by Andy W » 10 Oct 2010, 23:28
It's really too early for anyone to have their finalised flight programmes on sale. Some operators will show timetables on their websites, but the Air Traffic Control and airport slots are still being negotiated, so if you book, the times may well change before you travel. This said, EasyJet have put the Rhodes flights ex Liverpool on sale for summer 2011, so Gatwick can't be far behind. The only other airlines you can be certain will operate to Rhodes from the UK are Thomson, Thomas Cook, Jet2 and Monarch, and maybe not all of these will use as many regional airports as they did this year, though Jet2 will definitely expand their services. Viking will need to work out agreements with the smaller independent package operators if they are going to get enough business to be worth operating - Kiss Flights handled that for them until they collapsed.
As for ferries, well this year there was at least one ferry every day in April, and on some days as many as six. As Kojak says, the dates of Greek Easter are crucial, there are far more Greek passengers in April than there are tourists, so the timetables will reflect their needs, and with the poor economic conditions in Greece the timetables are likely to be a bit sparser that they were this year. The chances of finding out what the timetables for April will actually be before late March are at vanishing point, most shipping lines haven't even decided which ships they will use next year yet, let alone what times they will sail.