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Whats happened to the delayed MYT flgiht to CFU that was meant to depart yesterday morining at 0700. I heard it had to have a engine change to the left engine, and the CFU flight was opearted by a Air Scoltland 757 which arrivalled bac at BRS 0450 this morining after a mega delay. Why are MYT aircraft so old and unrelieable?
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Maybe, but some of the A320 Fleet have old engines and cause problems, but MYT are always getting delays for sum reason or another. The proceuce for start up on sum aircraft require to Dry Cank the engines to get enough power first from the APU before turn and burn. I cant remember some of the reg's for these aircraft but there prob some of the oldest A320's in the airbus fleet.
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The My Travel A320 based at BRS at the moment is C-GTDK and is on lease from Skyservice for the summer. It is one of the oldest A320's in service. Fellow Bristolians will remember that the last time it was with us it left half its tail on the runway 
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How many seats did those old BY 767s hold? surely if some of them were going direct to MCO from BRS as Bristolian says then a newly configured FCA 767 holding 250 pax instead of the old 330 would be able to do SFB fine out of BRS? Or were the old BY's operated with a part load?
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You all keep going on about how FCA should start long haul flights from BRS, has anyone from First Choice actually said there is any chance of this happening at all? Or is it all just a load of rumours?
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Graham,
It is mainly rumour/conjecture/wishful thinking, although a bristolian (a man with finger very much on the BRS pulse) did throw out a subtle hint that might allude to FCA in a recent post.
As he put it, we must sit back and have patience.
a bristolian said most (the 762s with the 'Bristol' engines) went with a full load and cargo.
Perhaps they have given best to easyJet at last, albeit easy flies to the other Belfast airport, with 3 daily rotations (slightly less at weekends).
Flybe will lose those who want to fly out and back in the day - not sure how many that would be.
On the plus side the Bergerac is running thoughout the winter (3 rotations per week - last winter it did not start until February), and there is a M, W, F plus (I think Sun) Jersey rotation when Flybe had none last winter. In addition the Bordeaux (4 weekly rotations) and the Toulouse (6) will continue through the winter as last year.
easyJet is also reducing rotations from BRS on some routes this winter, as it is from other airports. For instance, the Budapest will only run on M, W, F and Sun; the Valencia will not run on Tue or Sat; the Pisa will run only on Tue, Thur and Sat for most of the winter; the Nice and Palma will have the same reduced midweek rotations as last winter. However, from mid December the Geneva will go double daily seven days a week until the end of the winter period (last year it went single daily with an increase at weekends).
Despite this, all eight aircraft still seem to be needed to operate easy’s winter timetable from BRS, at least in the mornings and during the day, although the timetable appears to be showing only seven late evening arrivals on weekdays, so perhaps either another route is in the offing, or they have decided to keep a spare a/c for later in the day, or I have misread the timetable (the most likely).
So it appears to be swings and roundabouts all round.
Can anyone in the business guess at Ryanair’s rationale in starting a daily SNN-BRS service in the winter months? Aer Arann reduced their ORK rotations last year to three a week all year round on an ATR (seemed a very perverse decision because loads were high and fares, whenever I checked, were not cheap), and no-one has yet stepped in to fill the void, yet FR suddenly starts flying to SNN out of season and offering far greater capacity.
No wonder outsiders like me peering into the aviation scene are often left scratching our heads.
It is mainly rumour/conjecture/wishful thinking, although a bristolian (a man with finger very much on the BRS pulse) did throw out a subtle hint that might allude to FCA in a recent post.
As he put it, we must sit back and have patience.
Must have gone with a part load.
Just been on flybe.com and notice that BHD goes down to just one flight a day in each direction after October.
Flybe will lose those who want to fly out and back in the day - not sure how many that would be.
On the plus side the Bergerac is running thoughout the winter (3 rotations per week - last winter it did not start until February), and there is a M, W, F plus (I think Sun) Jersey rotation when Flybe had none last winter. In addition the Bordeaux (4 weekly rotations) and the Toulouse (6) will continue through the winter as last year.
easyJet is also reducing rotations from BRS on some routes this winter, as it is from other airports. For instance, the Budapest will only run on M, W, F and Sun; the Valencia will not run on Tue or Sat; the Pisa will run only on Tue, Thur and Sat for most of the winter; the Nice and Palma will have the same reduced midweek rotations as last winter. However, from mid December the Geneva will go double daily seven days a week until the end of the winter period (last year it went single daily with an increase at weekends).
Despite this, all eight aircraft still seem to be needed to operate easy’s winter timetable from BRS, at least in the mornings and during the day, although the timetable appears to be showing only seven late evening arrivals on weekdays, so perhaps either another route is in the offing, or they have decided to keep a spare a/c for later in the day, or I have misread the timetable (the most likely).
So it appears to be swings and roundabouts all round.
Can anyone in the business guess at Ryanair’s rationale in starting a daily SNN-BRS service in the winter months? Aer Arann reduced their ORK rotations last year to three a week all year round on an ATR (seemed a very perverse decision because loads were high and fares, whenever I checked, were not cheap), and no-one has yet stepped in to fill the void, yet FR suddenly starts flying to SNN out of season and offering far greater capacity.
No wonder outsiders like me peering into the aviation scene are often left scratching our heads.
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a bristolian said most (the 762s with the 'Bristol' engines) went with a full load and cargo.
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The only 767's I knew of with RB211's were some that BA operate, on an interesting note the Fischer Air 7575 that was doing a Subby a couple of weeks ago had PW's the first one I have ever seen at BRS.
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Bit of a delayed reaction here, but isnt the MYT G-GTDK rather than C-? It appears to be re-registered...
BAL operate a weekly 763 to LEPA, not as heavy fuel wise of course, but does it go fully laden pax/baggage wise?
BAL send a B762 yearly to TBPB and that gets out of EGGD fine, so surely long haul flights would be possible..?
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BAL operate a weekly 763 to LEPA, not as heavy fuel wise of course, but does it go fully laden pax/baggage wise?
BAL send a B762 yearly to TBPB and that gets out of EGGD fine, so surely long haul flights would be possible..?
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Bit of a delayed reaction here, but isnt the MYT G-GTDK rather than C-? It appears to be re-registered...
BAL operate a weekly 763 to LEPA, not as heavy fuel wise of course, but does it go fully laden pax/baggage wise?
BAL send a B762 yearly to TBPB and that gets out of EGGD fine, so surely long haul flights would be possible..?
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These were before my time in the UK but from what I have read/heard the aircraft either made a tech stop en-route or departed with a very reduced load.
I have a recollection that this was discussed around the time of the last flight (the winter before last?) and someone 'in the know' said the flight was indeed carrying a reduced load (less than 200 from memory) although it did go non stop.
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