Birmingham Airport Route Development & Rumours

[jfy1999]

I'm not so sure that Wizz are on the retreat across the UK. I believe that they have very recently set up Wizz UK, registered at Companies House. This may indicate a shift in operation, but retreat hmm?

Kevin

In terms of the routes they've dropped recently it does seem they are in retreat for the present.
BHX, BRS, DSA and GLA have all lost routes.

A couple of route announcements to come soon
Involving two airlines and should fill in a bit more of the gap left by Monarch
Should include more long haul

Will they be filling in the gap just in pax numbers or also recovering some lost routes?

 

[jfy1999]

Primera finally announcing flights to Canada?

 

[davecleaver777]

Could be the Prime candidate.

 

[flymetothemoon]

Could be the Prime candidate.

Hey,use your own hints lol !!

 

[GliderPilot]

I think its the launch of birmingham airways, Finally!

 

[IanFarquharson]

Flying home from Seoul on Finnair tomorrow so I will speak to them about a BHX service !!

 

[Brum X]

A couple of route announcements to come soon
Involving two airlines and should fill in a bit more of the gap left by Monarch
Should include more long haul

Awesome news Ian, stuff like this keeps me logging onto FFA and keeping the servers busy.

 

[Brum X]

Flying home from Seoul on Finnair tomorrow so I will speak to them about a BHX service !!

Ooooooh yes please Ian. That would be very helpful.

Have you heard anything that BHX are talking at least to Easyjet maybe ?

 

[IanFarquharson]

If Easyjet don’t come now they are never going to come !
But not heard anything
Hopefully news of a new based aircraft (not easy) soon plus more from an airline that hasn’t yet started !!

 

[User001]

Surely the 'more from an airline that hasn't started yet' is the well documented Primera to Toronto, which thus shouldn't need any cryptic-ness about it?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Toronto and.......

 

[Jerry]

It'll either be a Scandinavian route or somewhere like the Canary islands

 

[Jerry]

It'll either be a Scandinavian route or somewhere like the Canary islands

 

[Brum X]

It'll either be a Scandinavian route or somewhere like the Canary islands

They could be the airline to give us back Stockholm ?

 

[jfy1999]

Toronto and.......

Another Canadian destination? It would explain the long wait. If it was a third US destination, I would have thought they would announce it alongside EWR and BOS.

My guess is Montreal. Can't think of anywhere else really.

 

[Ianbutty]

It'll either be a Scandinavian route or somewhere like the Canary islands

Blooming well hope it is not another well served holiday destination. European capitals and major economic centres, please.

As for Canada....Vancouver?

 

[Brum X]

Blooming well hope it is not another well served holiday destination. European capitals and major economic centres, please.

As for Canada....Vancouver?

Well if we are talking about Primera, they would have to do a Thomas cook/Jet2 and lease some A330's to do YVR

 

[58terminus]

Blooming well hope it is not another well served holiday destination. European capitals and major economic centres, please.

Mr Farquharson should be able to reply to that without giving to much away

 

[Coathanger16]

Can anyone give an indication of when these new routes/airlines be announced?

The run-up to Primera being announced was exhausting

 

[Coathanger16]

With regards to Primera, I'm not sure it would even be possible to fly to the Canaries (or even Malaga).

The Newark flight arrives into BHX at 10:30am and leaves for Newark at 17:45, giving the aircraft 7hrs 15mins. A return trip to Tenerife takes between 9.5 and 10 hours. Similarly, Malaga is approximately a 6.5hr round trip (plus 2 turnarounds at BHX - EWR-AGP & AGP-EWR).

On the other hand, a return trip to Stockholm takes 5.5 hours - so possible.

As to whether or not any potential 4th destination is long haul, I'm not sure how that can be done. 1 aircraft will be flying to Newark daily, whilst the other will be doing 4 flights per week to Boston. If Toronto is the third destination and is served 3 times per week, another aircraft would be needed to serve a 4th long haul destination (unless they made Toronto a seasonal summer destination with the 4th destination being seasonal winter).