David Leask / www.eveningtimes.co.uk

TWENTY thousand extra seats on budget flights to Glasgow's favourite sunshine resorts were put up for sale today.
Low-cost airline flyglobespan has doubled services to Palma in Majorca and Malaga on the Costa Del Sol to meet massive demand for Spanish holidays during the peak summer period.

The airline will fly twice a day to the two cities direct from Glasgow Airport, starting in mid-May and operating until mid-September.
Tickets will be on offer for under £100 return, including tax, during the school holidays.

Flyglobespan has been inundated with demand for the routes since it announced year-round daily flights last year.
A spokesman said: "We are absolutely delighted with the take-up on our services to Palma and Malaga, which has been superb.
"We will now go twice daily from Glasgow to Palma and Malaga over the peak summer season, including the school holidays."
Flyglobespan was forced to drop its planned flagship daily service to Paris from Glasgow Airport late last year. It has still to finalise a new destination to replace that service in its schedules.

The extra flights to Palma and Malaga will tighten the squeeze on the traditional summer charter operators from Glasgow Airport.
Flyglobespan is part of the Scots travel group Globespan and many of its passengers will also buy accommodation and other services from the airline.
But the extra flights - along with new low-cost routes by Ireland's Ryanair from Prestwick to Murcia and Barcelona - offer even more choice to the increasing number of people who want to organise their own holidays in Spain.

Flyglobespan bosses have admitted they were nervous about the massive increase in flights it has announced for this summer, many using its new and bigger Boeing 737-800 planes.
But they said uptake was good on daily flights to the Canary Island of Tenerife, and Faro in Portugal's Algarve. A new route to Cyprus is also selling well.

The airline said it still had plenty of winter season bargains on sunshine getaways, especially for January.
Charter operators, meanwhile, are having to look further afield to entice holidaymakers.

Direct Holidays has announced its first direct link from Glasgow to the Dominican Republic for summer 2005.
A spokeswoman said: "The strength of the euro and an increase in demand from customers for activity holidays has encouraged more people to visit the Caribbean accounting for the rising popularity of the Dominican Republic."