Insufficient Charter Capacity
Bristol Evening Post carried an article today regarding the BRS management's concern that they are unable to cater for demand since the collapse of XL.
What is described as an 'emergency delegation' of senior airport staff and South West Independent Federation of Travel Agents represenatives will visit the World Travel Market in London next week to try to secure extra flights.
An airport spokesman said that people wishing to fly from Bristol to some popular holiday destinations were unable to do so because not enough seats were available. TFS, CFU, SSH, LCA and ACE were specifically mentioned as having insufficient capacity.
The spokesman added that although the collapse of XL has lost BRS only one destination (Hurghada) the loss of their 14 summer and 7 winter weekly rotations is what is causing the real difficulties.
So far as SSH is concerned, Jet2 is already covering the breach left by XL this winter, and there are two weekly TOM flights to that Egyptian resort as well. Presumably they are looking to next summer having regard to the fact that last summer saw four weekly flights to SSH, two of them by XL.
New CEO
Is anyone aware of any public utterances by the new CEO, Robert Sinclair, who started work last month?
When Paul Kehoe started there were major local television and local newspaper interviews concerning his vision of the future and other matters appertaining to the airport.
Unless I have missed something, there has been nothing of this nature from Mr Sinclair other than his CV published in the local news media when his appointment was announced two or three months ago.