BRISTOL - 3

[Bristol_Traveller]

Guessing at the EZY schedules from BRS-CDG, I'd guess the available time in Paris is 10:00 to about 16:30. Well, it's just about enough time for lunch, I suppose, which is the main way business appears to be done in France.

For a serious day's work on Europe, you need to be off the ground before 06:30, which is hard work with night flying restrictions.

[Tom the Tenor]

Fair play to the mighty Quinn for lashing out for the taxis back to Sunderland! Bet the taxi drivers felt they died and had gone to heaven with fares like that to Sunderland!

Anyone have an impression on how the Newark loads have been like lately? Did yez all know that Bristol and Cork both got their Charter in the same year, 1185!?

[Confirmed Must Ride]

EWR loads at the moment doing very well, oversold for most of the last week and forward bookings for the summer looking very healthy.

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

The Bristol to Paris CDG is a 07.00 departure with a 14.00 return. Given that local time in Paris is an hour ahead that puts you checking in in the UK at 06.00 and checking in in France at 14.00.

Whilst not enough to be called a full working day its a good reaction to the unexpected pulling out of the route by BACON. Expect better timings come the next schedule as Paris is a key route. I wouldn't be amazed if it went 3 times daily, early, afternoon, evening.

Cheers

WWW

[Harry the Hound]

Ehrm just wandering if everyone missed Watabench's last post as nobodys acknowledged it, and its a BIG new route for Brizzle! BRS-CUN with FCA in S08, at the expense of Cuba - Suits me, Tequlia and Nachos all the way baby
Lets hope it comes through, I've been to my local FC shop today and their summer programme for 08 is realeased on April 12th, wander what other new routes are up the charter operators sleeves, would love a Dubrovnik, great city!

[fyrefli]

Easyjet have dropped to one rotation per day on the Amsterdam route

Bugger - at least most days (until end Sept or thereabouts) it's the evening rotation from the current schedule, as opposed to the usable-time-eating early afternoon flights.

[MerchantVenturer]

Harry

Although I would not be interested in these transatlantic charters I have no doubt they will be very popular – my son is taking his family to POP from BRS very soon – and possibly Mexico is better known to the punters than Cuba.

Your mention of Dubrovnik reminds me of the 1980s when many regional airports had weekly summer charters to the old Yugoslavia through
Yugotours.

BRS had flights to Pula, Split and Dubrovnik (and possibly other Balkan destinations) and airlines such as JAT, Inex-Adria and Aviogenex were regular visitors.

I seem to recall that super little airline, Paramount, leased an Adria aircraft to operate out of BRS to other destinations for part of one summer around the end of the 80s.

On another matter, the Brussels Airlines BRU service appears to have reduced to 2 x daily from the previous 3 and no longer night stops as far as I can make out.

Does this and the pull-out of BACon mean the apron pressure is now not so acute at busy times? Can some of the smaller stands that BACon used be converted in some way for use by larger aircraft, at least as a temporary measure?

B_T

The easyJet booking engine shows the 0730 arriving CDG 0950 and departing at 1030 to arrive back at BRS at 1045, all times local.

The 1400 from BRS arrives CDG at 1620, leaves at 1650 with an arrival back at BRS at 1710.

As WWW says, easyJet have to be applauded for responding so quickly to the changed situation and I’m sure they realise the timings are not ideal and will do their best to make them more user-friendly when the winter timetable is announced.

[WATABENCH]

MV,
I'm sure i've seen 737s and 319s parked on the 'BA' stands before, although I'd imagine the max you would get for wing tip purposes is 3 infront of the old terminal, I wonder if SN will be using a larger a/c instead? poss 320?
Not wanting to get too political, but it was such a shame what happened to the Balkans in the 1990's, I agree with you lot, Dubrovnik is a wonderful place full of wonderful friendly people, was there 1.5 years ago and they have a small museum dedicated to the Serbian invasion, it has unbelivable storys, pics and videos in there, to see it today you wouldnt believe it's the same place.
The approach into Dubrovnik is pretty bumpy though, the airport lies between 2 sets of small mountains and has a cheeky little wind blowing between them strait across the strip.
Anyway sorry was straying off topic there for a bit, started to sound like a Croatian tourist board advert!
No news on replacement of lost BA german routes yet then people?

[Standard Noise]

Easterly stands can accommodate larger sized aircraft. For example, 16 can take a 737/319 although it has now been approved for a FK100 should it be required.
As for new carriers, I believe the target is for the winter season as they are all now too busy to start up for the summer.

[redfield]

319's don't fit on the "BA" stands - they've never been parked there. Maximum size a/c allowed stand 16 is a 737-200 series (although it's now approved for the KLM F100 as well), max size a/c on both 15 and 14 is a F70. These days 13 is practically useless apart from the Scilly Bus twin otter. Nothing else fits on that stand! How busy it is depends on what criteria you're using: from the airport's viewpoint, there's less aircraft as there's no BA Embraers about, but from the viewpoint of Servisair's dispatch, operations and pax handling departments, we're much busier because we've taken on all of the SN, T3 and WOW flights as of March 25th. And, incidentally, reduced delays by about 50% (based on the same time period last year) for these airlines in the process!

[WATABENCH]

Summer 08 FCA still 2 757s, new routes BRS-ADB(ADNAN MENDERES, TURKEY)
and BRS-EFL.
CUN definatly on sale, SFB still there, VRA, VAR and POP are taken off by looks of things.

[ATCO1987]

Sorry to get pedantic redfield, but isnt stand 16 max B733? Same for 15. With 14 max F70, and 13 max E145...correct me if Im wrong.

[Goldilocks95]

whats the likelyhood of a munich flight starting up at brs? are ezy interested at all?
I heard something about an airline fkying to GIB but has anything been announced?

[airvanman]

Mail Flights ?’s
When are they returning from FZO?
If so, what building will they use? A new one (that should have been built by now), or Wards old one?
Are they still using at FZO 146’s and F.27’s?

I do miss the 748’s . Bored with Buses and Boeings -All quiet, clean, and shiny..ZZzzzz.. !

[redfield]

ATCO - no you're right, its such a long time since we parked a 733 on 15 or 16 I'd forgotten about it! But I was right about 13 and 14 though....F70 on 14, and 13 not much use now for anything other than the Skybus, unless they start parking the J31's on there. Goldilocks..I heard that OLT were code-sharing Munich with LH using the OLT a/c?????

[bravoromeosierra]

Brs/geebee

Recently have been noticing the GEEBEE for BA flights come in and out of BRS on Fridays and Saturdays. It seems a little silly for just the 'one' flight to Tenerife , do GEEBEE have any ideas on possibly opening more routes out of BRS?

[Red Snake]

Seriously need someone to do early & late Paris. It's a real pain at moment, KLM out at 06:00 & back at 22:00 with barely 5 hours to do business. Flybe must be mad to have canned it. EZY middle of the day is useless for business.

Any takers?

[Standard Noise]

redfield - I knew those types would fit on the eastern stands because it was the BIA Ops dept who told us when they informed us that they would be used for the KLMs.

[Bristol_Traveller]

I heard that OLT were code-sharing Munich with LH using the OLT a/c?????

Woah... that's unexpected. OLT don't normally get on with LH. You can do BRS-BRE-HAM, but OLT only do Rostock-MUC. There is a BRE-MUC flight with LH, but I can't see any codesharing anywhere between OLT and LH?

Here's a radical idea - why not invite BMI to join us at Bristol? Their list of "core" destinations is very similar to the wishlist (or currently operating list) at BRS, and they'd doubtless codeshare flights to MUC/FRA with LH.
BMI operate to (in no particular order):
MAN/LBA/MME/GLA/EDI/ABZ/NWI/DUB/BFS
CDG/MUC/FRA/TLS/LYS/STR/AMS/VIE

I wouldn't say no to a BD flight to MAN (sorry WOW!) for onward connections. Although I can't see they'd be that excited about taking on EZY on EDI/GLA/BFS etc.etc.

[airvanman]

BristolTraveller

MAN/LBA/MME/GLA/EDI/ABZ/NWI/DUB/BFS
CDG/MUC/FRA/TLS/LYS/STR/AMS/VIE

WOW should be looking at doing most of them! WOW should jump in and fill the gaps asap, or become a bitch/partner for other airlines. Or soon the FlyBe Monster will munch 'em up for sure!

and another...
BD will end up part of BA one day.

Mark my words! I can see the future and I hope it is not all bloody Orange @ Lulsgate Bottom!

Best Rgds
Airvanman The Wizzard of Worle.