New Route Network Plans!

Fly UK Virtual Airways - New Route Network

Fly UK, one of the UK's leading virtual airlines are pleased to reveal today, plans for our new route network. After many months of careful planning, research and generation of ideas & opinions from pilots in our forums and many management meetings, we have now finalised the plans.

Fly UK operations will be split up into Scheduled, Regional, Charter, Low Cost & Cargo flights. Our initial operational change proposal also included that the hub operations style of operating would be scrapped, pilots can now fly any Fly UK route, this change has made Fly UK much more realistic, and is much more convenient and offers flexibility for our pilots. Online flyers can now depart from a Fly UK base where there is ATC, UK pilots should find regional flights from their local airport to a major Fly UK base, we are able to spread our aircraft across operational bases more realistically rather than having every aircraft in fleet based at all hubs amongst other operational advantages.

Furthermore, the Beechcraft 1900D will be taken out of service and we will operate only 2 series of the Boeing 737. A Boeing 737-800 will be used for selected scheduled and charter flights and a Boeing 737-600 for Fly2 low cost routes.

We are currently in the process of gathering the required data for each flight, and entering it into our database, this is a very time consuming process. We anticipate the new route network to become operational around Easter, we will of course inform all pilots prior to this.

Fly UK VA - UK Operational Bases

Scheduled Flights
EGLL - London Heathrow – Based Aircraft: B772, B744, B763, B738
EGPF - Glasgow – Based Aircraft: Bae146, A340, B752, A320
EGNM - Leeds Bradford – Based Aircraft: Fokker 100, A320
EGBB - Birmingham – Based Aircraft: Embraer 170, B738

Charter Flights
EGKK - London Gatwick - Based Aircraft: B763, A320
EGCC - Manchester - Based Aircraft: B763, B738
EGNT - Newcastle - Based Aircraft: B752

Low Cost Flights
EGGP - Liverpool - Based Aircraft: Boeing 737-600

Regional Flights
We will operate regional flights from many UK regional airports to the major Fly UK scheduled operational bases and other UK domestic flights using the Dornier 328, the ATR72, and some class D & C aircraft depending on the route and required passenger capacity.

Cargo Flights
Our cargo operations will continue as normal, however we do plan to revise our cargo flights later in the summer.

Presently, we have only finalised our charter, low cost Fly2 routes and scheduled flights from Leeds Bradford and Birmingham. Other routes will be confirmed soon.

Scheduled Routes
London Heathrow and Glasgow routes are being finalised. Also, there will be more regional routes operating from Leeds Bradford & Birmingham; we have only listed the European destinations.

Geneva Operations
For now, we will continue to operate our existing current Geneva timetable, however we are currently in talks regarding changes to Geneva operations, it will remain a Fly UK base, however there will be some operational changes announced shortly.

Leeds Bradford (6 Destinations)
Innsbruck (Austria)
Brussels (Belgium)
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Dusseldorf (Germany)
Paris CDG (France)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Birmingham (Terminal 2) (5 Destinations)
Almeria (Spain)
Bergerac (France)
Berne (Switzerland)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Gothenburg (Sweeden)

Charter Routes
For the summer 2006 season Fly UK will be operating charter flights from 3 UK departure points to a variety of holiday destinations. Realistically onboard charter flights, we would offer a different in-flight service compared to our scheduled flights. Seats on charter flights would be bookable only via tour operators; therefore all passengers would be holidaymakers.

Manchester (16 Destinations)
Flights to the following destinations will be operated by Boeing 767-300 and Airbus A320-212 series aircraft.

Spain
Reus
Malaga
Palma
Fuerteventura
Arrecife
Tenerife

Greece
Heraklion
Kalamata
Kos

Portugal
Faro

Turkey
Dalaman

Cyprus
Larnaca

Bulgaria
Varna

Malta
Malta

USA
Orlando Sanford

Egypt
Sharm El Sheik

Newcastle (10 Destinations)
Flights to the following destinations will be operated by Boeing 757-200 series aircraft.

Spain
Murcia
Las Palmas
Tenerife
Gerona

Greece
Corfu
Heraklion
Zante

Portugal
Faro

Turkey
Bodrum

Cyprus
Larnaca

London Gatwick (14 Destinations)
Flights to the following destinations will be operated by Boeing 767-200 and Boeing 737-800 series aircraft.

Spain
Alicante
Malaga
Las Palmas
Mahon

Greece
Rhodes
Lesbos
Papos

Portugal
Maderia

Malta
Malta

Italy
Catania

Turkey
Antalaya

Other
Barbados
Orlando Sanford
Princess Juliana



Low Cost Routes (branded as Fly2 – the low cost airline)
Fly2 will start operations with the following 12 routes from its first base airport – Liverpool using Boeing 737-600 aircraft.

Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Alicante (Spain)
Barcelona (Spain)
Faro (Portugal)
Dublin (Ireland)
Ibiza (Spain)
Munich (Germany)
Malaga (Spain)
Nice (France)
Palma (Spain)
Rome Ciampino (Italy)
Prague (Czech Republic)

Below is the picture of the Boeing 737-600 in the Fly2 livery:
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Fly2 Boeing 737-600 Images... http:/www.flyukva.com/flyuk/images/aircra.../fly2images.php

We would welcome any feedback and comments from our pilots, please reply in the General Chat section of the forum if you have any comments or questions.

Kind Regards,

Fly UK Senior Management