Yep, a poor thread title by me and certainly an airline I haven’t heard of but this is great news for BHX that’s for sure :)….
Fly to Dundee – It’s a Piece of Cake
Birmingham International Airport today welcomes the announcement of a new airline starting operations from Birmingham. Whoosh will take to the skies offering passengers the opportunity to fly from Birmingham direct to Dundee from May 29th 2007.
Eleven weekly flights will operate to Dundee from Terminal 2. Prices start from £20.07, with flights twice daily during Monday through to Friday and once on a Sunday. The flights leave Birmingham at 0905 hours and arrive in to Dundee at 1030 hours, an ideal time to arrive for any business meetings. The return will leave Dundee at 1750 and return to Birmingham at 1915.
Whoosh’s flights will be operated by the Polish Airline, White Eagle Aviation, which is based in Warsaw-Okecie Airport and will be using an ATR42. The airline is privately owned.
White Eagle has been operating for 13 years and currently undertakes scheduled and charter flights in both cargo and passenger operations.
Alan Fullilove, CEO & President from White Eagle said: “This new association with Whoosh and Birmingham International Airport is fantastic news for the airline. Now that we can fly routes within EU member states we have fully taken advantage of this with our new routes between Dundee and Birmingham.”
Aden Murcutt, from Whoosh said: “We are extremely pleased to be providing this new service to Dundee which will eliminate the need for the over one hour drive from Edinburgh Airport, therefore reducing carbon emissions from cars. This route is fantastic news for inhabitants of Scotland as research has proved that over 50,000 passengers travelling on Edinburgh to Birmingham services come from Dundee or the regions of Angus and Fife – now passengers will have the convenience of using their local Scottish Airport. “
John Morris, Head of Corporate and Community Affairs commenting on the new route said: “Birmingham International Airport strives to be the UK’s best regional airport and adding yet another popular destination to our portfolio is another step towards this goal.
“Using these economic aircraft on a domestic hop helps cut down on fuel emissions and saves the car journey that many people have from some other Scottish airports to Dundee. We wish Whoosh every success.”
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By: Matt K - 30th April 2007 at 23:14
It’ll be Belfast City :), proposed livery on the aircraft look’s very nice too.
Definetely Belfast City (BHD) actually under information on Destinations on web site.
By: Future Pilot - 30th April 2007 at 22:02
Flywhoosh website now showing on line booking to be available from 30 April – pity still doesn’t show whether Belfast is to be BFS or BHD.
It’ll be Belfast City :), proposed livery on the aircraft look’s very nice too.
By: G-OJET - 30th April 2007 at 21:50
Very interesting indeed!
If my information is correct, I think you’ll find Mr Fullilove was also heavily involved with the whole FlyWho thing as well as Mr Murcott.
Looks like another cheap off the shelf website judging by the “Lorem ipsum dolor” latin stuff all over the recruitment page…
http://www.flywhoosh.com/recruitment.aspx
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By: cloud_9 - 28th April 2007 at 16:12
The first question I would ask is if he has actually got the necessary licences to start these operations?
The reason I would ask this is because Flywho did not ‘take-off’ in the end because it emerged that they did not have the licences to sell seats!
Mr Murctt certainly has got a tough job ahead of him, as the following article shows: http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2007/04/28/newsstory9629374t0.asp
By: Cycling Spotter - 28th April 2007 at 13:08
Its about time Dundee got some new routes, its the 4th buggest city in Scotland yet has one of the lease served airports.
Amsterdam and Dublin would also do well from Dundee.
By: allmcc - 28th April 2007 at 12:05
Flywhoosh website now showing on line booking to be available from 30 April – pity still doesn’t show whether Belfast is to be BFS or BHD.
By: atr42 - 27th April 2007 at 16:32
Having spent 4 happy years working on ATR’s I can assure you it won’t go whoosh!
The only whoosh you’ll get from an ATR is if you stand behind a prop as it’s running!!
Good bit of kit for cheap hopping around though.:)
By: steve rowell - 27th April 2007 at 03:00
The name Whoosh wouldn’t instill much confidence in your average white knuckle passenger
By: Future Pilot - 26th April 2007 at 22:38
Doesn’t the name Aden Murcutt ring any bells?
It most certainly does and as you say he was the man behind the now defunct Flywho venture, but with an aircraft already sourced from White Eagle Aviation and slots obtained (well must be with a May 29th start) I think we can have more confidence in Whoosh :).
Still continuing the interesting names for his airlines thing though….;) :D.
By: David2386 - 26th April 2007 at 22:34
They are also doing a rotation from Dundee to Belfast between the two daily BHX rotations, but haven’t specifed BHD or BFS in the other news article :confused:
By: mmemovements - 26th April 2007 at 22:27
Doesn’t the name Aden Murcutt ring any bells? Maybe the name Flywho does? :p
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