Ryanair Summer 2013 at BRS
On 11 December in the Ryanair thread FR@STN posted the complete Ryanair BRS summer 2013 timetable as it then stood. Compared with summer 2012 Budapest was missing and Warsaw Modlin (commenced this winter) did not appear.
A check today shows Modlin now bookable 3 x weekly in summer 13 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and Budapest is bookable 2 x weekly on Tuesdays and Sundays.
Timings suggest that Modlin will be operated by BRS-based aircraft and Budapest by non-BRS-based aircraft.
All the destinations operated in summer 12 are now currently bookable plus Modlin. However, Dublin is now 16 x weekly instead of the 21 x weekly in summer 12 and Treviso has dropped from 3 x weekly to 2 x weekly. The addition of Modlin gives a net loss of three weekly rotations (currently 105 weekly rotations in total).
From timings 38 of the rotations appear to be operated by BRS-based aircraft with 67 from other bases. In summer 2012 only 14 of the 108 weekly rotations were operated by non-based aircraft.
As previously stated by ub2 the current timetable appears to require only two BRS-based aircraft and even then there are gaps with only four rotations by 'local' aircraft on Saturdays and five on both Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
There may be one or two additional weekly flights in peak summer as there were in the peak periods of summers 11 and 12.
In recent summers five BRS-based aircraft have been fully utilised from the airport (with the odd gap). It seems inconceivable that a host of new routes will be announced to fully occupy all of the three aircraft currently not required in the summer 13 timetable so, unless there is a major re-writing of the timetable, it appears that some or all of these aircraft may be destined for other work next summer.
Or will they?
Last edited by MerchantVenturer; 14th Dec 2012 at 14:02.
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