Brs new Winter charter destination timetable has been released.

New for this winter is:-

Summer sun
Egypt (Sharm El Sheikh)

Ski Destinations
Grenoble
Plovdiv

City day trips:-

Orca safari to Evenes (Norway)
Gothenburg
Salzburg (xmas market)
Krakov
Vienna (xmas market)

day trips and mini breaks:-

Ivalo
Rovaniemi
Kittila
Enontekio

No news as of yet on scheduled services any ideas??

terrier,

easyJet are rumoured to be adding another based aircraft (making seven) and suggested additional routes have ranged from Geneva, Madrid (one poster suggested it will replace Bilbao), Paris (would there be slot difficulties with Orly?) and Ljubljiana. If there is another easy 737 coming I guess you could theorise all night on possible destinations.

As for the UK, most routes seem to be covered now that ABZ is coming back. The only one that isn't is LBA which has been tried in the past but never apparently been a success.

Why this is I don't know because if 20,000 can travel each month between BRS and NCL you would think there would be enough pax to at least make a turboprop worthwhile between BRS and LBA. After all, both cities are major financial centres and there must also be scope for at least small amounts of leisure traffic in both directions as well.

The airport management also goes on about NWI but I really wonder whether there would be much call for that one.

Well MV its is funny you should say Norwich because after a direct london service NWI is the most asked about service.

I think that if Eastern's BRS/ABZ route is succesfull they might look at putting on a BRS/NWI on their 29 seater jet stream.

Personally I think they could fill it at least once a day.

Anyone from NWI think the route could work?

I would like to see a LBA service as my family are from yorkshire and i'd much rather fly than drive! :ok:

BRS-NWI? Interesting thought guys...

Anyone who's had to travel in that direction by car or train would agree that it's not the easiest of journeys.

My only reservation is that a airline such as Eastern would weigh up routes in terms of constancy/profitability and BRS/ABZ and BRS/IOM are both tried and tested by others.

On the other hand, they are called 'Eastern' airways.....

EasyJet have announced today a new Bristol - Budapest starting daily from 31st of October.

BRS - LBA has had a number of operators over the years, Dan-Air
with a 748, Metropolitan with a shed, Brown Air/Capital with a G1 then a shed, Gill with, yup, a shed and most recently BACX with a J41. The latter two operators couldn't make it last, probably down to timings. Dan-Air seemed to do all right but the route included Cardiff and went on north to Glasgow so there was probably a lot of through traffic (good old Link-City!).

I'm sure a small aircraft with a useful timetable (i.e early morning and late afternoon rotations) could make a go of it. Eastern (and BACX and Capital_before) seem to be OK with Southampton after all.

Hotline I think your right. With the right timetable BRS/LBA would work its just a shame you dont get any airline chiefs coming on here to see what people want.:(

easy jet have just announced another new route from bristol starting on Nov 3rd to valencia. This to go with the other new routes this winter Geneva/Rome/Budapest and Madrid.
Looks like its gonna be a busy winter at Brs this year

Helios are considering a schedule to LCA.....

really where did you hear about that one redfield?

Hi There,
Weve had HCY do LCLK before....interesting that it may restart:-).
All this news about new EZY flights is interesting news to my ears too, aint heard owt about Valencia before, along with otheres mentioned in this post. Only heard about Rome, Madrid, Budapest and Geneva. Anyone know if anymore A319's will be flown in?
Dan.

aparently they are looking at basing a 7th aircraft here!

ATCO1987 - you can buy tickets for the VLC route on the Easyjet website! Geneva starts in December when CPH finishes, the other routes all start at the end of October.

Atco,
I guess all the 319's are tied up with the deliveries into LGW, ORY, STN, and additional aircraft into SXF this winter, so I suspect unlikely BRS will see 319's unless any routes are operated by aircraft from any of these bases.

I guess all the 319's are tied up with the deliveries into LGW, ORY, STN, and additional aircraft into SXF this winter, so I suspect unlikely BRS will see 319's unless any routes are operated by aircraft from any of these bases.

I thought that Stansted was a B737 base for Easyjet?

KLM

In trim

I guess you mean any more easyJet 319s because BRS does have a daily 319 from Berlin operated by a SXF based a/c- I had the pleasure of flying on this route in July.

terrier21

The easyJet winter timetable as currently published cannot operate without seven aircraft overnighting at BRS. Weekdays are as follows:

0630 to AGP, 0640 to ALC, 0650 to PMI (Tu and Th), 0700 to EDI, 0710 to GLA, 0720 to BUD, 0730 to NCE (M W F) and 0750 to PRG.

There are two other early morning departures as well - to BFS at 0830 and to NCL at 0835 but these are operated by BFS and NCL based a/c respectively that flew the inbound legs first.

In the late evenings there are seven arrivals and these a/c are not shown to operate anywhere else after they land, viz:

2150 from GLA, 2205 from EDI, 2215 from CIA, 2230 from FAO, 2245 from MAD, 2255 from AGP and 2305 from ALC.

Can anyone tell me how the timetable can be operated without a seventh based a/c? Unless of course late each evening easy flies out an empty a/c somewhere and flies in an empty one early each morning: not a likely scenario I would have thought.

I must admit that I have been under the Impression that there will be a 7th aircraft based here it will be interesting to see what happens in the winter.

The 7th aircraft to be based at BRS by EZY arrives in early November. I believe the airport management work to a plan of 10 easyJet aircraft - whether this is the companies view is anyones guess. They'll need that ground frequency open in the mornings if it does happen though..

Cheers

WWW

terrier

BRS website announces that the weekly Gambia flight is to commence earlier this winter - from 8 October. Furthermore, there will be two weekly flights from 21 December for the remainder of the winter giving more flexibility over lengths of holidays (ie 10 or 11 day holidays will be possible).

Don't know whether the flights will commence at GLA or MAN as in previous years or who is/are the carrier (s).

I think it was Astraeus last winter with a B 737-700, but I seem to recall Air 2000 (now First Choice Air of course) using 757s in the past.

Astraeus will be operating BRS-BJL this winter with 737-700 a/c. Primarily the MAN based 73G. In other news, Astraeus are now flying to Aqaba in Jordan from LGW, and also to Simferopol in the Crimea. The winter schedule will include a return to Sharm El Sheik and Aswan. Also, flights to Deer Lake in Newfoundland to service the Humber Vally resort will commence shortly.

Regards

Mike

Many thanks, aeulad.

On the theme of more routes from BRS, a report appeared in today's Bristol Evening Post that quoted the airport's aviation development director, Tony Hallwood.

He said that at next week's Routes Development Forum in Madrid the airport would be pitching for routes to Leeds-Bradford, Milan, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Hamburg. He believes there are strong business cases for these routes and he is confident of returning from the conference with 'positive news'.

LBA has been tried a number of times but, for various reasons, has never been sustained. One would think there would be enough business pax for twice a day turbo prop rotations with some tourist potential at both ends as well. I'm surprised that Air Wales has never tried this route, possibly from CWL via BRS. Or Air South West might consider it from PLH via BRS , but presumably they will need more aircraft in their fleet before they can expand their route network.

Milan has often been mentioned and there was a rumour last year that BACx would try it. Not sure about the German cities although the loads of BACX to FRA and MUC have increased significantly in recent months, and easyJet's new (since the end of May) SXF service is showing encouraging growth with average daily loads of 120-plus in August (CAA stats).

Yes, I know that loads are only one part of the equation but they at least show there is a market.

Very interesting MV.
Milan has been screamed for, for a long time now and I mentioned to BA last year about looking into starting the route. Leeds Bradford is also asked about frequently but whether it would sustain the loads (or yield!!!) will have to be seen. The German destinations on the other hand are news to me, although they would be very welcome! seems like its Germanys time for a bit of route extension from Brs with both Spanish and French Flights having been increased recently.

It will be nice if Mr Hallwood can come back with those rumered plus maybe a few surprises.

Good Luck Tony.

Terrier

Bristol International Airport won the prestigious OAG Airport Marketing Award at the 2004 World Route Development Forum in Madrid.

The award recognises Bristol's success in the promotion of its services and routes, as nominated by airlines and their planning community.

It was one of only five airports from around the world to be put forward in the 5 million passengers and below category. Bristol's market research activities, marketing communications activities, business case presentations for new market opportunities, and joint communication campaigns with third parties were the reasons behind the award.

Tony Hallwood, their Aviation Development Director said, “This is a tremendous accolade to receive and enhances further our reputation among the aviation community. This puts the airport in a great position to win and support an even wider range of new routes, as demanded by business and pleasure travellers from across the region.”

Fair play to Bristol - a shining example of how things can be done! Must make a visit. :)

Thats great news for BRS. Lets hope they do manage to come up with some new routes for next summer. I can see an expansion in the German market as well as a long awaited MXP service being quite likely!