This isn't the first time that EI have operated to BHX from ORK. If I remember they used F50 and 146 aircraft twice daily in the nineties. The route proved popular until EI changed their fleet. Birmingham has the largest Irish ex-pat community outside London and is also now a transformed city with great shopping, world class hotels, exhibitions and entertainment. Dont knock Brum unless youve tried it!!! Good luck to EI with the service
Daza
I'm not knocking Birmingham. I used to live near there for a couple of years when I was a kid. Only recently, I chose to fly to Birmingham rather than Heathrow when traveling to Oxford because it spared me the hassle of Heathrow.
The point was more that RE and WW provide 3 flights and almost 300 seats each way per day already. It's quite a crowded route.