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Flybe wins unique “anna.aero Towering Achievement Cake Prize” for BHX winter launch celebration

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Nobody can ever win this cake award ever again: When Flybe turned Birmingham Airport’s control tower purple in October, the occasion was celebrated with this incredible anna.aero-award-winning cake, sliced up here by Flybe CEO Christine Ourmières-Widener and Birmingham Airport COO David Winstanley.

While we await the winner of the public vote for the 26 cakes entered into this week’s W17/18 Part I reader poll, Flybe has already been awarded a special once in a lifetime prize for this fantastic cake celebrating the October night Flybe turned Birmingham Airport’s ATC tower purple. The stunt completed Flybe’s distinctive branding throughout the airport, and marked the start of its winter schedule including four brand new routes.

Flybe is BHX’s largest scheduled carrier by movements with 682 flights a week across 23 routes, a market position reinforced with a consistent purple experience for Flybe customers from check-in to gate; and now extended to the drive-up and drive-past, as the BHX tower will now be illuminated purple at all times.

“We wanted to establish a really strong branding presence and make our customers’ journey truly consistent, so the tower illumination is the finishing touch to bring the power of Flybe purple to Birmingham,” said CEO Christine Ourmières-Widener, welcoming the city’s key business, travel and tourism leaders to the “purple countdown,” and to share a slice of the TWR cake.

David Winstanley, Birmingham Airport’s COO agreed: “Flybe has carried over 2.1 million passengers in the last year, so it’s great that passengers are now given the full Flybe service.”

Highlights of the 2017/18 Birmingham winter schedule include six seasonal flights a week to Hamburg, daily flights to Newquay over the Christmas holidays, while flights to Amsterdam will increase to a daily service.
 
More seriously, I don't think the brand will be affected. Stobart kept the Aer Lingus Regional brand and Flybe is too well-known for a name change.

Other than that I have very little idea what could happen.
 
Financial security and investment most likely to result for fly be. They have taken southend from a gen aviation and engineering base to 1 million plus rapidly heading to 2 mill great terminal with station playing the Long term game. Promising....doubt if they shift everything to southend! (y)
 
Flybe have tweeted this afternoon that flights for 28 October 2018 - 13 January 2019 go on sale on Thursday, 8 March
What will we lose and keep for the winter?

Any news on stobbart? Must have been very serious otherwise they would have kept it secret.
 
I wonder if Flybe would ever re start KEF on a E175 ?? I think the last time they started it was bad luck for them as a few weeks later Icelandair started BHX-KEF. But now they have gone x 3 weekly on an E175 should work ??
 
I wonder if Flybe would ever re start KEF on a E175 ?? I think the last time they started it was bad luck for them as a few weeks later Icelandair started BHX-KEF. But now they have gone x 3 weekly on an E175 should work ??

One can only hope but they seem to be in cut back mode recently.

Lisbon could also be a cracking route for them.
 
So is this the start of another sinking ship ? :unsure:
Why is it? Just because the Stobart deal didn't go through doesn't mean Flybe are going to go bust. Yes things are rosy at Flybe but they do seem to be turning things around.
 
Why is it? Just because the Stobart deal didn't go through doesn't mean Flybe are going to go bust. Yes things are rosy at Flybe but they do seem to be turning things around.

That's good then, Ive not read too much into this Stobart deal but when airlines start talking about mergers and take overs, it makes me nervous. (y)
 
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