Originally Posted by
BFS BHD
Wonder will the evening Stansted flight be added back but operated by Stansted based aircraft?
I doubt it. Ryanair's Saturday night STN flight is one of their least busy flights given that very few business and leisure passengers wish to travel on a domestic route at that time. The flight is only cancelled for 3 months, which is peak summer season, meaning all of Ryanair's aircraft are operating with a full schedule. It doesn't make business sense to potentially forgo more lucrative leisure routes from STN than to operate BFS-STN x1 weekly using a STN based aircraft.
Cutting back on domestic routes in favour of leisure routes is very common during peak summer season, with both easyJet and Flybe doing it across their Belfast networks.
Originally Posted by
BFS BHD
I see TUI Summer 2019 schedules will be released on 5th April.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Turkey return for TUI at BFS.
TUI only base one aircraft at BFS during the summer season, and it has a full schedule. If TUI were to add a new route from BFS, they would have to a) base a second aircraft (very unlikely) or b) reduce frequencies on existing routes.