Monarch, the low-cost airline has already announced its highly enhanced winter schedule for the year 2008, detailing the departures from London Gatwick.

Interestingly, the new timetable will see the carrier almost double the number of its services to the Canary Islands of Tenerife and Lanzarote. In addition, the airline will also expand its connections to several other hotspots in Spain as part of its expansion plans. Addressing the popular demands in these routes, these services occur as top highlight in the winter schedule of the airline.

The winter timetable of Monarch features around seven weekly flights a week operated to Tenerife, around five flights a week to Lanzarote, and about 11 flights to both Alicante and Malaga. Over and above, Monarch is also significantly expanding its connections from Gatwick Airport to Murcia. In this route, the airline will be offering up to five flights a week. This will also include new services with departures on Sunday and Tuesday.

Liz Savage, the spokesman of monarch was highly delighted that the airline could publish its winter schedule much ahead of many of their competitors. Commenting on the launch of the new schedule, Liz Savage observed, "Our customers continue to prefer our low fare, more care offer. Having more than doubled our services to Tenerife and Lanzarote, coupled with additional services to Murcia [and] the first winter operation of our popular Gatwick-Larnaca route … we are ideally positioned to meet the needs of our passengers."