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Without doubt Emirates 4th service at Manchester is only a question of when and not if.
At weekends it's almost as busy during the night as it is during the day.
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How many passengers want to arrive in Palma or Malaga at 02:30 ? Not exactly an easy time of night to get taxis, arrange car hire etc.
Join Date: Feb 2005
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To be honest I can not see a 100% increase in flights here.
The BGI has been 3 per week for some time in winter with 2 of the flights dedicated cruise flights.
The Thai and Goa flights are fortnightly.
Centre cities
The BGI has been 3 per week for some time in winter with 2 of the flights dedicated cruise flights.
The Thai and Goa flights are fortnightly.
Centre cities
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Being reported elswhere MON to start Valencia 2 x week, Split 2 x week, Naples 2 x week and a weekly flight to Rhodes ex BHX all commence late June 2017 these new services just keep stacking up! Link to press release Monarch launches new flights for summer 2017 from Birmingham Airport - Monarch Blog
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Great news about this latest expansion from ZB and shows an even stronger commitment to BHX - it is easy to forget they operate to a fair few key European capitals from BHX now as well as some major secondary cities. I think NAP in particular will do well as it offers a nice holiday option to combine with Rome.
The one Spanish city I personally would like to see served from BHX is Seville. FR are starting this from EMA in Oct, so come on Monarch - you know you want to!
The one Spanish city I personally would like to see served from BHX is Seville. FR are starting this from EMA in Oct, so come on Monarch - you know you want to!
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The one Spanish city I personally would like to see served from BHX is Seville. FR are starting this from EMA in Oct, so come on Monarch - you know you want to!
Well I think we can forget Ryanair doing anything spectacular at BHX - Seville is just the latest example of MAG cutting FR a deal and launching routes from MAN and EMA.
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chinapattern - I have long given up on FR doing anything spectacular at BHX - but being fair to them, last year and S17 have both seen a number of new (or re-introduced) routes and frequency increases on others to give the biggest number of weekly flights this summer they have had at BHX for a long time. So, we have to be happy they are still at BHX and not stagnating completely as they did for a year or two. I think the arrival of Jet2 has woken them up a bit.
In terms of a launch of 13 new routes in one hit as at EDI this week, well I don't think we will ever see that but I'm fairly sure we will see a couple of new routes in the next 12 months, just like over the last couple of years.
Reported on other threads cuts to Vueling schedules - NCL-BCN, MAN-AMS and EDI-ORY all canned for S17, it is reported due to crewing shortages and in the case of MAN-AMS slot restrictions at AMS. Hopefully their BHX ops will remain intact, including the new ORY route. I flew BHX-ALC-BHX in Jan and the aircraft was about a third full both ways (low season I know but even so). I was very impressed with aircraft and crew both ways, they're a good airline.
In terms of a launch of 13 new routes in one hit as at EDI this week, well I don't think we will ever see that but I'm fairly sure we will see a couple of new routes in the next 12 months, just like over the last couple of years.
Reported on other threads cuts to Vueling schedules - NCL-BCN, MAN-AMS and EDI-ORY all canned for S17, it is reported due to crewing shortages and in the case of MAN-AMS slot restrictions at AMS. Hopefully their BHX ops will remain intact, including the new ORY route. I flew BHX-ALC-BHX in Jan and the aircraft was about a third full both ways (low season I know but even so). I was very impressed with aircraft and crew both ways, they're a good airline.
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GayFriendly, I've used Vueling ex-BHX to BCN/AGP and AGP-BCN and TFN-AGP, and I agree they are very good. I flew BHX-AGP 07.01.17 and there were only 10pax, but I got talking to the handling agent and he said it was quite normal at that time of year and that it had 155pax on inbound. He said that this was common with most sun destinations and airlines at specific times, so I wouldn't worry too much, on my other VY flights there have always been good loads. I hope they expand at BHX I note that AGP goes x6 weekly from March.
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At IAG's last Capital Markets Day back in November, the boss of VY stated that there are some markets that VY want to expand in so they will set up a route they will operate it for a certain period of time. If after that period of time they route fails to be profitable it will be discontinued. Think that's what happened with the routes dropped by VY across the network in recent days.
At IAG's last Capital Markets Day back in November, the boss of VY stated that there are some markets that VY want to expand in so they will set up a route they will operate it for a certain period of time. If after that period of time they route fails to be profitable it will be discontinued. Think that's what happened with the routes dropped by VY across the network in recent days.
The days of giving a route 2 years to develop are long gone.