New routes for Bristols new extension
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You can have 2 handling agents working in tandem with each other. Take Windsheer's base at Cardiff. There are two handling agents there. Servisair run front of house and all ramp operations (as Airway Handling) whilst Aviance only provide front of house and grooming services. Same works with BA at Bristol. Servisair provide ramp services whilst they provide their own front of house staff.
You can have 2 handling agents working in tandem with each other. Take Windsheer's base at Cardiff. There are two handling agents there. Servisair run front of house and all ramp operations (as Airway Handling) whilst Aviance only provide front of house and grooming services. Same works with BA at Bristol. Servisair provide ramp services whilst they provide their own front of house staff.
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Extra ski flight this Winter - Austrian Dash 8 -400 ops Saturday from Dec to Bolzano.
This in addition to the increase on EZY's GVA to twice daily and 16 other weekly ski charters.
Just hope theres some snow now!
This in addition to the increase on EZY's GVA to twice daily and 16 other weekly ski charters.
Just hope theres some snow now!
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Fernando: I know - I work there. I was referring to Swissport/Menzies etc - the possibility of an outside agent coming in.
I'm not looking forward to Austrian Dash 8's this winter. Doubt all the bags will fit in especially not the skis!
I'm not looking forward to Austrian Dash 8's this winter. Doubt all the bags will fit in especially not the skis!
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It will be interesting to see if the Ski's & bags & boots fit, I guess the Austrian's have thought of this before they Got the Q400's in the first place
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The Flybe Dash-8s holds 6 and 7 are S**T for bags and bikes like on the EGC and BOD. The 146s are no better coz the holds are small anyway and the height of the hold doors are low and u can hit your head on the lip of the door. Ill say we will have fun trying to load a Dash 8 with skis n boots on top of bags. I bet there try and get the boots in hold 5 at the front of the aircraft. F70 is better who u kidding, u since the KLM's lately its shocking in those small and narrow holds with huge heavy bags. Going back to the S'air its just lack of staff or maning levels that causing us the most bother. Its really busy at BRS at the mom and the weekends like sunday are terrible to work, everyone at S'air is feed up and unhappy we all work very hard but our work load is so huge. That after a 9 hour day u dont want to stay on 2/3hours to sort out a delayed flights when ur knackered and want to go home.
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flybe are using the dash-8 on their ext-gva route - apparently it can hold 10 sets of skis.... but with 70+ pax i think there will be a lot of dissapointed people in GVA who have skiing holiday with no skis cos they are still in EXT on standby, until the next flight - the week after..
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Rampboy 767 the holds of a FK-70 might be on the tight side, similar to the FK 100'S we used to load, if you have ever loaded a 1-11srs 375 or even loaded a SE 210 Caravelle the worst aircraft ever designed in my opinion with loading in mind.
After loading one of these, in the heat, you would think a DH-8 & FK70 were sheer bliss
You young'uns got it easy now
On a serious note you all do very good job on the apron under the circumstances
After loading one of these, in the heat, you would think a DH-8 & FK70 were sheer bliss
You young'uns got it easy now
On a serious note you all do very good job on the apron under the circumstances
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That may be true, but the holds in some of todays aircarft are no better. These Dash 8s with skis and boots we will see, it just depends on the number of bags and skis to weather how many will be rush bags on the next flights lol 
roll on another busy winter!
roll on another busy winter!
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The FCA and EZY GVA flights will be full of rush skis I think! There's no 9th EZY a/c on the winter sched...anyone from EZY with anything definite re. no. 9 maybe for next summer??
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We used the new easyJet service to Inverness this week. We went up on Sunday and came back yesterday. I was interested to see how many people would use it and was pleased to see the aircraft were comfortably filled. I overheard a cabin staff member say 114 plus 1 on the outbound, and on the inbound yesterday there were only about twenty empty seats.
In fact on the inbound we had an A 319. The Airbus captain told us that the scheduled Boeing 737-700 went tech and that the A 319 and crew were brought in from STN to fly BRS-INV-BRS. Well done easyJet because we arrived back at BRS only seventy minutes late. However, I noted that the morning Pisa was showing a delay of over twelve hours. I believe the INV a/c normally does the PSA rotation before flying to Scotland, so it appears we were very lucky.
One moan about Bristol Airport though. Our delayed flight coincided with the arrival of several other flights and the airport taxi service was overwhelmed. There was clearly an insufficient number of taxis available for such a peak period. The airport taxi service is a monopoly and should be able to cope better than this if it wishes to continue to enjoy such a status. When we eventually got a taxi the driver told us the situation had been thus for most of the afternoon. The remarks of some visitors to the area were less than complimentary towards the airport.
This was compounded by an enormous queue for the ‘Flyer’ coach. Bristol traffic alone will make the ‘every twenty minutes’ schedule difficult, so why at peak times is it left to the driver first to load all the bags then get back on the coach and start taking fares? This can take fifteen minutes at busy periods. It is a regular occurrence. I speak from personal observation. There should be an additional bus company employee at the bus stop to assist at such times.
BRS is poorly served by public transport. What it does have must be worked far more efficiently.
In fact on the inbound we had an A 319. The Airbus captain told us that the scheduled Boeing 737-700 went tech and that the A 319 and crew were brought in from STN to fly BRS-INV-BRS. Well done easyJet because we arrived back at BRS only seventy minutes late. However, I noted that the morning Pisa was showing a delay of over twelve hours. I believe the INV a/c normally does the PSA rotation before flying to Scotland, so it appears we were very lucky.
One moan about Bristol Airport though. Our delayed flight coincided with the arrival of several other flights and the airport taxi service was overwhelmed. There was clearly an insufficient number of taxis available for such a peak period. The airport taxi service is a monopoly and should be able to cope better than this if it wishes to continue to enjoy such a status. When we eventually got a taxi the driver told us the situation had been thus for most of the afternoon. The remarks of some visitors to the area were less than complimentary towards the airport.
This was compounded by an enormous queue for the ‘Flyer’ coach. Bristol traffic alone will make the ‘every twenty minutes’ schedule difficult, so why at peak times is it left to the driver first to load all the bags then get back on the coach and start taking fares? This can take fifteen minutes at busy periods. It is a regular occurrence. I speak from personal observation. There should be an additional bus company employee at the bus stop to assist at such times.
BRS is poorly served by public transport. What it does have must be worked far more efficiently.
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have to agree with what goes on the otherside as a pax i returned from holiday on a very busy monday morning the road outside is a shambles bad set up someone stood in road directing traffic what a waste of man power. staff bus could not pull in as road blocked with taxi's needs a better system in place.
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Does anyone know the charter flight details for Egypt this coming winter?
The airport website currently has a news item advertising Taba flights from 8 October. An archived news item from July was still talking about a service to Hurghada commencing in the winter, and at one time earlier in the year there was talk of three flights a week to Sharm el Sheikh.
The airport website currently has a news item advertising Taba flights from 8 October. An archived news item from July was still talking about a service to Hurghada commencing in the winter, and at one time earlier in the year there was talk of three flights a week to Sharm el Sheikh.
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Details of the Egyptian flights this winter are, as far as I’m aware…
Taba/TCP:
Saturdays. Depart BRS 1330. Arrive BRS 0135. Flight AEU???/?. Operates 08OCT05 – 19NOV05.
Hurghada/HRG:
Friday. Depart BRS 1000. Arrive BRS 2220. Flight XLA3710/1. Operates 04NOV05 – 09DEC05, 07JAN06 – 28APR06.
Friday. Depart BRS 1200. Arrive BRS 0020. Flight XLA3710/1. Operates 16DEC05 – 30DEC05.
Sharm El Sheikh/SSH:
Saturday. Depart BRS 1200. Arrive BRS 0015. Flight XLA3706/7. Operates 11FEB06 – 29APR06.
Sunday. Depart BRS 1245. Arrive BRS 0100. Flight XLA3714/5. Operates 06NOV05 – 30APR06.
As the XLA flights are in the 3000’s it would suggest that they are to be operated by the Air Malta A320.
Details of the Egyptian flights this winter are, as far as I’m aware…
Taba/TCP:
Saturdays. Depart BRS 1330. Arrive BRS 0135. Flight AEU???/?. Operates 08OCT05 – 19NOV05.
Hurghada/HRG:
Friday. Depart BRS 1000. Arrive BRS 2220. Flight XLA3710/1. Operates 04NOV05 – 09DEC05, 07JAN06 – 28APR06.
Friday. Depart BRS 1200. Arrive BRS 0020. Flight XLA3710/1. Operates 16DEC05 – 30DEC05.
Sharm El Sheikh/SSH:
Saturday. Depart BRS 1200. Arrive BRS 0015. Flight XLA3706/7. Operates 11FEB06 – 29APR06.
Sunday. Depart BRS 1245. Arrive BRS 0100. Flight XLA3714/5. Operates 06NOV05 – 30APR06.
As the XLA flights are in the 3000’s it would suggest that they are to be operated by the Air Malta A320.
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Many thanks, Vasto.
I believe the Air Malta A 320 is operating the current summer weekly XLA flight to Sharm el Sheikh. I presume the other XLA based aircraft, the former Islandsflug B 734, would struggle to get there without a fuel stop.
The Taba flight is a short season.
I believe the Air Malta A 320 is operating the current summer weekly XLA flight to Sharm el Sheikh. I presume the other XLA based aircraft, the former Islandsflug B 734, would struggle to get there without a fuel stop.
The Taba flight is a short season.