Who flys direct to Orlando / Sanford

**Katys Grandad** · 03-09-2012, 07:37

Originally Posted by Conrad

So for me, this time around, direct flights are the only option but personally I think £600 is quite expensive for a direct flight to Orlando. You'd think there would be a little more competition from other airlines, surely Orlando is one of the top destinations from the Uk and more than 3 airlines would operate direct routes there??

I think the reason is that it isn't a route that attracts enough premium passengers who will pay high fares for First & Business Class tickets and that's where the major airlines make the real money. BA do offer Club to MCO and Tampa but not on the 747's preferred by high payers and no airline flies First Class to either destination. Virgin's Upper Class comes close but isn't a full First Class product.

There's no doubt that Virgin exploit their Manchester-MCO scheduled carrier monopoly (who can blame them?) and no other airline has ever challenged that.

**Dads_Taxi** · 03-09-2012, 15:56

Originally Posted by caroline

Hi Conrad, Thomson and Monarch don't fly into MCO they fly into Sanford - Virgin and British Airways fly direct to MCO and BA also fly direct to Tampa.

I think this thread is becoming confusing - it certainly threw me a bit.
Paul's original query was about flights from Manchester to the Orlando area.

Conrad's query only asked about flights from the UK, and Caroline's response is to Conrad's question. BA do not fly direct to Orlando or Tampa from Manchester. I was briefly confused, if not slightly hopeful, that maybe more options were open to us Mancunians!
I just thought I'd comment in case anyone else was as dozy as me.