Ryanair has announced a cutback at Manchester Airport, with nine of their ten services operated from the airport moving to other British airports. From October 1 the routes ceasing are to Barcelona Girona, Bremen, Brussels Charleroi, Cagliari, Düsseldorf Weeze, Frankfurt Hahn, Marseille, Milan Bergamo and Shannon. These flights will be switched to East Midlands, Leeds Bradford and Liverpool. Passengers with bookings on these routes will be contacted and offered a refund or another flight.

Icelandic low-cost airline Iceland Express will be launching a new flight between Keflavik International Airport, located 50 km southwest of the Capital Reykjavik, and Birmingham. There will be a seasonal service, from July to September, operating on Sundays for 13 weeks.

Air Berlin has experienced an increase in the number of passengers flying to the Nordic countries over the last year. From July 2008 to July 2009, the number of passengers grew by 75 %. On that background, the airline last year upped the number of daily connections to Germany from one to two from Helsinki, Copenhagen and Stockholm.

Jet2.com will launch a new route between Manchester Airport and Kos for the summer of 2010. The airline will operate weekly services from May 26, 2010.