Zoom into Manchester

“Zoom Airlines has announced details of low-cost scheduled flights direct from Manchester to three Canadian cities.

The Manchester service will start operating in May 2005 with flights to Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary at prices starting from £89 one way to the East Coast and £139 one way to West Coast cities, excluding taxes.

Manchester flights will operate twice weekly to Vancouver on Thursdays and Saturdays, twice weekly to Toronto on Mondays and Fridays and weekly to Calgary on Thursdays.

Hugh Boyle, chairman of Zoom Airlines said: “I am delighted to be introducing flights from Manchester, further expanding our service offering for Summer 2005. Introducing an additional UK departure airport was essential to cope with the phenomenal levels of demand for our transatlantic flights.

“We are providing a high quality full-scheduled service at low cost which has proved to be extremely appealing to the travelling public, especially on long haul flights and we endeavour to continue to offer the lowest scheduled airfares across the Atlantic.”

This announcement completes Zoom’s expanded service offering for summer 2005 to meet the unprecedented demand for their low-cost full service scheduled flights.

John Spooner, Managing Director of Manchester Airport, said: “It’s great news that Zoom Airlines will be operating from Manchester next summer. Canada is a terrific destination which is becoming increasingly popular. Zoom Airlines are offering extremely reasonable fares and I’m sure there will be a strong uptake with this new operator.”

From May 2005 Zoom will be operating flights from Manchester to Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.

The wide-bodied cabin configuration has a 31” seat pitch for economy passengers who can enjoy a full scheduled service with meals, drinks and entertainment.

Premium class is ideally suited for these longer flights, offering additional legroom (36”), superior in-flight meals and complimentary drinks for the duration of your flight, for only an additional £49 each way to east coast destinations and £79 each way to west coast destinations.

The summer schedule from May 2005 will be:

Flights from Manchester

Monday: Toronto
Thursday: Calgary & Vancouver
Friday: Toronto
Saturday: Vancouver

All Zoom airlines fares can be booked on line http://www.flyzoom.com or by phone on 0870 240 0055″

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