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Seven things you never knew about bmibaby

21st April 2009 Print
bmibaby is celebrating its seventh birthday this year and in recognition of this the airline has put together seven fun facts about bmibaby.

Did you know . . .

1. bmibaby has clocked up approximately 165,000,000 miles of flying in seven years. This means the airline could have flown round the world 6,626 times or almost to the sun and back*.

2. bmibaby was launched in 2002 with just one aircraft and one route from East Midlands to Malaga. It now operates from four UK bases: East Midlands, Cardiff, Birmingham International and Manchester Airport, and flies to 24 European destinations. In seven years bmibaby has carried 23 million passengers.

3. Cabin crew walk on average 194 miles up and down the aisle of a bmibaby aircraft every year, this equates to 7.5 London Marathons a year, or 52.5 marathons in seven years!

4. bmibaby has sold 2,023,769 sandwiches onboard flights during seven years of flying.

5. The airline has served around 4,700,000 million hot drinks to passengers in seven years.

6. The shortest bmibaby flight is between Cardiff (CWL) and Jersey (JER) which is 159.42 miles. The longest bmibaby flight is between Manchester (MAN) and Malaga (AGP) – 1,156.83 miles.

7. In seven years, 101 babies have been born to bmibaby cabin crew and the airline has 15 married couples. In other words, 30 employees have spouses who also work for the company.

bmibaby recently launched exciting new routes for summer 2009 from Manchester to Toulouse and Amsterdam, from East Midlands Airport to Almeria and Menorca, from Cardiff to Menorca and Almeria, and from Birmingham to Newquay. In response to consumer demand, the airline added an extra 30 flights a week to and from the most popular sunshine routes during the peak summer period

bmibaby has also launched its winter 2009/2010 flying programme and announced brand new routes to Grenoble from East Midlands, Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff Airport. For winter bmibaby will fly from Manchester to Toulouse and Amsterdam and will launch a new service between Belfast and Prague. The schedule will commence on 25 October 2009.

*Assuming the circumference of the globe is 24,900 miles
165,000,000 miles of flying ÷ 24,900 miles = 6,626 times flown around the world
Assuming distance from the earth to the sun is 92,000,000 miles