Route Development & Rumours

[louis_walton]

Press release for what?

The terminal extension

 

[Jerry]

The terminal extension

Ah ok thanks!

 

[LBA8098]

https://www.facebook.com/134335183511/posts/10156184649323512

 

[LBA4EVER]

A BA from Southampton to Leeds lol lol whatever next! and that looks like a perfect landing to me!

 

[White Heather]

Do the YEP ever get it right? And that particular reporter is the worst of the lot for getting it wrong. Clueless.

 

[rmac]

This kind of 'fake' reporting leads to a loss of confidence in the papers ability to accurately report other news!

 

[paully]

This kind of 'fake' reporting leads to a loss of confidence in the papers ability to accurately report other news!

You`re right..We lost confidence in this rag to accurately tell you what day it was some time ago..

 

[Finger66]

They may as well call themselves the LEP because they probably don't even know they are in Yorkshire. Please feel free to create your own punchlines for the 'L'

 

[Coathanger16]

Not sure if this was known previously - I only look at the LBA threads occasionally but I recall rumours of BMI:

https://www.businesstraveller.com/b...egin-leeds-bradford-to-munich-route-in-april/

 

[Bigman]

About time this got properly announced. Great news. Sad it is only 1 a day, so not sure how useful it will be for connections, but it is better than nothing, and a daily service to boot. Anyone know where this will W leg from?

 

[Britannia94]

Just seen an advertisement for Leeds Bradford - Munich on Instagram. Might be only one a day, but its better than nothing!

 

[twevsmiff]

Just seen an advertisement for Leeds Bradford - Munich on Instagram. Might be only one a day, but its better than nothing!

No it is 7 days per week, commencing 8th April next year. Flights arrive early afternoon everyday.
flybmi, and opens up flights with Lufthansa thanks to their code-share.

 

[louis_walton]

Great news Munich has been needed for a long time, David and team are clearly not lying about business routes being on there catch list!!!

 

[Deleted member 82]

ein Weihnachtsgeschen!!Excellent news! Let’s hope Frankfurt follows

 

[lbaspotter]

Anyone know where this will W leg from?

Won't be a w-leg as flybmi have a operating base at Munich with 2 or 3 aircraft.

 

[White Heather]

This is the route announcement I referred to recently when I reported back from the Consultative Meeting. I had no idea (officially) which airline or route it would be, but Flybmi seemed the most likely - especially when every time I google Flybmi, a box comes up with their logo and fleet details, which listed LBA as a hub airport - even though it isn't and the route hadn't been announced. We were told that this new route may lead to more from Flybmi in the future, so lets hope it is a real success and maybe one day we will be a Flybmi hub! Assuming it is an E145, it seems like an ideal size of aircraft for a new route - small enough to be economical, big enough to carry a reasonable load and, it's a jet aircraft, which will keep the folk happy that think propellers equates to ancient and unsafe.

 

[rmac]

Good news and Munich a city which should be very popular attracting both leisure and business passengers, plus a connection onto Lufthansa flights. I would guess Brussels may well be a future target for FlyBmi from LBA, as they fly there from other UK airports.
Also Frankfurt ! 3x Daily from Bristol. Lets hope for a LBA business hub with FlyBmi in the not too distant future. Of course the business community especially has to get behind it- use it or lose it they say.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Good news and Munich a city which should be very popular attracting both leisure and business passengers, plus a connection onto Lufthansa flights. I would guess Brussels may well be a future target for FlyBmi from LBA, as they fly there from other UK airports.
Also Frankfurt ! 3x Daily from Bristol. Lets hope for a LBA business hub with FlyBmi in the not too distant future. Of course the business community especially has to get behind it- use it or lose it they say.

Any news whether LBA-MUC will be a Lufthansa code share?

From Bristol, flybmi flies up to 3 x daily to Frankfurt; 2 x daily to Munich; up to 3 x daily to Paris CDG (against easyJet); daily to Aberdeen, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and 2 x weekly to Gothenburg. They also fly 3 x daily to Brussels (they used to do so on behalf of Brussels Airlines and from next spring the route will be taken over by CityJet). Frankfurt and Munich are Lufthansa code shares.

So that could be a template for what might happen at LBA although they will either have to acquire more aircraft or drop some of the existing routes across their network. Every year flybmi seems to speak of bringing in larger aircraft for some of their routes but thus far it hasn't happened. They also appear to be switching some aircraft to sister company, Loganair.

I've never flown with them but I'm told that their onboard service is very good BUT they cancel a lot of flights. For much of the earlier part of this year it was almost a daily occurrence for flybmi to cancel at least one rotation at BRS, sometimes more. Recent months have seen an improvement but cancellations still occur more frequently than ought to be expected.

 

[airforced]

TheLocalYokel - it doesn't look as though it is a code share at present. I've had a look at the site and only LBA - MUC shows, therefore no onward connections possible in a single booking. I might have been interested in using Lufty for an transit/onward flight but (a) timings inconvenient (overnight stays required) and (b) too expensive having to make two separate bookings for the destination I was looking at.

Roll on another carrier arriving or Jet2/Ryan expanding thier offerings.

 

[White Heather]

Any news whether LBA-MUC will be a Lufthansa code share?

TheLocalYokel - it doesn't look as though it is a code share at present. I've had a look at the site and only LBA - MUC shows, therefore no onward connections possible in a single booking. I might have been interested in using Lufty for an transit/onward flight but (a) timings inconvenient (overnight stays required) and (b) too expensive having to make two separate bookings for the destination I was looking at.

Roll on another carrier arriving or Jet2/Ryan expanding thier offerings.

LBA management advised us that the Munich flight did benefit from a Lufthansa code share, and also see the attached line taken from the Flybmi press release on their own website.


Passengers will further benefit from on-going connections via Munich thanks to flybmi’s partnership with Lufthansa. The new route opens up flybmi’s customers to a wealth of global destinations.