News: Thomsonfly scale back Jersey flights
Flights > News > # 1512 (09/10/2007)
Thomsonfly is scrapping its flights to Jersey from Luton and Cardiff at the end of this month. The budget airline is also planning to axe its Jersey flights from Doncaster Sheffield to Jersey next March, although its services between Coventry and Jersey will continue.
Thomsonfly said the dropped routes were no longer “commercially viable” because it’s new Boeing 737-800s require longer runways than the one at Jersey.
Thomsonfly's commercial director, Guy Stephenson, said: "Following the merger of Thomson and First Choice to create Tui Travel, there has been a need to review the deployment of aircraft and the utilisation of those aircraft for the benefit of both businesses.
"In the process of this review, and particularly because 737-800 aircraft are not commercially viable due to the operational limitations of the airport, we have therefore had to reduce operations into Jersey airport.”
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