Barbados’s minister of tourism, Lisa Cummins, has hailed Aer Lingus’s decision to launch a new Manchester-Bridgetown service in the autumn, and has called for the carrier to offer Dublin flights in future too to build on the two islands’ historical links.
BA is adding extra capacity to Barbados this summer
Aer Lingus announced its first direct transatlantic services from Manchester on Wednesday (24 March), flying to several destinations in the US and Caribbean – making up some of the transatlantic services Manchester lost owing to the collapse of Thomas Cook.
It will fly twice-weekly to Bridgetown from Manchester starting 20 October, with flights increasing to three-times-weekly in November and running through to 25 March 2022.
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