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TUI has announced it will scrap direct flights to three major destinations from spring.
The travel operator will cease its direct service from Birmingham to Orlando in Florida — and its flights from London Gatwick to Costa Rica and Saint Lucia.
A representative told the Standard: “We will still be providing TUI packages to these destinations through third-party flying. It just won’t be TUI Airways.”
Flights to the Central American country Costa Rica will stop from the end of April.
Its popularity has soared in recent years, with figures showing that in the first six months of 2024, it attracted 14.5 per cent more tourists compared with the same period the previous year.
Some 2.8 per cent of its tourists came from the UK, the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) reported.
Since the post-pandemic period, TUI has been operating a winter-only programme in Costa Rica, according to Travel Gossip. The airline flies to Liberia for easy access to the country’s Pacific coast resorts.
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