Business-class airline MAXjet suspended its Stansted-Washington, DC service this week until May 24.
The news came with UK-based Silverjet poised to join the ranks of a new breed of transatlantic business-class-only carriers, launching a Luton-New York Newark service on January 25.
US-based MAXjet claimed the suspension of the four-times-a-week service was ‘seasonal’. But the announcement came at one day’s notice, and in November MAXjet was promising a six-times-weekly service on the route from March.
The carrier will switch capacity to the Stansted-Las Vegas route, adding a third weekly flight on Saturdays. Chief executive Bill Stockbridge said Las Vegas demand had been “stronger than expected”.
MAXjet launched in November 2005 and began Stansted-Washington services last April.