Transatlantic flights from Liverpool cut back
Flyglobespan cited poor passenger numbers as it announced that it is to reduce its frequency of flights from Liverpool to New York.
The transatlantic service was launched just last month by John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono with a view to bringing in more visitors to the European Capital of Culture 2008.
Originally, flights to New York left the north-west airport daily, though the airline has now confirmed that this will now be scaled back to four or five services a week, effective immediately.
“Unfortunately, load factors indicate that in the near future we will have to reduce the frequency to four or five times a week,” said a spokesman for Flyglobalspan.
“At some point in the future, we would like to return to a daily service to New York from Liverpool, but our experience would suggest that to make it viable we would have to introduce a secondary stop on the route, similar to our Liverpool John Lennon to JFK flights which fly via Knock in Ireland.”
The news comes as Zoom Airlines begins its low-cost flights from London Gatwick to New York, with one-way prices for the four-times a week flights costing from £129 all inclusive.