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easyJet announces major expansion at Berlin
easyJet now largest low-cost airline in Berlin - more routes from Berlin than either London Luton or Stansted
easyJet, Europe’s leading low cost airline, today announced that it is adding three new routes, connecting its Berlin Schoenefeld base with London Gatwick, Milan and Rome, starting on 21 September 2005.
easyJet is already the largest low cost carrier operating from Berlin, and also the fastest growing carrier in Germany, currently employing around 400 people both directly and indirectly in Berlin. The airline is committed to further growth at Berlin and considers Schoenefeld of great strategic importance to its future development.
This announcement brings to 27 the number of easyJet routes from Berlin – this is more than easyJet’s long-established London bases at Luton and Stansted and only one less than the 28 currently offered from London Gatwick.
Berlin is now easyJet’s largest base outside of the UK and with the delivery of the airline’s 100th aircraft at the end of this month, Schoenefeld will account for 10% of easyJet’s total operations. With 70 daily flights, easyJet expects to carry over 3 million passengers to and from Berlin in 2005.
These new routes are in addition to the five already announced that will begin operations from Berlin this summer to Belfast, Maastricht-Aachen, Olbia, Pisa and Valencia.
The twice daily service to Gatwick, will be available from £17.99 one way including taxes and charges (£30.98 return). easyJet will now offer a choice of two London airports with 10 daily services between the UK and German capitals.
The two Italian routes will be available from €26.99 one way including taxes and charges (€53.98 return). There will be a twice daily service to Rome’s Ciampino airport, while Milan will be served initially once a day via the city’s convenient Linate airport.
Seats will be available to book at www.easyjet.com a week from today – Wednesday 9 March.
Ed Winter, easyJet Chief Operating Officer commented in Berlin today;
"Today’s announcement is more good news for consumers in Berlin and a further statement of our confidence in the city and its prospects. As well as providing easyJet’s famously cheap fares to over 3 million passengers through Berlin this year, we will be responsible for creating employment for around 3,000 people going forward.
"easyJet is already Berlin’s largest low-cost airline and our unrivalled scale allows us to keep costs down and continue to keep fares low. The future is bright for easyJet in Berlin and Germany as a whole and we look forward to announcing more new routes in the near future giving Berliners an even greater choice."
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easyJet, Europe’s leading low cost airline, today announced that it is adding three new routes, connecting its Berlin Schoenefeld base with London Gatwick, Milan and Rome, starting on 21 September 2005.
easyJet is already the largest low cost carrier operating from Berlin, and also the fastest growing carrier in Germany, currently employing around 400 people both directly and indirectly in Berlin. The airline is committed to further growth at Berlin and considers Schoenefeld of great strategic importance to its future development.
This announcement brings to 27 the number of easyJet routes from Berlin – this is more than easyJet’s long-established London bases at Luton and Stansted and only one less than the 28 currently offered from London Gatwick.
Berlin is now easyJet’s largest base outside of the UK and with the delivery of the airline’s 100th aircraft at the end of this month, Schoenefeld will account for 10% of easyJet’s total operations. With 70 daily flights, easyJet expects to carry over 3 million passengers to and from Berlin in 2005.
These new routes are in addition to the five already announced that will begin operations from Berlin this summer to Belfast, Maastricht-Aachen, Olbia, Pisa and Valencia.
The twice daily service to Gatwick, will be available from £17.99 one way including taxes and charges (£30.98 return). easyJet will now offer a choice of two London airports with 10 daily services between the UK and German capitals.
The two Italian routes will be available from €26.99 one way including taxes and charges (€53.98 return). There will be a twice daily service to Rome’s Ciampino airport, while Milan will be served initially once a day via the city’s convenient Linate airport.
Seats will be available to book at www.easyjet.com a week from today – Wednesday 9 March.
Ed Winter, easyJet Chief Operating Officer commented in Berlin today;
"Today’s announcement is more good news for consumers in Berlin and a further statement of our confidence in the city and its prospects. As well as providing easyJet’s famously cheap fares to over 3 million passengers through Berlin this year, we will be responsible for creating employment for around 3,000 people going forward.
"easyJet is already Berlin’s largest low-cost airline and our unrivalled scale allows us to keep costs down and continue to keep fares low. The future is bright for easyJet in Berlin and Germany as a whole and we look forward to announcing more new routes in the near future giving Berliners an even greater choice."
www.easyJet.com
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Very good for SXF, but still no direct flights to Berlin from the Midlands!
Does anyone know what EZ and FR etc will do when BBI opens. The airport say that landing fees will be "competitive" and "volume based", but I really can't see the likes of MOL, and even Ray stumping up the huge amounts of cash that they are going to have to pay for these new facilities, however nice they look!
Will the main central terminal with its flash new ICE station be reserved for the likes of Lufty & pals, leaving the "real" locos to stay in the old terminal, which still has good access to central BER and other location with the rail station being 300m away.
Does anyone know what EZ and FR etc will do when BBI opens. The airport say that landing fees will be "competitive" and "volume based", but I really can't see the likes of MOL, and even Ray stumping up the huge amounts of cash that they are going to have to pay for these new facilities, however nice they look!
Will the main central terminal with its flash new ICE station be reserved for the likes of Lufty & pals, leaving the "real" locos to stay in the old terminal, which still has good access to central BER and other location with the rail station being 300m away.
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Does anyone know what EZ and FR etc will do when BBI opens. The airport say that landing fees will be "competitive" and "volume based", but I really can't see the likes of MOL, and even Ray stumping up the huge amounts of cash that they are going to have to pay for these new facilities
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"And indeed, why on Earth in whole region of Berlin and Brandenburg should possibly operate one central airport only"
Some of this goes back to Berlin's unique history and geography - essentially the argument that it only really has 3 airports because of the split.
Without the Berlin wall, THF might have closed long ago, and TXL would never have been built, as it too is surrounded by densely populated neighbourhoods. However appealing THF might be for the commuter, the city's line is that the market in BER is not large enough to sustain 3 airports, especially with all the costs of maintaining THF (even if they can't bulldoze it because of its historic significance).
The noise footprint at TXL is supposed to affect something like 750,000 people. Not sure if they use the same criteria as we do here, but LHR's figure is only about 350,000.
You couldn't tell people not to buy houses near airports if the only locations further away were on the other side of the iron curtain. So, iron curtain gone, combined with Germany's strict environment laws and love of expensive infrastructure projects, and the plan to combine everything at BBI is hatched.
> (BBI)? Kind of monopoly and crippling the competition, I'd agree.
The argument about having to shut down your neighbours to protect your own high cost investment plans certainly does ring true a little closer to home!
Some of this goes back to Berlin's unique history and geography - essentially the argument that it only really has 3 airports because of the split.
Without the Berlin wall, THF might have closed long ago, and TXL would never have been built, as it too is surrounded by densely populated neighbourhoods. However appealing THF might be for the commuter, the city's line is that the market in BER is not large enough to sustain 3 airports, especially with all the costs of maintaining THF (even if they can't bulldoze it because of its historic significance).
The noise footprint at TXL is supposed to affect something like 750,000 people. Not sure if they use the same criteria as we do here, but LHR's figure is only about 350,000.
You couldn't tell people not to buy houses near airports if the only locations further away were on the other side of the iron curtain. So, iron curtain gone, combined with Germany's strict environment laws and love of expensive infrastructure projects, and the plan to combine everything at BBI is hatched.
> (BBI)? Kind of monopoly and crippling the competition, I'd agree.
The argument about having to shut down your neighbours to protect your own high cost investment plans certainly does ring true a little closer to home!
