Airport sets sights state-side
mercredi, 2 décembre 2009
Officials from Leeds Bradford International Airport have unveiled plans to launch flights between Yorkshire and the USA in a bid to solidify trade relations and improve routes for leisure travellers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Project America campaign has been launched in association with the British American Business Council with the aim of attracting a US airline to fly out of Leeds Bradford to New York within five years.
The airport has called upon the region's business community to back the plans in order to boost trade with the US which is the county's largest trading partner.
Yorkshire currently accommodates some 2,000 companies which trade with the US, exporting £2bn - 15% of Yorkshire's international trade - across the Atlantic.
Tony Hallwood, LBIA's commercial director outlined the benefits to a packed audience of influential business and leisure groups, including Welcome to Yorkshire, UKTI, Leeds York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and Bradford Chamber, Financial Leeds, and Yorkshire Forward.
Current travel arrangements to the US for Yorkshire's business and leisure travellers require a flight out of Manchester, however, a new service from the county would open up further routes within the US as well as creating some 400 jobs in the region, Mr Hallwood said.
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