Monarch Airlines

Award winning leisure airline Monarch will be sharing its 40 years of aviation experience with a host of famous faces from Monday 14 July, as its sets about training a group of celebrities, who must measure up to Monarch’s standards and take on roles across the airline including cabin crew, check-in and ticket desk.

Award-winning low fares airline Monarch is preparing to fly a record number of passengers as the schools break up for summer with 250,000 passengers booked to travel at the beginning of the school holidays*.

The Monarch Travel Group comprising Monarch, the low fare scheduled and charter airline and Cosmos, the UK’s largest independent tour operator, has launched ‘Monarch Holidays’, a new direct sell brand which will be marketed direct to consumers via the Monarch website.

Despite other airlines currently reporting lower than expected results, May saw a huge increase in passenger numbers and load factor for low fares airline Monarch on it’s scheduled services, compared to the same period last year.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch and music lifestyle brand Hed Kandi have cemented their 2008 FlyKandi partnership with the launch of a fully branded Boeing 757 aircraft, which has taken to the skies for the first time this weekend.

2007 saw the inaugural Hed Kandi aircraft take to the skies. The landmark partnership between lifestyle brand Hed Kandi and award winning low fares airline Monarch was a ground breaking and triumphant collaboration that has gone on to receive a prestigious 2008 Hollis Sponsorship Award. Following their phenomenal success in Ibiza last year, Hed Kandi and Monarch are expanding their FlyKandi partnership to include more scintillatingly stylish party destinations such as Barcelona, Puerto Banus (Marbella), Tenerife and Mallorca.

Award winning low fare airline Monarch is once again leading the way by announcing its entire Winter 2008/2009 schedule well in advance of its competitors. The programme, on sale now via monarch.co.uk, includes almost 1.75m seats from London Luton, London Gatwick, Birmingham International and Manchester Airports.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch is re-launching services between Manchester and Gibraltar, with a three times a week service commencing in September.

Award winning low fare airline Monarch is once again leading the way by announcing its Winter 2008/2009 schedule from London Gatwick Airport. The schedule, which is on sale now via monarch.co.uk, includes almost 500,000 seats with more flying to the popular Canary Islands of Tenerife and Lanzarote, additional services to Murcia and the first Winter operation for the popular Larnaca route.

London Golf Show tickets are up for grabs from airline company Monarch, who will give a pair of tickets that will be valid for any day of the London Golf show, sponsored by Monarch, at ExCel, 25th-27th April, to the first 50 people who email Monarch with their favourite golf course they have played in either Spain or Portugal.

Monarch jets to many beautiful, sun-filled destinations which are only a few hours away from the UK. By flying with Monarch you will find yourself on the doorstep of some of the very best golfing regions in Europe where you can smash a few drives down the fairway in sumptuous surroundings.

Staying ahead of the game is key to an airline's success and award winning low fare airline Monarch is once again leading the way by announcing its Winter 2008/2009 schedules from Birmingham and London Luton, with the schedules for Manchester and London Gatwick to be announced shortly.

Monarch is the longest established airline brand still trading and flying under the same name in the UK and they are delighted to be celebrating their 40th anniversary this weekend.

The department for Transport has recently approved new security arrangements at a number of UK airports, removing the single hand baggage restriction, with Gatwick being the latest airport to lift this restriction from 31 March 08.

Award winning low fare airline, Monarch, has been named as the Official Airline Partner of two of Europe’s largest golf shows for 2008, and will undertake a series of activity around the events to highlight its network of destinations which provides access to some of Europe’s top golf courses.

Low fares airline Monarch triumphed at the Hollis Sponsorship Awards 2008, after topping the ‘First Time Sponsor’ category for its flyKandi with Monarch campaign.

Award-winning low fares airline Monarch’s new service from Manchester to Murcia launched this week, bringing the total number of destinations served by the airline from its north-west base to 12. Five flights a week will operate from Manchester to the Costa Calida, before increasing to daily flights for the summer season.

Love was most definitely in the air onboard a Monarch flight from London Luton to Alicante on Valentine’s Day as an unsuspecting passenger received a special Valentine’s proposal at 35,000 feet.

Award winning low fare airline Monarch is delighted to announce a 12 month partnership with A Place in the Sun Live, through which the airline will be named as the official airline partner of the 2008 shows and undertake a series of activity around the events to highlight the destinations to which it flies and position itself as the airline of choice for overseas property owners.

Low fares airline Monarch is today celebrating a significant milestone as it welcomes its 1 millionth scheduled passenger onboard its Gatwick to Malaga service, and surprised two lucky passengers to mark the occasion.

Following the successful launch of its full onboard recycling programme on Gatwick flights in October, award winning airline Monarch, is extending the initiative to include all flights operating into Birmingham International Airport. The extension of the scheme will mean that all aluminium, plastic, glass and paper used during these flights will now be recycled after landing.

A low fare airline that cares about its customers? An unusual concept for many, but one that is the norm for award winning low fare airline, Monarch. The airline is unique in its sector by committing to offer low fares and high levels of care to its 4 million annual customers.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch is strengthening its network from London Gatwick and Manchester, with the launch of three new scheduled routes for Summer 2008. Flights from London Gatwick to Larnaca and Menorca and from Manchester to Larnaca launch from March with fares from only £49* one way including all taxes and web booking discount.

Award-winning low fare airline flyMonarch.com celebrated a record-breaking year carrying 3.7 million* scheduled passengers during 2007 compared to 3.2 million passengers carried during 2006 – a 15.8% increase year-on-year.

The department for Transport has approved new security arrangements at a number of UK airports, removing the single hand baggage restriction from the 07 January 2008.

Monarch Airlines is aware of the current situation involving BAA workers that could potentially lead to industrial action taking place in January 08 at two of the airports that Monarch operate from - Gatwick and Aberdeen.

Award winning low fares airline, flyMonarch.com is once again leading the way in technology as it introduces Google’s new Custom Search Business Edition into its FAQs site search, meaning improvements to the speed, accuracy and context that customers can return search results on their questions.

Award-winning low fares airline flyMonarch.com has increased services on a number of its routes from Birmingham, Gatwick, Luton and Manchester to popular sunshine destinations this Christmas and New Year meaning you can get away for even less this festive period.

If you’ve always struggled to find the perfect Christmas gift for that special someone in your life “who has everything”, panic no more – award-winning low fares airline flyMonarch.com offers gift vouchers, enabling you to give them a getaway to remember this Yuletide.

Monarch’s service between Granada and London Gatwick was withdrawn from 04 November 2007 - a decision that was not taken lightly and one that has been evaluated by Monarch for some time.

Low fares airline Monarch has added another award to its repertoire after being voted ‘Best Scheduled European Airline’ by the travel trade at this year’s British Travel Awards.

Award-winning low fares airline flyMonarch.com has launched a new self service check-in system at Birmingham Airport, which will speed up the overall check-in process and reduce the amount of time passengers spend queuing to check in.

Award winning airline Monarch is the first UK airline to roll out a full recycling programme onboard its flights, meaning that all aluminium, plastic, glass and paper used during a flight will now be recycled on landing after only 16% of its passengers surveyed in a recent poll said they believed that airlines are doing enough to recycle onboard waste*.

Award-winning low fares airline flyMonarch.com has increased services on 18 of its routes over the Christmas and New Year period. Responding to staggering customer demand, the additional flights will operate between 22 December 2007 and 02 January 2008.

Award winning low fares airline, flyMonarch.com has joined forces with PayPal, a global leader in online payments, to be the first European airline to offer its customers the ability to pay for flights using their PayPal account.

Monarch welcomes the Chancellor’s decision to reform the collection criteria for Air Passenger Duty from November 2009. The change by the government to tax aircraft and not the passenger travelling on the aircraft will recognise efficiency by airlines and reward high load factors and seat density.

Its celebrations all round at low fares airline, flyMonarch.com, after the airline was once again voted Leisure Airline of the Year for a second consecutive year in prestigious travel industry awards and also carried almost 24% more scheduled passengers in September 2007 than the same month last year.

Passengers will soon be able to pay for flyMonarch.com flights with PayPal. The airline will be the first European carrier to offer PayPal as a payment option, giving customers more choice and flexibility.

Award winning low fares airline flyMonarch.com has launched Monarch Mobile: a new, free flight information service providing information, updates, reminders, and exclusive offers to passengers direct to their mobile phone on departure day.

After a tentative launch in June 2007, the Spanish authorities are now (from 19th September 2007) fully implementing entry procedures, similar to those used in the US. All passengers travelling on flights to Spain are required to provide additional information prior to their flight.

From this week low fares airline, flyMonarch.com will be introducing a new baggage charge scheme for all hold baggage checked in on its scheduled flights. In line with other UK low fares airlines, flyMonarch.com will be implementing a charge for each bag that is checked in on flights departing after 01 November 2007.

Last week at the 2007 Travel Trade Gazette awards held in Old Billingsgate, Monarch retained the prestigious ‘Airline of the Year – Leisure’ award after being crowned with the title last year.

Award-winning low fares airline Monarch is celebrating yet another record breaking month after carrying 459,056 passengers on scheduled flights in August 2007, almost 100,000 passengers more than last August and the third month in a row that the airline has flown in excess of 400,000 passengers in one month.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch has launched its summer 2008 scheduled programme from Gatwick, Luton and Birmingham and has increased the number of flights to Larnaca from Luton to six flights per week following the huge demand for services since its launch in March this year.

To help prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease to other countries it is, from 07 August 2007, illegal to take abroad meat and dairy products from animals that are susceptible to foot and mouth disease including cattle, pigs, goat, sheep and deer.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch is giving Midlanders a helping hand in guaranteeing sunshine next year, with the launch of its Summer 2008 scheduled flights from Birmingham International Airport.

Summer’s finally arrived, and to celebrate award-winning low fare airline Monarch is launching a month of promotions on flyMonarch.com, with flight discounts available through a series of promotions running right throughout the month.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch has witnessed an incredible surge in last minute bookings as depressed Brits look to escape the ongoing wet weather in the UK.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch is celebrating a record-breaking month after carrying 407,223 passengers on scheduled flights in June 2007 – the first time the airline has flown in excess of 400,000 passengers in one month. The increase has been aided by the introduction of new flights from the UK to destinations including Ibiza, Murcia, Palma, Almeria and Larnaca.

Following the recent security alerts in the UK the terror threat has been raised to critical and security at all UK airports has been increased.

Passengers travelling from Manchester can take advantage of the airport's CUSS (Common User Self Service) systems to check in for their scheduled flights with Monarch, and bypass the queues to start their holiday queues quickly and easily.

From 19 June, all passengers travelling on flights to Spain will be required to provide additional information prior to their flight as the Spanish Government moves to introduce entry procedures, similar to those used in the US.

Award-winning low fares airline Monarch has this week been honoured with one of the marketing profession's most sought after prizes – a Business Performance Award, presented at the annual Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) awards ceremony and Gala Dinner on Tuesday 15th May at the London Marriott Hotel.

Hed Kandi has long been famed for its glamour and extravagance but never more than now, as they boldly tread where no music brand has gone before with their very own aircraft. Their summer partnership with Monarch is a truly inspired alliance, which marks a first for both brands and will see a head turning Boeing 757 receive the full Kandi make-over.

Award-winning low fares airline Monarch continued to see growth on its scheduled services in April with a 16% increase in passenger numbers during the month compared to the same period last year.

Award-winning low fares airline Monarch, this week launches a host of new flights from London to Spain and reports “massive” demand on its latest new services. New routes include London Luton to Palma de Mallorca and Almeria, and London Gatwick to Murcia.

Nearly 75% of worldwide travellers stated extra legroom on flights was top of their wish list, according to a recent survey by TripAdvisor. Well, your wish is their command at Monarch!

Ibiza is renowned for its chic hedonism and stylish jetsetters. As Ibiza town warms up for another sizzling summer of sensational parties, dance music royalty Hed Kandi will be leading the way with their weekly VIP soirees at El Divino, fabulous sunset pool parties and most notably, a partnership with one of the UK’s leading low fares airlines, Monarch, that will mark a first in clubbing history and set the scene for their biggest summer to date.

Monarch has today, 27 March 2007, rolled out online check-in at Luton Airport, which means that all passengers travelling on scheduled flights from Monarch’s UK bases - Manchester, Birmingham, Gatwick and Luton - may now check-in online for their flights via flymonarch.com.

Staying ahead of the game is key to an airline’s success and award winning low cost airline Monarch is once again leading the way by announcing its Winter 2007/2008 schedule from Aberdeen, Birmingham, Gatwick, Luton and Manchester.

Staying ahead of the game is key to an airline’s success and award winning low cost airline Monarch is once again leading the way by announcing its Winter 2007/2008 schedule from Birmingham and Luton.

Monarch Airlines is warning passengers of extensive road works and traffic disruption on the approach to London Luton Airport from 5th February 2007.

Monarch operates dozens of flights to the Canary Islands each week – so what are you waiting for? Find out here just what the fabulous islands of Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote have to offer you!

Low fares airline Monarch is today celebrating its 100,000th scheduled passenger travelling on its Manchester to Almeria service – less than two years after launching the route.

2006 was a record-breaking year for award-winning low cost airline Monarch, with the airline carrying over 3.2 million scheduled passengers in the twelve-month period, compared with 2.6 million in 2005 – a 23.9% increase year-on-year.

Following the pairing of Liverpool and FC Barcelona in the next round of the UEFA Champions League, seats on Monarch's services between Manchester and Barcelona have seen a sharp rise in bookings.

Award winning low fares airline Monarch is to launch scheduled flights from London to Cyprus next year as the airline expands its network to the Eastern Mediterranean.

In response to the announcement earlier this week that HCCT Holidays has gone into administration, Monarch is to lay on an additional flight from Tenerife to Manchester to aid passengers affected by the company's collapse.

Monarch is increasing its network further with the announcement it is to launch a new route from London Gatwick to Murcia, a route vacated by British Airways in October 2005. Services will operate daily from 03 May 2007 and are on sale at flymonarch.com.