Silverjet will start a second daily return service between London Luton and New York Newark will begin on 23 September.Silverjet’s launch Boeing 767 will operate on the service having completed its C-check, a standard 18 monthly maintenance service.

The first flight from London Luton airport departs at 10:00 and arrives at 13:00. The return flight from New York Newark airport departs at 19:30 and arrives at London Luton at 07:20. The second flight will depart Luton at 16:45 and arrive in New York at 19:45 and return departing New York at 21:55 and arriving in London at 09:45. All times are local.

August 2007 Passenger and Traffic statistics

1st-31st August 2007

Available seats 5,800
Revenue seats 4,654
Load factor 80%
On time departures 76%

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Lawrence Hunt, Chief Executive of Silverjet, said:
“We are delighted to announce an 80% load factor for August which reflects another strong month for Silverjet, our seventh consecutive one of growth. We continue to see strong forward bookings at increasing yields. Yields are strong, which together with the robust traffic statistics is an impressive achievement in August, traditionally the quietest month for transatlantic business travel. We are also seeing a good mix of business and leisure customers which allows us to spread our risk.

“We are also in the pleasing position of being able to announce the launch of our second service on 23 September, putting Silverjet in a strong position to accelerate the growth of the business.

“Silverjet has also been awarded the prestigious Conde Nast Traveller’s Reader’s travel award for favourite business class only airline beating stiff competition from our competitors. The award demonstrates industry recognition of Silverjet’s commitment to its high quality product and customers.”
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