Monarch has launched four new routes from Birmingham airport.
The airline will now fly to Valencia in Spain, Split in Croatia, Naples in Italy and Rhodes in Greece.
Split and Valencia are new destinations for summer 2017. Monarch is also welcoming a Boeing 737 NG aircraft to its fleet at Birmingham, with the first flight departing on June 29 to Rome.
Flights to Valencia launched on Thursday (June 22), and will operate twice a week on a Thursday and Saturday.
Flights to Rhodes (once a week on a Wednesday) also launched on Thursday, and today (Friday) will see the new flights departing to Naples (on a Monday and Friday).
Split sees flights take-off on Sunday June 25 and will operate twice a week on Tuesday and Sunday.
This week’s inaugural flights follow on from the launch of Stockholm and Porto in April with the airline now flying to both destinations three times a week.
Ian Chambers, chief commercial officer at Monarch said: “We are delighted to add even more flights and holidays to four new destinations to our Birmingham programme for summer 2017.
“These new routes join Porto and Stockholm which we launched earlier in the year. Monarch is the only airline to fly to both Split and Valencia from Birmingham airport.
“We’re really pleased to be flying a greatly expanded programme from Birmingham for the summer with more city and beach destinations.
“It’s also really exciting to welcome the Boeing 737 NG aircraft to the fleet for the busy summer schedule ahead of the first of our new 737 Max 8 aircraft arriving in April next year.”
David Winstanley, chief operating officer at Birmingham airport, added: “Monarch offers a fantastic selection of popular European routes to our passengers from Birmingham airport. It’s great to see them expanding this choice further for our summer holidaymakers.
“Valencia, Split, Naples and Rhodes are all steeped in history as well as being popular coastal destinations with fabulous ports and beaches. We are confident these will be very successful routes.”
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