Flybe plans Southampton Airport expansion
23.07.10
Up to 1,000 new jobs will be created thanks to a multi-billion pound deal that will see Southampton Airport become a centre for international business travel, the Daily Echo reports. Flybe has signed a deal worth up to £3.3 billion for a new fleet planes, and plans to boost its business at the airport from two million to three million passengers a year.
The airline is reported to be planning to add as many as ten new destinations to the 36 it already runs from the airport, focusing on financial centres such as Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Milan and Stuttgart. It will also be boosting trips to other business communities that it already serves such as Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Hanover, making a total of 14 new outbound flights a day.
Flybe chief commercial officer Mike Rutter said: ‘This is great news for Flybe and as our largest and most important operation Southampton will benefit proportionally. We will be making Southampton a hub of international business travel by introducing new destinations and increasing frequency on some of our denser flight routes while still running the bucket and spade routes that our passengers enjoy.'
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