Flights Direct

New flight routes are announced almost weekly. Here is a quick roundup of the new flights so far to be expected for 2008:

Easyjet will start 25 new routes this year, most from Gatwick and some from Manchester.
From Gatwick to: Ajaccio, Bastia, Biarritz, Crete, Corfu, Cyprus, Dalaman, Gibraltar, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Innsbruck, Lanzarote, Madeira, Malta, Montpellier, Mykonos, Nantes, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife and Thessaloniki.
From Manchester to: Crete, Cyprus, Malta and Tenerife

BMI will start a twice-daily service from Heathrow to Moscow on March 30.
 
Ryanair is offering 19 new routes in 2008.
From Birmingham to: Girona, Marseille and Pisa
From Durham Tees Valley to: Alicante
From Edinburgh to: Alicante, Bremen, Frankfurt, Marseilles and Pisa
From Liverpool to: Malaga and Nantes;
From Manchester to: Girona, Bremen, Marseilles and Milan
From Newquay to: Alicante and Barcelona
And from Stansted to: Angoulême and Faro

SAS will fly from Bristol to Oslo starting in April and will re-open Bristol-Stockholm route in June.

Zoom Airlines will take you to Fort Lauderdale and San Diego from Gatwick. The Fort Lauderdale route will open in May and run twice a week.

BA is opening routes from Paris and Brussels to New York in June, after the Open Skies agreement takes force at the end March, allowing US and EU planes to fly from anywhere and to anywhere in EU and US.

Many more flights have been announced and are expected for 2008.