Bmibaby

[Aviador]

Low cost airline bmibaby has announced it will commence flying from George Best Belfast City Airport to Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and East Midlands Airport from 10 January 2011 as it transfers it's operation to the city airport from neighbouring Belfast International.

 

[cazza]

bmibaby.com to London Stansted

The first of bmibaby.com's new flights between Belfast City and London Stansted started today March 28th. Flights are 3x daily through the week and 1x on a Sunday.

http://www.bmibaby.com/bmibaby/offers/l ... nsted.aspx

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Following the closure of the Manchester and Cardiff bases in the coming autumn the aircraft will be redistributed.

BHD will become a 2-aircraft base and will operate a summer 2012 programme to Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Faro and Ibiza, as well as a year-round service to Amsterdam, and new flights to Geneva for winter 2011.

 

[Hull City Fan]

Below is the Summer 2012 bmibaby timetable for Belfast City Airport.

Early indications show (unless the times change) that one of the planes swaps twice a day. Both the EMA & BHD planes leaves their relevent airport at 07:00 and land at 08:05 and then the plane that lands at belfast has a 25 minute turn around for the next flight out. In the afternoon, it seems that the inbound plane lands at 16:05 (BHD based that went to EMA in the morning) and then the plane that came into BHD from EMA in the morning is ready to go back to EMA with 16:10 departure - 5 mins for crew to swap planes.

If this is their plan then their could be some lengthy delays/ cancellations happening if one plane goes tech etc.

Monday:-

Aircraft 1:-
06:40 - 10:00 - London Stansted
10:25 - 14:25 - Amsterdam
14:55 - 18:05 - London Stansted
18:30 - 20:55 - Manchester

Aircraft 2:-
07:00 - 08:05 - East Midlands
08:30 - 15:20 - Alicante
17:35 - 20:45 - London Stansted

W Patterns:-
Birmingham: Arr 08:10 Dep 08:35
Birmingham: Arr 18:45 Dep 19:25
East Midlands Arr 16:05 Dep 16:10
East Midlands: Arr 18:50 Dep:19:25

Tuesday:-

Aircraft 1:-
06:40 - 10:00 - London Stansted
10:25 - 14:25 - Amsterdam
14:55 - 18:05 - London Stansted
18:30 - 20:55 - Manchester

Aircraft 2:-
07:00 - 08:05 - East Midlands
08:30 - 15:25 - Palma
17:35 - 20:45 - London Stansted

W Patterns:-
Birmingham: Arr 08:10 Dep 08:35
Birmingham: Arr 18:45 Dep 19:25
East Midlands Arr 16:05 Dep 16:10
East Midlands: Arr 18:50 Dep:19:25

Wednesday:-

Aircraft 1:-
06:40 - 10:00 - London Stansted
10:30 - 13:00 - Manchester
14:00 - 17:10 - London Stansted
17:35 - 20:45 - London Stansted

Aircraft 2:-
07:00 - 08:05 - East Midlands
08:30 - 15:45 - Malaga
16:40 - 20:40 - Amsterdam

W Patterns:-
Birmingham: Arr 08:10 Dep 08:35
Birmingham: Arr 18:45 Dep 19:25
East Midlands Arr 16:05 Dep 16:10
East Midlands: Arr 18:50 Dep:19:25

Thursday:-

Aircraft 1:-
06:40 - 10:00 - London Stansted
10:30 - 13:00 - Manchester
14:00 - 17:10 - London Stansted
17:35 - 20:45 - London Stansted

Aircraft 2:-
07:00 - 08:05 - East Midlands
08:30 - 15:35 - Faro
16:40 - 20:40 - Amsterdam

W Patterns:-
Birmingham: Arr 08:10 Dep 08:35
Birmingham: Arr 18:45 Dep 19:25
East Midlands Arr 16:05 Dep 16:10
East Midlands: Arr 18:50 Dep:19:25

Friday:-

Aircraft 1:-
06:40 - 10:00 - London Stansted
10:30 - 13:00 - Manchester
14:00 - 17:10 - London Stansted
17:35 - 20:45 - London Stansted

Aircraft 2:-
07:00 - 08:05 - East Midlands
08:30 - 15:20 - Alicante
16:40 - 20:40 - Amsterdam

W Patterns:-
Birmingham: Arr 08:10 Dep 08:35
East Midlands Arr 16:05 Dep 16:10
Birmingham: Arr 17:45 Dep 18:10
East Midlands: Arr 18:50 Dep:19:25
Birmingham: Arr 20:45 Dep 21:10

Saturday:-

Aircraft 1:-
06:35 - 13:25 - Alicante
14:10 - 21:05 - Ibiza

Aircraft 2:-
06:30 - 13:45 - Malaga
14:15 - 21:10 - Palma

W Patterns:-
Birmingham: Arr 08:05 Dep 08:30
East Midlands: Arr 08:55 Dep:09:20

Sunday:-

Aircraft 1:-
06:35 - 13:40 - Faro
14:10 - 16:35 - East Midlands
17:10 - 21:10 - Amsterdam

Aircraft 2:-
06:30 - 13:45 - Malaga
14:15 - 17:25 - London Stansted
17:50 - 20:10 - Manchester

W Patterns:-
Birmingham: Arr 18:05 Dep 18:30
Birmingham: Arr 20:35 Dep 21:00
East Midlands: Arr 19:50 Dep:20:15

 

[lbaspotter]

Not good news to report.

But its been rumoured this afternoon that low cost airline bmi baby will be closed down by IAG in September. This will hit Belfast City Airport quite hard as they currently have 2x based aircraft and are the only major low cost airline operating from the Airport to European destinations.

 

[lbaspotter]

No longer a rumour. As it's just now been confirmed that bmi baby will be closed down in September by it's new owners IAG.

And it really bad news for its Belfast operation. As all bmi baby routes operated from Belfast City Airport will all be cancelled from Monday 11th June 2012.