Article from BTNews 17 OCTOBER 2016
Blue Air boost for Liverpool
More flights, more international visitors and more jobs at Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL) are in the offing after Romanian carrier Blue Air announced a new expansion of operations across Europe by naming it as its eighth European base.
The airline will locate a 189-seat Boeing 737-800 at the airport next summer with the introduction of four new services – a daily departure to Rome Fiumicino, four flights weekly to each of Milan Bergamo and Hamburg, and three flights a week to Alicante.
These will complement Blue Air’s existing flights from Liverpool to three destinations in Romania. The flights will add 160,000 seats that will be on sale to and from Liverpool.
Basing an aircraft at LPL will also create up to 35 local jobs, while the airline says it is also considering a special livery for the 737 with the object of becoming “Liverpool’s airline”. Talks on the idea are set to start soon.
Blue Air started operations from the Merseyside airport in December 2014, with three flights weekly to Bucharest, adding twice-weekly service to Bacau three months later and twice-weekly service to Cluj-Napoca in June this year. The carrier says it has carried almost 120,000 passengers on flights to and from Liverpool in less than two years.
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