Hi. I have some good and relevant and serious ideas about the current routes at BHX, which I would like you to fully take on board and review.
Emirates - Emirates have been doing extremely well since their launch in 2000, even upgrading to a second daily service in 2005, and operated a one-off A380 on the midday service to celebrate Birmingham's 70th Anniversary in 2009. For years, a third daily service has been considered by Tim Clark for a couple of years now, but it has never happened. In my opinion, the summer timetable starts at the end of March, so the new service can start then, and should be considered immediately, because there is massive Emirates demand at BHX, being the UK's second city. The summer timetable starts on the 27th March 2011, so the route can be launched then. The UK's second city to have a third daily Emirates service would boost capacity at BHX a lot. I suggest that the route be operated with a 777-300ER like the other routes, and have a 7am arrival and a 10am departure. I would really like you to look at this extract as Emirates is doing really well at Birmingham and there is need for an expansion, as it has been 5 years since a second daily service was launched.
PIA - PIA has done quite well. Maybe not as well as Emirates but lots of people have been flying on the route due to the fact that Birmingham has the largest Asian population in the UK. My suggested expansions for this route would either be a fifth weekly flight, daily flight, or flights to Karachi and Lahore.
Continental - Continental have been serving Birmingham since 1997, and have been doing extremely well. I think the aircraft should be upgraded from a Boeing 757 to a Boeing 767-400, as BHX can handle aircraft that size, and the demand for this Continental route is rising very dramatically.
American Airlines - American Airlines have served Birmingham before, but axed in 2002. The service did very well until 9/11. I have made an online petition at
http://petitiononline.com/aabhx for American Airlines to come back to Birmingham and I would like you to either support it or speak to American Airlines to suggest relaunching a Chicago-Birmingham route with a Boeing 777 rather than a Boeing 767.
Qatar Airways - This is an airline that is very highly needed at BHX. Lots of people would fly on the airline, as, like Emirates, it can connect to many destinations worldwide. The reason for this is that BHX will prove to be a huge 'feeder' destination for its new ATQ bound flights as well as contribute decent volume of traffic bound for ISB, DEL, BOM, LHE, CMB, DAC, HKG, KHI, China, KUL and IKA via DOH. It can also contribute passenger on board Qatar's new SYD/MEL bound flights. From BHX, Qatar's primary competitor will be EK and to Pakistan PIA. Air India suspended BHX flights in 2008 and thus lost its BHX-ATQ/BHX-DEL route which saw good loads year round. The UK Midlands region needs a second 'quality airline' to serve the region with wide bodied aircraft heading eastwards to the ISC and Asia-Pacific region and QR fits that role perfectly. To/from BHX, the flight timings should be:
QRXX Dep DOH 0700 Arr BHX 1200
QRXX Dep BHX 1400 Arr DOH 2300
These flight timings mentioned above allow perfect connections via DOH in both directions to India, Pakistan, Australia, HKG, SIN, DAC, CMB, DPS, KUL, PEK, PVG, KIX, CGK, CAN and GCC. This should be enough to fill up the flight on a year round basis.
I would advice Birmingham Airport to review these airlines highly and get them at Birmingham as soon as possible, because they are highly needed and can manage the slightly short length of Birmingham's runway. Hopefully these routes can start at the end of March 2011.
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