Pakistan International Airlines (PK/PIA) is planning to resume flights to the UK this spring for the first time since it was banned from European & UK airspace six months last year. The ban came after it emerged that hundreds of PIA pilots had “dubious” licences with many having paid others [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced that it launching a new route from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) to Knock (NOC/EIKN) next year. The twice-weekly service will launch on 22nd March 2022 and run until at least October 2022. Ryanair’s Director of Commercial, Jason McGuinness, said: “We are pleased to add [read more]
Flybe has reached another milestone in its bid to bring the airline back to the skies by appointing Assured Aviation Services as its ground handling agent at Birmingham Airport. The deal will see 100 local jobs being created for the Warwickshire based company who handle all Flybe’s ground requirements from [read more]
Flybe Ltd, the operating company bringing back the Flybe name to the skies, has taken yet another step closer to its return to flying by announcing its first base and company headquarters will be at Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB). Flybe ceased operations in 2020 after several ill-fated rescue attempts but in [read more]
BA Cityflyer, a wholly-owned subsidiary of British Airways, has confirmed it will be relaunching flights from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) from this autumn. The London City Airport-based airline will operate a twice-daily service to Belfast City using an Embraer regional jet. Announcing the return Tom Stoddart, the managing director of BA [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced six new routes from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) for Winter 2021/22. From October, new destinations from Birmingham will include Bergamo, Lisbon, Bucharest, Shannon, Turin and Vilnius. The new routes bring the total of winter routes from Birmingham with Ryanair to 28 this season. Ryanair’s [read more]
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air has announced an expansion to its Winter 20/21 network at Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB). Wizz Air already flies to 5 destinations from Birmingham including Budapest, Bucharest, Cluj, Wroclaw and Warsaw but 5 more destinations will commence in the winter season. Starting on the 24th October 2020, [read more]
Lufthansa Group has become the latest group of airlines to announce it will be resuming flights from the UK & Ireland to Germany from next month. The German airline will resume flights from Birmingham, Edinburgh & Manchester in the UK, as well as increasing its Heathrow flights. In Ireland, the [read more]
Romanian carrier Blue Air (0B/BMS) is launching a direct service between Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) and the Romanian city of Bacău (BCM/LRBC). The route will commence on the 15th June 2020 and will be operated by a Boeing 737. The new route to Birmingham is part of a group of six [read more]
Leading UK holiday airline Jet2 (LS/EXS) has bought the slots belonging to the defunct airline a Thomas Cook at Manchester, Birmingham and Stansted airports. The sale, for an undisclosed amount, was announced by the official receiver. The total amount of slot pairs has also not been confirmed but according to [read more]
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