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Travel agent updates from Birmingham Airport’s Tom Screen
Celebrity Beyond
n Hello again,
We’re calling it ‘Giant July’ at BHX. Within the space of one week, we’ve had three major developments with leading Gulf-based carriers. We’re excited. Customers are too. Middle Eastern connectivity has never been better from BHX. Here’s what makes this month a Giant July:
Dubai: Fly aboard an Emirates A380
Celebrity to deploy two vessels in the Caribbean in 2024
O Saturday, July 1: Emirates, which flies twice a day to Dubai, trumpeted the return to BHX of its iconic 615-seat
A380 superjumbo. O Sunday, July 2: Saudia started operating from BHX, flying the first of its thrice-weekly rotations to Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia’s second city. O Thursday, July 6: Qatar Airways returned to BHX, following a three-year absence, with daily services to Doha.
Doha: Qatar Airways is back at BHX
Phil Davies
Celebrity Cruises will deploy Celebrity Beyond and Celebrity Reflection in the Caribbean next year. Both vessels will offer calls at
parent company Royal Caribbean’s Perfect Day at CocoCay private island destination in the Bahamas for the first time. From April 2024, Edge-class
The good news doesn’t end there. In June, easyJet holidays went on sale from BHX. In addition to an attractive roster of destinations, including beach resorts like Faro, Palma and Malaga and cities like Berlin and Paris, easyJet holidays customers get exclusive early access to new flight schedules. All this as we look forward to easyJet basing three aircraft here from March 2024. Till next time,
Tom Screen,Aviation Director, Birmingham Airport @BHXtraveltradeteam @bhxtraveltradeteam @BHXtraveltrade
vessel Celebrity Beyond will operate a mix of six to eight-night cruises from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to destinations such as Grand Cayman, the Bahamas, Mexico and Aruba.
£711 Lead-in price for six-day sailing on Celebrity Beyond
A six-night round-trip sailing
calling at Perfect Day at CocoCay, George Town, in the Cayman Islands, and Bimini, in the Bahamas, starts at £711, departing on May 26, 2024. Celebrity Reflection will operate
almost 40 three and four-night itineraries from Fort Lauderdale next summer. A four-night Key West and
Holland America Line unveils excursions with
Holland America Line has added National Geographic day tours to its Mediterranean cruises. The tours, which are available
to passengers sailing on Oosterdam andNieuw Statendam, include The Fascinating World of Bees, in Rhodes (from $150); Influential
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Women in Turkey, in Kusadasi (from $200); and Meet the Locals, in Santorini (from $390). The shore excursions were
developed with National Geographic and aim to give passengers the opportunity to “connect more deeply and in
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