Small business owners have been reminded that Delta will be restarting its Manchester-New York JFK service on the 2nd of May 2010.

The airline recently announced that it would be temporarily suspending its service between Manchester and New York JFK from the 7th of January 2010, due to a decline in demand after the holiday season. However, the daily flight will be back form the 16th of May, in time for additional capacity for the busy May half term and summer holidays.

"Manchester's a very important market for Delta and we are committed to this city and will be operating two daily services when our passengers tell us they most want it - during the busy holiday periods," said Armin Venencie, Delta's UK and Ireland sales director.

"We continue to offer more onward destinations via Atlanta and New York JFK than any other airline from Manchester and we're delighted we'll be taking our passengers where they want to go, when they want to go."

Delta Airlines this year marked 18 years' of nonstop Manchester-Atlanta service. Today, Delta flies daily from Manchester to Atlanta and New York's JFK airport and in the last year has transported around 235,000 passengers from the Northwest of England to the United States.

Delta's services to Atlanta and New York JFK offer passengers travelling from Manchester access to hundreds of onward destinations in the U.S. and beyond. Top destinations for customers include Orlando, Tampa, Las Vegas, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

For more information please visit www.delta.com [1]