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Old 15th July 2009 | 17:34
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Flitefone
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Good post as usual Anna List - the BOH market is high percentage leisure, odd though that some of the more obvious FR destinations don't make it in favour of the more bizarre -in which category I would include Limoges, Nantes (Flybe bashing?), Wroclaw and Shannon as examples.

There is still a hole in Poland, the number of expat Poles has not diminished that much on the coast since last summer. Krakow is the obvious gap.

BOH has a very high leisure and educational travel catchment, ie. low-ish frequency, but also city break & bucket and spade.

Surely will not be long before FR adds the Canaries, Malta, even Morrocco, but there seems no near prospect of Venice, Rome, Prague (which did ok with TFly) and ... though not FR territory, Nice has strong links with the UK south coast - a similar market to the EZY GVA Ski types.

I hear too that advance bookings for the newly announced Sharm El Sheik and Turkey routes next year are selling fast.

Conversely the inbound tourism in this part of the world is astonishing, seems half of Germany and Holland is around at the moment!

2010 - with the new terminal too has the potential to be quite rosy for BOH.
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