Airline expands into Europe

Canadian airline, Air Transat, has added a number of new European destinations to its summer 2006 flight schedule.

The airline will now fly from London Gatwick to the Canadian city of Halifax and there is also now an extra weekly flight to Montreal from Gatwick, Travel Mole travel site reports.

Air Transat is also offering passengers three flights a week to Toronto from Glasgow Airport, as well as weekly charter flights to Vancouver and Calgary, according to Glasgow Airport news and information.

Ottawa Business Journal also reports that Air Transat will be the only airline to offer non-stop flights this summer between Paris and Ottowa.

Gilles Lamontagne, Air Transat's vice-president of sales and revenues long haul, commented: "We are pleased to bolster Air Transat's product line by introducing a new Ottawa-Paris-Ottawa flight for 2006."

Every year Air Transat flies over 2.5 million passengers to around 90 destinations in 25 countries worldwide, with direct flights to more than 30 European cities.

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