Following a review of long haul flying out of London Heathrow and Manchester, the following changes are being made:
- From January 2009, our Heathrow-Riyadh service becomes six times a week on an A330, with three services continuing onward to Jeddah and three services continuing onward to Dammam
- From Spring 2009, our Heathrow-Cairo and Heathrow-Amman services will be upgraded to A330 aircraft bringing our fully-flat bed Business Class and the biggest Premium Economy in the world (at 50” seat pitch) to our Heathrow hub
- On 14 January 2009, unfortunately our Manchester-Chicago service will end
- In April 2009, unfortunately our Manchester-Caribbean and Manchester-Las Vegas services will end
The decision to withdraw long haul services from Manchester was a very tough one, since we have operated these routes since 2001. However, sadly, the routes have never performed to the revenue levels we hoped to achieve, which combined with 2008 fuel price increases means we still see little prospect of improvement.
Re-accommodation policy
If you have a booking on discontinued services and you booked direct with our call centre or online, our schedule change team will be in touch with you by the beginning of December, to offer you alternative flights. Re-bookings are being prioritised in date of travel order.
If you booked via a travel agent or a tour operator, they will be in touch with you direct from the middle of next week regarding your rebooking.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.