Birmingham Airport - General Thread

[Ray Finkle]

BHX will have a dedicated Red List Terminal from next Tuesday so along with its Red List Hotels we should see various flights heading to BHX, the first of which is in the system !

With the quarantine hotels around BHX currently full, even with another recently made available, I wonder if anymore are about to come online.

 

[Ray Finkle]

In a statement the Department for Transport said “as part of a limited trial, from June 8, direct flights will be permitted to England from countries on the ‘red list’ that were previously subject to flight bans, so long as they arrive at dedicated terminals at Heathrow and Birmingham airports”.

“The requirement for these direct flights to arrive at dedicated facilities will help keep more red list passengers separate from others, helping to ensure they are processed as safely and efficiently as possible and then travel straight to their managed quarantine hotel and reduce queues at the border.”

https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2021/06/04/birmingham-airport-to-offer-dedicated-terminal-for-red-list-arrivals/

Full article, including comments from Nick Barton, on the link above.

 

[JENNYJET]

Recognition of Birmingham by Government as a capable facility to handle sensitive traffic could be the leg up BHX needs as recovery proceeds. Cannot help but notice no MAG airports were included.

 

[KARFA]

So from tomorrow the subset of red list countries which also have an inbound passenger travel ban can operate passenger flights in to the UK but only when coming in to LHR and BHX - other airports including LGW, LCY, and BRS can accept red list but not from the smaller list of countries also having a inbound direct passenger ban.

Countries on this list are Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, The Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar; South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Arab Emirates.

MAN was never on the list to accept any red list passengers since the scheme started a few months ago.

 

[Ash]

Just had an interesting job ad pop up on my Linkedin feed published 2 days ago....

Cabin Crew Training Manager - Airline
Our Airline client is a new UK airline brand relaunching shortly at Birmingham Airport. They urgently require a forward-thinking and permanent Cabin Crew Training Manager to work closely with the Head of Training and assist with delivery oversight of crew welfare and performance delivery during training. This is an ideal opportunity to take a ‘blank canvas’ and support the creation of the whole cabin crew training strategy and operational delivery plan.

Looking for immediate interviews. Any guesses?

 

[Nethercote2019]

Flybe 2 ?

 

[JENNYJET]

Dare one say Monarch but without the shady animal as a backer?

 

[Ray Finkle]

There are reports on another forum that an earlier job advert did indeed state Flybe but has since been removed and replaced with one saying 'new UK airline'.

I didn't see the original release so cannot comment on whether that is true.

 

[JENNYJET]

One is curious as to the current status of Virgin Connect and if it has the wings to become established?

 

[Brum X]

Wizz Air UK ?

 

[JENNYJET]

Already present. How about BRITISH AIRWAYS? Birmingham could do well with a major carrier and the potential connections.

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there Jennyjet, would be nice, but unfortunately, it won't happen at all.

 

[oh350]

From looking at the recruitment company’s LinkedIn, it would appear that on one job description, there is still a mention of Flybe.

 

[Ray Finkle]

With the news this morning that Stobart have ceased trading there certainly is a big gap in the market now to Belfast, Cork, Shannon and possibly even Knock.

 

[Karl C]

İt wouldn't hurt for BA to do W patterns out of BHD to BHX. Belfast is a proper wee money spinner. Just a thought I had....

 

[KARFA]

I think it is vaguely more possible now under the new leadership. Under the previous management I suspect if you ever proposed operating from the regions to somewhere other than LHR/LCY/LGW you were taken out the back and shot. But over the last year we have seen BA use mainline aircraft from MAN and NCL to go to Portugal.

I still think BA operating intra UK flights not to LON is perhaps a step too far though - I am not actually convinced these routes are money spinners especially when being operated with BA mainline jets and crews when compared to operating with an ATR and much cheaper Stobart crews.

 

[IanFarquharson]

0% chance of BA at BHX, I think Ryanair will jump on BHD-BHX
Is it a coinsidence Stobart are disappearing and Flybe about to launch ?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

With the news this morning that Stobart have ceased trading

Oh that's sad. I was looking at FR24 earlier and noticed the BHD - BHX flight was cancelled but just assumed it was down to COVID.

Kevin

 

[Karl C]

Before I emigrated I used to fly to Belfast upwards of thirty to forty times a year. I can remember only one of those flights being half full and the rest were rammed to the gills. Yes some of those seats were sold at a low price, but a lot weren't. For the short flight time, I would surmise that they generated a lot of revenue for each of the airlines that flew the routes.
At times Flybe charged eyewatering fares which I just had to suck up as I had to be there.
There's a reason Easyjet kept BHX-BFS running through the pandemic, when many intra UK flights were stopped.

 

[Karl C]

BA was just a thought as I prefer them, but FR will do nicely!!