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By David Casey
Scottish airline Loganair has opened reservation on five routes which previously formed part of failed carrier Flybmi's network.
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By David Casey
Our top five stories on Routes Weekly: Brexit uncertainty; Qantas to accelerate 747 retirement; US-Brazil growth; Ghana's ambitions; and Bulletin board.
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By David Casey
A round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry. This week: American Airlines, Qantas, WestJet, IndiGo and more.
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By David Casey
Airlines need to be the ‘master of their own destiny’ to ensure they can continue to operate in a post-Brexit environment, according to Jochen Schnadt, the chief commercial officer for British regional airline bmi. His comments come as Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air has secured a UK air operator certificate to help safeguard flights once Britain leaves the EU.
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By Edward Robertson
Drones are increasingly likely to be used in a future terrorist attack on Europe's commercial aviation, industry professionals have warned.
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By Routes Content Team
Some of the biggest names in European aviation are set to debate the industry’s future this April at Bilbao conference
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bmi Regional is planning to spread its wings with an expanding repertoire of routes in niche European destinations. The airline's Jochen Schnadt talks possible future partnerships, aircraft orders and avoiding Brexit chaos.
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By David Casey
Expansion of bmi regional's fleet is a case of “when not if”, chief commercial officer Jochen Schnadt has told Routesonline, as the regional carrier seeks to grow its European footprint.
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By Edward Robertson
Expert panel optimistic on prospects for regional airports
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By Richard Maslen
The £3.8 million UK government funding is a significant investment in supporting the Londonderry - London route. Based on bmi regional using a 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 on the route and its 13 return weekly frequencies that will equate to 1,300 seats a week, 67,600 seats a year or 135,200 seats for the full two-year funding term. With 2,704 one-way flights scheduled to operate during this period that works out as over £1,400 of support per flight, or £28 per seat.
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By Richard Maslen
bmi regional believes consumers are now looking for new experiences in more familiar regions and to meet this demand will introduce flights from Birmingham to Graz, Austria; Nuremburg, Germany; and resume a former link to Gothenburg, Sweden.
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By Richard Maslen
Irish regional carrier CityJet has secured a two-year wet-lease deal with Brussels Airlines to operate three Sukhoi SSJ100 Superjets for the Belgian flag carrier on routes from Brussels Airport from April 2017. The deal follows a formal tender from Brussels Airlines to support its network needs as it completes the retirement of its Avro RJ100 fleet from commercial operation.
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By Richard Maslen
Speaking in a session on regional carrier trends in Europe, bmi regional's chief commercial officer, Jochen Schnadt, said that bmi regional is seeing the potential to grow capacity in some of its existing markets and opportunities for larger equipment for new route development.
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By Richard Maslen
The new route has not only gained the attention of the travelling public, but also the wider industry with network planners across Europe and even further afield voting this new service ahead of other routes such as Hainan Airlines’ Beijing – Manchester, Wizz Air’s Kutaisi – Berlin, Norwegian’s Oslo – Las Vegas and British Airways’ London – Tehran for a Routes Case presentation at Routes Europe in an exclusive Routesonline poll.
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By Richard Maslen
Have you wondered what enticed an airline to a certain destination? What the data says about demand on the city pair and connecting markets? What external factors may have influenced the airline in selecting a specific city pair? How this business case differs from others? Our new ‘Route Case’ offering will seek to provide the answers all within a single 20 minute meeting slot at our events.
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By Richard Maslen
bmi regional will offer a twice daily weekday operation and single daily weekend offer between Southampton and Munich from April 15, 2016 using Embraer ERJ-145 regional jet equipment. The schedule will support both point-to-point business travellers, leisure demand and will provide connection options via Munich.
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By Richard Maslen
The new flying for Brussels Airlines is being made possible by the positioning of one of its Embraer ERJ-145s into the Belgian capital. This aircraft will enable it to offer an improved flight schedule on its existing East Midlands – Brussels route and enable UK business travellers to spend a full day in Brussels and return in the evening, without having to overnight in the city.
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By Richard Maslen
The airline will bring the return of flights between Munich and Brno, Czech Republic with a new six times weekly service from November 16, 2015, adding to its existing routes to Liege (Belgium), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Bern (Switzerland) and Bristol (United Kingdom).
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By Richard Maslen
A senior airline and aviation executive and regular attendee of Routes Europe and World Routes, Schnadt brings 20 plus years of extensive experience to the airline predominantly from senior roles within the commercial, strategic, planning and operational areas of the aviation industry.
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By Richard Maslen
These new flights will strengthen links to key markets in France and Germany for business and leisure passengers in the South West of England, further enhance the airline’s growing base at Bristol Airport and at the same time providing passengers with a convenient local alternative to the London airports.
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By Richard Maslen
bmi regional will introduce the three new routes from the start of the summer 2015 schedule in late March and will offer up to two rotations per day to Liege and up to three a day to Berne and Rotterdam. The Liege route will be served by an Embraer ERJ-135, the Rotterdam link with a larger ERJ-145 and the Berne service by a mix of the two aircraft types.
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By Poppy Marello
bmi Regional has flown more than double the amount of charter flights this year in comparison to 2013.
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By Richard Maslen
bmi regional has announced a restructuring programme which will see future growth focus on routes with “clear growth prospects” as it rebalances its
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By Richard Maslen
Many Fridays The HUB will have a look back at some of the alternative stories of the past week. Humourous, interesting, enlightening or simply just a
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By Richard Maslen
UK regional carrier, bmi regional, has confirmed it will introduce a new link between Newcastle International Airport in north east England and the
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