BOURNEMOUTH

[FLYboh]

Yep, Easyjet will be operating 8 flights a week to BOH from GVA starting on the 15th December until the 23rd April. It is rumoured that Easyjet may continue the route through the summer as the bookings were so good last winter (hence the extra weekly flight). It is also rumoured that Easyjet may open a base at BOH, but who knows?

As for Ryanair. They have publicly stated that they will make BOH a base within the next 5 or 6 years. I imagine that this will occur once they have connected BOH with a few more of their existing bases. Currently they fly to BOH from 5 of their bases with 2 of these routes starting this year.

[QWERTY9]

Looking at the Ryanair timetable the other day I got the impression they were cutting back as the Gerona flight does not seem to be a daily service from March next year. Has it been cut back to allow the Shannon service ?

[EarthOrbitor]

The SNN service is being implemented by SNN based aircraft - SNN-LTN is being dropped and replaced with SNN-EDI/BOH 3 weekly each.

Ryanair are expanding their BOH operations continually because of the areas high yield passengers. Due for roll-out next year are Rome, Milan and Marseille. Further growth to other routes (not necessarily bases) will take place within the next 5 years.

Gerona is remaining at daily. The success if this route is strong - and the yield is more than satisfactory.

[Manston Airport]

FLYboh

Cool BOH is getting bigger with flights each year. Was there in August where Red Arrows where there and there where a lot off flights.And does AB fly to Palma?

Well done BOH

James

James

[FLYboh]

Air berlin only offer a connection to Palma from their Paderborn base. Paderborn is still 3 x weekly but the loads are higher than they were from SOU which may lead them to increase their flights from BOH.

Unless the TOM flight times change, the friday schedule in April would indicate the need for a 3rd aircraft as there are 3 flights in the air at the same time. ALC, AGP & TFS all operated by TOM.

Alicante TOM 3135 18:25 *** returns BOH 23.55
Faro TOM 2757 08:15 returns BOH 14.10
Malaga TOM 5987 17:45 *** returns BOH 23.50
Palma Mallorca TOM 2183 07:00 returns BOH 12.10
Prague TOM 4737 12:50 returns BOH 17.10
Tenerife South TOM 5023 13:50 *** returns BOH 23.20

Also as you can see from above, the six rotations that 2 aircraft can do are all available for booking, leaving no room for an Amsterdam flight. Just noticed that the PMI flight returns and then goes to Prague, but the FAO flight isn't back in time to operate the TFS flight. Hmmm!

[FLYboh]

EarthOrbitor,

Ryanair have said today that they will announce a new base and other routes within the next month. Maybe BOH will appear in these new plans.

[Manston Airport]

FLYboh

or Manston

See today that a Spanair landed
SpanairFlight Number3165Departure City (Airport)Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (and Territories) (GCTS)Departure Time09/15/2006 09:00 AMArrival City (Airport)Bournemouth, England, Great Britain (EGHH)Arrival Time09/15/2006 01:56


James

[loveJet]

In regard to the comment about a TOM 3rd aircraft; I think it is more likely that on the odd day 3 aircraft are required (such as fridays in 07) Titan Airways will be contracted to operate the 3rd aircraft's rotations - using the based B737-300QC. Titan now have a full crew base at BOH and are often used when Tfly's aircraft have issues.

[Manston Airport]

loveJet


This Titan 737 is this the one with the yellow planet on it? never knew Titan had a plane based here no wonder why I saw one there in August everyday

James

[FLYboh]

BOH handled 98,317 passengers in August, an increase of 1% on last year. These are the provisional figures so should go up by a few 100 or so.

The Pisa routes carried 6,688 in total. Does anyone know the breakdown for FR and TOM.

[loveJet]

Flyboh

Average load factor to Pisa in August was 84%

Ryanair achieved 92%, and Thomsonfly 68%... as you would expect I suppose.

[shamrock7seal]

record bookings to Prague

Flights continue to Czech out Prague
By Robin Thompkins

CAPITAL IDEA: Flights to Prague will continue next year
ANOTHER Prague spring is uprising from Bournemouth Airport where more than 10,000 passengers have booked for this winter's flights to the Czech capital has prompted low-cost operator Thomsonfly to continue the service into next year.

Since the winter schedule was announced in April hundreds have flocked to board the four times a week flights to the home of Good King Wenceslas, which take off in November in time for the city's famed Christmas market.

Now Bournemouth Airport's biggest operator has included five flights a week to Prague in its summer 2007 routes from Hurn which went on sale yesterday with one-way prices starting from £19.99.

The Thomsonfly summer schedule also includes the return of the Valencia service which launched the budget airline's highly successful operation from Bournemouth in March 2005.

continued...
While Thomsonfly already operates flights to nearby Alicante, Valencia is expected to be equally popular with South Coast holidaymakers, second home owners and sailing enthusiasts looking to visit Spain's Costa Blanca and the country's third largest city during the important America's Cup year.

With two aircraft based at Hurn, Thomsonfly currently carries some half-a-million passengers a year from Bournemouth to popular holiday, business and second home destinations in Europe.

Thomsonfly managing director Colin Mitchell said: "Bournemouth is an incredibly important departure hub for us and we are pleased to introduce new routes from this airport."

Bournemouth airport marketing and communications director Sally Windsor said: "We are delighted that Prague has sold so well this winter and that it has been added to next summer's schedule of destinations.

"We are also pleased to see Thomsonfly routes for next summer include the return of Valencia."

[mary_hinge]

Originally Posted by BOHEuropean

Have now heared that BASCO will be closeing perminantly by the end of the year...
BOHEuropean

Mutterings that 90 days notice has been served. Any one heard if this is fact or whats going on?

[Coasthugger]

It'll be painful for the airport in the short-term if BASCO go... and the landside access to that side of the airfield is so poor it's hard to see anyone else moving in there?

I believe that Thomsonfly have used BASCO for some of their aircraft maintenance - would BASCO leaving make BOH a less attractive base?

Thomsonfly's Prague press release is approaching Ryanair in terms of spin... loads of new destinations, because you keep chopping and changing because you couldn't get the old ones to work. Get a new aircraft in there or Ryanair will be overtaking you as BOH's 'biggest operator'.

[FLYboh]

Thanks Lovejet, it's good to see that the FR Pisa route is doing so well. Although it is heavily discounted at the moment.

Prague seems to be doing very well considering that when that article appeared a few weeks back TOM only had the 25,000 winter seats available to book. So 10,000 seats would be 40% of seats sold. with still another 8 or 9 weeks of sales before they even start.

[Manston Airport]

So Ryanairs routes for next year from BOH will be to Rome, Milan and Marseille?

JAmes

[FLYboh]

Anyone know what the new TOM routes will be? I guess Amsterdam will be returning for summer '07 but the press release excerpt below indicates that there are one or more new routes for next summer. If Amsterdam comes back with a 6 X weekly service than I think I'm right in saying that there's 4 X weekly slots left for the based aircraft.

This was is in original press release:

'Thomsonfly's new summer 07 routes go on sale today (Tuesday 12
September). Additional new routes for summer 07 are expected be
announced within the next couple of months'.

[MARKEYD]

Here is the provisional timetable for Thomsonfly 2 based aircraft at Bournemouth for next summer , leaves room for 6 Amsterdam rotations but not much more , its a much more tighter robust schedule than this summer

MON

1) BOH VLC BOH PRG BOH IBZ BOH
2) BOH PMI BOH ---- BOH AGP BOH

TUE

1) BOH FAO BOH ---- BOH ALC BOH
2) BOH PMI BOH AGP BOH

WED

1) BOH VRO BOH ---- BOH VLC BOH
2) BOH PHO BOH PRG BOH

THU

1) BOH PMI BOH ---- BOH ALC BOH
2) BOH ---- BOH FAO BOH AGP BOH

FRI

1) BOH FAO BOH ---- BOH ALC BOH
2) BOH PMI BOH PRG BOH AGP BOH

SAT

1) BOH PSA BOH FAO BOH ALC BOH
2) BOH VLC BOH AGP BOH PMI BOH

SUN

1) BOH PMI BOH PRG BOH ALC BOH
2) BOH AGP BOH ---- BOH FAO BOH

[airhumberside]

By VRO do you mean Verona and is that a charter?

[FLYboh]

airhumberside: Your correct on both accounts. It's a charter on behalf of Thomson Lakes and Mountains.

I've noticed on the Thomson Holidays website that Catalonia (Costa Brava) appears in the drop down menu, but as yet is not bookable. This makes me wonder if they may introduce Barcelona as a 3 x weekly service to carry lo-co and charter passengers.

After having used the FR GRO service twice, I can safely say that the amount of passengers travelling via the Barcelona Bus is no more than 30 per flight. The majority stay within the holiday resorts of the Costa Brava. Thats less than 5% of the passengers travelling on to Barcelona via the bus, so I feel that a TOM service on a 3 or 4 X weekly service would be viable. Fingers crossed