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Flybe passengers soared high above Easter travel chaos

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, reports the emergence of a new domestic travel trend as travellers start to realise that flying is a quicker and more convenient alternative to road or rail.* This is becoming particularly evident over peak holiday periods when travelling long distances and wanting to avoid the chaos that is increasingly plaguing the UK road and rail networks at such times.

Over the Easter holiday period (25th- 28th March 2016), 450 engineering projects severely affected all of Britain’s main line train routes and 10,000 ‘coned’ miles across the UK road network blighted even the best-laid travel plans. Meanwhile, Flybe operated 1,613 flights with an average flight time of 53 minutes.

With the May Bank holidays just weeks away, travellers are again being warned that rail and road travel will be equally as difficult. To illustrate that Flybe is faster than road or rail, the airline is taking to the streets of Aberdeen this weekend offering people the chance to test the convenience out for themselves with the offer of 20% off flights to Manchester.

A journey from Aberdeen to Manchester by road or rail normally takes well over five hours in comparison to just one hour and thirty-five minutes with Flybe that operates a choice of up to six flights a day between the two cities.

Flybe’s successful Manchester hub continues to become increasingly popular with passengers taking advantage of by-passing congested London airports to make more seamless onward connections. Using the hubs as a convenient ‘One Stop to the World’ proposition, this can be either onward with other Flybe regional services or farther afield to an extensive selection of long haul destinations through its various codeshare partners when booked via a travel agent. Flybe has recently secured a codeshare with Virgin Atlantic so Aberdeen travellers can now book seamless flights to even more international destinations including Orlando, Las Vegas, and the Caribbean.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Flybe .