Press Release

Fly to Malaga and Alicante from City of Derry Airport

Thursday, 14 October 2004

Teleticket and Servitour is delighted to announce plans to add City of Derry Airport to their flight programme for the Summer 2005.

Speaking at the launch of flights to Malaga and Alicante from the North West today, (Thursday, 14 October 2004), the Commercial Director of Servitour and Teleticket, Ms. Olivia Mullan said the decision to operate services from the City of Derry Airport was based on the company identifying the strong market from the North West.

“We have carried out research and discovered that a significant number of passengers using our services to and from Ireland are from the North West region and we are therefore confident that the North West public will support us in this new and exciting venture. The support of the local travel trade and the North West public will allow us to increase the frequency of the routes,” she commented.

The Malaga flight will operate on Thursdays and is already on sale from 23 June from £139 return, however we anticipate overwhelming demand and will shortly launch Easter departures to both Alicante and Malaga.

Ms. Mullan explained that the programme is unique in that 30% of their seats are sold in Spain to the Spanish tourist and business market. “We will be promoting and marketing the North West region of Ireland to the Spanish market and hope to see up to 2,400 Spanish tourists and business travellers making the trip to the North West during the first year,” she said.

Flights can be booked at good local travel agents and by direct booking on the Teleticket website – www.teleticket-flights.co.uk

The Mayor, Councillor Gearoid O’hEara welcoming today’s announcement said it was a major boost to the airport and the North West region as a whole.

“Today’s announcement of direct flights to Malaga and Alicante is excellent news for the airport and region. From a tourism perspective, we have a great advantage to market the North West region to 5 million people in the Alicante and Malaga region.”

The chairman of the Airport Committee Councillor John Kerr welcomed the two new destinations. He said: “The addition of Malaga and Alicante to our Summer 2005 programme which already includes Majorca, Salou, Faro and Lanzarote is excellent news.”

James Buchanan, Gallagher Travel and the Consort Travel Group, representing travel agents across Northern Ireland said he was a strong supporter of Teleticket and confident that the service would prove extremely popular with the North West public.

“We are delighted to be able to give the public the option to fly out of the City of Derry Airport direct to Malaga and Alicante. Teleticket offer a unique type of service and specifically cater for the needs of visitors who are interested in travelling independently and for a city break. We are confident these destinations will prove popular with our customers in the North West,” he said.

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Further information can be obtained by contacting Servitour/Teleticket – Commercial Director, Ms. Olivia Mullan – Mobile No: 003469 6962405.

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