Flybe cancels 14 BA Connect routes but launches another 11
06.03.07
Flybe is closing 14 BA Connect routes as part of its takover of the loss-making British Airways regional flights business. It will retain 20 former BA Connect routes and has announced that it will launch 11 new routes.
Flybe will take over many BA Connect, and has promised 'significant price savings', with an average fare of £19 per passenger. But a number of loss-making routes will be shut from Birmingham, Manchester and Scottish airports. The routes being cancelled are:
Aberdeen to Manchester
Birmingham to Geneva
Birmingham to Lyon
Birmingham to Madrid
Birmingham to Berlin
Edinburgh to Hamburg
Geneva to Manchester
Lyon to Manchester
Madrid to Manchester
Berlin to Manchester
Vienna to Manchester
Bristol to Munich
Bristol to Milan
Bristol to Zurich
The deal will also see the the launch of 11 new routes out of Flybe's regional airports. The new routes are as follows:
Manchester to Guernsey
Manchester to Bergerac
Manchester to Limoges
Manchester to La Rochelle
Southampton to Paris
Southampton to Isle of Man
Southampton to Frankfurt
Gatwick to Bergerac
Cardiff to Paris
Edinburgh to Rennes
Guernsey to Norwich
And the deal sees the airline taking over 20 routes currently operated by BA Connect, but with lower fares. These routes are:
Birmingham - Aberdeen
Birmingham - Paris
Birmingham - Dusseldorf
Birmingham - Rennes
Birmingham - Hamburg
Birmingham - Milan
Birmingham - Stuttgart
Edinburgh - Paris
London Gatwick - Inverness
London Gatwick - Isle of Man
Manchester - Brussels
Manchester - Paris
Manchester - Dusseldorf
Manchester - Edinburgh
Manchester - Rennes
Manchester - Glasgow
Manchester - Hannover
Manchester - Isle of Man
Manchester - Milan
Manchester - Jersey (currently offered via Southampton)
A spokesman for Flybe said: 'BA Connect was a loss-making business. There has had to be some difficult decisions but Flybe will take over 20 of the routes currently operated by BA Connect and are introducing 11 new routes. The expanded airline will operate 152 routes in total, flying from 22 UK and 34 European airports with new routes to key European centres including Paris, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Milan.'
Flybe plans to increase its current commitment to invest $1.2 billion in new aircraft to over $2 billion by increasing the fleet to over 80 Bombardier Q400 and Embraer 195 aircraft by 2010.
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