Thomsonfly.com books its one millionth passenger

22.02.2005 The low fares airline Thomsonfly.com has today announced that it has booked its one millionth passenger.

Thomsonfly.com has been growing successful since the airline launched in December 2003 and flights commenced from Coventry Airport in March 2004.

The millionth passenger booking was made last week on a flight to Paris, a new destination that will be served by flights from all three Thomsonfly.com bases this year.

Marketing director for Thomsonfly.com, Maria Heckel, said: “It’s great we have reached this landmark booking so quickly. We anticipate that bookings to continue to be strong, particularly with flying starting from the two new UK bases in the next two months.

“We are constantly adding new routes to our flying programme and continue to offer an interesting range of European beach, leisure, and city destinations from the three local airports. Customers who have booked flights from our new bases are delighted to have the opportunity to fly from their local airport and are excited about the new flight services commencing.”

Thomsonfly.com will commence flights from Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield on April 28 and Bournemouth Airport on March 22. Flights from these two new bases went on sale in December 2004 are already proving popular with 130,000 passengers booked for Doncaster Sheffield and 100,000 for Bournemouth. Spanish destinations are the most popular from each of the bases with the largest number of bookings for Robin Hood Airport being to Alicante, the top destination for Bournemouth is Palma and from Coventry the favourite for travellers is Malaga.

Thomsonfly.com operated four Boeing 737-500 aircraft last summer and will be adding five larger 737-300 aircraft to operate the flights from Doncaster Sheffield and Bournemouth.

Contributory to the airlines success is the service customers receive as part of the Thomsonfly.com service - unlike the majority of low fares airlines Thomsonfly.com allocates seats for passengers and offers passengers the opportunity to book extra legroom seats.

The airline not only carries UK travellers for breaks and holidays but carries increasing proportions of overseas visitors - the most popular route for bookings originating overseas is Valencia. Thomsonfly.com’s overseas marketing campaigns increase awareness of the attraction of the areas surrounding the UK bases and drive visitors which then benefits the local economy.

Thomsonfly.com is currently training new cabin and flight crew for the new flights from Bournemouth and Doncaster Sheffield. By this summer the airline will be operating with a team of over 450 crew members a four fold growth from the original 110 strong team. In addition a multilingual team of 23 people operate the airline’s Coventry based call centre.

Flights can be booked at Thomsonfly.com or for those without internet access on 0870 1900 737.