No one is going to believe this!
Thanks again to Sergio Bastos of lowcostportugal.net (see http://networkedblogs.com/dGScu ) for the heads up on this.
Sunvil Discovery, a British Tour operator, are going to begin weekly direct charter flights between London Heathrow and Beja, Alentejo on 22 May 2010.!
See: http://goo.gl/BTPFm
As far as I know this will be the first semi-regular passenger service in and out of Beja to any destination.
According to Sergio's article, return flights will be €230.00 return. The flights will be operated by Embraer 49-seat plane operated by BMI.