Flyglobespan to close Manchester and Liverpool Airport bases
26.09.07
Scottish airline Flyglobespan is to close its bases at Manchester and Liverpool Airports from the end of next month. As we exclusively revealed yesterday, the airline has scrapped its planned Manchester - Cape Town flights this winter, and has previously announced that it will not operate New York flights from Liverpool over the winter either.
The airline opened its Liverpool operations earlier this year, flying to Tenerife and Toronto, and launching a daily route to New York on May 25, with John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono flying in to back the link. Its Manchester flights, with the exception of the Cape Town route, were all to Canada, including Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver. All services will cease from the end of October, a spokesman revealed.
A spokesman for the airline said that the decision was take to close the bases as neither of the operations was financially sustainable. Although it had said it would reinstate Liverpool Airport's New York link next summer, but the new move has thrown it into doubt. Staff on summer contracts plus 25 permanent employees at the two north west bases will be made redundant as a result of the move.
Liverpool Airport's managing director, Neil Pakey, said: 'There is no shock in this [announcement]. Tenerife stopped in March, Toronto was always summer only and we knew about New York ending.'
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