December 1, 2003 at 2:44 pm
Can’t get details from the flybe.com website, but this from today’s EveningTimes…
GLASGOW Airport was given a boost today when a budget airline announced it would fly to three new UK destinations.
FlyBE is to start 16 new routes from its five UK bases, including services to Belfast in Northern Ireland, and Exeter and Southampton, in the south of England, from Glasgow.
The flights, to begin in May and June next year, boost the no-frills carrier’s capacity by more than 5million seats.
FlyBE’s managing director Jim French said: “This growth has been built on the phenomenal success we’ve already experienced with our existing low-fares regional network.”
It’s the third time in a week that airport bosses have had reason to celebrate.
As revealed in the Evening Times last Monday, American giant Continental reversed plans to downgrade flights from Glasgow to New York which it had made after it secured subsidies to fly from Edinburgh.
The airline said it had decided to use bigger aircraft on its Glasgow route.
Four days later airport bosses secured its cheapest flights to the Isle of Man when new airline EuroManx said it would run two flights a day from Glasgow to Douglas, to compete with a service from Prestwick Airport.