UK Flight Departures

UK Flight Departures

With the advent of cheap flights and increasing competition UK flight departures have seen an unprecedented growth.

This growth is further fuelled by the mad scramble for cheap last minute flights and holidays to coincide with school's being 'out' for summer.

Regional airports like Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff are proving just as popular as their London counterparts and this is reflected by the sharp upward trend in pssenger numbers.

Cheap flight operators including the likes of RyanAir and Easyjet, have expanded their operations across these regional airports to reflect this growth in passenger numbers.

The rising costs of fuel have led many regular passenger and travellers to look for departures from regional airports across the UK. This makes perfect sense as regional airports have attracted and offered lucrative rates and incentives to the main players to offer UK wide flight departures.

Tour operators such as Thomas Cook in particular have been operating a widespread regional service for many years now. And cheap flight carriers such as Jet2, BmiBaby, MyTravel and XL Airways have either followed suit or been founded on this basis and have established deep-seated footholds in regions across the country in the process.

In the past airline and tour operators were guilty of an operational bias towards London flight departures by way of cheaper fares for departures from the capitol. .And even though some of this bias is still around today, th increasing growth in regional passenger numbers are driving down prices albeit too slowly some might argue.

Online fight bookings are now so commonplace and as such it is relatively easy to find travel companies offering flight search engines that search through 100's of the top airlines and tour operators making it simpler to book through one source rather than having to visit each site individually.

You can now compare air fares from 100's of airlines and tour operators in the search box below and book directly with them.





The Department of Transport have recently sanctioned new security agreements ata number of UK airports. This now means that at these airports the restriction previously imposed limiting hand baggage to one item per person no longer applies.

It is always worth checking however, as airlines apply their own operational policies regarding the number of items of hand baggage which may be taken in to the aircraft cabin.

Of course all this growth doesn't come without a lot of misgivings and environmental concerns. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions and the use of green fields for parking thousands of cars with increased traffic on narrow roads and extra flights per hour during peak periods only add fuel to the fire (no pun intended).

The debate is likey to rage for some time yet as so much o controversy still exists on the contribution levels of air traffic to climate change.

Broadly speaking, it does make both moral and financial sense to use regional airports where possible as there are some 30 airports across the UK serving some 22 million passengers each yer.

There is no escaping the fact that UK flight departures across the regions are set to grow at a phenomenal pace for the foreseeable future.