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Checked website again, and really can't see it under the holiday search tab on the homepage when you select Bulgaria as a destination.
Checked pdf on-line brochure also, and City of Derry no longer listed in the 2nd edition flight programme, so guess it's been pulled. Sad to see, added a bit of variety to the usual carriers frequenting the airport. Maybe the FR sun routes last year were just too much to compete with.
Checked pdf on-line brochure also, and City of Derry no longer listed in the 2nd edition flight programme, so guess it's been pulled. Sad to see, added a bit of variety to the usual carriers frequenting the airport. Maybe the FR sun routes last year were just too much to compete with.
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Alicante RIP!
Bourgas RIP!
Luton RIP!
Bristol RIP!
Lanzarote RIP!
Manchester RIP!
Edinburgh RIP!
When oh when are we going to get some good news, some new routes, increased frequencies, additional operators?
Have Balfour Beatty taken over yet? They surely cannot be happy to preside over this continuing fiasco.
Bourgas RIP!
Luton RIP!
Bristol RIP!
Lanzarote RIP!
Manchester RIP!
Edinburgh RIP!
When oh when are we going to get some good news, some new routes, increased frequencies, additional operators?
Have Balfour Beatty taken over yet? They surely cannot be happy to preside over this continuing fiasco.
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as long as pax numbers continue to improve the more likely the routes listed above will return aswell as new ones, dont forget FR are supposed to be setting up an ACE base, opportunities are at every corner for LDY if managment study routes and show them to the airlines.
Kavs8: I totally agree. Poor Amelia is just upset because she can't get to her holiday home in Alicante direct from LDY (Just kidding Amelia!).
Seriously though, with a 21.6% increase in pax numbers in Oct 2010 over 2009, and from my own experience, a lot of flights in the coming weeks being close to, or fully booked, there ARE grounds to be optimistic. All one has to do is have a quick look at the Blackpool or Durham threads to discover real concerns.
I seem to remember Slattery Sun operating a successful route to Lanzarote a few years back. I'm sure RYR could make it work now. We still need an operator of smaller aircraft to step in on regional routes such as MAN, BRS etc. Increasing pax numbers, and an ever improving service from the staff and management at LDY can only help in this regard.
As an aside. The Burgas route operated via Cardiff, and no doubt the majority of seats were filled from there.
Seriously though, with a 21.6% increase in pax numbers in Oct 2010 over 2009, and from my own experience, a lot of flights in the coming weeks being close to, or fully booked, there ARE grounds to be optimistic. All one has to do is have a quick look at the Blackpool or Durham threads to discover real concerns.
I seem to remember Slattery Sun operating a successful route to Lanzarote a few years back. I'm sure RYR could make it work now. We still need an operator of smaller aircraft to step in on regional routes such as MAN, BRS etc. Increasing pax numbers, and an ever improving service from the staff and management at LDY can only help in this regard.
As an aside. The Burgas route operated via Cardiff, and no doubt the majority of seats were filled from there.
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With the announcement that bmibaby are to move all services from BFS to BHD, this will leave Belfast International with no service to MAN, BHX and EMA (CWL to lesser extent).
I wonder will LDY be able to pick up more passengers currently availing of these routes from BFS? Those from North Antrim and Co Londonderry, that would have previously travelled to BFS but aren't prepared to sit in rush hour traffic to the City. New routes or increased frequency to compensate from LDY??
I wonder will LDY be able to pick up more passengers currently availing of these routes from BFS? Those from North Antrim and Co Londonderry, that would have previously travelled to BFS but aren't prepared to sit in rush hour traffic to the City. New routes or increased frequency to compensate from LDY??
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Do we know if anyone from CODA have been in talks with the likes of BE recently? I think, like all things that come to the NW, there needs to be a bit of persistant nagging. The case definately is there for Edinburgh, Bristol, Mancester and even dare I say it... Gatwick for a small to middle sized aircraft operator.
Ryanair really ought to proclaim across NI, it's cheap rates from Derry. But the best thing we can do is just use CODA as much as possible, think I might get two round trips from STN in the New Year, do my contribution.
Ryanair really ought to proclaim across NI, it's cheap rates from Derry. But the best thing we can do is just use CODA as much as possible, think I might get two round trips from STN in the New Year, do my contribution.
Northern, with Bmibaby jumping ship at BFS and heading down the road to compete directly with BE (something even RYR didn't attempt) on their existing routes, perhaps BE would consider tapping into the NW market? Airlines are constantly looking for the competitive edge, and this move by Bmibaby just shows anything is possible.
Taken at face value, the loss of Bmibaby will take pax numbers at BFS below 4 million for the first time in years. In my mind this highlights the fickle nature of the airline industry. A few years back new routes were being announced up there every other week. Now look at the place!
As for a couple of rtn flights STN-LDY in the New Year, I'd book early if I were you! I've been finding returns on that route are hard to come by recently. Which, paradoxically I'm glad about!
Taken at face value, the loss of Bmibaby will take pax numbers at BFS below 4 million for the first time in years. In my mind this highlights the fickle nature of the airline industry. A few years back new routes were being announced up there every other week. Now look at the place!
As for a couple of rtn flights STN-LDY in the New Year, I'd book early if I were you! I've been finding returns on that route are hard to come by recently. Which, paradoxically I'm glad about!
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Ya it is Thomson/Falcon Hoilday flight.
A Dublin based Thomson a/c operated it for 2010 .
For 2011 it was due to be Dublin-Reus-Derry-Reus-Dublin with a Europe Airpost B733
It now will be Reus-Dublin-Reus-Derry-Reus with a Spanair A320.
A Dublin based Thomson a/c operated it for 2010 .
For 2011 it was due to be Dublin-Reus-Derry-Reus-Dublin with a Europe Airpost B733
It now will be Reus-Dublin-Reus-Derry-Reus with a Spanair A320.
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Bit of a capacity increase then also
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Definately something to be happy about Cuthere! And definately incentive for a sustained 2nd route.
Just seen in the Belfast Telegraph that apparently Flybe are furious...
Hopefully this could be a promising threat for LDY. I'll keep my fingers crossed anyway!
Just seen in the Belfast Telegraph that apparently Flybe are furious...
Flybe, which flies from Belfast City to 17 UK routes including East Midlands, Birmingham, Cardiff and Manchester, said it would |make a “calculated and robust” response to bmi baby’s relocation.
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With the announcement that bmibaby are to move all services from BFS to BHD, this will leave Belfast International with no service to MAN, BHX and EMA (CWL to lesser extent).
I wonder will LDY be able to pick up more passengers currently availing of these routes from BFS?
I wonder will LDY be able to pick up more passengers currently availing of these routes from BFS?
Strange, if you want to fly from Northern Ireland to Manchester, the UK's 3rd largest city, you can only now do so from BHD.
So much for choice.
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However will we see a noticable increase in passengers to Liverpool, with its proximity to Manchester, and on Birmingham, were people may have wanted to originally fly to East Midlands??
Good point BFS. The connections between LPL and Manchester city centre are excellent.
I see the weather's been wreaking havoc at LDY today, with all flights so far either cancelled or diverted. It's a shame they couldn't get the runway operational, though there has been an awful lot of snow today with temperatures staying below zero. It'll skew the Nov pax numbers, that's for sure.
I see the weather's been wreaking havoc at LDY today, with all flights so far either cancelled or diverted. It's a shame they couldn't get the runway operational, though there has been an awful lot of snow today with temperatures staying below zero. It'll skew the Nov pax numbers, that's for sure.
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Not likely. With the exception of BHX, LDY doesn't have those routes either.
Strange, if you want to fly from Northern Ireland to Manchester, the UK's 3rd largest city, you can only now do so from BHD.
So much for choice.
Strange, if you want to fly from Northern Ireland to Manchester, the UK's 3rd largest city, you can only now do so from BHD.
So much for choice.
Regardless of population figures, (and if we're going to be pedantic, the City of Manchester, i.e. the local authority, is the 7th largest in England), MAN is still the busiest hub airport outside of the Southeast.
Therefore AE's point about it being strange that only one of the three NI airports will have services to it as of Jan 10th, is a valid one in my mind.
Therefore AE's point about it being strange that only one of the three NI airports will have services to it as of Jan 10th, is a valid one in my mind.
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Regardless of population figures, (and if we're going to be pedantic, the City of Manchester, i.e. the local authority, is the 7th largest in England), MAN is still the busiest hub airport outside of the Southeast.
Therefore AE's point about it being strange that only one of the three NI airports will have services to it as of Jan 10th, is a valid one in my mind.
Therefore AE's point about it being strange that only one of the three NI airports will have services to it as of Jan 10th, is a valid one in my mind.