Flybe to the slopes

Flybe has launched its winter programme with 102 routes and 2,646 flights a week. New routes include Birmingham and East Midlands to Amsterdam and Chambery, Jersey and Paris Charles de Gaulle and Southampton to Nantes.

Winter highlights also include flights from Birmingham to Waterford and Newcastle to Bergen and 12 ski routes with a choice of up to 54 flights a week to Chambery, Geneva, Milan Malpensa and Salzburg from seven UK airports – Exeter, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Southampton, the new route from December 15 to Chambery from East Midlands and the year-round route to Milan Malpensa from Birmingham and Manchester.

The airline has also extended the dates of six of its most popular ski routes beyond Easter: Chambery from Birmingham and Exeter (to April 6), East Midlands and Southampton (April 13), Geneva from the Isle of Man and Jersey (to April 6).

Andrew Strong, Flybe UK’s MD, said: “Our comprehensive selection of sea and sun routes this winter gives both business and leisure travellers the choice of affordable travel to key destinations from their local airport.”

Fares from £29.99 one way including taxes and airport charges on www.flybe.com