Manchester Airport in the UK and Billlund Airport in Denmark are welcoming the return of British Airways flights operated by the Danish airline SUN-AIR.
After a break of more than two years the five times a week route will return on 31 October and will be operated on SUN-AIR’s Dornier 328 Jet aircraft. The flights will be operated on Monday mornings and in the evenings on the remaining four weekdays.
The service was previously operated for more than two decades carrying more than 460,000 passengers between the two cities with Billund offering business travellers a gateway to the wider Jutland region and leisure passengers convenient access to the original Legoland themepark and the city of Billund itself. Meanwhile those travelling to Manchester will be able to explore all that the city has to offer as well as using the airport as a gateway to the UK’s northern region.
“We are incredibly pleased to restart this route from Billund and offer our passengers a direct connection to Manchester with our well-known full-service product on behalf of British Airways,” said Niels Sundberg, CEO of SUN-AIR. “We’ll monitor the route closely and will look to increase frequency if we achieve the support on this service that we saw pre-pandemic.”
Manchester Airport Managing Director, Chris Woodroffe, added: “We are delighted to see SUN-AIR and British Airways resuming flights to Billund. This is a very successful, long-standing service, which plays a crucial role in connecting more than 22 million people in our wider catchment area with six million people in mainland Denmark. I am sure that it will prove to be just as popular as it was prior to the pandemic.”
