Flybe Unveils Details Of Expanded Services From East Midlands and Birmingham
In a positive move that will ensure continuity of air travel for East Midlands’ travellers, Flybe has unveiled details of its expanded schedule at East Midlands Airport with the news that it will be doubling its weekday flights to George Best Belfast City Airport to four a day, adding further jet capacity to its Birmingham to Belfast City schedule and providing a special offer for passengers wishing to book on a key selection of other soon-to-be-stopped bmibaby routes.
Flybe’s plans to operate additional flights from East Midlands to Amsterdam, Paris CDG, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Jersey from October announced earlier this week are being expedited to operate from early summer to provide continuation of services to Midlands’ flyers following the surprise news that bmibaby will now be stopping services to all but Jersey in just six weeks.
Flybe is now working on plans to start flying to Scotland and the two European hubs from early summer providing ongoing services to Midlands travellers. Until these flights are on sale, Flybe is providing a special offer for the next few days for passengers needing to book flights to Scotland. Flybe is offering those wishing to travel to either Edinburgh or Glasgow through to March 30th, 2013 the opportunity to book on its flights from Birmingham at www.flybe.com and then change their bookings free of charge to an equivalent East Midlands departure once the routes are on sale in the coming days.
Andrew Strong, Flybe UK MD, comments: “We have been surprised at bmibaby’s decision to close some of its routes within just six weeks time and as a result we are doing everything we can to work with our airport partners in ensuring that those passengers wanting to travel from East Midlands Airport are not left stranded.
“We realise that many passengers rely on East Midlands for their regional and European travel. We are therefore pleased that we can offer them continuity of service with increased weekday frequency on our Belfast City service from June 11th. and that our flexible special offer over the next few days will facilitate urgent bookings to take place with due peace of mind.”
Adds Mr Strong: “Flybe has long had a desire to bring to the East Midlands the specialist long term and stable regional air services that we have brought to virtually every major UK regional airport over the last 25 years. We are confident that the measures we have taken today should ensure that passengers experience little or no service disruption on what are crucially important links for the East Midlands economy.”
