{"id":52239,"date":"2012-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalresorts.com\/blog\/virgin-atlantic-begins-direct-flights-to-cancun-from-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T22:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T22:04:35","slug":"virgin-atlantic-begins-direct-flights-to-cancun-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalresorts.com\/blog\/news\/virgin-atlantic-begins-direct-flights-to-cancun-from-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic Begins Direct Flights to Cancun from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mark Carney<\/strong>, <strong>Sales and Marketing Director of Royal Resorts<\/strong>, in his capacity as British Consul for the states of Quintana Roo and Yucatan will accompany the British Ambassador to Mexico Judith Macgregor CBE who will host a <strong>brunch at <a title=\"seafood restaurants cancun | captains cove\" href=\"https:\/\/captainscoverestaurant.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Captain\u2019s Cove<\/a> this Saturday to welcome Virgin Atlantic airlines to Cancun, Mexico.<\/strong> Among the guests at the event offered by Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador Macgregor to celebrate this important occasion for our destination will be <strong>Virgin Atlantic President Sir Richard Branson<\/strong>, the <strong>Secretary of Tourism for the State of Quintana Roo Lic. Juan Carlos Gonz\u00e1lez Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, and representatives of the tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Virgin Atlantic<\/strong> launched <strong>Cancun flights from London Gatwick Airport<\/strong> this past June 12. This is their first route to Mexico and they are offering <strong>two direct flights per week<\/strong> from London\u2019s Gatwick Airport on 451-seat 747-400 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of holidaymakers from the United Kingdom has been growing steadily in recent years and is<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<p>likely to climb even more. Sir Richard Branson, President of Virgin Atlantic, comments on this exciting news: \u201c<strong>Cancun is one of the top five long-haul leisure destinations for UK travellers<\/strong>, so we are delighted to be able to add this route to our network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic launched Cancun flights from London Gatwick Airport this past June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Virgin Atlantic Begins Direct Flights to Cancun from the UK - 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