Virgin Atlantic is to close its domestic flights business Little Red in 2015, less than two years after it was launched. Virgin Atlantic says that the European Commission’s decision to allow British Airways to take over British Midland and all of its flight slots made it impossible for a new entrant to the market like Little Red to attract enough business to make it profitable. Little Red’s daily services between London Heathrow and Manchester will continue until the end of March 2015, while its flights between London Heathrow and Edinburgh and Aberdeen will continue until September 2015.
