Monarch Airlines: Route Exchange Carrier

Richard Maslen July 29, 2010

Monarch Airlines is one of the UK's largest charter airlines, offering [charter] seats to small and large tour operators.

Overall, the combined route network spans 100 scheduled and charter routes.

Its range of charter destinations include: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Bahrain, Maldives, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK and the US.

Monarch Airlines' scheduled services focus on flights from its operational bases at Birmingham, London Gatwick, London Luton and Manchester to 52 destinations, including the Mediterranean, Canary Islands and Cyprus.

In May, Monarch expanded its network to gateways in Turkey, with new services from Manchester to Antalya, from Luton to Bodrum and Dalaman, and Birmingham to Dalaman.

Plus, on July 17, it launched a new three-times weekly scheduled service from Gatwick to Palma in Majorca.

FLEET:

30 aircraft make up Monarch's fleet:

2 A330s
3 Boeing 757s
4 A300s
5 A320s
16 A321s

Monarch will also be one of the first UK carriers to take delivery of the Dreamliner.

In June 2010, Monarch recorded an average load factor of 86% - up almost 3% on the same period last year.

PERSONNEL

Tim Jeans	Managing Director
Jerome Newton	Charter sales Manager

AIRLINE REQUIREMENTS:

Monarch is planning for S11 and W11/12 onwards.

The airline has provided information it would like to see from airports:

Airports should be armed with the incentives they believe they can offer airlines, with any advice from their tourism authorities on whether or not they are prepared to play an active/joint role in offering incentives for increasing their lift from the UK and work with new airlines.

Top of everyone's list is how best operating costs can be reduced at airports that Monarch already have a presence at, along with finding ways to organically grow air lift or gain a foothold into new airports, markets and countries.