More route news

Great news for Exeter!!!

VLM
Is considering starting service from London City to Exeter. The route could connect from Amsterdam. VLM is looking at a possible launch in Sep03.

And more BA news….

British Airways
Will discontinue service from Newcastle to Bristol effective on 25Oct03.

Ryanairs next base??

Ryanair
Is planning to start operations from Debreceb Airport located about 230km from Budapest. Ryanair intends to start service to Hahn in Dec03. That should be followed with flights to Berlin, Beauvais, Charleroi, London and Milan.

JetMagic
Is still awaiting approval to start operating its own Embraer 135s, In the meantime the airline is leasing 2 Embraer 145s from Swiss. One of them is seen below at Nice Airport.

amusing….

Virgin Express
About 1,600 Belgians turned out to vote in the country’s elections wearing only swimming costumes or trunks. Virgin Express was offering 1500 free tickets on its Brussels to Bordeaux and Palma routes to those who took amusing photographs of themselves in swimwear outside polling booths. The airline’s spokesman Ives Panneels said: “We succeeded in showing Belgians have a lot of humour.” One polling station barred a beekeeper who showed up in a swimsuit and a colony of live bees clinging to his chest.

and then just a snippit on the bottom for our Spanish counterparts Keltic….

Iberia
Will inaugurate nonstop service from Santiago de Compostela to Paris Orly on 01Jun03. Daily service will be operated by Air Nostrum with a Canadair RJ.

Iberia
Will inaugurate nonstop service from Santiago de Compostela to Valencia on 01Jun03. Service will be operated daily except Saturday by Air Nostrum with a Canadair RJ.