Zoom Airlines operates low-cost full serviced scheduled flights all year round from Gatwick, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast and Paris to Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Ottawa.
Fares start from £99 one-way plus tax to East Coast destinations and £129 to West Coast. Premium seats are available on all Zoom flights from an additional £79 one-way to East Coast destinations and £99 to West Coast offering additional legroom and check-in, luggage and in-flight meal and drinks benefits. Advanced seat selection in economy is also an option from £10 and extra legroom in economy is available from £30.
Over the last three years Zoom has carried over 750,000 passengers between the UK and Canada demonstrating a real appetite for long-haul low-cost transatlantic flights. A major contributing factor towards the high level of demand is that Zoom fares are one-way enabling passengers to fly to one destination and return from another.
Zoom uses wide-bodied Boeing 767-300 aircraft with a seat pitch of 31 inches offering more legroom than a number of other transatlantic carriers with a generous 20kg baggage allowance on all flights and no additional carriage charge for ski or sporting equipment.
Zoom flight schedule 2006/2007:
Flights from Belfast
Toronto x 1 per week all-year round (summer and winter flights)
Vancouver x 1 per week summer only
Flights from Cardiff
Toronto x 1 per week summer only
Vancouver x 1 per week summer only
Flights from Manchester
Calgary x 1 per week – all year round (summer and winter flights)
Vancouver x 2 per week summer and x 1 per week winter
Flights from Glasgow
Toronto x 3 per week summer and x 2 per week winter
Vancouver x 2 per week summer and x 1 per week winter
Calgary x 1 per week – all year round (summer and winter flights)
Halifax x 1 per week – summer only
Ottawa x 1 per week – summer only
Flights from Gatwick
Toronto x 4 per week summer and 3 per week winter
Vancouver x 3 per week summer and x 2 per week winter
Calgary x 1 per week summer and 2 per week winter
Halifax x 1 per week – all year round (summer and winter flights)
Ottawa x 1 per week summer (flights available till end of November)
Edmonton x 1 per week summer only
Winnipeg x 1 per week summer only
Montreal x 1 per week – all year round (summer and winter flights)