you must have got this wrong, must be Bhd they are looking at doing Toronto from. You see, Bfs is far to far out for anybody to use, Dub is closer and visitors will not come here unless they can fly into Bhd. Remember all those tourists who would come from the continent if they could fly into Bhd, but would not come here as Bfs is too far away. Dub is closer to Belfast City centre than Bfs is.
Of course also remember BHD is a back water airport suitable only for Wright brothers rejects to land at and should any airline decide to fly from there they must be ridiculed, because naturally flybe will make mincemeat of them.and any airline to have the audacity to move from blessed BFS and they are dispicable.
They could always fly a 330 into BHD, then taxi up the M2 for a departure from BFS...
"Ladies and gentlemen, we will be taxiing to the northern runway for a straight out departure. There may be a short delay at the traffic lights in Templepatrick..."
Seriously though, an EI service to YYZ could work well. I suspect there would be sufficient customer numbers to make it work. Would they chance their arm with a BOS or JFK also?
just some sarcasm i'm my behalf in response to the usual anti BHD drivel/pity party. I'm not fussed either way hence I look on both threads but I get annoyed with silly posts.
Aer Lingus can fly to Canada and has done so in the past but that was from Dublin. The possible issue here is an Irish airline picking up passengers from a foreign country (the UK as Northern Ireland is part of the UK) and taking them to another foreign country (in this scenario Canada). The so called Open Skies arrangement between the EU and the USA allows for this (which is why Air France ran a Heathrow - US service) and of course within Europe is has been common for many years - EI running Manchester-Copenhagen many years ago being but one example but I do not think this applies to Canada
I'm afraid it is the usual political speak. Unless government is going to pay BA, EI to maintain the link, and I cant see that happening BA, EI will only keep LHR if they can make a profit
Aer Lingus can fly to Canada and has done so in the past but that was from Dublin. The possible issue here is an Irish airline picking up passengers from a foreign country (the UK as Northern Ireland is part of the UK) and taking them to another foreign country (in this scenario Canada). The so called Open Skies arrangement between the EU and the USA allows for this (which is why Air France ran a Heathrow - US service) and of course within Europe is has been common for many years - EI running Manchester-Copenhagen many years ago being but one example but I do not think this applies to Canada
You're right - Canada was more restrictive than the US in the past. However an Open Skies agreement now applies, I think: according to this EU press release from 2009,
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As from now all EU airlines are now able to operate direct flights to Canada from anywhere in Europe.
I see Jet2 are upping Dubrovnik to two flights per week for next summer. Sunday flight operates 22 April - 29 September, with a new Wednesday flight operating 27 May - 15 September.
Pity they wouldn't have added Pula or Split rather than additional Dubrovnik, but good news all the same. At least its not additional capacity to an already well served Spanish destination!!!
Pisa also confirmed for summer 2013, operating 20 May - 15 September.
Aer Lingus future arrangements for Belfast Operation
So Mid July and no winter schedule publish except for LHR ex BFS
Looks increasingly unlikely Winter flight to Europe will happen given this late stage
If a move is planned for operations to BHD perhaps the plan may centre about staring ops at BHD to coincide with the 5th anniversary of the start of NI operations in November 2007 when they started their BFS AMS route?
As time goes by it seems that EI are less committed to Belfast market than ever, the crew on BFS LHR last Friday said that they had no idea (as expected) and that a lot of passengers were asking them!! In addition to the uncertainty for the Belfast operation, the staff also have their own worries about the winter period and what may happen.
When will EI realise that this cannot wait any longer for a host of reasons.
