FLYBE is further expanding its Southampton hub with new daily flights to Alicante in Spain and Bergerac in France. The airline is also adding the Balearic island of Ibiza to its route network with a busy weekend schedule. The new flights will commence on 27 June and are in addition to Belfast City, Dublin, Jersey, Geneva and Milan Bergamo, which started last week. Flights to Murcia, Malaga and Toulouse take off on 19 May which, together with the airline”s existing Guernsey services, will total 12 FlyBE routes from Southampton this summer. FlyBE expects to carry 900,000 passengers in its first year of operation from the central southern airport, enabling Southampton”s plans to surpass the one million-passenger mark sooner than anticipated. FlyBE will withdraw from the Birmingham ” Brussels route from Sunday 27 April. www.flybe.com