A new airline Angers London starts next september

A new airline Angers-London city will start from next september. Sixty minutes after take-off from Angers Loire Aéroport, passengers will land at London City airport. The airline will be operated by Sunair, a former danish company now subsidiary of British Airways, on fridays and sundays. The price, for a roundtrip, will be about 150 €. The airline will be operated all year long with planes of different capacity, with a peak in activity on summer.

This is the result of an joint initiative of Angers city, the Maine et Loire County Council and the Chamber of commerce and industry, made public on june 17th. Together they finance the business with a 730 000 € subsidy, the major part coming from Angers, for the next three years. The public authority hopes that the airline will help to bring back english tourists in Anjou thanks to the depreciation of the euro against the pound.

Another airline linking Angers to Brussels, was announced at the same time, but that one with different prices and frequency. These two european destinations are added to an airline Angers-Tunis, operated since april of this year. Local authorities in charge of the airport located in Marcé estimate that almost 60 000 passengers came by Angers Loire Aéroport in 2009, a large majority for leasure.

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