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Staggering Growth in first three years at bmibaby

18 March 2005

bmibaby, the award winning airlines with tiny fares is celebrating three years in operation this weekend. The airline, which first began flying from Nottingham East Midlands Airport on 20 March 2002, has grown to become the UK's second largest low cost carrier with over 7.6 million passengers travelling on its services since launch.

The airline has expanded rapidly, establishing bases at 5 UK airports: Nottingham East Midlands, Birmingham International, Manchester, Cardiff and Durham Tees Valley.

Nottingham East Midlands remains bmibaby's largest base and the airline continues to offer more routes than any other carrier with over 1,000 flights every month to 12 European destinations including Alicante, Amsterdam, Belfast (International), Cork, Edinburgh, Faro, Glasgow (international), Jersey, Malaga, Murcia, Palma and Prague.

David Bryon, bmibaby's managing director, commented:
"bmibaby is a real success story. We have consistently delivered strong year on year growth by building a powerful brand with a reputation for quality service.

We capped a fantastic 2004 by being crowned best 'No Frills' carrier for the second year running and have had an even stronger start to 2005 carrying over half a million passengers in January and February combined.

We have big growth ambitions for the future and remain committed to developing a wide network of services to European destinations.

Everyone at bmibaby is naturally proud of our achievements in three yearsand we want to share our success with the passengers who have helped to establish the airline as the UK's number 2 low cost carrier; so we are planning a big, big birthday celebration."

To celebrate it's third birthday, bmibaby has planned a bumper "three for all " seat sale where every day for 6 days 3,333 seats will be available across selected routes, all passengers need to do is pay taxes and charges.

A balloon race is also being held in Derby City Centre at 12 noon on Sunday 20 March. 3000 balloons will be released to celebrate the birthday. Passengers can enter the race by filling in balloon tags at bmibaby's ticket desk at Nottingham East Midlands Airport or at the reception of Nottingham based Century 106 FM.

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