AIRLINES have announced nine new destinations from Leeds Bradford airport This summer, seven major airlines and tour operators will be flying to nine destinations, including beach holiday resorts and cities.

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have four new routes from Leeds Bradford Airport to Malta, Tunisia, Greece (Cephalonia) and Turkey (Antalya) providing a total of 42 destinations this summer.

Monarch and Cosmos Holidays have introduced Naples (Italy) offering a direct flight to gain easy access to Sorrento, Capri and the Amalfi Coast. The addition of Alicante (Spain) widens their choice of summer flight only and holiday routes to 10 from Leeds Bradford.

Thomson and First Choice have introduced holidays to Crete, Omega Holidays have commenced a Lakes and Mountain programme flying to Friedrichshafen, while Ryanair have reintroduced services to Riga, the Latvian capital.