East Midlands Airport services saved
The decision by EasyJet to pull out of services from the East Midlands Airport caused something of a flutter at the time. Rather coyly, EasyJet announced the closure of the service as: “network redeployments” and made only a glancing mention that there would be jobs lost to their employees based at East Midlands Airport and at Luton: “...easyJet has therefore opened a formal 90 day consultation with its crew at Luton and East Midlands” said their official statement.
However, BMIBaby has stepped in and decided to take over the flight spaces left vacant by EasyJet's departure from East Midlands Airport.
They have heralded the decision by announcing a “massive expansion plan from East Midlands Airport”.
There will be three additional aircraft to be based at East Midlands Airport. And there will be eight new European routes from East Midlands Airport to Alghero (Sardinia), Barcelona, Bastia (Corsica), Cork, Dubrovnik (Croatia), Malta, Newquay and Venice.
They also point out that, with the departure from East Midlands Airport of EasyJet, BMIBaby will be able to offer travellers increased frequencies on what it describes as “key winter and summer routes, with the addition of Palma to the winter flying programme, and a year round service to Geneva and Prague.”
With the additional new routes and extra frequencies of flights, BMIBaby will be able to up its capacity by a rather impressive 40 per cent.
This means that an extra 350,000 passengers will fly with BMIbaby from the airport next year, with an extra 2,872 flights. For details you can visit www.bmibaby.com. For details of airport parking at East Midlands Airport, visit www.aph.com
