Spain: Monarch Cancels Gatwick to Granada flights

Regular users of Monarch’s Gatwick - Granada (Spain) route are unhappy about the low-cost airline’s decision to cancel the service according to a report from uk-airport-news.info. Many British homeowners in the area cannot understand the decision, claiming flights between the two airports were always full. The airline claims 62,000 passengers used its Gatwick - Granada route between September 2006-2007, accounting for 5% of the passengers at the Spanish airport.

However, the figures were not enough to persuade the airline to keep the route, and from November 4, the flights will cease. Visitors to Granada will face a four-hour round trip commute as Malaga becomes the airline’s sole south of Spain destination from Gatwick.

A Monarch spokesman said that the route was not cost effective.