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Old 17th Oct 2011, 11:26
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MerchantVenturer

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bmibaby ski flights

I had the same thought fanrail, but I wonder which carrier(s) baby would replace.

Last winter BRS had the following weekly ski charter flights throughout the season:

Saturdays
Thomas Cook A320 Salzburg
Thomson B 757 Salzburg
Balkan Holidays A320 Sofia
Titan Boeing 733 Chambery
Thomson Boeing 757 Geneva
Thomson Boeing 757 Chambery
Thomas Cook A320 Grenoble
Thomson Boeing 757 Verona
Thomson Boeing 757 Sofia

Sundays
Thomas Cook A320 Turin
Thomson Boeing 757 Turin
Thomson Boeing 757 Toulouse
Small Planet Boeing 733 Chambery
Flybe Embraer 195 Toulouse
Flybe Embraer 195 Geneva
Thomas Cook A320 Kittila

In addition there was a total 31 weekly rotations by easyJet to Geneva, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Lyon, Grenoble and Toulouse, with Ryanair also serving Girona at 3 x weekly that also gives access to some ski resorts.

easyJet appears to have maintained its schedule for the coming winter which again includes 18 x weekly to Geneva (4 x daily on both Sats and Suns). However, Ryanair has axed its route to Girona this winter.

There is a new ski destination from BRS this winter with Flybe operating weekly to the new Spanish airport of Lleida-Alguaire which serves the Pyrenees.

BRS has had an exceptionally strong winter ski programme for an airport of its size going back many years but it does seem unlikely that there would be room to add a great deal of capacity to this at the moment having regard to these straitened times.
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