Freedom Travel Holidays is pleased to announce the launch of new direct day trips to Cologne, Germany.

The flights will operate on Saturday 29 November 2008 flying out at 0720 and returning to the island at 2100. Packages start from £269 per person and include return non-stop flights, return transfers from the airport to the city centre, a city walking tour and up to 4 hours free time during the afternoon.

What a week it’s been non-stop once again as we work to bring you more direct flights. We have been in France as we prepare for ski flights for next season. Following travelling around 2,500km by road, up to altitudes of 2,800 meters we now have a better programme for next year.

We arrived in Geneva on the last direct flight of the season with Flybe and visited Chamonix where we stayed for the evening. Straight away snow was visible on lower ground but at this time of year you do need to aim higher for the better ski conditions.

Sunday we travelled north to Morzine and Avoriaz. What a great find two fantastic resorts. Avoriaz is a great resort where all you can do is ski no cars are allowed in the resort you have to travel by horse and carriage or via Huskies. Morzine is more suited for après ski and judging from the people who where in the resort it would be perfect for younger adults.

Yes, for those who did realise yesterdays press release was an April fool, sea planes will not be coming to the island anytime in the near future. It was great to hear Manx Radio go along with the media release and we did get a lot of enquires asking to book! With directs in mind we have received news from an airline who we hoped to operate the planned Iceland short break and unfortunately this will not be going ahead due to runway restrictions at Ronaldsway. We would have been under capacity by lots of seats which makes it too expensive. Roll on the extension.

On the other hand we hope to have a new short break to Lapland on sale within the next week. This luxury break will be departing Ronaldsway on 7th December. We have a preview available on the menu to the left but pre-register now as this will be very limited. As normal it will be first come first served.

Just a quick mention about the new route operated by Flybe to Newquay we now have packages available to and from the Isle of Man. Also your comments are welcome on anything related to Isle of Man travel or anything on the site. Did you fall for the April fool? Let us know. That's all for now further updates soon.

Freedom Travel are pleased to announce a new weekly service to Majorca starting in May 2009 using the brand new Air Sea Bus H2-20 which will start flying early 2009.

This new generation of sea planes will be a new “greener aircraft” capable of long range flights.

This weekly Saturday to Saturday service will carry up to 120 passengers from the Isle of Man to Puerto Pollensa in northern Majorca. The service will bring back Sea Planes to the resort of Puerto Pollensa for the first time since 1988.

Hello again!

Its all go at the moment as we have lots on the go which is why this blog is late!

As you can see we have been working hard on a new version of this site www.iomdirectholidays.com which Im sure you'll agree is much better. You can now interact with each other using our forum section we want everyone who has been on directs to shout about them, so others can see what they are missing out on. You can tell us and others you tips by commenting on short breaks or directs.

Firstly thank you to all who sent us emails following our last blog we know everyone is waiting for details of our direct flights and we did aim to have details available at the end of last month but time was against us.

Our new blog will feature all the latest news relating to travel to and from the Isle of Man but we want to hear from you! If you have any comments please contact us and we will do our best to answer any questions.