Does anyone know whether the SPU route on EZY is replacing the Reijka flight?
easyJet only served RJK from BRS and LTN and it seems there is no LTN service for summer 08 in the booking engine either.
The full summer charter programme is not shown on the BRS website yet so I don’t know whether anyone else will take on the Pula route next summer. If
RJK is really gone there certainly seems a gap in that part of the peninsula.
Olbia is a welcome addition because the weekly summer charter flight to Sardinia did not operate in summer 07.
It seems that France might join Poland to become something of a battleground between easyJet and Ryanair with the former announcing Biarritz soon after FR announced 3 new French routes of its own for next summer.
Next summer I make it easyJet will be serving Paris CDG (12 x weekly), Biarritz (4 weekly), Bordeaux (7 weekly), La Rochelle (3 weekly), Nice (10 weekly), Marseille (3 weekly) and Toulouse (7 weekly), and FR will fly to Bergerac, Beziers, Pau and Dinard (all 3 x weekly).
If AF continues its 18 x weekly to CDG, plus the possible return of Aer Arann to Nantes (2 x weekly in summer 07), there will be a veritable procession of aircraft plying to and from Gallic airports.
The current near direct head-to-head (Milan) might seem a surprise choice.
When easyJet replaced BACon on the MXP in April this year, the route did not immediately catch on in terms of loads in the way many of that airline’s new routes from BRS have done in the past.
The best month so far has been August (7,200 pax ) with a 75% load factor on the 156-seat A319. Most months have been in the range 6,000-6,500 so it will be intriguing to see how FR’s BGY route affects this.
At present both airlines’ summer 08 timetables indicate the maintenance of a daily schedule on the two routes. This is a lot of seats to fill (a total of 690 daily) when one considers that BACon carried only around 23,000 pax on its 100 daily MXP seats in its last full calendar year on the route (2006).
anyone got any info on knock loads!
The first batch of CAA figures for November are due next Friday.
When FR started its daily BRS-SNN at the end of October 2005 average monthly loads for the winter months that followed were about 100-110, but 95,000 pax were carried in the whole of 2006 and 2007 is already 5-6% ahead of this figure so around 100,000 ought to be the final annual total.
If Knock is starting slowly, as BRS_flyer seems to be indicating, well it is November and it can be seen that SNN was not brilliant at first at the same time of the year.