Andy1l

American Airlines are axing their daily flights between Manchester and Boston, but from May FlyGlobespan will launch a daily service between Boston and Glasgow.

Direct flights from Boston to the UK are now available from London and Glasgow.

Manc

short flight.........


the MAN - BOS routes have always been seasonal.

I also heard a rumour that AA are axing their ORD - GLA route

gsnichol

They axed the NCL-JFK route before it even started!

Andy1l

Yea MAN-BOS and GLA-ORD are both seasonal, both will not be returning next summer. The new FlyGlobespan flights from Boston to Glasgow will operate all year round.

American Airlines are axing a tone of European flight and sending passengers via London or Paris.

They are hoping that people in the UK will now fly from Glasgow or Manchester to London and then get an American Airlines flight.

Manc

not really.
Manchester still has a very viable transatlantic market.
One world (BA and AA) operate flights daily out of Manchester to JFK and ORD respectively.
BMI to ORD
Delta to JFK / ATL
US to PHL
CO to EWR
Virgin to MCO
AC to YYZ
Pakistan also flies MAN to JFK I believe.

And If I do have to change somewhere, I'd rather change at Schiphol than London.

There is no need for Manchester Customers to go via LHR to get across the atlantic......
it will be AA's loss.
Also didn't AA have a MIA flight out of MAN for awhile?

What does perturb me is the use of 757 flying pencils to British regional airports, they're about as comfortable as sitting in a sardine tin.

Andy1l

Yea I know there are other long haul flights but American Airlines are hoping we will use their flights from London rather then other airlines from Manchester and Glasgow.

Glasgow is has great connections across the world with no need to go to London. I personally never will fly via London. If say I wanted to fly to Sydney I would fly Glasgow to Dubai and then Dubai to Sydney.

From Glasgow we have direct long haul flights to Barbados, Boston, Calgary, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Chicago, Dubai, Halifax, Holguin, Islamabad, Karachi, Las Vegas, New York, Orlando International, Orlando Sanford, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Puerto Plata, Toronto, Vancouver and Varadero

Most of these have connections on offer so instead of flying Glasgow-London-San Francisco I would fly Glasgow-Philadelphia-San Francisco.

Scouse Express

Also, starting next May 25th we will have FlyGlobespan operating between Liverpool & Newark, NJ.

I prefer using AA between ORD & MAN, myself.

Jim.

Manc

alright Jim.

good news on Liverpool getting decent american service at last.

Manc

Who flies to Ottawa from GLA is that Zoom?



Are Las Vegas and Sandford schedule flights or charter?

BMI offers flights to those places out of MAN but not daily.
Monarch flies to Sandford too but is charter I think.

Andy1l

Yup good news for Liverpool. Flight will operate daily May to October and 3x per week November to April. I think it will be a 757 operating this route.

Andy1l

Yea Glasgow to Ottawa is Zoom Airlines.

It (Glasgow to Ottawa) was a summer only service but this year for the first time it will operate in the winter.

Las Vegas and Sanford are a mix of scheduled and charter flights. FlyGlobespan operate daily to Sanford and twice a week to Las Vegas.

Charter flights to Las Vegas are operated by MyTravel and charter flights to Sanford are operated by MyTravel, First Choice, Monarch, Excel Airways, Travel City Direct and ThomsonFly.

Manc

XLA.........you couldn't pay me to fly with those clowns.

Andy1l

Lol take it they are mince? Never flown with them myself…

Manc

one of their rancid old 747's had an engine fire and they had a bomb scare.......that's just last week.

not bad for one week. they have more delays and cancellations than British Rail........

incidentally, they managed to evacuate 519 people from the plane with the engine fire.......


519 in a 747?
no thanks.........

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17595771&method=full&siteid=66633&head line=tourists-in-jumbo-jet-blaze-drama--name_page.html

Andy1l

I herd about the flight diverting to Italy when I was in Mexico. Its those 500 seat 747s they use on the Glasgow to Orlando flights. No thanks for me, I’ll go with First Choice, FlyGlobespan or Virgin Atlantic!