Belfast BHD is set to receive flights from Germany for the first time. On 23 April 2023, Lufthansa CityLine will begin Frankfurt, with the 4-weekly, 1,110-kilometre service using the 100-seat Embraer E190. It will provide an additional option to reach the wider world from Northern Ireland, will be the country’s sole German route following Ryanair’s […]
December 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The ‘new’ Flybe has started its first winter season operating 44 daily flights (Mondays to Fridays) and 15 routes across 11 airports. It celebrated the start of the winter season by adding new routes from Newquay to both London LHR and Manchester, and from Newcastle to both Belfast BHD and London LHR. The Newcastle routes […]
November 17, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
easyJet has further expanded its presence at Belfast BHD with the addition of a 3-weekly service from its base at Bristol. The first flight on the 420-kilometre route was on Wednesday 7 September. Service will operate on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays for the rest of the summer season and also through the winter season. According […]
September 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Earlier this week Ryanair held a press conference in London at which it revealed it would be operating its biggest ever programme from UK airports this winter. Contributing to this would be 21 new international routes including six from Birmingham and five from London STN. Of course, there was no mention of any routes that […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The revived Flybe has launched three new routes from Southampton on the UK’s south coast. On Saturday 23 July it began weekly service on the 915-kilometre route to Avignon in the south of France. The following day it added weekly service on the 1,040-kilometre route to Toulon, also in the south of France. The Avignon […]
July 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Aer Lingus Regional on Thursday 7 July added two new routes from Belfast BHD. Using ATR 72s operated by Emerald Airlines, there will be daily flights on the 510-kilometre route to Southampton, competing with Eastern Airways, which already offers 13-weekly flights. In addition, Aer Lingus Regional is now offering 5-weekly flights on the 400-kilometre route […]
July 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wednesday 13 April 2022 saw the return of the Flybe brand to UK skies with the launch of service between Birmingham and Belfast BHD, the airport’s two bases. A 78-seat Q400, registration G-JECX operated the first flight between Birmingham and Belfast, which was given the flight number BE 404. Given all the numbers that could […]
April 25, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
The ‘new’ Flybe finally revealed its first 23 routes earlier today. These are spread across 16 airports; seven in England, four in Scotland, three in France, and one each in Northern Ireland and the Netherlands. The first flight is set to launch in just 22 days on 13 April. Having already announced crew bases at […]
March 22, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Emerald Airlines (IATA code EA) became Ireland’s newest airline when it operated its first flight (on behalf of Aer Lingus Regional) on Saturday 26 February between Dublin and Donegal (IATA code CFN which represents the nearby town of Carrickfinn) in the north-west of Ireland. The 225-kilometre route will be operated 2-daily by the carrier using […]
March 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
George Best Belfast City Airport welcomed its first ever commercial flight operated by easyJet on Friday 9 July when the carrier began double-daily service from its biggest base at London LGW. The inaugural service (flight U2 701 operated by Airbus A320 registered G-UZHU) departed Gatwick at 07:37 local time and touched down in Northern Ireland […]
July 13, 2021 | Latest Route News +
On the morning of Saturday 12 June, Stobart Air (IATA code RE) announced that it was suspending all services with immediate effect. Established as Aer Arann as long ago as 1970, the airline changed its name to Stobart Air in 2014. In recent times the airline had been operating as a franchise carrier for Aer […]
Ryanair recently resumed service from George Best Belfast City Airport (IATA code BHD) in Northern Ireland after an absence of just over a decade. Between October 2007 and October 2010, the Dublin-based ULCC had offered domestic flights from Belfast BHD to Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow PIK, Liverpool and London STN. Thereafter it ignored the Belfast […]