Leeds Bradford in talks over Frankfurt flights
30.12.08
Leeds Bradford Airport is in advanced talks with an international airline over a new direct route to Frankfurt, Germany's financial and legal services centre, the Yorkshire Post reports. Tony Hallwood, the airport's commercial development director, told the newspaper that he hopes the flights will take off in 2009 and will ‘deliver increased linkage between Yorkshire and the economic powerhouse of Europe’.
Mr Hallwood said: ‘We are very hopeful we will have further news in the early part of 2009 and we are very confident we will start the service during the year.’ He added that he also hopes to add new routes to Eastern Europe, in particular Hungary and Poland, and to extend services from Leeds Bradford to Scandinavia, building on BMI's existing direct flights to Copenhagen.
Leeds Bradford currently has 76 scheduled and charter destinations. It introduced 12 new routes in 2008 and announced a further 6 that will start in 2009. The airport lost 4 routes in 2008 – to Cork, Shannon, Hamburg and Inverness.
Next year, Mr Hallwood wants services to Madrid and Milan to become year round and also said 2009 will see the ‘stepping up of discussions’ with US airlines with the aim of introducing a regular service from Leeds Bradford to New York ‘within three or four years’.
He told the Post that he would also like to see new routes to the Middle East for business and leisure passengers to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere, and for direct links to onward flights to Australia, Australasia and the Far East.
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