ExcelAire Services, which carries out many a European charter mission from its main base at New York's MacArthur Airport, is considering opening a hub in Paris and/or London.

Vp charter sales manager Anthony Johns revealed ExcelAire Service's reasoning to EBAN: "We think that Paris and London are very attractive, whether the base is actually at the main international airport or not.

"Those decisions haven't been made but because of the European travel we've been doing, if we drop someone off we'd also like to get someone coming back, so that we're not flying empty.

"So far, we've had some very good responses to the few online availabilities that we've put out there."