bmibaby to fill easyJet East Midlands gap
05.09.09
bmibaby has pledged to expand from East Midlands Airport after easyJet announced this week that it would close its base and axe flights from next January. A spokesman for East Midlands-based bmibaby said that it will add extra capacity across its network to meet the demand that will be created by the departure of easyJet.
Managing director Crawford Rix said: ‘We want to reassure the people of the region we remain committed to East Midlands Airport. As a result of easyJet’s decision to leave the airport, we will be increasing capacity over our current network over the next 48 hours, so that the east midlands market continues to have the capacity it needs. We are also exploring other opportunities to fill the gap left by easyJet at the airport.’
easyJet said this week that it was pulling out of the Castle Donington site to go to what it believed were more profitable airports. An airport spokesman said bmibaby and other low-cost airlines had indicated they could also take on eight of the nine routes dropped by easyJet. Jet2 recently announced it was moving to the airport from next spring.
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