New Peel Airports boss targes American routes
08.07.10
Peel Airports’ new chief executive is targeting flights the Caribbean and the Americas, where parent Vancouver Airport Services (VAS) already operates airports, the Liverpool Daily Post reports. The Canada-based airports group plans to use its network of 18 airports to develop new long-haul routes from Liverpool Airport.
Last month VAS acquired a 65% stake in Peel Airports, owner of Liverpool Airport, for a reported £110.5m. Peel Airport’s new chief executive Craig Richmond told the newspaper that talks to convince airlines to offer services between Liverpool and VAS’s other airports have already started.
He said: ‘We can offer something unique to an airline, where we actually own the airport at both ends. For example, we own Liverpool and we own Hamilton, Ontario. There’s a great market for charter traffic to the UK from Ontario in the summer and a great market for UK traffic to go to Ontario.'
‘I haven’t had a chance to talk to my counterpart in Hamilton, whom I worked with in the past in Vancouver, but we have already had preliminary talks with airlines, and that’s an area that we are really hopeful will bear fruit. It’s probably a little bit late for this year, as tickets have been sold, but it’s something we can work on for the coming year.’
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