Flybe to start flights to Amsterdam from Birmingham

Regional budget airline Flybe have announced that they will be starting three times daily flights to Amsterdam from their Birmingham base in October. This route is essentially a replacement for the Bmibaby service on this route, which has ended, along with all their other flights, as the airline's new parent company IAG group could not fit them into their business model. Whilst Bmibaby operated the route twice daily using Boeing 737 aircaft, Flybe will be deploying their slightly smaller Embraer E Series jets on the route, so there is very little difference in actual capacity.

This makes Birmingham the fifth airport to have a Flybe service to Amsterdam. Flybe also offer flights from Inverness, Exeter and Southampton to the Dutch hub.

Additionally, Flybe have confirmed that they will now be taking bookings on their new flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam and Jersey from East Midlands Airport, supplementing their existing flights to Belfast City, Edinburgh and Glasgow from there.

However, this is the only route on which Flybe will be competing directly against the Dutch airline KLM. On Flybe's other flights to Amsterdam, the airline additionally provides a feeder service into the worldwide network of flights from Schiphol airport, but this facility is already provided in Birmingham by KLM.