Originally Posted by
DutchBird-757
No surprise to see PMI and IBZ return. Hopefully with a higher frequency.
Regarding the new destination. How about Berlin, as WHBM already mentioned. New airport under construction and a base for Air Berlin.
Just announced; Air Berlin to join Oneworld Alliance. Official announcement in Berlin tomorrow with the CEO's of AA/AB/BA/AY and Oneworld itself present.
Press release
here and Oneworld
info.
The timings of those new BA slots puzzled me because they don't match an LCY-based aircraft, i.e. there's a long ground time at the outstation. But the Air Berlin announcement was an "aha!" moment. If BA were holding the new LCY slots on behalf of AB, everything would make sense, e.g. an Air Berlin Q400 operating Berlin or (more likely) Hamburg or Dusseldorf to LCY twice a day, with a BA codeshare. That's just my mad guess, but let's wait and see...
C.