News: New Florida flights from Belfast
Flights > News > # 858 (02/08/2006)
Northern Ireland is to have its first scheduled service to Florida when rapidly-expanding airline Flyglobespan launch a weekly flight from Belfast International to Orlando Sanford in November.
This will be Flyglobespan’s first Belfast route. The airline already operates from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley and London Stansted.
Later this year, they start a Manchester-Cape Town service and will also be flying daily from Liverpool to New York (Newark) from next May and have promised more transatlantic routes in the near future.
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Despite healthy tickets sales on Flyglobespan’s flights between Glasgow and Orlando (which took off in June), the announcement of a new Florida route from Belfast seemed really ambitious considering that the Northern Irish market is notably smaller than that of the Scottish central belt, whether for inward or outbound travel. However, it appears that all Flyglobespan are doing is diverting in one of their Glasgow-Orlando flights into Belfast to pick up some extra passengers on the way. This will give Belfast passengers a weekly flight to Orlando which will operate in a similar pattern to Zoom's existing route to Toronto. Flyglobespan, whose parent company has been a tour operator to Canada for many years, are also entering a marketing arrangement with Zoom which will enable them to sell their Canada flights on the Flyglobespan website.
