flybe announce new services to Hamburg and Oslo from Birmingham Airport - add more winter flights

flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, has announced it is to operate

two new routes from Birmingham Airport this winter with daily service

to Hamburg and Oslo commencing on Sunday 26 October 2014

Already Birmingham largest carrier, the airline has also announced that,

due to early successes, it will extend to year-round on six of the new

routes it is operating this summer

flybe will continue to operate up to 28 weekly flights to Bordeaux,

Cologne, Florence and Oporto and Toulouse with frequency aimed to

provide convenience for business travellers and those passengers wanting

a short break on the continent. Due to the popularity of its summer

twilight flights to Reykjavik, Iceland, it’s also moving this three times

a week service to daytime flying, also with effect from 26 October 2014

Fred Kochak, flybe’s UK Routes Director, said: "We said we would be 

investing in a major way at Birmingham and it is now our largest ever

base. Today’s announcement gives additional weight to that commitment

and I’m delighted that, as a result of the flybe route assessment model,

we have been able to add even more destinations as well as choice for

our Midlands’ business and leisure passengers"

William Pearson, Birmingham Airport’s Aviation Development Director,
commented: "flybe’s Birmingham route network is going from strength

to strength after announcing nine new routes already this year and

becoming our largest carrier. Oslo is another new destination for us and

we’re very pleased that Flybe is recognising the need to serve these

markets and satisfy demand to give business and leisure travellers the

destinations that they want from Birmingham Airport"

In total, flybe will operate up to 350 flights a week from Birmingham

Airport on 26 routes as part of its 2014/15 winter schedule

www.flybe.com

Tuesday 20 May 2014