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Old 21st Sep 2018, 07:29
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FrequentlyFlying
 
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Firstly if any of this happens great news for everyone in the South/South West - would love to see EZ fly to Berlin, Prague, Barca, Valencia er al, -surely there is information out there on the likely demand for these, EZ will know from their bookings where the sales come from, currently you either travel to London or BRS for such flights, is the demand there for more than bucket and spade from rhe South/ South West without reducing theiir PAX at these airports? I certainly hope so, it would be great to fly to any of these form SOu. EZ don’t often opt for a head to head with FR unless demand is super high for the route PMI (FR at BOH) maybe such a route. As for FR, they have changed hugely as they have grown and they actually fly into the cities themselves if there is demand, the days of 50 mile coach trips are not their only options, just have a look at their route map, finally EZY, Jet2, FR, BE - Sou isn’t Bristol or BOH for that matter as far as expansion goes it’s very limited, sheer lack of additional space within and outside. So likelihood is, if any it will be one of the 3 going in or serviced in W’s from EU Bass there are still likely to be restrictions, curfews etc, for example TUi and FR schedule post Sou curfew flights back to BOH, it’s max utilising their assets not having them restricted or diverted down the road and impacting next day. Non based aircraft has to be the way forward at least to start. Let’s keep our fingers crossed! The more recent new additions, vueling volotea etc decent sized operators, lasted a season or two at SOU, so these changes can’t come quick enough, they must have pulled out for a reason.

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