THE FIRST domestic services to be run by Sir Richard Branson’s airline Virgin Atlantic are among a number of new routes being flown by UK and overseas carriers from Britain in 2013.
Virgin will be operating a total of 24 domestic flights a day out of Heathrow, starting from the beginning of April.
The airline will be flying six daily returns to Edinburgh plus three daily returns to Aberdeen and to Manchester.
Also from the beginning of April an extra third daily flight between Heathrow and Atlanta in the US will be operated by American carrier Delta which is waiting for regulatory clearance to take a 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic.
From the end of March British Airways will begin flying from Gatwick to Colombo in Sri Lanka and will start Gatwick services to Lanzarote and Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
BA will also begin flights between Heathrow and Alicante in Spain and Palma in Majorca in spring.
Among new easyJet routes in 2013 will be Manchester to Moscow, with the low-fare carrier starting services of four flights a week on March 28.
