9 New destinations ready for take off at Leeds Bradford this summer

20th January 2015

(Leeds, UK 19th January 2014) Leeds Bradford Airport is pleased to confirm the addition of 9 new holiday destinations for Summer 2015 flying from Yorkshire's gateway airport flying with 7 major leisure airlines and tour operators.

As the peak holiday booking season takes off, LBA is offering exciting new summer routes offering a relaxing beach holiday or an exciting city break. For those travellers who have a property overseas the new flights will provide more flight choice and frequency to Greece, Turkey, Malta, Italy and Spain. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays are offering 4 new routes from LBA to Malta, Tunisia, Greece (Cephalonia) and Turkey (Antalya) providing a total of 42 destinations this summer. Monarch and Cosmos Holidays have introduced Naples (Italy) offering a direct flight to gain easy access to Sorrento, Capri and the Amalfi Coast. Meanwhile the addition of Alicante (Spain) widens their choice of summer flight only and holiday routes to 10 from Leeds Bradford. The UK's largest tour operator Thomson and First Choice have introduced new all inclusive holidays and packages to Crete, Omega Holidays have commenced a Lakes and Mountain programme flying to Friedrichshafen, whilst Ryanair have reintroduced services to Riga the capital of Latvia, offering a new city break option for this summer. Tony Hallwood, Leeds Bradford Airports' Aviation Development Director commented; '' January is the peak time for holidaymakers to start choosing and booking their summer holiday and with exciting new destinations on offer there has never been a better time to choose Leeds Bradford, flying locally from Yorkshire. '' For more information on the new summer 2015 routes from Leeds Bradford Airport visit the destination section on our website www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk.