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Mar 22, 2006
Air Berlin
is set to start flying from Belfast City Airport
to eight destinations in Europe via its hub at
London Stansted.
The German airline says there
will be departures morning and evening each way during the week, and one flight
each way on Saturday and Sunday. With fast trains from Stansted to Liverpool Street
station in London’s financial district, and Air Berlin’s superfast transfer system including full baggage
transfer at London Stansted, the airline is targeting both business customers
going to the city and holidaymakers transferring onto Europe.
The choice of Belfast City Airport
will also enable short journey times into the city center, Air Berlin explains.
Airline officials point out
that the move will open up Air Berlin’s
onbound Europe-wide destinations from Stansted for the first time to passengers
from Northern Ireland.
These include Berlin, Dusseldorf,
Hanover, Leipzig,
Nuremberg, Paderborn
and Vienna. The
service is also likely to make a positive contribution to the tourism industry
in Northern Ireland.
Flights from Belfast start at £19
one-way including all taxes and surcharges to London-Stansted, and from £29 to
European destinations. Air Berlin
says its flights are low-cost but full-service, offering customers free food
and drinks, flight flexibility, air miles and baggage transfer for connecting
passengers.
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