Sterling weakness fails to ground airlines’ optimism for Birmingham

The weaker position of Sterling in the last nine months, which remains 10% below its pre-EU referendum level, is not diminishing the appetite of airline companies to expand their Birmingham operations. Today Jet2.com's first flights from the West Midlands took off to Faro and Malaga as it prepares to ramp up to serve 23 destinations this summer. This week German low-cost carrier Eurowings has announced it will launch a service from Birmingham to Salzburg in December, following the success of its flights to Vienna. Jet2 is cre... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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