London Luton Airport is offering a selection of flights this winter for the benefit of all ski lovers out there. Working closely with its airline partners there are flights to a multitude of skiing gateways serving literally hundreds of resorts and thousands of kilometres of piste, including the hair-raising ‘Men’s Olympic downhill’ in Val d’Isere and the infamous black runs in Chamonix.

Flights to the following ski destination airports are now available to book from the respective airline websites:

Geneva, Grenoble, Turin – easyJet
Gerona – Ryanair
Sofia – Wizz Air
Salzburg – Thomson Flights

Simon Harley, the Airport’s Business Development Manager commented:
‘There are a number of ski destinations available between November and March from London Luton Airport, providing passengers with an extensive choice of winter sports holiday options at convenient flight times. Our commitment is to offer more choice to our passengers and with a varied selection of ski packages, we aim to cater to the snow sports enthusiast.’

Swiss Airlines will be further expanding its range of services between Geneva and London on 10 January 2010. An additional aircraft will be stationed in Geneva to operate the new flights. Swiss and its sister Lufthansa Group airline British Midland (bmi) also plan to collaborate more closely on their services between Switzerland and the UK.   

Swiss is steadily expanding its services to and from Geneva, despite the continuing economic crisis. From 10 January 2010 onwards, Swiss will offer six new daily services between Geneva and London Heathrow. Together with a modified service of four daily flights to London City (compared to the present six), Swiss will be doubling the number of seats it offers to and from the important London market, and further strengthening its position at and around Geneva.       

“No other airline offers a more attractive range of services to London’s biggest and most central airports,” says Swiss CEO Harry Hohmeister, commenting on the expansion. “And it’s our business success in Geneva that’s enabling us to further expand our network and take active advantage of the market opportunities here.”  

The new services between Geneva and London Heathrow will be operated by two aircraft of the Airbus A320 family. In an initial phase, one of these will be provided by bmi, Swiss’s new sister airline within the Lufthansa Group. Later, however, Swiss will operate all these London Heathrow services with its own equipment. A further Swiss Airbus A320 will be stationed in Geneva for this purpose.

Swiss’s present four-times-weekly service between Geneva and Bucharest is to be withdrawn owing to insufficient market demand. Customers from the Geneva region can continue to travel to and from Romania, however, via a daily Zurich connection.     

The planned collaboration with bmi will not be limited to the Geneva-London Heathrow route, either, but should be extended to all flights between Switzerland and the UK: in future, every one of the more than 430 weekly Swiss Airlines services between the two countries should be operated together with bmi under codeshare arrangements.

Book your flights from London to Geneva with Swiss Airlines here.