Aer Lingus denies plans to resume US west coast flights

AER LINGUS has stated it will not be resuming services to the west coast of the US in the foreseeable future, despite speculation to the contrary.

Media reports suggested that the airline — which pulled its west coast routes towards the end of 2009 in a bid to arrest mounting losses — was looking to resume flying to California next year and had entered talks with four airports, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Jose, regarding possibly restarting services.

However, the airline yesterday said that it had analysed the potential of such routes but had come to the conclusion that they would probably generate “significant losses”.