Hello santito
BRS CEO Robert Sinclair gave an interview to a local media organisation recently in which he said the airport would be focusing on key markets at the Routes Conference in Berlin next month, and he mentioned Germany, Scandinavia and the Middle East.
You will recall that after the Sardinia Routes Europe Conference in the spring the airport put out a press release saying they were confident of being in a position to make several significant announcements (re new carrier(s)) 'over the coming months'.
Around that time the CEO told the airport consultative committee that 'positive' enquiries' had come from full service airlines and he envisaged an announcement within the next 3-6 months, which takes us up to the end of next month.
In his recent media interview there is no mention of the announcements previously promised. If this is because what was thought to be in the bag no longer is or whether the CEO simply chose to play his cards close to his chest is anyone's guess.
An easyJet director said last week that there would be 'a host of new destinations from our UK bases in 2012' announced in the coming weeks. Maybe BRS will feature with some of them.
Incidentally, a look at the easyJet timetable for next summer shows an apparent need for eleven aircraft in early May, as opposed to the ten in summer 2011 with the eleventh appearing only for the peak season this year.
And this is before any new routes that might be announced.