times daily.

To mark the launch, representatives held a terminal celebration with a cake decorated with the airports’ and carrier’s branding.