Mainstream Winter Schedule Begins 30th Oct

Fly UK's winter schedule will commence on Sunday 30th October which co-incides with the end of British Summer Time (BST).

Many of our summer only destinations will be ending with increased services on our all year round routes. There are a number of new winter routes detailed below. We hope that these changes keep an interesting and stimulating variety for all our pilots to try something new alongside the old favorites.


Fleet Changes

Our brand new Embraer 190 aircraft enter service at our Leeds Bradford and Southampton bases. The new aircraft replace 3 Fokker 100 aircraft at Southampton and 2 Embraer 170 aircraft at Leeds Bradford. The Fokker 100 aircraft will be leaving the fleet. The Embraer 170 aircraft will be used for a trial operation at London City (more details to be announced soon).

Our 2 Airbus A330 aircraft are not in scheduled service over the winter however they will be used to cover Boeing 767 operations while they are away to get winglets fitted. The programme to fit our B767 fleet with winglets will begin in the next few weeks, a NOTAM with full information will be issued soon.


Routes/Bases

London Heathrow - B738 x20, A343 x4, B747 x10, B763 x9, B752 x1
Schedule remains largely unchanged, however is due for review and we will be expanding long haul in January 2012.

Manchester - B738 x2, B752 x2, B763 x2,
New routes: Cape Verde, Fuerteventura, Innsbruck, Luxor, Marrakech, Monastir, Salzburg and Varadero.

Southampton - ATR72 x2, E190 x3
New routes: Avignon, Berne and Chambery.

London Gatwick - A320 x4, B763 x2
New routes: Geneva, Hurghada, Innsbruck, La Romana, Luxor, Marrakech, Paphos, Sal and Varadero.

Leeds Bradford - A320x1, ATR72 x3, E190 x2
New routes: Alicante, Chambery, Geneva, Gran Canaria, Innsbruck and Sharm El Sheikh.

Edinburgh - B738x4, B752 x2
New routes: Chambery, Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Innsbruck, Prague and Salzburg.


Other Information

All routes have been checked and validated with the latest AIRAC release meaning downloadable flight plans should be working okay for all flights. The new Embraer 190 has been submitted to the IVAO MTL team. A new Fly UK AI traffic pack which reflects the latest schedule changes will be available soon.

Our Ad-Hoc F1 Motorsport Flights continue to operate until the 9th of December.

We'll be operating Lapland flights to Rovaniemi and Kitila from Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds Bradford, Birmingham and Gatwick from the 1st of December to the 24th of December.

The codeshare with woh|group continues to offer a choice of onwards flights from New York and Abu Dhabi. We continue to explore other codeshare opportunities.

In the next few weeks, our operations team will be expanding with new members joining the team. The additional help will allow us to offer more ad-hoc flights/scenarios, make schedule changes more often and review our low cost, cargo and tour operations. We have some exciting plans to inject new life into our operations so please bear with us!


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For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Tom Agnew - Head of Operations
tom.agnew[at]flyuk.aero