EAST MIDLANDS - 2

[Navy_Adversary]

banzai
I couldn't agree with you more.

EMA seems like a training base for jobsworths, it is so convenient but also inconvenient if you know what I mean.
Taxis are going around in ever decreasing circles,(10mins max) even before the latest security alert the security team outnumbered the Pax.
Customs slapped my wrist because I had 200 extra ciggies from an EU destination (PRG)

Arrivals will be closed April 1st for a filming of One man and his dog

[almost professional]

perhaps blaming the airport for things that are beyond its control is a bit unfair-the DFT insist that there is no drop off/pick up outside the terminal-thus the situation with the short term, customs is customs and again outside our control and as for the inconvenience of having to walk around a couple of rows of crowd control! hopefully the changes over winter will alleviate the worst of the problems with the security check points too

[paul atkins]

bmi baby

very disapointed to see that there expansion is to be from birmingham i think in the old days of tony davis who promised so much from the airport i think

[paul atkins]

bmi baby

pressed the button before i had finished in the old days tony davis promised to make nema a major european hub even fought for the name change which caused a lot trouble with people living in Derby & Leicester i think the airline which is going backwards at nema need to look back at there roots on the plus side excel are to be replaced by air malta next summer thats the end of the grunt cheers paul

[bycrewlgw]

They're doing the same thing at CWL quite dissapointing reall that they haven't expanded more. Must have been living in La la land when they announced CWL as a base. Was thinking it would be similar expansion as GO/EZY in BRS! Never mind!

BYCREWLGW

[Navy_Adversary]

This may be too simplistic but wasn't the Tony Davis/BMIBaby scenario all about getting the airports name changed to attract more foreign visitors to the East Midlands?
Many europeans didn't know the East Midlands, but they did know where Nottingham was

So the Airport authorities played ball, after all they didn't want to agitate a major player in the Loco revolution, but they did not mind upsetting the people of Derby and Leicester by changing the airports name to Nottingham.

Now a few years down the line...ermmmm, thanks for the loyalty BMIBaby, lets go back to Castledon, plenty of people know about the race track etc

[emababy]

well its typical bmibaby management for you never thinking about ema the place where it all started. i mean what is bhx going to do with 8 aircraft because its def not having any new routes. looking at it on a saturday they are having 3 bhx-agp!!! what a waste of time look for new routes mr rix its the way forward!!!

[future_pilot17]

emababy

I beg to differ on that count!

"We (bmibaby) will be introducing a number of exciting new destinations to compliment the thirteen European destinations that bmibaby currently serves from Birmingham International Airport. The new destinations have not been finalised as we are still in the process of compiling a short list of European destinations that offer the market potential and infrastructure to cope with the significant injection of passenger volumes that bmibaby will drive. The plan is to conclude discussions with short listed airport destinations over the next few weeks."

[paul atkins]

ryanair third based plane

hey all just been on ryanairs web page to find these flights 0630 to rome
0630 to girona & 0635 to dublin(27/2/07) looking like the based planes now operating these routes cheers paul

[paul atkins]

ryanair

must be loading the timetable as i am on it i have noticed the following day that salzburg departs 0615 & returns at1055 making four departures on the wednesday morning cheers paul

[bmibaby.com]

These new routes from BHX may actually benefit the EMA base, because if bmibaby manages to strike a good deal with the new airports or the routes seem to sell well, there appears to be no reason why a similar service could operate from EMA.

Currently there are plans for a sixth 737-300 for EMA some time in 2007, and also within the bmi group there are plans for the second charter A320 to spend more of the week based at EMA to take over a portion of the flying which this summer has been with UKJET.

Rumours have been circulating around the airport of a major shake up within bmi group for our ground handling needs, hopefully it won't be too negative news for our ground team at EMA.

[cym]

bmibaby - do you know if CWL will get the rumoured 4th 737 for s07?

cym

[BAforever]

From what ive heard it will, with new destinations in s07

[nema/robin hood]

Regarding FR - Looks like the timetable is being played around with for all of the routes. Only DUB, SNN, CIA and GRO bookable. All other destinations are saying 'no flights available' when I tried to book for mid March 07.

Could an announcement be in the offering regarding another based unit and more destinations? Let's hope so!!!

[emababy]

Future pilot 17

What baby management say and what they do are 2 totally different things and trust me i have seen the routes from bhx in the summer and 3 agps aday they dont have the aircraft to offer additional routes as if the aircrafts are over worked as it is!!!!!!

[OltonPete]

BMI Baby

emababy

Hi emababy

Can you just clarify the above?

The website shows 3 Malaga's on a Saturday only.

Are you saying that once the full schedules released that it will
be three a day? With ZB and BE offering AGP it would be mad
and Baby have been fairly smart with their BHX schedules in the past.

Also the rumour was that reduced fees at BHX was conditional
on some new routes not just Glasgows and Paris etc.

Are there any Italian routes on the cards - big gap in the
BHX route map?

Pete

[egnxema]

Its been a few days since Paul pointed out the timetable changes for CIA DUB and GRO.

Any news on what is happening with FR?

[anna_list]

Fr @ Ema

According to the latest Ryanair Investor Presentation on Friday (see the Investor Relations section of their website, page 19 of the presentation), EMA will receive a further three B738s this Winter, taking the total to 5.

As has already been pointed out, it looks as though EMA based aircraft will be taking over the three DUB rotations plus the daily GRO and EMA routes from February onwards. This still leaves plenty of room for new routes and should mean at least another 0.5 Million FR pax though EMA each year.

By my (very rough) calculations, this will also make FR the largest airline @ EMA by passenger volume.

[UPS@EMA]

wouldnt mind a Tampere route from EMA along with Skavsta and riga. More spanish routes would also work. Will FR go head to head with BA Connect and launch a Tenerife service. I know BA serve TFS and FR are starting TFN but what do people think?

Hows the building work coming along with the pier?????? is there any pics anywhere where they are building and whos doing the work?

Regards

Stu

[paul atkins]

ba-tenerife

hey all been looking at the booking system for the ba flights to tenerife it seems these flights will finish at the end of may ( bristol flights continue through out the summer )i dont know how the bookings are going but to compare not as good as bristol it seems cheers paul