Pete
I have also done a trawl through the booking engine and discovered that thus far next winter there are 25 daily weekday rotations allocated to BRS-based aircraft (this includes PMI on Tu and Th mornings plus KRK on M, W and F mornings making one rotation for this purpose, and the second daily GVA which commences in December).
In addition NCE operates on M, W and F. So this gives one spare rotation each day and a second spare on Tu and Th, assuming the nine based Airbuses each does three rotations per day, and they will need nine because you are correct when you say there are nine evening arrivals between 2145 and 2225 - ALC, EDI, GLA, AGP, MJV, CIA, TLS, VCE and SXF.
Changes from last winter and indeed from this summer include a second daily AMS rotation and the SXF route being operated by a BRS-based aircraft for the first time instead of a German-based aircraft.
As to the routes apparently dropped, Mahon is a high summer venture only and the new routes (commencing next month) to La Rochelle, Marseille and Rijeka may well be considered summer routes too. BRS is the only easy route from La Rochelle and Rijeka flies only to BRS and LTN. LTN is not bookable after October either, and neither are the Marseille routes to LGW and LPL as well as BRS.
The other routes currently flown from BRS not bookable at present are Budapest, Hamburg, Valencia and Pisa. Apart from Pisa to Paris Orly, no easyJet routes from/to these cities are currently available to book.
Last winter (and this summer) Budapest was/is only flown on M, W and F during the week. Valencia, although daily in the summer, was also M, W and F last winter. Pisa is also daily in the summer but was Tu and Th only last winter. Hamburg was daily during the week last winter and this summer. Grenoble was Tu and Th only last winter.
It may be that some of the destinations not yet bookable from anywhere may well come into play eg Valencia M, W and F; two of Grenoble, Budapest and Pisa on Tu and Th.
In addition the BFS (operated by Belfast-based aircraft) remains at three per weekday whilst the NCL (operated by Newcastle-based aircraft) increases to four per weekday from the previous three with an additional mid-morning arrival and with the last arrival of the day put back to slightly later in the evening.
I have not mentioned weekend flights but the programme seems reasonably full already.
Although some routes are apparently ceasing this winter (some will doubtless return next summer) the net result seems to be that BRS will have more easyJet flights this coming winter than last winter because there will be nine based aircraft instead of the eight last winter and the schedules seem to need them all, albeit there are still one or two gaps as stated earlier.
In summary the winter weekday daily flights currently bookable in the web engine are AMS (x2), ALC (x2), BCN, EDI (x3), FAO, GLA (x3), GVA (x2), INV, MAD, AGP (x2), MJV, PRG, CIA, TLS, VCE, SXF, KRK (M,W, F), PMI (Tu and Th), NCE (M, W, F), plus BFS (x3) and NCL (x4), the last two being operated by non-BRS aircraft.
Hope you've got all this - there will be a test later.
