It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane art. This week, it's a FlyBe Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 landing at East Midlands Airport (near Castle Donnington, Derby and Nottingham) Unlike last week, I know this is a Bombardier Dash8 Q400 ;) The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your … [Read more...]
Quick Hotel Report: Hilton East Midlands Airport
Quick Hotel Report : Hilton East Midlands Airport. Price paid: £39 Points Earned: 509 HHonors points, 1000 BMI Miles + 1000 BMI Double Double Miles. This is part of a new series of “reports” that don’t qualify as trip reports, but stays I’ve done for various reasons. I'll be updating these every now and again as I travel around the UK. … [Read more...]
BMIBaby Fallout – Birmingham and EMA recover… Belfast City less so…
More response today from the fallout of BMI Baby being wound down. Birmingham Airport has announced that they will be bringing two aircraft to join it's local base, and will add more flights to Malaga, Alicante, Rome, Palma, Faro and Barcelona; all destinations served by bmibaby. Meanwhile, Flybe will continue to operate to Belfast City, with EasyJet joining them in the … [Read more...]
FlyBe goes on the attack at EMA – Launches 5 routes for Winter 2012/13
It seems FlyBe is gunning for what remains of BMI Regional and BMI Baby with the announcement of the airline basing two aircraft at East Midlands Airport and five new routes operating from EMA. FlyBe will be operating various routes connecting EMA to: Amsterdam Paris Charles de Gaulle Edinburgh Glasgow Jersey The expansion is to go ahead for the Winter … [Read more...]