bmi regional (BM, Aberdeen International (ABZ)) has announced its first two new routes that it will launch as an independent airline on October 29. It will continue to operate with a similar focus as today and has announced new twice weekdaily services from Aberdeen to Bristol International (BRS) and from Manchester Ringway International (MAN) to Antwerp Deurne (ANR) using ERJ-145 regional jets. bmi regional will compete with Eastern Airways (T3, Humberside (HUY)) on the route to Bristol where Eastern operates up to three times daily via Leeds/Bradford International (LBA) while it takes over the route to Antwerp from Air France (AF, Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG)) subsidiary Cityjet (WX, Dublin International (DUB)) which has just recently dropped the route from its network.

Eastern Airways (T3, Humberside (HUY)) has been awarded a contract to operate three weekly scheduled charter services from Albacete (ABC) to Marseilles Provence (MRS) on behalf of EADS subsidiary Eurocopter (Marseilles Provence (MRS)). These flights were previously operated by German charter carrier Private Wings (8W, Berlin Schönefeld (SXF)) and Eastern will now take over with a Jetstream 41 from September 18. Flights are operated under OLT Express Germany (OL, Bremen Neuenland (BRE)) flight numbers like all EADS corporate shuttle flights operated by other carriers as OLT's reservation system is used for EADS corporate bookings for historical and technical reasons.

Eastern Airways (T3, Humberside (HUY)) parent Eastern Group has acquired a majority stakes of 87.2% of the shares in Humberside (HUY) from its previous owner Manchester Airport Group (which also controls and operates Bournemouth (BOH), East Midlands (EMA) and Manchester Ringway International (MAN)). Humberside is Eastern Airways' homebase and it also has a maintenance facility there. The airport currently sees regular scheduled flights from Eastern to Aberdeen International (ABZ) and Norwich (NWI), Flybe. (BE, Exeter International (EXT)) to Jersey (JER) as well as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)) to Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS).

BA CityFlyer (CJ, London City (LCY)) will wet-lease a Saab 2000 in full British Airways (BA, London Heathrow (LHR)) colours from Eastern Airways (T3, Humberside (HUY)) as of June 25. It will use the aircraft on the recently announced new route between London City (LCY) and Isle of Man Ronaldsway (IOM) that had been abandoned by Aer Arann Regional (RE, Dublin International (DUB)) in April.

Eastern Airways (T3, Humberside (HUY)) has returned its last ex-Air Southwest (SZ, Plymouth Roborough (PLH)) Dash 8-300 G-WOWA (c/n 296) to the lessor. It had taken over three Dash 8-300s when it closed down subsidiary Air Southwest in 2011.