Thi came about solely from people's comments on this forum.

I am really pleased to say that we will have 9 dedicated Manchester departures on our long haul tours for 2014.

I went through every single holiday with our fantastic Avaition team a couple of months ago and we have a Manchester departure on every single one where it is possible!

obviously there are many routes which only operate out of London or from Manchester with carriers that don't work with groups.

As ever, thanks for getting involved! We are all ears!

Will

All the best,

Bob

Keep up the good work Will/Julia!

Mark

All the credit needs to go to Will and his team upstairs, they do a cracking job!

Julia

WELL DONE Will and Co,

XX CindyXX

Keep up the good work Will/Julia!

Mark

All the credit needs to go to Will and his team upstairs, they do a cracking job!

Julia

Hi Will and team.

Well done, tremendous effort. I'm sure we Northerners will be thrilled when we receive our new brochures. Roll on the day!

Give yourselves a well-deserved pat on the back. Thanks for all your hard work.

:):):)

never mind me, thanks to you all for getting involved!

Hi Will,

Any chance you could arrange some direct departures for us poor Scots - either Glasgow or Edinburgh is fine?!

Cheers,

Hils

never mind me, thanks to you all for getting involved!

Hi Will,

Any chance you could arrange some direct departures for us poor Scots - either Glasgow or Edinburgh is fine?!

Cheers,

Hils

Hi Hils,

this is something we looked at. We have very few people from Scotland so it will be much harder to make it work. But I would never say never!

never mind me, thanks to you all for getting involved!

Hi Will,

Any chance you could arrange some direct departures for us poor Scots - either Glasgow or Edinburgh is fine?!

Cheers,

Hils

Hi Hils,

this is something we looked at. We have very few people from Scotland so it will be much harder to make it work. But I would never say never!

People from Scotland (and the north of England) may be put off booking due to lack of regional departures. Hence, 'very few people from Scotland'. I'm off to Texas & New Orleans next Friday with JY, flight from Edinburgh to Heathrow on Thursday and overnight at Premier Inn all adds to holiday cost.

never mind me, thanks to you all for getting involved!

Hi Will,

Any chance you could arrange some direct departures for us poor Scots - either Glasgow or Edinburgh is fine?!

Cheers,

Hils

Hi Hils,

this is something we looked at. We have very few people from Scotland so it will be much harder to make it work. But I would never say never!

Hi Will, perhaps split us down the middle and look at 'Newcastle International' airport departures. Perhaps you don't have that many far Northerners travelling because you don't offer the ease of travelling from the far Northern airports 🙂. Of course, you could ask some of those normally lucky Southerners to hop on a train and head up north to depart for a change 🙂. Ok, please don't all throw things at once 🙂. Sue

They are both predominently Thomson, Thomas Cook, Easyjet, Ryan Air and Jet 2. There are the odd one or two carriers - but the selection is very small compared with Manchester

My suggestion is have JY/Travelsphere looked at expanding into Ireland? There are few escorted tour companies here and none doing single traveller holidays (apart from a small company that I think does a couple of beach holidays and no more). It would obviously be a small market, but something worth considering. The Travel Department seem to be a UK/Ireland tour company and have departures from the UK and Rep of Ireland, so legally speaking it would seem possible. Just a thought!

Cheers,

Bob

one of the main problems with places like Newcastle, Glasgow etc is that they don't have a huge number of scheduled airlines using them.

They are both predominently Thomson, Thomas Cook, Easyjet, Ryan Air and Jet 2. There are the odd one or two carriers - but the selection is very small compared with Manchester

Hi Will,

I have been on 10 JY holidays to date, and I am rarely the only Scot on the tour - there were 4 of us on the Vietnam trip this year! Scheduled airlines out of Glasgow are British Airways, KLM, Emirates and Lufthansa and out of Edinburgh, Virgin, United Airlines, Air France and SAS. I have always had to fly down to Heathrow or Gatwick for my JY holidays and now that the days of you booking me down for £35 return have gone (!), it is now getting very expensive (I use my Avios points when possible!), so please could the team have a look at holidays for us Scots?

Cheers,

Hils

PS And for Bob in Ireland!

I have known people like Bob link up from Ireland, Isle of Man , Jersey come down from Scotland, or make the hike up from Devon etc.. Now they are dedicated travellers in my mind, respect to you all...

Cindy