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Old 21st Mar 2015, 00:04
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I wonder is this increased demand for Balkan Holidays is due to the demise of Balkan Tours, the Belfast based tour operator. If I remember correctly, Balkan Tours cancelled their Bulgaria ski program last year, which Travel Solutions then picked up flights and packages to Plovdiv. Balkan Tours stated they would continue with their summer flights, however this seems not to have materialised, I guess to the benefit of Balkan Holidays and Thomson.

Has it been confirmed that Thomson will base a 757 season long at BFS, replacing the Sunwing 738?? Seems other tour operators have bought allocations on the Thomson flights; Olympic now using TOM to Corfu, Red Sea Holidays to Sharm, and think that rather than TCX operating the Thomas Cook Holidays to Ibiza and Menorca, these are now on TOM.
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Old 21st Mar 2015, 08:20
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TCX still fly to IBZ, but MAH is operated by TOM for TCX holidays. TOM sell flights on other airlines too, they use EZY at BFS for instance.
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Old 26th Mar 2015, 13:08
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EasyJet now as flights up to 28th February 2016 and seems like the A320 is staying for the winter.

Malta and Barcelona not on sale.

Early Morning arrival from Stansted on Mondays at 07:35.

Think Liverpool and Gatwick may have a few extra flights a week.
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Old 26th Mar 2015, 20:19
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LPL appears to have extra Monday flight
AMS is daily throughout winter period
KRK is three weekly only two weekly this year NOV to mid Feb
Hopefully still time for BCN a and MLA to appear. I think BCN was quite late being uploaded last year
LTN again appears to be now four daily on peak days
BHX a extra flight on Wednesday
GVA only on Sat and Sun

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Old 26th Mar 2015, 20:56
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BHX is an extra three flights a week.

A third Sunday service.

A second Monday morning making three in total and a second Wednesday evening making three in total compared to now.

This is not that much of a surprise as Sunday in and out are often full, Monday morning inbound BFS-BHX is usually sold out days in advance and sometimes weeks ahead and Wednesday night outbound BHX again is sold out usually.

The only thing I am sure easyjet had to consider, will the second Monday morning BHX-BFS be difficult to fill and will it drain the profit made on BFS-BHX sector.

Two Wednesday inbound flights in the evening is also quite a lot seats but easy do get some good fares throughout winter on the BHX-BFS leg at night.

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Old 26th Mar 2015, 21:14
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Thanks OP

Looks like good for the business pax on Mondays, six flights to the London area before 9am
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Old 26th Mar 2015, 21:38
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MAN also gets an extra flight to make 4 daily on Fridays.
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Old 26th Mar 2015, 21:46
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An additional weekly rotation to Liverpool as well, making it 40 per week.
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Old 26th Mar 2015, 23:56
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From memory it was only ever BA/maersk who made it to over 3 flights on BHX for any sustained period of time, and that was on smaller a/c. MYTlite and WW seemed to often be just double daily. BE have had a good run on BHX and MAN for last few months, and a good start on LPL, will it all end in tears??

Gazmo - that's really great to have so many early departures. EZY need to in order to compete.
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Old 27th Mar 2015, 07:29
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Barcelona and Malta were late in being loading on the system last year, would say you will know in next week or two if they are doing them between November and March of next year,think also ALC seems to be not operating November but there seems to be increase in Malaga and Faro flights also.
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Old 27th Mar 2015, 08:53
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ALC is twice weekly in November (three weekly during first two weeks in Nov)
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Old 27th Mar 2015, 12:01
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GVA only on Sat and Sun
From 4th February, GVA appears to operate daily except Tuesday / Wednesday.
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Old 28th Mar 2015, 17:16
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Has any airlines applied for the Air Connectivity Fund from BFS or only from BHD and LDY?
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Old 28th Mar 2015, 17:22
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Going by the recent radio interview with the airports MD Graham Keddie, I believe they have. Not sure of what though.
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Old 28th Mar 2015, 18:12
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Belfast - Durham - linksair
Belfast - Carlisle - stobart air
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Old 28th Mar 2015, 18:51
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Are they not Belfast City Airport routes? Links Air flies into BHD and Stobart Air are EIR aircraft so surly that route will also be BHD?
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Old 28th Mar 2015, 20:03
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More than likely it will be BHD
Could they do connections through BHD?
CAX-BHD-LHR/LGW?
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Old 29th Mar 2015, 06:50
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Interesting report from the Commons Select Committee dated 13th March. Highlighting in particular the APD issue for NI, sharing a border.

Quote from BIA:

In confidential talks we have had with a number of prospective carriers, they have indicated that APD is preventing them from making favourable decisions which, when added up, would amount to an additional 3 million passengers
House of Commons - 9th Report - Smaller airports - Transport

Good to see the issue finally being discussed at the appropriate levels.
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Old 30th Mar 2015, 12:45
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I believe Easyjet will be adding between 170k and 200k seats to the BFS market this winter. Very good news for users.
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Old 30th Mar 2015, 14:00
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Nice to see increase in number of seats, pity no new routes!
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