The low-cost long-haul carrier, headquartered in Latvia, announced it would launch at the West Midlands airport last July after Birmingham’s 20-year partnership with United Airlines came to an end, pledging to operate a daily New York service, a four times weekly Boston service and three times weekly Toronto service.
Its Boston service though failed even to get off the ground after the airline axed the route in January - some five months before it was due to launch - due, it said, to a lack of demand
However, Primera said in June it was suspending long-haul operations from Birmingham, citing further delays in receiving its Airbus A321 aircraft, which had already hit the airline’s transatlantic launch at Stansted.
Less than two months later, Primera said it would wind down its European short-haul operation at Birmingham in the autumn “for the foreseeable future”, this time citing “capacity restraints”.
Primera also said it would reduce its Stansted-Malaga service to five flights a week and axe its Stansted-Alicante service from October 1.
