Birmingham Airport - UK

Birmingham Airport will become easyJet’s ninth base in the UK.

The regional airline was the sole carrier on around a quarter of its route network, but the impact of its collapse will be far less severe than when the previous incarnation of Flybe failed almost three years ago.

The UK regional carrier has ceased trading with immediate effect, ending service on 17 routes.

The Dubai-based airline is resuming passenger flights to two Chinese cities, and adding capacity to another, while increasing Airbus A380 operations on a number of other routes.

A prior incarnation of the UK regional collapsed in March 2020.

The airline will fly 42 routes from the UK airport from April 2023.

The airline has increased from two to four the number of aircraft based at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

The UK airline will serve 12 destinations this winter, including resuming flights to Newquay.

The LCC will station three additional Airbus A321neos in the Portuguese capital, as well as opening more than a dozen new routes.

Routes Europe attendees share their views on whether or not the recovery is here to stay.

The LCC is also commencing service on the Birmingham-Nantes route.

The revived UK regional carrier will face competition on about two-thirds of the routes being launched.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

The airline plans to open a base in Northern Ireland once it relaunches this spring.

The new carrier takes flight this month providing Aer Lingus-branded regional flying.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

International Airlines Group is increasing competition with easyJet at the UK’s second largest airport.

Beirut, Copenhagen and Helsinki are among the destinations receiving new routes to Turkey this summer.

The operator of Aer Lingus Regional’s network will open a second base later this year and begin several UK domestic routes.

The codeshare agreement follows Aer Lingus’ entry to the oneworld transatlantic joint venture in late 2020.

EASA banned Pakistani carriers from flying to the EU in 2020 following a fatal PIA crash.

The carrier said nearly 90% of its pre-pandemic flying has been restored.

The revived UK regional airline plans to fly domestic and European routes using a fleet of De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 turboprops.

The LCC said ORK's operator extended a COVID-19 recovery scheme at the airport until October 2022, providing an incentive to reopen the base with two aircraft.

The carrier is expanding its UK network to six gateways and upping the number of Airbus A380 routes operating from 16 to 27.