The British airways ‘Virgin Atlantic’ has introduced a setback for his or her Caribbean passengers in Bahamas and Turks and Caicos because it ceases its operations from the respective international locations. The airways took this choice following its community evaluate.
The airways reported that their remaining flight from Heathrow Airport, London to Turks and Caicos will depart on 21st February 2025. Alternatively, the final flight to Bahamas from the London- Heathrow Airport will depart two days later that’s on 23rd February 2025.
Notably, the Virgin Atlantic airline is presently working 3 flights every week to Bahamas and a couple of to Turks and Caicos. The airline has additionally said that the flights which can be cancelled might be used to put on extra flights to a number of extra locations together with Antigua and Barbados within the Caribbean and Cape City in South Africa.
“As we proceed to deal with optimizing our community, we repeatedly evaluate the locations we fly to. As a part of this, we’ve made the choice to extend our frequencies to Antigua, Barbados, and Cape City subsequent 12 months, and to sadly droop operations to The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos” A spokesperson of the airways said.
The airways in gentle of the cancellation prolonged an apology to their prospects and emphasised that any bookings already made might be supplied with different compensation choices by the airways.
Following the cancellation, the Virgin Atlantic airline is reported to extend its providers to Antigua this October from one flight every week to 4 flights every week. Aside from this, the airways will even improve its providers to Barbados from seven to 10 flights every week. Nevertheless, it’s going to proceed to function its direct flights to Montego Bay 4 instances every week. Alternatively, the airline’s operation to Cape City seasonally might be prolonged for another month till 30th April 2025.
That is to be famous that the Virgin Atlantic airways repeatedly evaluate its community diversification in an effort to seek for optimum locations the place the airways can earn a good income. A number of locations together with Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Port Harcourt, Accra, Nairobi, Mauritius, Lahore, Islamabad, San Juan, Kingston, Tobago, Varadero, Cancun, Havana, Chicago, Detroit, Austin, and Newark have been fallen into after which out of operation as a part of the airways community administration.
