BELFAST AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL
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Actually we don't.
We are flying from Dublin for the first time ever. We tried the flight from Belfast but it was over £3,000 and Dublin was only £2,000 plus there are two United flights in the summer with pre clearance...
I would love love love to fly from home but its not going to happen.
And I agree that the demand exists but it can't be sustained because the Dublin airport is stealing the passengers with their expansion. They now have four airlines offering flights to Canada.
We are flying from Dublin for the first time ever. We tried the flight from Belfast but it was over £3,000 and Dublin was only £2,000 plus there are two United flights in the summer with pre clearance...
I would love love love to fly from home but its not going to happen.
And I agree that the demand exists but it can't be sustained because the Dublin airport is stealing the passengers with their expansion. They now have four airlines offering flights to Canada.
It's quite amazing really what the new motorway network on the Island has done to the likes of BFS and ORK, big bleed of pax to DUB who would have used their local airport instead. I genuinely didn't see it coming
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"And I agree that the demand exists but it can't be sustained because the Dublin airport is stealing the passengers with their expansion. They now have four airlines offering flights to Canada"
I'm sorry to break this to you, but nobody is stealing anything. BFS is quite free to expand physically in a similar fashion as Dublin has- nothing stopping it!
Here's the truth - the airlines want to fly to Dublin, because demand there is infinitely higher. It really is that simple. Sure, I believe BFS can easily support a Canada service, yet the owners of BFS seem incapable of attracting anything more substantial than the odd additional EZY frequency.
The airlines ultimately choose where they fly - so accusing airports of somehow physically ransacking passengers just sounds like throwing toys from a pram.
I'm sorry to break this to you, but nobody is stealing anything. BFS is quite free to expand physically in a similar fashion as Dublin has- nothing stopping it!
Here's the truth - the airlines want to fly to Dublin, because demand there is infinitely higher. It really is that simple. Sure, I believe BFS can easily support a Canada service, yet the owners of BFS seem incapable of attracting anything more substantial than the odd additional EZY frequency.
The airlines ultimately choose where they fly - so accusing airports of somehow physically ransacking passengers just sounds like throwing toys from a pram.
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There will be very little expansion at BFS until the management at BFS or the folks on the hill start paying new airlines to operate to places like Canada or Dubai.Its not a level playing field as friends flying to Australia saved over £400 each flying through Dublin.
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Belfast cannot expand because Dublin has taken all the traffic that there is.
They built a new and second terminal and provided a pre-clearance facility obviously airlines are going to go there.
They built a new and second terminal and provided a pre-clearance facility obviously airlines are going to go there.
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I actually think the airport has gone down hill over the past two years.. I can't see a Canadian route and I can never see a route to Dubai... perhaps maybe Qatar if they get to Belfast first.
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Internal system and cant confirm any new routes at this moment in time schedules will be released towards middle of May but looking good with LCA up to 2 weekly.
