12/06/2009

Aer Lingus Drop Shannon Routes

Aer Lingus is to announce the scrapping of a number of transatlantic services out of Shannon over the winter.

It is believed the airline plans to axe Shannon flights to New York and Chicago from its schedule. There is also speculation that services out of Dublin to Washington and San Francisco may be dropped.

However, the Airline has announced six new winter routes from Gatwick. Since launching its first international base outside of Ireland at Gatwick in April this year, the state sponsored airline is introducing six new destinations from the British airport.

Passengers will be able to visit Bucharest, Eindhoven, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Warsaw and Vilinus for winter this year.

Its current flights to Dublin, Faro, Knock, Malaga, Munich, Vienna and Zurich will continue, but Nice will cease during the winter months. With the addition of these new routes, the airline will operate 118 round trips a week.

Aer Lingus Corporate Affairs Director, Enda Corneille, said: "To give our customers a greater choice in destinations, we've introduced six new routes which are popular to travellers during the winter months."

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