Blue Air
Last night there were strong rumours that Bristol (BRS)-Bucharest (OTP) would be one of seven new routes that Blue Air said would be announced today.
When the announcement came this morning on the airline's social media site there were only six new routes announced, but BRS-OTP was not one of them.
However, BRS-OTP appeared in the airline's website booking engine this morning (but with no booking availability) as did details of flights in the airline's website schedules section. Flights were to operate 3 x weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with timings shown. By lunchtime BRS-OTP had been removed from both the booking engine and schedules section.
Someone asked the airline about all this on the airline's social media site later today and received this reply: this route is not part of our flight schedule but keep following us, we might surprise you!
That comment might suggest the details were entered into the booking system etc prematurely but, if so, what happened to the seventh route (whatever it was) that Blue Air said would be announced today?
Bucharest would be a surprising choice to some people, including me. Ryanair only began it in the current winter - the first time OTP was operated from BRS other than odd one-off flights - and it's no doubt still building. Larnaca might be thought a better bet. Currently there are charter flights to LCA but no scheduled service. The only scheduled service from BRS to Cyprus is that of easyJet to Paphos.