Fly UK's 2023 Christmas Month

Cold winter weather and early nights signal the arrival of December and our Christmas Operations. These traditionally festive seasonal operations will operate from the 1st of December until 2024 arrives with the New Year.

• Christmas Liveries
  • Our Special Christmas liveries have returned to the Fleet Centre and are available to download now until 2024. The Christmas liveries cover the following aircraft:
    • Airbus A320-214 (Fenix Simulations, FSLabs Sharklets Varient)
    • Airbus A320-251N (FlyByWire Standalone Package)
    • Boeing 737-800 “Fly UK” and “Fly2” (PMDG Simulations) 

• Festive Charter Flights
  • Complimenting the Christmas special liveries, our 2023 December Charter flights are scheduled to start on the 2nd of December for Fly UK and Fly2. These festive charters will operate from a selection of airports from the United Kingdom and will operate to typically festive destinations such as Rovaniemi and Ivalo.

• December’s Featured Destination
  • Our Featured Destination for December takes full advantage of both the charter flights available and the new MSFS World Update, taking pilots to the Finnish airport of Ivalo (EFIV).

• December’s Screenshot Competition
  • The UK2000 Sponsored Screenshot competition takes a traditionally festive turn for December, with the theme for December being “Flying into Christmas”.

• Xmas 2023 Tour: “Oh Christmas Tree”
  • For this years Christmas Tour, join us as we trace festive art throughout the skies of Europe in the shape of a Christmas tree. Starting at Santa’s Grotto in Rovaniemi, this tour sees pilots flying through Scandinavia, Western Europe and the Baltics to form Sky Art in the form of a Christmas Tree. The “Oh Christmas Tree” tour is live now and is a Class E tour, allowing all members to fly any aircraft from the Fly UK Group fleet with no rank restrictions.

• Xmas 2023 Flying Club Tour
  • Fly UK’s Flying Club proudly announces our yearly Christmas Flying Club tour. This year, pilots will enjoy a relaxing set of flights from Rome Fiumicino (LIRF) to Santa’s Grotto in Rovaniemi, Finland. The Flying Club Christmas tour launches on the 1st of December.

• Xmas 2023 ‘BizJet’ Tour
  • The Flying Club are also launching our Annual ‘BizJet’ Christmas Tour, taking pilots on a picturesque and relaxing journey from Jerusalem (LLJR) to Rovaniemi. The Christmas ‘BizJet’ tour officially launches on the 1st of December.

• 2023 Christmas Social – Sunday 17th December 2023 at 1300z
  • Christmas can’t be complete without our annual Lapland Social flight! This year, our Social festive flight takes us from London’s Heathrow Airport to Rovaniemi. The event will take place on our private FSD network on Sunday the 17th of December at 13:00z.