BUDGET airline bmibaby has announced that two routes that started from Durham Tees Valley Airport at the weekend are already a success.
The low-cost airline launched flights to Cork, in Ireland, and Paris on Sunday.
More than 90 of the 130 seats available on its inaugural service to Paris have been sold and passengers have bought more than 6,000 seats on the route since tickets went on sale in November last year.
The airline has also sold more than three-quarters of the seats available on its first flights to Cork this weekend.
Both routes will operate four times a week.
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