Lanzarote´s tourist industry received a further vote of confidence this week with the announcement of a new airline offering flights to the island starting from May 2009.
Kiss Flights have been formed by Gatwick based aviation brokers Meridian Aviation. And will be offering flights to Lanzarote from May 1st 2009. With prices starting from around £200 return. Initially the service will depart every Thursday from Gatwick at 05.00, arriving at Arrecife airport at 09.00. With return flights leaving Arrecife airport at 10.05. With price discounts offered for early bookings.
The new company has links - in the form of senior management personnel – to the former flight arm of XL Holidays – Freedom Flights – which collapsed earlier this year. This new operation is ATOL bonded – initially for 25,000 flight seats – and expect this figure to rise quickly as business increases.
The links to XL are further heightened by the fact that Kiss Flights will be servicing the same destinations as Freedom. Including Red Sea Resorts, Turkey, Cyrpus, Tenerife and Lanzarote.
According to the Kiss Flights website “We’ve chosen the most popular destinations including Egypt, Greece, Turkey and the Canary Islands specifically for the independent travel trade and with the dynamic packaging market firmly in mind.”
The company will be leasing two Boeing 737´s for the new service from Swedish based Viking Air.
The announcement provides a further boost for Lanzarote´s tourist industry. Which remains buoyant despite the current bleak economic outlook. With British visitor numbers up 6.42% for the year to date versus 2007 and Irish visitor numbers also on the rise. According to recently released figures from AENA, the Spanish airport authority.
Owners of villas and holiday apartments in Lanzarote are expected to be amongst the main beneficiaries of this increased level of demand. As the island hotels can only accommodate around one third of Lanzarote´s total tourist capacity if 65,000 beds at any one time. With the slack picked up by apartment complexes and privately owned holiday properties.
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