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bmibaby to serve nine destinations from Cardiff
bmibaby will be serving six international and three domestic destinations when it launches services from Cardiff International Airport on 27 October 2002.
Two dedicated 737 bmibaby aircraft will operate a total of 112 flights a week to Alicante, Faro, Geneva, Jersey, Malaga, Milan (Bergamo), Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow, from October.
The airline said that it will be the first airline ever to provide scheduled service links from Cardiff International Airport to Alicante, Faro, Geneva, Malaga and Milan (Bergamo) and will be reinstating the links to Edinburgh and Glasgow which are being abandoned by British Airways.
The launch of bmibaby services from Cardiff International will make the airline the airport’s biggest operator with an expected additional one million passengers a year.
Tony Davis, managing director, bmibaby said: “It is perhaps not a well known fact that two thirds of passengers living in Wales fly from airports in England. I can assure you that bmibaby is committed to changing that fact, giving Wales its very own low cost airline.
“Indeed we have had a major boost already thanks to the Secretary of State for Transport. Alistair Darling very publicly recognised in his statement in The House of Commons the importance of our new base here in Wales and the benefit the new air links to and from Wales will bring.”
See our related stories:
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17 May 2002: Confusion reigns over location of East Midlands Airport
07 May 2002: No-frills consolidation is ‘inevitable’ says analyst
29 Apr 2002: bmibaby md dismisses analyst’s criticisms
17 Apr 2002: bmibaby to have second UK base
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