Skis and snowboards can be carried free of charge on Monarch Airlines’ new routes to key ski regions for Winter 2012/13, for passengers booking before 31 December.
Monarch’s new routes to Grenoble in France, Innsbruck in Austria and Friedrichshafen and Munich airports in Germany are all famed for their excellent links to resorts covering the Western, Central and Northern Alps as well as the Eastern Alps in France, Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria.
With other airlines charging as much as £120 return for ski carriage alone on some of these routes, there are quite substantial savings to be made.
As well free ski carriage, saving £39.98 on Monarch’s own standard ski carriage cost, there are a variety of other offers and add-ons available on a new ski website www.monarch.co.uk/ski together with a host of information, resort guides and regular blogs by number one British woman skier, Chemmy Alcott, brand ambassador for Monarch ski.
More than 1,000 ski areas are within a few hours of Monarch’s destinations in Western Europe. Friedrichshafen in Germany is close to St Anton, within two hours of Grenoble in France you will find Val d’Isère, less than 90 minutes from Munich is Söll, and just one hour from Innsbruck in Austria is Mayrhofen. Complementing these new services, the airline’s existing services to Venice and Verona, which will operate year-round, are ideally placed for access to the Southern Alps and the Dolomites and the established route to Barcelona is only three hours from Andorra and more than 20 ski areas in the Spanish Pyrenees.
Of the new routes, Munich has already started with the others launching in the middle of December in time for the peak ski season and running to April 2013, concluding with the Easter holidays. Routes to Munich and Grenoble airport will be further supported with additional flights starting in December from Monarch’s new base at Leeds Bradford International Airport. In total there are 36 flights a week to the new destinations from Manchester, Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham and Leeds Bradford airports.
“The launch of these ski routes for winter 2012/13 marks an exciting new era for Monarch,” said Kevin George, Managing Director of Monarch Airlines, “The introduction of our first scheduled ski programme comes in response to customer demand. More and more people are booking all elements of their ski holidays separately now and at Monarch we can provide them with the facilities to book scheduled flights and enhance their overall holiday experience with our vast range of add ons and optional choices.”