Another wish list, it's fun to look back on and see what happened, what didn't happen and those 'what was I thinking!' moments 🙂
Air India I'd love to see 10/11 weekly flights. BHX-DEL-ATQ 4x weekly, BHX-ATQ-DEL 3x weekly and BOM 3/4x weekly.
Qatar I think I'd prefer a frequency increase over an aircraft upgrade although I'd take both. Double daily would be ideal to make the most of their connections but would happily take 10/11 weekly to start with.
I'm just glad to see Saudia have started well. The addition of the 4th weekly flight and more usage of the 78X would be nice but I'm happy if they are performing for the next couple of years.
Jet2 I just want to keep doing what they are doing as, for me, they haven't put a foot wrong yet. There are some new destinations rumoured over the next few years so hopefully exciting times ahead.
TUi, short haul I'd like to see Almeria back along with La Palma and Preveza. Long haul we need the return of Goa and Phuket, will we ever see flights to Cuba? Banjul too.
Wizz seem a bit up and down of late but there is obviously room for more away based destinations once the aircraft issues are sorted. Gdansk, Katowice, Iasi and Tirana just to name a few.
easyjet, just too many opportunities to mention. It's very holidays orientated at the moment but the potential for them over the next decade will hopefully be huge. My personal wish is Basel, Gibraltar, Porto, Rome, Madrid, Mykonos, Newquay and La rochelle but it may well just be more sun routes initially.
Ryanair. To study BHX, identify new markets or those in need of more capacity and grow them. The potential is there and I could type a long list of destinations from Riga to Limoges. Hopefully BHX can work with them to go where others have not as they are an airline that can make something out of seemingly nothing.
Eurowings. Stuttgart and Hamburg.
Loganair to NQY if easyjet won't.
NY and Toronto have been done so many times so won't go there but both are needed asap.
I definitely agree about Norwegian. I also flew BHX-AGP with them and the flight was great so I'd take Oslo. Whilst we're there we'll have Finnair to HEL too 🙂
I'd really like to see Icelandair and Iberia back.
There is another airline that I wanted to mention but I know they are looking at BHX at the moment so won't say anything unless it's confirmed, or lost.
To go with all of that I'd like to see some stands added adjacent to the fire station along with the middle section of the parallel taxiway done to allow more on the ends of the piers. The departure lounge extension needs to follow straight after the security hall is done along with expanding immigration and baggage in T1. Arrivals will also need to be expanded into Trident Road as it can be awful at peak times.
