The same airline spokesman was saying the same thing in April of last year, with the larger aircraft expected to be introduced within 18 months from then.
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Then in June of last year the group's CEO repeated the intention saying that 'demand on some routes, such as Bristol to Germany, is such that slightly larger aircraft seating 70 to 100 will soon be necessary'. They would hope to be introducing some of the larger aircraft within the next 12-18 months from that time.
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BRS website showing BRS-ABZ-BRS cancelled this morning. I think that the BRS-HAM-BRS rotation was cancelled last night.
Fingers crossed that the airline can deal with the issues that are causing these difficulties because it provides much-needed links between smaller airports such as BRS and larger hubs on the continent like FRA and MUC.