BELFAST (BHD) - 3

[tigger2k8]

well an EZY 737 ate a bird today somewhere between STN and BFS... went into the no.2 engine, no damaged caused just needed cleaned up and inspected b4 being sent on to FAO

EI had an interesting morning, early morning LHR cancelled due to problems with the R.A.T, aircraft was then towed to 6F and a replacement aircraft (EI) came in from GLA to take out the BFS-CDG flight

[BFS101]

Press release in todays tele regarding the 25 million passenger carried by Easyjet from Belfast.

easyJet toasts 25 million passengers for Belfast - Business News, Business - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

The airline now flies to 19 domestic and European destinations from Belfast - carrying around 11,000 people a day on up to 43 flights.

[tigger2k8]

EI full winter schedule should be released soon... quite a few "long turnarounds" and a route or 2 performed by a non-base aircraft i think.. shouldnt be long now until the EI website is updated

[super737]

11000 pax on up to 43 rotations? Average loadfactor of 250 odd. Someone telling porky pies or the auld telegraph at its best?

[gate 22]

11000 pax on up to 43 rotations? Average loadfactor of 250 odd. Someone telling porky pies or the auld telegraph at its best?

Surely 43 rotations = 128 pax per flight. Is 1 rotation not 1 in 1 out-I could well be wrong. 11000x365 = 4.015million per year, I suppose seems a bit high it would mean all other operators carrying only 1 million between them.

[david1994]

Surely 43 rotations = 128 pax per flight

11000 - div by 43 = 255

[gate 22]

11000 - div by 43 = 255

Okay but how can you have an odd number of flights in total? A quick calculation would give a minimum of 30 arrivals and 30 departures per day therefore 60 rotations.

[BFS101]

Someone telling porky pies or the auld telegraph at its best?

Not that I take the word of the Telegraph as gospel, but if there are inaccuracies I would be more inclined to point the finger at the Easyjet press folk, as some of the Irish papers are also carrying the same story with the same stats.

EastJet celebrates 25 million passengers out of Belfast | Irish Examiner

Could the accuracy of the figures be down to a rotation being two sectors, rather than one single flight as stated by gate22. 11,000 passengers per day, based on 43 rotations (so lets say 86 flights), would give an average load factor of about 128. Would that not be a fairly realistic load factor??

[tigger2k8]

EZY carries between 9000 - 11000 PAX per day during summer, also depends on the day of the week....thats including nitestoppers..

[NWSRG]

Any ideas what hardware will be visiting for the Portrush Air Show?

Actually heard one rumour of an A380 making an appearance!

[newtownards]

provided that a certain display doesnt get cancelled i can say that this year will certainly be a memorable one

Im sure there'll be the rush of RAF hardware to Aldergrove soon, i see theres a Tucano there right now

[FourTrails]

The new easy route from BFS is to 'Brescia' south shore of Lake Garda. Believed to start in January

[BFS101]

The new easy route from BFS is to 'Brescia' south shore of Lake Garda. Believed to start in January

Seems a bit of a strange one. Would think that a Milan airport would cater for city break, business and leisure / lake traffic, with Brescia really only suitable for the later.

Flew into Brescia in January for skiing and appeared not to have great airport ground public transport links. It also seems that Brescia is currently not an Easyjet destination. Would have thought we'd get a tried and tested route initiated from one of the mainland UK airports.

[gate 22]

The new easy route from BFS is to 'Brescia' south shore of Lake Garda. Believed to start in January Today 01:13


If true handy for the lakes and Venice, will hit EI at Milan. Brescia is FR's Verona destination, I don't think EZY fly yet. It would be especially good if it was all year round. I know quite alot of people use Milan for Garda, this will make a big difference.

[tigger2k8]

yep i think it is Brescia, knew it was something beginning with B, will also hit the Lake Garda charters during summer if its kept for summer..

[EI-BUD]

will hit EI at Milan

I think that EI is suspending the Milan route from the winter, and if only summer season (if it returns for 2010) should not be a big issue as summer is usually ok.

[david1994]

The new easy route from BFS is to 'Brescia' south shore of Lake Garda. Believed to start in January

When is it going to be going on sale ?

[tigger2k8]

if it does begin in Jan 2010, it will probably go on sale september/october

[gate 22]

With reference to EZY Brescia, do you think it will be unique to Belfast within the EZY network (ie operated by a BFS aircraft)?, or are EZY opening a base at Brescia?, or would it be operated be another aircraft from another base on 'w' pattern?

[tigger2k8]

once the BFS-GVA flight starts in December i dont think theres any available base aircraft to carry out the flight, so more than likely it'll be a W pattern