Originally Posted by
Bristol_Traveller
The Aspire Lounge is taking bookings again from Tuesday 11th August, which I assume corresponds with some expected increase in flight departures.
The current schedule looks like it's being run with 8-9 aircraft (easy, Ryanair, TUI) plus one KL to AMS.
Although Ryanair kept a 4 x weekly Dublin operational thoughout the near ‘shutdown’, and easyJet resumed Belfast International in mid-June, matters only really began to show signs of stirring from the beginning of July and momentum gradually built up through the month. For example:
1 July: 10 departures (5 Ryanair, 4 easyJet, 1 Wizz Air)
4 July: 18 departures (15 Ryanair, 2 easyJet, 1 KLM)
18 July: 26 departures (16 Ryanair, 9 easyJet, 1 KLM)
25 July: 37 departures (17 easyJet, 16 Ryanair, 3 TUI, 1 KLM)
Tomorrow the number of departures is shown as 45 although one is a TUI flight to Palma. Tomorrow's breakdown is:
26 easyJet, 15 Ryanair, 3 TUI 1 KLM
On another message board it is said that easyJet will need a minimum of ten based aircraft to operate tomorrow's programme - 8 x 320, 1 x 321 and 1 x 319. This is still way down on the 18 based aircraft originally planned for this summer.
The same message board says that TUI will have three aircraft based at BRS for what is left of this summer season: 1 x 757 and 2 x 738. The original programme called for six based narrow-bodied aircraft and one based 787 for this summer. Tomorrrow represents just over 40% of the usual number of overall departures this time of year.