VLM Airlines to introduce Jet services

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Source: VLM

VLM Airlines to introduce Jet services

BAe 146 to serve high-density London City – Rotterdam route

Antwerp, Monday 5 March 2007, VLM Airlines has today announced that it will enhance its fleet with the introduction of a jet aircraft for the first time. The 92-seat BAe 146-300 will enter service on April 16th, 2007, and will be operated on one of the airline’s busiest routes betweenLondon City and Rotterdam City

The jet is being introduced into VLM Airlines’ fleet to enable it to increase capacity on one of its busiest routes, where it will operate alongside the carrier’s Fokker 50 aircraft. The airline will maintain its ten daily return flights between London City and Rotterdam, with four to be operated by the BAe 146. The airline carried over 130,000 passengers on the route in 2006, and estimates that it will carry around 190,000 in 2007.