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" n June 2006 Flyglobespan announced plans to operate out of
Aberdeen International Airport now that 24 hour airport operation there has been confirmed. The first route to operate from Aberdeen will be to Tenerife, commencing winter 2006. It has yet to announce further routes.
Liverpool will also be added to the Flyglobespan network from November 2006, with flights to Tenerife and Prague. The airline will also operate Liverpool's first long haul flight, to
New York (
Newark), using Boeing 757-200 aircraft, daily from May
2007.
Flights to
Toronto,
Canada from
Manchester are due to commence in November, with two of the three weekly flights operated by
Zoom Airlines, in accordance with a new codeshare deal between the two airlines. Zoom flights from Toronto to
Belfast,
Cardiff, Glasgow, London Gatwick, London Stansted and Manchester are already available for booking on the Flyglobespan website, as well as
Ottawa to
London Gatwick. It will also commence three times a week service Manchester to
Cape Town,
South Africa on November 4, 2006. Both these Manchester services will be operated by a Boeing 767.
Flyglobespan will also launch
Northern Ireland's first ever scheduled flights to
Florida with a weekly service to Orlando Sanford from
Belfast International Airport in November 2006.
Three further
transatlantic flights from Glasgow have also been announced for 2007; to
Barbados from January,
Las Vegas from February and
Boston, commencing in May of that year.
Flights from
Durham Tees Valley Airport to Tenerife will launch in 2007.
In order to meet the expansion of the airline's network, a further used Boeing 767-300 and new Boeing 737-700 will be leased from the
International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), while the airline's first
Boeing 757 will also join the fleet for the Liverpool to Newark service. There are plans to lease a third 767, second 757 and a further two 737s.
Flyglobespan announced in August 2006 that it would also lease two
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner from the ILFC for ten years, to be delivered in March and November
2010. "