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Surprise, surprise: another discount carrier has bitten the dust. This time it's Canadian carrier Zoom. Zoom offered transatlantic service between points in North America and Europe. It targeted, primarily, the leisure travel market; however, it did operate two classes of service in its fleet. Zoom had only five aircraft, but did offer quite an extensive network. It flew from Gatwick (LGW), Manchester (MAN), Belfast (BFS), Cardiff (CWL), Glasgow (GLA), Paris de Gaulle (CDG) and seasonal service from Rome da Vinci (FCO). It flew into many airports in North America, though mainly Canada, and served Calgary (YYC),Halifax (YHZ), Montreal (YUL), Ottawa (YOW), Toronto (YYZ), Vancouver (YVR), Winnipeg (YWG), Fort Lauderdale (FLL), New York (JFK) and San Diego (SAN). The company flew three Boeing 767-300-ERs in a two class arrangement (62/207 for two aircraft and 63/207 for the third). It's two B757-200s were configured 45/160 and 42/160. The carrier ran into financial troubles stranding passengers at many airports. A plane was impounded on Thursday in Glasgow for failure to pay air traffic control fees; another plane was grounded in Calgary. Many people in and around Belfast used Zoom as an inexpensive way to travel to North America. Continental Airlines [NYSE:CAL] is now the only carrier offering regularly scheduled service out of Belfast International. Other carriers have offered discounted one-way fares for stranded Zoom passengers.
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