Virgin celebrate 10 years of Caribbean flights
30.09.08
Virgin Atlantic is celebrating the tenth anniversary of launching flights to the Caribbean.
The airline began serving the island region in September 1998 when it launched flights from Gatwick Airport to Antigua, Barbados and St Lucia. A number of other flights followed, including connections to Grenada and Tobago in 2003, Montego Bay in 2006 and Kingston last year.
The airline's Caribbean services proved so popular that it extended them to the north of England, with flights from Manchester Airport to Barbados launched in November 2005, followed by a service to St Lucia the next year.
Steve Ridgway, Virgin Atlantic's chief executive, said: ‘Since we started flying to the Caribbean in 1998, we have carried over four million British holidaymakers. The Caribbean is an important market for us and we are now the biggest operator to the region having added more Caribbean destinations, flying from Gatwick and Manchester to eight destinations on seven islands.’
To celebrate ten years of its Caribbean flights, it will launch a ten-day music festival in Barbados on October 30.
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