During the winter 2017-18 season the carrier will operate services from Birmingham, Leeds Bradford, Gatwick, Luton and Manchester airports.

Ski routes will include Turin, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Lyon and Grenoble, are available.

The airline will also be extending its programme from Manchester to Kittila in Finnish Lapland, with flights available throughout January and February.

It follows Monarch’s Arctic Experience programme launched from Gatwick last winter.

The carrier now has an extended range of Lapland-based holidays available through its tour operating arm Monarch Holidays from Gatwick and Manchester.

Meanwhile, those looking for winter sun can take advantage of Monarch’s Luton-Ovda service with the Israeli terminal an option for those wishing to travel to the Red Sea city of Eilat.

Monarch is running the service for a third successive winter as UK as other Red Sea destinations in Egypt – including Sharm el Sheikh - remain off limits to UK airlines.

More flights have also been added on winter sun routes to the Canary Islands and destinations in mainland Spain such as Malaga and Alicante.

Monarch said its winter schedule has already seen more frequencies to some of its most popular leisure destinations and would feature more “sociable” flight times.

The remainder of the schedule will be added at a later date.

Marjan Schoeke, head of network development at Monarch, said: “We are pleased to be putting the majority of our ski flights on sale, as well as providing more choice to our most popular winter destinations. In total another 430,000 seats are now available for winter 2017-18.

“Customers now have a wide choice of popular ski, winter sun and city break destinations to choose from when booking their holidays.”