Regional business to benefit from new Manx2.com routes

REGIONAL business hubs stand to benefit from the new routes due to be opened up by Manx2.com, the Isle of Man airline whose twice-daily Cork- Belfast route enjoyed load factors regularly exceeding 60% last year.

Manx2.com’s new services from Belfast to Galway and Blackpool, England, will increase the travel options for business and leisure travellers. New revenue will certainly be needed at Ireland’s regional airports, faced with the withdrawal of the Government’s public service obligation (PSO) supports in July.

Manx2.com chairman Noel Hayes said: “We have been expanding our Irish operations for the past five years. The writing was on the wall for the PSOs coming to an end. We feel that there is a need to maintain connectivity throughout the island of Ireland.