Thomas Cook to operate first year-round Manchester-US route
Thomas Cook Airlines has added three direct flights for winter 2017 from Manchester-New York JFK.
The service will start on December 14, operating on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Thomas Cook already offers a daily summer 2017 programme on the route and the additional winter season flights means the airline will offer its first year-round service from Manchester to the US.
For summer 2018, the service will be daily again.
Thomas Cook Group chief airlines officer Christoph Debus said: "This new year-round service represents further progress with Thomas Cook’s strategy to expand its successful long-haul offering.
"We want to become the preferred leisure carrier for long-haul flights from Europe to North America."
Passenger numbers of the award winning leisure airline between Europe and North America have more than doubled during the past three years, Thomas Cook said.
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