MORE than a dozen new destinations are being added to the EUjet budget service out of Manston.

The airline's chief executive PJ McGoldrick spoke exclusively to Kent Online's sister newspaper, the Isle of Thanet Extra, to quell rumours that the airline is in trouble.

"We have added flights to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia in Spain, Palma and Shannon," he said.

"Yes we are no longer flying to two destinations, Copenhagen and Milan, but we arrange the flights and if people don't want to use them we can't put a gun to their heads and there is not really much we can do about it.

"It is not worth ploughing funds into routes that people are not using as that will obviously effect the cost of the flights to elsewhere.

"We have a responsibility to the travelling public to keep costs down," Mr McGoldrick said.

The new routes are just the first in many planned for the future.

"We have added the new routes as we have been told these are the places people wish to fly to.

"Some flights are already being booked up but as I said we have to learn what the demand is before we can guarantee routes will stay.

"We are doing our best to make this work and will continue to do so," he added.

Mr McGoldick also revealed that flights to Geneva, Saltsburg, Turin, Toulouse and Zurich will begin in the middle of December.

"At the end of the day the travelling public will decide where they want to go and we will fulfil their wishes if we can," Mr McGoldrick said.