Jet-lag busting flight set to take off from Glasgow to Mexico

SCOTTISH passengers will be able to fly on the revolutionary new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from Glasgow to Florida and Mexico from May next year, Thomson Airways has announced.

SCOTTISH passengers will be able to fly on the revolutionary new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from Glasgow to Florida and Mexico from May next year, Thomson Airways has announced.

The plane, which will make its Scottish debut, has been touted as helping to banish jetlag and making long-haul routes from Scotland more viable because of its fuel economy.

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Thomson will operate the aircraft on weekly flights between Glasgow and Sanford in Florida and Cancun in Mexico from 1 May 2013 - although this will be four years later than expected because of production problems.

The firm has hailed the Dreamliner as “the greatest advance in air travel for passengers since the development of Concorde in the early 1970s”.

Boeing has said the plane could fly further and 20 per cent more efficiently than other aircraft.

It said passengers would suffer less jetlag thanks to novel features such as lower cabin pressure and higher humidity to reduce dehydration, while windows are three times the size of those on current planes.

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