Listening to most travel agents both Thomson and Bath Travel over the last year based in the Dorset area , they are consistently sending thousands of customers up to Gatwick or Bristol to catch flights to the Canaries and mainland Spain during the past two winters now , most driving past the airport to get to another !
Its amazing that Thomson have not seen a gap yet to put on extra flights in the 4 / 5 month period to Tenerife / Alicante / Malaga for example to at least help with this loss and make a few pounds in the meantime . The utilisation of the based aircraft is shocking in the winter
Bath Travel commands huge respect from the local area and work quite closely now with Thomson in selling holidays from Bournemouth and still have to send many potential customers up the road as flights that do operate are full
Its very frustrating and bewildering sometimes that this is happening and even more with the Marketing department at the airport which i believe is now based at Manchester to cut costs .
All i ever have had back is a generic e mail saying they are in " Daily contact with potential airlines and tour companies "