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Old 7th Dec 2016, 18:17
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MerchantVenturer

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New route from 28 March: Zadar in Croatia, 2 x weekly, Tuesday and Saturday.

This will be the airport's third Croatia route with easyJet operating to Split and Dubrovnik - summer only as no doubt will be Zadar.

Thomson also operates a weekly charter to Dubrovnik in summer.

MissBHive,

Re your query, Bristol Airport is not well catered for in terms of books although an airport manager who retired last year was proposing to write a book about the airport. I don't know if that is still his intention and, if it is, how it is progressing.

A book that is available in the local libraries that was published several years ago is Somewhere In The West Country by Ken Wakefield. It traces the history of Bristol's first airport at Whitchurch from its inception through the 1930s, through WW2 (when it was the principle land airport from the UK with routes to neutral Portugal and the Republic of Ireland), and concludes with the post war operations before the city council transferred its airport to Lulsgate in 1957. It's a detailed history, very readable, with many photographs.

I have a slim volume with the title Whitchurch Airport, written by Gerald S Hart in 1997 which takes a look at this airport in the 1930s from the perspective of one who worked there briefly at that time.

Also in the Bristol Central Library are at least two books about Filton Airfield, lavishly illustrated with pictures, and of course books about Concorde invariably feature Filton.
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