BIRMINGHAM - 6

[FRatSTN]

Ryanair Summer 2016

FR also looks to have a decent schedule at BHX for S16 with increases on some routes, most noticeably BCN and DUB when compared to this summer.

Also looks as if it will be back up to 4 based aircraft for the whole season and could potentially overtake FR's base at LPL in terms of traffic.

[Daza]

Norwegian long-haul ex BHX

From the horses mouth BHX-New York and Boston under consideration from Birmingham.
Big Interview: Norwegian sets out strategy to make low-cost long-haul work - www.travelweekly.co.uk
Great news
Daza

[ATNotts]

Originally Posted by Daza

From the horses mouth BHX-New York and Boston under consideration from Birmingham.
Big Interview: Norwegian sets out strategy to make low-cost long-haul work - www.travelweekly.co.uk
Great news
Daza

I don't think the city pairs mentioned in the interview are particularly serious; more so that fact that he mentioned Birmingham (and Edinburgh) by name; which I think adds grist to the mill that BHX is going to figure in Norwegian's growth plans. This suggests a short haul BHX base for 2016 is all the more likely.

[chinapattern]

I wonder if a base announcement could coincide with the launch of Tenerife and Las Palmas?

[nigel osborne]

You do suspect if there is no base announcement this month or next, probably not going to happen for next summer.

We still have some weeks to go before that, so fingers crossed.

Nigel

[OltonPete]

Norwegian 2016

Tenerife and Las Palmas now bookable in summer 2016 at one weekly each, Friday for the former and Thursday for the latter.

Pete

[Daza]

Icelandair at Birmingham

Icelandair double their flights to Birmingham from 19th October.

1,2,4 and 5 From 19 Oct

FI494 KEF - BHX 0750 - 1125
FI495 BHX - KEF 1325 – 1510


1,2,4 and 5 From 25 Oct

FI494 KEF - BHX 0750 - 1025
FI495 BHX - KEF 1225 - 1510

Great news
Daza

[insuindi]

4U HAM-BHX

HAM-BHX Summer 2016 schedule unchanged from this summer, 6/7, with the exception of A320 instead of CRJ900 on Fridays.

[hillwalker2004]

Daza - that just looks like the same flights but timings changed due to end of BST?

[bhx bod]

hillwalker2004

As regards to timings you are correct.
The Tuesday and Friday flights are new.
Great to see our new flights this year doing well.

[Centre cities]

Ice

Unless the website requires updating the 4 per week Ice flights seem to start on the 01/02/2016.

Apart from the 2 weeks around the summer/winter change it still shows 2 per week till Feb.

Happy to be corrected.

Centre cities

[Wolverhampton]

The extra flights are planned to operate between February 1st and March 28th.

[bhx bod]

In my post I should have mentioned that the Tues. and Fri. Flights in October were for the half term holidays.
The schedule then goes back to 2xweekly until Feb,then 4x weekly until the spring as Centre Cities rightly says.
I am led to believe that it will be 4x weekly for most of the summer as well

[Centre cities]

Ice

With next summer currently showing 3 per week (an increase of one over this summer) which has been in the timetable for some considerable time.

Centre cities

[dude1882]

Nigel,

Is there a fixed amount of planes that can be 'Based' at BHX - with space been made for D8 / extra Thomson or just general expansion?

Dude1882

[nigel osborne]

Dude1882.

I believe one of the TUI planes next summer for BHX will be a non TOM plane probably either Germania or Norwegian ,but at present no airline showing.

Nigel

[adfly]

Originally Posted by nigel osborne

Dude1882.

I believe one of the TUI planes next summer for BHX will be a non TOM plane probably either Germania or Norwegian ,but at present no airline showing.

Nigel

Assuming the Norwegian base happens I would be putting my money on them.

[OltonPete]

Wizz

https://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/...-and-budapest/

First scheduled flight earlier today from Warsaw with Budapest tomorrow.

Of course several visits before on diversion from Luton but not a first for the Midlands as they operated schedule flights from Coventry a few years back - not too often that this has happened but hopefully they will be around BHX longer than they were at CVT.

Pete

[Daza]

Veuling

Alicante is showing as a direct destination from Birmingham on the Vueling route map. Not bookable yet, let's hope it's a new destination ex BHX.
Daza

[irishlad06]

RTM

Flybe are soon to announce a double daily mon -fri and single sat and sun to Rotterdam using the dh4.

0700am and 1640pm departures from BHX.