Virgin sets the date

A start date of 28 March has been set by Virgin Atlantic for the new three-a-week Manchester – San Francisco service which it announced last year. It will be the first airline to provide direct services between the two cities.

The route is one of five new operations Virgin is introducing this spring, with Seattle, Varadero (Cuba), Boston and New York also on the list. The carrier also plans to launch the first direct service between Heathrow and Barbados just before Christmas. 

These new twice-weekly flights, which went on sale last weekend, start on 12 December on Tuesdays and Saturdays and mean Virgin Atlantic will now offer up to 11 Barbados flights a week from three UK airports – Gatwick, Manchester and Heathrow.

With the Heathrow connection, the airline is expected to promote its newly-extended codeshare deal with FlyBe, which means passengers from Scotland will be able to connect from Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports to Barbados via the London airport.

Virgin chief commercial officer Shai Weiss said: "The Caribbean has always been a core market so we’re excited to be offering more choice to passengers with the option of flying from Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester direct to Barbados."

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