View Full Version : The NEW Birmingham European Airways
Dash-7 lover
7th Jan 2006, 18:41
Just messing about with google and came across this...
www.birminghameuropean.com
Interesting times ahead......
Barcli
7th Jan 2006, 18:52
sounds like another Euro Direct Airlines of the 80's to me
Piltdown Man
7th Jan 2006, 19:04
Or Maersk or Community Express. I wish them luck for their venture. I hope it comes off. It might be interesting to know the names behind this new venture.
Even if it's a classy product (12 seat business class configuration, as in the days I flew with the original Birmingham Executive Airways), I'm not too sure if these days the businessmen will pay premium fares to fly 2 to 3 hour sectors on BAe31s. I hope I'm wrong and that we have the pleasure of welcoming "BEA" to our skies again.
Jumbo Jockey
7th Jan 2006, 19:23
History sort of repeating itself! But as you suggest Avman, surely when the original was running around in Jetstreams they were still called Birmingham Executive weren't they? Were the J31s still around when they changed the name to Birmingham European?
Whatever - best of British to them.
Dash-7 lover
8th Jan 2006, 14:18
The small aircraft=business fares work for Eastern so can't see why it shouldn't work for BEA. Everyone else seems to be going low cost but premium rate passengers have been left by the wayside.
Euravia First
8th Jan 2006, 14:29
I was a regular passenger with Birmingham Executive right from the start in the early 80s. I flew to Copenhagen with them on a number of occasions. I think I am right in saying that it was in the F50 days [Maersk Air by then owning 50%] that the name was changed. I would think this was around 1986/7 [?].
When they began around 1983 [with the 12 seater J31s] the passenger experience was in my view very good----but over the years it was less so and at the end with the seemingly tired 111-200s it was to my mind different.
Hope these recollections are of interest.
Regards---Euravia First
Becoming operational in 1983, indeed, the J31s, and some G-159 Gulfstreams, were still with them when they changed from BIRMINGHAM EXECUTIVE AIRWAYS to BIRMINGHAM EUROPEAN AIRWAYS, with the introduction of the Fk-50s in 1989. In late 1992 or early 1993 they became BRYMON EUROPEAN AIRWAYS for a short while before changing name again, late '93, into MAERSK AIR UK. It was at this point that the 1-11 fleet acquired their BA livery I believe.