Route Development & Rumours

[Matty_85]

Breeze Airways Considers A220 Flights To Europe

Airline startup Breeze Airways is considering launching flights to Europe with Airbus A220s. What could this look like in practice?

onemileatatime.com

Interesting article and definitely nothing concrete but maybe one to watch if BHX was to reach out to them?

 

[Brum X]

Breeze Airways, lol seriously

ZOOM, HOP, LEVEL, WOW, BREEZE,

 

[Brum X]

How about a good old United 757 or 767, ha.

You can keep all these airlines trying to be "cool" when in fact they probably won't be any better than the old timers like UA/AA or dare I say Highland Express on there 747's, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

 

[CM.]

New route!
Condor- Larnaca to Birmingham.

Departs: LCA-08:55 Arrives: BHX-11:55
Departs- BHX-13:15 Arrives: LCA- 19:45

Flights start 21st July 2x weekly Wed/Sat. These flights are for a travel company called Biblio travel.

SPD travels twitter.

This route has now been delayed by 10 days. Now starts 31st July.

 

[Matty_85]

How about a good old United 757 or 767, ha.

You can keep all these airlines trying to be "cool" when in fact they probably won't be any better than the old timers like UA/AA or dare I say Highland Express on there 747's, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

I know where you are coming from.. BUT it isn’t going to happen with any of those airlines and narrow body, fuel efficient planes on transatlantic flights is the future! Plus the guy behind this start was the original main man behind JetBlue so I do have a bit more hope with this one. Their focus will be on unserved, smaller markets

 

[whateverg]

It doesn't matter which airline is "better". The better airline is the one that continues to trade and decides to serve BHX, whatever its legacy. If Highland Express was better, they would still be active and serving Birmingham!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Biblio Travel has now launched.

BIBLIO TRAVEL LAUNCHES CYPRUS SUMMER HOLIDAY PROGRAMME WITH A TRIPLE-LOCK GUARANTEE

Specialist tour operator to fly from Birmingham

www.birminghamairport.co.uk

 

[Poshgirl]

This route has now been delayed by 10 days. Now starts 31st July.

Thinks it's been delayed again until 21 August. MAN starts the day after. Not sure what's happened to Condor MAN-PMI?

 

[CM.]

Thinks it's been delayed again until 21 August. MAN starts the day after. Not sure what's happened to Condor MAN-PMI?

Hi there and welcome to F4A as I see you’re a new member.

it’s true they have been pushed back again.

BHX- Hopefully starts 21st August
LGW- Hopefully starts 20th August
MAN- Hopefully starts 22nd August.

Im unaware of a Manchester-Palma route with Condor unless you’re meaning the Eurowings one??

 

[Poshgirl]

Woops, may have mixed this up with Condor doing long-haul from MAN. Taking over ex TC routes.

Will be interesting to see how they perform as have an excellent reputation in Germany. Then, Germans pay more for package holidays than we do!

 

[Llandudno]

Condor aren’t taking over Thomas Cook long haul at Manchester?

 

[JENNYJET]

I thought Condor was rescued from the Thomas Cook group and retained as an airline and absorbed into the Lufthansa group, as it was originally. The Condor bird is the Lufthansa logo.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Condor certainly used to be part of the Lufthansa group, but in a recent YouTube trip report that I watched, the author stated that following the collapse of the Thomas Cook group Condor were looking for new investors (I realise that it can be months between the video being recorded and released, so it's possible that Lufthansa have intervened since then).

Kevin

 

[rollo]

Condor apparently are 51% owned since May this year by someone called Attestor LLP a private equity company surprisingly to me at least they are British owned.

No idea what its got to with BHX new routes and rumours but then again their doesn't seem much in the rumour mill unless anyone knows different !

 

[Brum X]

Yeah any sniff off new routes from BHX

Any more squeezyjet ??

 

[Poshgirl]

Condor is now a standalone company. Yes, recently announced new investor and fleet renewal programme. I know a captain who used to work for TCX, did Condor in winter. He mentioned the long-haul flights from MAN.

BHX really needs to attract some long-haul routes especially since runway extension.

 

[CM.]

Would be nice if there was more choice in the Midlands and North of England for flights to the USA.

In the past BHX has had AA to JFK, UAL to EWR and also Primera to New York now there isn’t anything from BHX to the US. Personally with long haul routes travel restrictions need to ease before any airline considers long haul flights from BHX to places like the US and they have to let us in as the borders are still closed to us in the USA.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

In the past BHX has had AA to JFK, UAL to EWR and also Primera to New York

Don't forget BA to JFK and YYZ and also USAirways to PHL (I think).

Kevin

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Oops, how could I forget AA to ORD!

Kevin

 

[Matt995]

You could also add the weekly/twice weekly Uzbekistan Airways flight to JFK as well, around 2002/3!