The return of AI
An EZY base at BHX
QR to start BHX-DOH
Wouldn't it be great if just one of these long standing runours actually happened! It's an upbeat article about AI but I agree with LAX_LHR it's based on author opinion alone. We can safely say that AI are looking into another UK airport to serve, but whether this will be BHX is very 50/50 seeing as route development seems focused on their DEL hub but ATQ is where pax from this area want to fly. One stop long haul routes eg BHX-ATQ-DEL simply add cost and complexity compared to DEL non-stop which as has been discussed might be more attractive to AI to do from MAN.
The article is wrong in one respect - it says AI have served BHX once before, they have in fact served it twice, they flew 707's from 1980-ish to 1984 routing BHX-SVO-ATQ-DEL (or maybe it was BHX-SVO-DEL-ATQ, can't remember that far back!).