United Airlines to drop seasonal Manchester-Washington DC route

A spokesperson of United Airlines said that the flights between Washington D.C. and Manchester was launched in 2010, and has since remained more of a challenge for it. The route was mostly preferred by outbound regional UK travelers, but the decline of Sterling against the US dollar is going to hit the airline hard. The airline has already predicted that the outbound UK market would not be performing well in 2018. Moreover, travel experts have also said that the post Brexit exchange volatility and continued reliance on UK demand are going to prove quite challenging for some UK regional US routes.

Continental Airlines was the first to start Belfast-Newark Liberty and Manchester-Washington D.C. routes. The airline operated both the transatlantic routes with the help of narrow-bodied Boeing 757 aircrafts. The main purpose of the launch of these routes was to serve many other secondary destinations throughout the UK, Scandinavia and mainland Europe. However, Continental Airlines was much later on finally acquired by United Airlines.

During the initial days it was thought that providing air connectivity to less busy regional destinations would prove to be a cost-effective. However, during the past few years flights services to many routes have been stopped because they were considered to be underperforming. Some of these dropped routes include Dusseldorf, Cologne and Stuttgart. And, now United Airlines has also recently announced it is suspending flights services on Hamburg-Newark Liberty and Munich-Houston routes between January and Spring 2017.