Birmingham Airport - General Thread

[Karl C]

Two day strike I believe by cabin crew

 

[AdamHussain07]

Anyone know why Lufthansa are cancelling so many Frankfurt flights recently?.

I would believe it is due to the pilot strikes going on in Germany?

 

[pianokeys]

As well as the comments in the Qatar thread there is also the impact of the jet fuel price which has increased over 100% since last month. Most airlines will have ‘hedged’ their fuel contracts going forward and will be protected for now, but if they remain elevated which they very well may do given damage to infrastructure in the ME, even after hostilities cease, could our airlines review the profitability of their current services to BHX ? A number of loadfactors like Zurich, IofM and Aberdeen are not great currently. Airports also must be getting a little twitchy right now. Could there be more suspensions to come ? BHX has a good spread of airlines which needs to be nurtured. Wishes of new services and expansion are perhaps a bit off beat at the moment.

 

[Jon Dempsey]

We are in Greater Brisbane at the moment. We were due to fly via Dubai, but cancelled and rebooked via Guangzhou which is only 160 KM's from Hong Kong.

The flight timings were more comfortable being 12 hours + 8 hours rather than 7.5 hours + 15 hours.

If there is sufficient volume from Brum to Asia/Australasia, there seems to be an opportunity for Cathay Pacific.

 

[jfy1999]

Interesting! Did you fly Guangzhou-Heathrow or to BHX via a European hub?

 

[Jon Dempsey]

Interesting! Did you fly Guangzhou-Heathrow or to BHX via a European hub?

We flew from Heathrow as it was only 1 1/2 hours journey.

Disappointed by T4, it was cramped, under redevelopment and not as clean as the last time I flew from there.