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Re: BIRMINGHAM
Originally Posted by Fried_Chicken
I've heard that SAS have indeed dropped the Brum-Stockholm flight & that Germanwings are to cease Cologne-Brum
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Moving the flight to an early morning departure from CGN, with no evening return, it seems that GERMANWINGS were looking for an excuse to discontinue this service. The original mid afternoon schedule was ideal for me, but it never achieved more than a 70% load factor at the best of times; not good enough for an LCC I guess. I consider CGN-BHX a good mixed business and leisure route and it can work. However, to attract the business side it has to be twice daily. Probably be ideal for a 100 seater.
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Re: BIRMINGHAM
Originally Posted by MarkBHX
Anyone know what happened to the BA Avro that apparently went off the taxiway yesturday?
Cheers, Mark
Edit: sorry didn't see the thread in rumours and news
Cheers, Mark
Edit: sorry didn't see the thread in rumours and news
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BHX 2005 Pax Figures
2005 Passenger Results
Birmingham International Airport (BIA) recorded its busiest year ever in 2005, with a record 9,388,754 passengers using the Airport over the twelve month period. This was 5.8% more than in the previous year and has been achieved following the launch of several new scheduled airlines in 2005, the introduction of new destinations and increased frequencies on key services.
The largest growth in passenger numbers in 2005 was seen on scheduled flights, which experienced an overall increase of 13.7%. This was a result of new airlines starting from Birmingham including bmibaby, Air India, Monarch Scheduled, Sun-Air (BA franchise), Germanwings, and AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines, bringing a greater range of destinations to Birmingham. Additionally, growth was achieved by existing airlines such as Flybe with further expansion of its network and through increased frequencies on existing routes such as New York, Dubai and Frankfurt.
Richard Heard, BIA’s Managing Director, said, “2005 was a very exciting year. New airlines and destinations have provided passengers with more choice than ever and the need for increased capacity on routes like Dubai, India and Pakistan demonstrates that demand for long-haul services from Birmingham is growing and reinforces our plans to develop facilities to cater for these changing markets.”
“The launch of our draft Master Plan for public consultation at the end of October was an important day for the Airport. We wanted to share our long-term vision for the future with the Region and all our neighbours as soon as possible. The formal consultation exercise ends on March 31st. We will then look carefully at all the responses before considering adopting a formal, new Master Plan later in the year.”
Particular growth in 2005 was seen on Transatlantic services, which increased by 26.4% overall and on flights to Asia, which grew by 22.6%. Other sectors seeing growth were non-EU countries, which rose by 16.7%, EU destinations, which increased by 13.4% and domestic routes, which grew by 13.1%.
Specific scheduled routes experiencing growth in 2005 were Nice (+1161%), Prague (+112.5%), Tehran (+104.7%), Larnaca (+92%), Faro (+49%), Milan (44.4%), Amsterdam (+27%), and Edinburgh (+21.6%).
Meanwhile, passenger numbers on charter services reduced overall by 9.8% reflecting the trend across the whole charter market in the UK as people move towards tailoring their own holidays. However, there were a number of charter destinations which experienced growth including, Egypt (+1559.7%), Bulgaria (+105.2%), Barbados (+104.9%), Mexico (+69.9%), Turkey (+19.8%), Croatia (+15.2%), France (+12.1%), Austria (+10.3%), Cyprus (+9.6%) and Malta (+7.8%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 71.5% of the total passenger traffic in 2005, with charter making up the remaining 28.5%.
For three consecutive months during the summer, the Airport handled more than one million passengers (July, August, and September). The year ended with a record December, as 564,603 people used the Airport, an increase of 13.7% on the same period in 2004. Seven additional record months were recorded during 2005.
Other 2005 data:
• The top ten scheduled destinations in 2005 were (in order): Dublin, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Belfast, Paris, Glasgow, Malaga, Frankfurt, Alicante, Dubai.
• The top ten charter destinations in 2005 were (in order): Tenerife, Palma, Arrecife, Las Palmas, Dalaman, Paphos, Alicante, Fuerteventura, Faro, Mahon.
Birmingham International Airport (BIA) recorded its busiest year ever in 2005, with a record 9,388,754 passengers using the Airport over the twelve month period. This was 5.8% more than in the previous year and has been achieved following the launch of several new scheduled airlines in 2005, the introduction of new destinations and increased frequencies on key services.
The largest growth in passenger numbers in 2005 was seen on scheduled flights, which experienced an overall increase of 13.7%. This was a result of new airlines starting from Birmingham including bmibaby, Air India, Monarch Scheduled, Sun-Air (BA franchise), Germanwings, and AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines, bringing a greater range of destinations to Birmingham. Additionally, growth was achieved by existing airlines such as Flybe with further expansion of its network and through increased frequencies on existing routes such as New York, Dubai and Frankfurt.
Richard Heard, BIA’s Managing Director, said, “2005 was a very exciting year. New airlines and destinations have provided passengers with more choice than ever and the need for increased capacity on routes like Dubai, India and Pakistan demonstrates that demand for long-haul services from Birmingham is growing and reinforces our plans to develop facilities to cater for these changing markets.”
“The launch of our draft Master Plan for public consultation at the end of October was an important day for the Airport. We wanted to share our long-term vision for the future with the Region and all our neighbours as soon as possible. The formal consultation exercise ends on March 31st. We will then look carefully at all the responses before considering adopting a formal, new Master Plan later in the year.”
Particular growth in 2005 was seen on Transatlantic services, which increased by 26.4% overall and on flights to Asia, which grew by 22.6%. Other sectors seeing growth were non-EU countries, which rose by 16.7%, EU destinations, which increased by 13.4% and domestic routes, which grew by 13.1%.
Specific scheduled routes experiencing growth in 2005 were Nice (+1161%), Prague (+112.5%), Tehran (+104.7%), Larnaca (+92%), Faro (+49%), Milan (44.4%), Amsterdam (+27%), and Edinburgh (+21.6%).
Meanwhile, passenger numbers on charter services reduced overall by 9.8% reflecting the trend across the whole charter market in the UK as people move towards tailoring their own holidays. However, there were a number of charter destinations which experienced growth including, Egypt (+1559.7%), Bulgaria (+105.2%), Barbados (+104.9%), Mexico (+69.9%), Turkey (+19.8%), Croatia (+15.2%), France (+12.1%), Austria (+10.3%), Cyprus (+9.6%) and Malta (+7.8%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 71.5% of the total passenger traffic in 2005, with charter making up the remaining 28.5%.
For three consecutive months during the summer, the Airport handled more than one million passengers (July, August, and September). The year ended with a record December, as 564,603 people used the Airport, an increase of 13.7% on the same period in 2004. Seven additional record months were recorded during 2005.
Other 2005 data:
• The top ten scheduled destinations in 2005 were (in order): Dublin, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Belfast, Paris, Glasgow, Malaga, Frankfurt, Alicante, Dubai.
• The top ten charter destinations in 2005 were (in order): Tenerife, Palma, Arrecife, Las Palmas, Dalaman, Paphos, Alicante, Fuerteventura, Faro, Mahon.
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From ABTN today:
BIRMINGHAM is to be linked non-stop to Doha from 26 March with Qatar Airways offering a four times per week service. Doha, capital of the Gulf area state of Qatar, is a major hub for much of the Middle East and for many destinations on the Indian subcontinent. Announcing the new route the airline’s chief executive officer Akbar Al Baker said, “All our operations covering Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester are performing extremely well. Birmingham is a natural progression for us, the UK a major market.” He also confirmed that the Manchester flights would go from four to five from 11 February and daily at the beginning of the summer season 26 March. Airbus A330 aircraft, in a two-class configuration as used for Manchester, will also service Birmingham.
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How many aircraft does Monarch Airlines base at Birmingham, and within that amount how many are used for Monarch Scheduled services? I ask, as the company appears to be expanding with the addition of twice weekly flights to both LEI & MJV as well as the addition in frequencies to FAO, ALC & AGP for this summer. Rumour has it that LIS might be on the cards.
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Excellent news for BHX to get another middle-eastern carrier to supplement the fantastic service that Emirates already provides us. I hear that DOH & Qatar Airways are another one of the big up-and-coming airlines, although I have not personally sampled their service. It's good to see, especially as Gulf Air (or their all-economy Gulf Traveller division) were not able to launch their own Abu Dhabi service due to their financial issues, that there is market for a second Arab airline to BHX. Now all we need is a second American airline ... 
It's my understanding that Monarch base two A321s for both scheduled & charter flights at the airport, and also use an A330 to operate some longhaul charters. Monarch are handled at BHX by Swissport, who I hear are doing very well with the BHX operation. Comments on ZB & Swissport would be appreciated ....
It's my understanding that Monarch base two A321s for both scheduled & charter flights at the airport, and also use an A330 to operate some longhaul charters. Monarch are handled at BHX by Swissport, who I hear are doing very well with the BHX operation. Comments on ZB & Swissport would be appreciated ....
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There is no mention of Doha- Birmingham on either the BHX website or the Qatar Airways website, presumably if they are to begin in March, the flights should be on sale by now?
Another dud like Gulf Traveller I suspect!
Fried Chicken
Another dud like Gulf Traveller I suspect!
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Qatar/Monarch/Swissport
Originally Posted by Lite
Excellent news for BHX to get another middle-eastern carrier to supplement the fantastic service that Emirates already provides us. I hear that DOH & Qatar Airways are another one of the big up-and-coming airlines, although I have not personally sampled their service. It's good to see, especially as Gulf Air (or their all-economy Gulf Traveller division) were not able to launch their own Abu Dhabi service due to their financial issues, that there is market for a second Arab airline to BHX. Now all we need is a second American airline ...
It's my understanding that Monarch base two A321s for both scheduled & charter flights at the airport, and also use an A330 to operate some longhaul charters. Monarch are handled at BHX by Swissport, who I hear are doing very well with the BHX operation. Comments on ZB & Swissport would be appreciated ....
It's my understanding that Monarch base two A321s for both scheduled & charter flights at the airport, and also use an A330 to operate some longhaul charters. Monarch are handled at BHX by Swissport, who I hear are doing very well with the BHX operation. Comments on ZB & Swissport would be appreciated ....
Monarch will have three A321's based from the first week in May. Two on scheduled and one for Cosmos etc.
I have a friend who works as a Duty Officer for Swissport at BHX and the
last time I spoke to him he was in shock - he had just been told that they
have the Flybe contract from the 1st April. After a fairly quiet winter I think he realises that he is going to be a whole lot busier!
Swissport on the whole having been picking up contracts slowly but
flybe is the big one after the demise of Mytravellite. My opinion only but they seem a reasonable outfit. All I have to go on is the speed they get the airbridge or steps on the aircraft and how quick they are at check-in.
The times I have used them they have been very good.
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Flybe
Also from ABTN:
FLYBE, lead carrier for the Embraer-195, has confirmed an October
introduction for the aircraft. The first two ‘planes will be based at
Birmingham, followed a month later by one for Exeter and by year end
an aircraft based at Southampton. The Embraer-195 has 118 seats as
opposed to 112 on the BAe 146-300 that it replaces. The modern twin
should prove to be far more economical to operate than the no longer
produced former Hatfield product. However JetBlue is reporting
problems with the introduction of the similar EMB 190 although these
should be resolved by the time that the aircraft is introduced at the
start of the winter season. FlyBe should have 14 of the Brazilian
aircraft in service by the end of 2007.
FLYBE, lead carrier for the Embraer-195, has confirmed an October
introduction for the aircraft. The first two ‘planes will be based at
Birmingham, followed a month later by one for Exeter and by year end
an aircraft based at Southampton. The Embraer-195 has 118 seats as
opposed to 112 on the BAe 146-300 that it replaces. The modern twin
should prove to be far more economical to operate than the no longer
produced former Hatfield product. However JetBlue is reporting
problems with the introduction of the similar EMB 190 although these
should be resolved by the time that the aircraft is introduced at the
start of the winter season. FlyBe should have 14 of the Brazilian
aircraft in service by the end of 2007.
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[QUOTE=runway14141414]Also from ABTN:
FLYBE, lead carrier for the Embraer-195, has confirmed an October
introduction for the aircraft. The first two ‘planes will be based at
Birmingham, followed a month later by one for Exeter and by year end
an aircraft based at Southampton. The Embraer-195 has 118 seats as
opposed to 112 on the BAe 146-300 that it replaces. The modern twin
should prove to be far more economical to operate than the no longer
produced former Hatfield product. However JetBlue is reporting
problems with the introduction of the similar EMB 190 although these
should be resolved by the time that the aircraft is introduced at the
start of the winter season. FlyBe should have 14 of the Brazilian
aircraft in service by the end of 2007.
Hopefully they will turn up pretty regularly on the BHX-BHD-LGW run!
FLYBE, lead carrier for the Embraer-195, has confirmed an October
introduction for the aircraft. The first two ‘planes will be based at
Birmingham, followed a month later by one for Exeter and by year end
an aircraft based at Southampton. The Embraer-195 has 118 seats as
opposed to 112 on the BAe 146-300 that it replaces. The modern twin
should prove to be far more economical to operate than the no longer
produced former Hatfield product. However JetBlue is reporting
problems with the introduction of the similar EMB 190 although these
should be resolved by the time that the aircraft is introduced at the
start of the winter season. FlyBe should have 14 of the Brazilian
aircraft in service by the end of 2007.
Hopefully they will turn up pretty regularly on the BHX-BHD-LGW run!
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Anybody know how Aerosvit are doing? Heard they haven't had good loads so far. I wonder if a USA-B'ham-Kiev-Asia flight with one of their B763s would do any good? I know they already fly across the Pond with the 767.
Also, reported elsewhere that Cityjet are to dispose of their knackered 146s (presumably see the end of the leased Flightline knackers too) & replace them with ex Northwest Jetlink/Mesaba RJ85s.
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Also, reported elsewhere that Cityjet are to dispose of their knackered 146s (presumably see the end of the leased Flightline knackers too) & replace them with ex Northwest Jetlink/Mesaba RJ85s.
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Originally Posted by Fried_Chicken
Anybody know how Aerosvit are doing? Heard they haven't had good loads so far. I wonder if a USA-B'ham-Kiev-Asia flight with one of their B763s would do any good? I know they already fly across the Pond with the 767.
Also, reported elsewhere that Cityjet are to dispose of their knackered 146s (presumably see the end of the leased Flightline knackers too) & replace them with ex Northwest Jetlink/Mesaba RJ85s.
Fried Chicken
Also, reported elsewhere that Cityjet are to dispose of their knackered 146s (presumably see the end of the leased Flightline knackers too) & replace them with ex Northwest Jetlink/Mesaba RJ85s.
Fried Chicken
Todays Aerosvit 737-400 had 7 inbound apparently and the usual is 10-15. The
CAA provisional stats for December are grim reading for this service
BHX seems to get a lot of Blueline FK100's on the Air France flights, which is not surprising having suffered two grim flights in summer 2004 on the
Flightline machines (BA Nice service) - Tech delays, tatty interiors
but nice crew.
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Originally Posted by OltonPete
Todays Aerosvit 737-400 had 7 inbound apparently and the usual is 10-15. The
CAA provisional stats for December are grim reading for this service
BHX seems to get a lot of Blueline FK100's on the Air France flights, which is not surprising having suffered two grim flights in summer 2004 on the
Flightline machines (BA Nice service) - Tech delays, tatty interiors
but nice crew.
Peter
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Originally Posted by OltonPete
I have a friend who works as a Duty Officer for Swissport at BHX and the
last time I spoke to him he was in shock - he had just been told that they
have the Flybe contract from the 1st April. After a fairly quiet winter I think he realises that he is going to be a whole lot busier!
OltonPete
last time I spoke to him he was in shock - he had just been told that they
have the Flybe contract from the 1st April. After a fairly quiet winter I think he realises that he is going to be a whole lot busier!
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Swissport
Originally Posted by Flap15Geardown
Why is he in shock?? Doesn't he know what is going on in his own patch? Everyone I know at Swissport have know for the last two months that they were coming - baring any major management cock ups. Maybe he should get out a bit more often
Correct re Aerosvit 733 not 734, slightly better load factor!
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