bmibaby have today announced 2 new routes to be served from London Gatwick. The 2 destinations are from 30th April 2004:
Prague (Daily)
Cork (Daily)
In bmibaby’s first press release it said it would be the only low cost operator on both routes from London Gatwick. Hours later they released another press release saying they were already entering a price war after easyJet announced there new London Gatwick to Prague route. Original one way fares to both destinations were £23.99 but now the Prague route is being sold at £19.99 one way to undercut easyJet’s fares by £1.
Tony Davis, managing director of bmibaby, said:
“After only a few hours, customers are already seeing the benefits of new low-cost airline competition at Gatwick. We’re delighted to be the cause of these benefits – and we look forward to delivering real competition to easyJet at the airport.”
Bookings can be made at 10am from Friday 13th February.
Does this mean London Gatwick is going to be bmibaby’s 5th U.K base?
Its certainly been good news today for low cost travel in the London area!!
Regards
dan777
By: dan777 - 13th February 2004 at 16:27
Looking at the timetables, the routes will be flown by a mixture of W patterns and not W patterns. Aircraft and crew will be East Midlands based.
Cork to London Gatwick
WW6002 14:40 – 15:45 – 1,2,3,4,5
WW6006 08:55 – 10:00 – 6
WW6004 16:20 – 17:25 – 7
London Gatwick to Cork
WW6001 16:30 – 17:40 – 1,2,3,4,5
WW6005 10:30 – 11:40 – 6
WW6003 18:30 – 19:40 – 7
Prague to London Gatwick
WW6156 15:40 – 16:40 – 1,2,3,4,5
WW6156 14:30 – 15:40 – 6
WW6156 15:15 – 16:15 – 7
London Gatwick to Prague
WW6155 17:25 – 20:25 – 1,2,3,4,5
WW6155 16:30 – 19:40 – 6
WW6155 17:00 – 20:15 – 7
Regards
dan777
By: G-OJET - 13th February 2004 at 08:58
Don’t forget bmibaby are also now offering you the ability to select your own seat on the flight during the booking process!!!
If its anything like Canjet (which I’ve recently booked on), using Navataire airline reservations, it shows you a seat map of the aircraft at the end of your booking and you can literally select the exact seat, not just a preference!
I think the whole EZY concept of jump on board as fast as you can and grab a seat is rather tacky, and people don’t like it. Its the little things that make you loyal to an airline, and price obviously!
As long as WW stick with undercutting EZY, they’ll be fine.
Incidentally, I have a strong feeling these LGW routes will be W patterns operated by EMA crew from what I’ve heard.
By: dan777 - 12th February 2004 at 23:59
I think bmibaby could be successful by introducing some services from London Gatwick which arent served by easyJet e.g : Jersey, Teesside, Manchester, Murcia, Bordeaux, Knock, Paris CDG, Milan Bergamo etc etc
Regards
dan777
By: dcfly - 12th February 2004 at 23:02
Originally posted by robbelc
You mean there are aircraft at Gatwick behind all that concrete?!
Yep, every now and then they let one out, so if you’re driving past dont blink!
dave
By: Mark L - 12th February 2004 at 22:24
Its in addition to the LHR route, and while it hasn’t been formally announced you can still buy tickets on it now :rolleyes:
By: martin_EGTK - 12th February 2004 at 22:02
Suprised to see that BA are flying to Prague from Gatwick, when did they announce the route? Is it in addition to the Heathrow services?
By: green320 - 12th February 2004 at 20:42
They are commencing new routes from MAN to Bordeaux, Jersey, Knock, Paris CDG and Ibiza. From MME, they are commencing routes to Alicante, Jersey, Prague, Nice, and Palma.
By: LBARULES - 12th February 2004 at 20:17
Theyve also announced they will commence flights to Ibiza from Manchester. Busy day for new lo-co routes!
By: green320 - 12th February 2004 at 19:52
I was quite impressed with them when I flew with them in May to MJV. I somehow think that with EZY established there, WW are going to provide tough competition but EZY will win.
By: LBARULES - 12th February 2004 at 19:46
Surprises me that WW are flying from LGW with EZY already well established…. Will it be a success? Im not sure.
By: Mark L - 12th February 2004 at 19:22
LGW-PRG. I want to go today, sorry no flights. I wanna go in April, here you go, got a choice of BMI Baby, Easyejt AND British Airways.
Hmmmmmm! :rolleyes:
By: andrewm - 12th February 2004 at 18:09
bmi also, i find, have the best food and service!! Love em to bits!
By: robbelc - 12th February 2004 at 17:36
You mean there are aircraft at Gatwick behind all that concrete?!
I dont really get the point of BMI baby,BMI’s fares themselves out of LHR are the cheapest there and similar to Easyjet to AMS etc. So why bother having a low cost branch when you are going semi low cost yourself???
By: dcfly - 12th February 2004 at 17:05
It’d be nice if we could actually get into Gatwick to see em, or anything else for that matter.
dave
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