Devonair
Welcome. Good to have another poster from the southwest.
There has been quite a lot of discussion regarding the BRS-ORK route in this forum during the past few months.
Aer Arann initially operated a BRS-ORK rotation each day except Saturdays then, at the beginning of summer 2004, reduced it to Tu, Th and Sun only. CAA stats showed loadings to be very good (and they remain so on the reduced weekly schedule) but of course we don't know the yields. However, fares were/are never 'low cost' so we must assume they made a good contribution to route costs.
I contacted Bristol Airport when the reduced schedules were announced and was informed that the airport would be looking to obtain another carrier if the original schedule was not reinstated. It hasn't been for the winter and, thus far, there has been no news of any replacement/rival carrier.
Some of us amateurs wonder whether Air Southwest might be interested, but they might have to start the route from BRS given that Air Wales already operates to ORK from PLH, as you have said.
The last thread that discussed BRS-ORK is at this link. There are other threads and a BRS-ORK-Aer Arann search on this forum's search box should find them if you are interested.
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...+ork+aer+arann