Monarch
Where is the information that Monarch will operate its own aircraft to Corfu, Heraklion and Palma next summer?
I did some test bookings to the above airports for the main summer 2010 holiday period on the Monarch Holidays booking engine and all the holidays thrown up showed the carrier as Thomas Cook using existing TCX flights from BRS.
Airport Expansion
The proposed concessions made by the airport have drawn the predictable negative response from the usual SBAE spokesman. With all the excess gasses that are pushed out from his mouth I suspect there is a hole in the ozone layer above his office.
The £100K to be spent increasing the frequency of the 121 bus service from Weston to Bristol via the airport can only be seen as a gesture to the local community. Most people wishing to travel by bus between Weston and Bristol use the direct routes based on the A370 that go nowhere near the airport.
The 121 route meanders around the outlying villages (a tourist's delight if time is not a problem), taking in the airport, but is not well used. It was going to be withdrawn entirely last May until North Somerset Council stepped in with financial support.