Flyglobespan to close Liverpool Airport base
26.09.07
Scottish airline Flyglobespan is to close its base at Liverpool Airport from the end of next month. The airline has previously announced that it will not operate New York flights from Liverpool over the winter.
The airline opened its Liverpool operations earlier this year, flying to Tenerife and Toronto, and launching a daily route to New York on May 25, with John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono flying in to back the link.
A spokesman for Flyglobespan said that the decision was take to close the base as the operation was not financially sustainable. Although it had said it would reinstate Liverpool Airport's New York link next summer, the new move has thrown it into doubt.
Staff on summer contracts plus 25 permanent employees will be made redundant as a result of the move. Liverpool Airport managing director, Neil Pakey, said: 'There is no shock in this [announcement]. Flights to Tenerife stopped in March, Toronto was always summer only and we knew about New York ending.'
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