Jet2 axe Barcelona flights; add two new summer routes from Belfast
03.10.08
Passengers will be able to fly directly from Belfast International Airport to Croatia and Cornwall from May next year, it was announced today. However, as airline Jet2 unveiled its new routes to Dubrovnik and Newquay, it axed its flights to Barcelona with effect from October 26.
Jet2 said the additional routes, which are expected to create 50 new jobs, proved it was bucking the downturn in the airline and travel sector. Chief executive Philip Meeson said: ‘These are exciting times for us and, unlike other airlines who are grounding planes, we are expanding our range of destinations and are planning to increase our overall capacity from Northern Ireland.'
‘We have just announced record trading and load factors and we have been able to do this by introducing exciting leisure destinations that our customers want, at great value fares, at the times they want to fly.’
The airline will refund passengers booked on its Barcelona flights after October 26. The route is served from Belfast International by Aer Lingus and easyJet, and was ‘over-serviced,’ Mr Meeson said.
He added: ‘We want our customers to be able to explore new, beautiful, and exciting destinations and, to be frank, the people of Northern Ireland must be bored with Barcelona so we’re going for two new destinations our customers want - Barca is so last year!’
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