BMI Regional
With the Airbus Shuttle plus the pubic routes operating/announced, BMI Regional is going to be much in evidence at BRS. It will be almost like the BA franchise days with the small Embraer jets in and out.
Looking at next week's Mayfly which shows the Airbus Shuttle rotations operated by Bmi Regional on weekdays together with the existing BMR Aberdeen rotations, there will be a need for four separate aircraft using the airport at times from next month when the initial Hamburg service comes into operation.
This is on the assumptioon that next week's Shuttle programme is replicated each week. Of course, it may change from week to week. I don't know.
On some days the Shuttle seems to need two aircraft to operate parts of its programme, yet Friday's last arrival is at 0800 with no departures after that. Even then there appear to be some unbalanced rotations at certain times in the week so perhaps Mayfly is not entirely accurate about it all.
The Shuttle aircraft are shown on Mayfly as E145s which is the type used on the ABZ service. The Hamburg and Frankfurt routes (the latter starts in April) seem to be E135 routes.
For what it's worth the timetable would be as follows from February assuming the Shuttle programme remains as next week.
Monday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0700 dep Hamburg
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
1045 arr Hamburg
1100 arr Toulouse
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
2000 arr Aberdeen
Tuesday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0800 arr Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
0830 dep Chester
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Wednesday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0800 arr Toulouse
0830 dep Chester
1020 arr Aberdeen
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
1830 dep Chester
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Thursday
0700 dep Aberdeen
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
0800 arr Toulouse
0830 dep Chester
1020 arr Aberdeen
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
1830 dep Chester
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Friday
0700 dep Aberdeen
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
0800 arr Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
2000 arr Aberseen
2035 arr Hamburg
Saturday
No scheduled work though some aircraft used for charters, especially football/rugby teams plus a Bastia IT charter from BRS for 13 weeks in peak summer.
Sunday
1640 dep Aberdeen
2000 arr Aberdeen
From April Hamburg will operate Mon-Friday 2 x daily departing at 0700 and 1650 and returning at 1045 and 2035, plus the later rotation on Sundays. Frankfurt will operate Mon-Friday departing 1205 and returning at 1600.