Virgin Atlantic to start new services to Bahamas and Cuba

Thursday, March 25, 2004

LONDON, England: Sir Richard Branson has unveiled a major expansion of his Virgin Atlantic airline, launching new routes to Cuba and the Bahamas, and increasing services on some of its existing Caribbean destinations.

Sir Richard said Virgin was aiming for double-digit growth over the next few years following signs the airline industry was finally pulling out of the deep recession precipitated by the 11 September attacks. Premium traffic was up 10 per cent across the Virgin network in recent weeks, he added. 

Virgin plans to launch direct services from Gatwick to Cuba and the Bahamas from July 2005 and increase flights on existing routes to Grenada and Tobago. 

Sir Richard said he had decided to launch services to Cuba after spending Christmas 2002 there with his family. The decision to start flying to Nassau in the Bahamas will break British Airways' monopoly on the route. 

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