Flybe, the British low-cost regional airline is planning to increase capacity on key routes at Birmingham Airport and is set to announce new routes at the airport soon. The airline will increase flights from Birmingham to Milan,Hanover, Malpensa and Stuttgart to twice daily from 30th March. It will also operate an extra Saturday service to Stuttgart.
With the changes in schedule, Flybe will operate up to 680 flights a week this summer from Birmingham on 24 routes. Flybe also said that it would deploy an 88-seat Embraer 175 jet aircraft on majority of its Hanover and Stuttgart services which was previously operated by a 78-seat Q400 turboprop on the routes.
According to Paul Simmons, Flybe’s chief commercial officer, these new flights reflect the increasing focus that Flybe is putting on Birmingham International Airport. In addition to this on 13th January Flybe was given a license to fly to Luton Airport from Guernsey but had no plans to start a schedule to Luton this summer.
Exeter-Devon based airline Flybe operates over 180 routes to 65 European airports and carried over seven million passengers during 2013.
With the changes in schedule, Flybe will operate up to 680 flights a week this summer from Birmingham on 24 routes. Flybe also said that it would deploy an 88-seat Embraer 175 jet aircraft on majority of its Hanover and Stuttgart services which was previously operated by a 78-seat Q400 turboprop on the routes.
According to Paul Simmons, Flybe’s chief commercial officer, these new flights reflect the increasing focus that Flybe is putting on Birmingham International Airport. In addition to this on 13th January Flybe was given a license to fly to Luton Airport from Guernsey but had no plans to start a schedule to Luton this summer.
Exeter-Devon based airline Flybe operates over 180 routes to 65 European airports and carried over seven million passengers during 2013.
