Zoom Airlines, the low-cost carrier for transatlantic flights, has launched a new service with cheap flights between London and San Diego. Beginning in June 2008, the discount airline will offer California passengers the same cheap fares and high standards they enjoy on its other budget flights between Canada, the USA and Europe.

The new San Diego service, which begins on June 23, is a surprising cheap flight destination. Although San Diego is California's second-largest city, this will be the only direct, non-stop flight between it and a European city. Currently passengers who travel from San Diego to London each year have to change planes at other US airports. The budget flights will operate twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, to and from London Gatwick.

About Zoom

Based in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Zoom Airlines was founded in 2002 by Hugh and John Boyle, two brothers with more than 20 years' experience in the holiday business in their native Scotland.