Aer Lingus is raising capacity on its daily Manchester-New York service for the summer.
The number of seats on each flight is going up by 72% as a wide-body Airbus A330 is deployed on the route for the first time.
A 184-seat single aisle A321LR will be replaced by the 317-seat A330, including a doubling in business class seats from 14 to 30.
A total of 270,000 seats are now available from Manchester to the US with the airline’s biggest summer schedule from the airport.
The move comes just over a year after the airline started its first direct transatlantic flights to New York from the north of England hub, operated by the A321LR.
The switch allows the airline to redeploy the A321LR onto transatlantic routes from Dublin, including to Hartford, introduced last month, as well as to Cleveland from May.
Aer Lingus will fly from Manchester to New York JFK and to Orlando, with seasonal winter services to Barbados due to restart in November.
The three transatlantic routes complement the carrier’s Manchester to Dublin schedule of up to six flights a day, with onward connections to 13 transatlantic routes, with pre-clearance facilities.