Aer Arann, the Dublin-based Irish regional carrier, has unveiled several new routes and service upgrades.
New from Monday 14 May is a six days per week (except Saturday) service from Waterford to Birmingham with a flight time of 90 minutes. On the same day flights are introduced on a four-day week basis between Manchester and Sligo (Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday).
Bristol gets two new routes, to Nantes twice weekly from Saturday 28 April (plus Tuesday) and to Galway from 25 June, operating four days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday).
Aer Arann will launch a Newcastle to Galway service also on 25 June. The flight will operate four days per week (Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday) with a flying time of 1hr 25m. The airline is also launching a Cardiff to Nantes service from 23 June.
Aer Arann carried 1.15m passengers last year and is an exclusive ATR turboprop operator with five 50-seat ATR42s and nine 66-seat ATR72s.