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Airbus A300B4-605R at
Manchester AirportFollowing Monarch's recent £900 million Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" order, board member Peter Brown told travel industry publication Travel Trade Gazette that the airline's latest order for brand-new aircraft was in fact placed by the Mantegazzas themselves, who were going to lease the aircraft to Monarch at market rates.[2]
Monarch's managing director Tim Jeans revealed in an interview to Travel Trade Gazette that the airline's recently ordered 787 "Dreamliners" were likely to be used to launch a range of new, transatlantic low-fare scheduled services to the US, in addition to operating the company's long-haul charter flights. Jeans also revealed that his firm's envisaged transatlantic scheduled services would feature a premium cabin and that its 787s were likely to be operated in a 320-seat configuration featuring a 33-inch pitch in economy class, which is up to two inches more than British Airways' and Virgin Atlantic's economy seat pitch (as of late 2007).[41]
In 2007 Monarch Airlines has been voted Leisure Airline of the Year at the annual Travel Trade Gazette Awards, the second consecutive year the airline has won this accolade.
On 27th April 2007 Monarch Airlines started flights to Ibiza partnered with popular club brand HedKandi, naming the partnership "FlyKandi". One of Monarch's Boeing 757s (registration G-MOND) received a special FlyKandi livery with billboard FlyKandi titles and a special tail motif. The HedKandi partnership lasted for the duration of the 2007 summer season, with flights to Ibiza being sold from four major UK airports. It was then renewed again for the 2008 summer season, offering the same services. A different Boeing 757 (registration G-MONJ) has been painted in a new FlyKandi livery and Monarch will use this as its partnership aircraft. HedKandi CDs and radio stations will be available for purchase and to listen to on-board Monarch aircraft as well.
As of late 2007, Monarch Airlines is the only survivor among the UK's prominent independent airlines of the 1960s, '70s, '80s and early '90s that still uses its original name.[42]