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Fly One to land in Birmingham


Birmingham Airport is set to welcome another new carrier in June, offering a brand new route to the Republic of Moldova. New scheduled airline, Fly One,


will operate three times a week from Birmingham, using an Airbus A319 with 144 seats each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. From Chișinău, Fly One also flies


Budapest sees major growth in air cargo traffic


Budapest Airport recorded significant growth in air cargo traffic during the first month of 2017, traditionally the quietest period of the year for cargo. The Hungarian capital airport achieved an increase of 27 per cent in January, compared to the same month in 2016. Among key users of the airport are Turkish Airlines


Cargo and Qatar Airways Cargo, both of whom will be using a new facility, Cargo City, which is being built near Terminal 2. The performance of Qatar Airways Cargo greatly contributed to the record growth in air cargo traffic in January 2017. Jost Lammers, CEO, Budapest Airport, said: “The


award for most dynamically developing cargo airline, bestowed upon Qatar Airways Cargo at Budapest Airport’s annual award gala is, to a large extent, recognition of this performance and dynamic growth seen throughout the year. “Cargo airlines play an important role in channelling the mainstays of the Hungarian economy, such as pharmaceuticals, telecommunication and IT products, into the circulation of the world economy. This year, Budapest Airport’s objective is to further expand its network and to enable our partners to increase their cargo capacities in Budapest.”


Monarch adds four new summer routes


Monarch is introducing four new routes from Birmingham Airport for summer 2017. Flights to Split in Croatia,


Valencia in Spain, Naples in Italy and Rhodes in Greece are available to book now. Monarch will be the only airline


flying to both Split and Valencia from Birmingham Airport, and both destinations are new to the airline’s network. Flights to both will only operate


out of Birmingham for the summer season. Naples and Rhodes are already on the Monarch network but new to Birmingham. As well as these four new routes,


Monarch will be launching new flights to Stockholm as a new destination from Birmingham. The new flights were announced


back in 2016 and the first flight is on 28 April 2017 with Monarch the only airline flying directly to the Swedish capital. Marjan Schoeke, Monarch’s


head of network development, said: “We are delighted to be announcing four new routes to the network from Birmingham Airport for this summer.


“With the introduction of these


routes we now have 30 destinations on offer to customers flying from Birmingham Airport this summer. Monarch has more destinations to choose from than any other airline when flying out of Birmingham this summer. “We continually monitor our


route network and feel that these destinations will be a popular choice with our customers who fly from Birmingham and are looking for sun this summer.” David Winstanley, chief operating


officer, at Birmingham Airport, said: “It is fabulous news that Monarch will be adding these new routes for summer 2017 offering more choice of destinations from Birmingham Airport. “Both Split and Valencia are


unserved from the airport so passengers will have the chance to visit these beautiful cities, while the routes to Naples and Rhodes offers extra capacity to passengers travelling from their local airport. “Monarch has been a partner


airline for many years and provides an excellent service for both leisure and business passengers.”


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to Moscow, St Petersburg and Voronezh (Russia), Rome, Milan, Parma, Verona and Venice (Italy), Lisbon (Portugal), Barcelona, Valencia (Spain) Dublin and Paris. William Pearson, Birmingham


Airport’s aviation director, said: “We are pleased that Fly One will be launching services in June and delivering a new destination from Birmingham to Moldova.” • Turkish Airlines has renewed its patronage of Birmingham Chamber and the latter’s chief executive Paul Faulkner said: “This is great news, Turkish is one of the world’s leading airlines and has been a key supporter of the Chamber in recent years. “Turkish Airlines has a major role


to play in the new relationship which has been formed between out Chamber and Bursa TSO, which is the Chamber of Commerce representing a key industrial city in north-west Turkey.”


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