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[AirGuru]

What are the registrations of the 2 based TCX A320's at the moment ?

Thanks

[EK406DXB]

Hi AirGuru TCX currently have G-DHRG and G-SUEW based at BRS

[AirGuru]

Thank you ! What aircraft operates the ZTH ?

[yeo valley]

Thank you ! What aircraft operates the ZTH ?

A320 airbus operates zth.

[IrishFlyer2013]

G-SUEW & G-DHRG will both be operating BRS-ZTH on Thursday. There are two flight's to Zakynthos from Bristol. The flight numbers are TCX7252 & TCX7162.
TCX7252 will be operated by G-DHRG & TCX7162 will be operated by G-SUEW. This could change however.

[EI-A330-300]

FR are dropping the third daily DUB flight for winter. Now its both EI and FR on 2 daily flights.

[ub2]

and the timmings are not to good either with a 6.30 am dep & a 21.10 dep from brs & return trip 8.45 am arr & 23.30 arr , 7 days a week, imo ryanair are handing pax to EI as there timmings are better

[OltonPete]

July pax figures up 4.8

Source: CAA

July 2012 655095 +4.8%

This seems to the best of the UKairports percentage wise (for July) for those handling in excess of five million per annum.

I assume easyjet are mainly responsible?

I know it has been discussed earlier in the thread but to save trawling back, does anyone know if Turkish Airlines have been approached.

BHX has settled down to excellent figures and Edinburgh has now started. I know London and BHX are close but Turkish are one of those airlines who don't seem to bother too much about proximity.

They are still expanding Spain and Italy and the UK could be said to be in a better position.

Pete

[LGS6753]

THY are promoting themselves as an airline with connections via IST. The subtext is that the connections are to the Indian sub-continent (as well as further east).
They are Bristol's best chance of getting a "middle east" airline to operate from there as the gulf carriers tend to operate larger aircraft which would be financially and operationally less suitable.

[MerchantVenturer]

July CAA stats

The 655,095 passengers this year is BRS's best ever July beating 2008 by 3,000.

2008 was the year that BRS saw the 6 mppa breached for the one and only time so far (6.228 for the whole year).

The other thing to remember is that BRS has seen passenger gains (slight to be sure) in 2010 and 2011 but with fewer rotations.

This is a trend of the past few years. In 2006 5.710 mppa was obtained with 66,000 atms whereas in 2011 5.768 mppa needed only 53,000 atms.

The pattern is continuing this year with, for example, July's 4.8% increase in passenger numbers obtained through 2.3% fewer atms. There will come a time though when atms will need to be increased if passenger numbers are to rise significantly.

This year April, May and June have also been very good coming second only to 2008 for those months.

Were it not for the greater disparity between summer and winter compared with 2008 this year might have seen the 6 mppa barrier breached again.

As things are it looks like somewhere between 5.8 and 5.9 mppa at the end of this year.

And yes Pete, easyJet is the main contributor followed by Ryanair. easyJet had eleven aircraft based from May this year compared with mid/end of July of recent years when the eleventh aircraft would arrive. Of the eleven based Airbuses there are three 320s based for peak summer. Last year there were two.

[WATABENCH]

Helvetic ceasing CWL flying for winter, BRS continues

[Severn]

BMI Regional *NEW ROUTE*

On the bmiregional.com website they have announced a new route from BRS to ABZ using a BRS based aircraft.
Looking on Amadeus it looks as if it starts on the 29/10 twice daily (once daily on Sat and Sun) and will use a based E145.
It will be going head to head with Eastern on the route and I have put below a weekly schedule in November to show all BRS-ABZ flights.

MON
BRS 06:40 - ABZ 08:55 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 07:00 - ABZ 08:25 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
BRS 09:55 - ABZ 12:30 | 2:35 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern
BRS 15:30 - ABZ 17:45 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 16:40 - ABZ 18:05 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

ABZ 06:50 - BRS 09:25 | 2:35 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern
ABZ 08:55 - BRS 10:20 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
ABZ 11:50 - BRS 14:05 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 18:15 - BRS 20:30 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 18:35 - BRS 20:00 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

TUE
BRS 06:40 - ABZ 08:55 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 07:00 - ABZ 08:25 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
BRS 15:30 - ABZ 17:45 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 16:40 - ABZ 18:05 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

ABZ 08:55 - BRS 10:20 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
ABZ 09:25 - BRS 11:40 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 18:15 - BRS 20:30 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 18:35 - BRS 20:00 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

WED
BRS 06:40 - ABZ 08:55 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 07:00 - ABZ 08:25 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
BRS 15:30 - ABZ 17:45 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 16:40 - ABZ 18:05 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

ABZ 08:55 - BRS 10:20 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
ABZ 09:25 - BRS 11:40 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 18:15 - BRS 20:30 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 18:35 - BRS 20:00 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

THU
BRS 06:40 - ABZ 08:55 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 07:00 - ABZ 08:25 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
BRS 15:30 - ABZ 17:45 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 16:40 - ABZ 18:05 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
BRS 18:05 - ABZ 20:40 | 2:35 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern

ABZ 08:55 - BRS 10:20 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
ABZ 09:25 - BRS 11:40 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 15:00 - BRS 17:35 | 2:35 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern
ABZ 18:15 - BRS 20:30 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 18:35 - BRS 20:00 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

FRI
BRS 07:00 - ABZ 08:25 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
BRS 09:30 - ABZ 11:45 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
BRS 14:30 - ABZ 17:05 | 2:35 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern
BRS 16:40 - ABZ 18:05 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

ABZ 08:55 - BRS 10:20 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional
ABZ 11:00 - BRS 13:35 | 2:35 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern
ABZ 15:00 - BRS 17:20 | 2:20 (1 stop LBA) | Saab 2000 | Eastern
ABZ 17:35 - BRS 20:10 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern
ABZ 18:35 - BRS 20:00 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

SAT
BRS 07:00 - ABZ 08:25 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

ABZ 08:55 - BRS 10:20 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

SUN
BRS 16:30 - ABZ 18:45 | 2:15 (1 stop LBA) | Jetstream 41 | Eastern
BRS 16:40 - ABZ 18:05 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

ABZ 18:35 - BRS 20:00 | 1:25 (non-stop) | Embraer 145 | bmi Regional

[MerchantVenturer]

bmiRegional BRS-ABZ

That's a tremendous amount of seating for this route, especially in the winter.

I'm as keen as anyone on seeing BRS prosper and grow its route network but up to 5 x daily looks ambitious. I hope I'm wrong and that the professionals involved know better.

I can't help thinking that if the fares are roughly on a par the bmi non-stop route will be more appealing.

The based bmiRegional ERJ 145 currently operates the 3 x daily BRU for Brussels Airlines but will be replaced this winter by a Flybe Q400 (in Brussels Airlines livery so far as I'm aware).

The new route will presumably preserve the aircraft and crews at BRS and possibly see other routes in the future.

There is also the Airbus shuttle from Filton to Toulouse currently operated by bmiRegional. This is reportedly moving to BRS when the Filton runway closes at the end of the year.

I haven't heard whether the new contract winners for this service have been announced. Presumably the new owners of bmiRegional were amongsts the bidders. If they were to win that would increase their presence at BRS.

Scilly Skybus

It's been reported on a Scilly Islands website that the DH-6 operated BRS-ISC summer route that's been in existence since 1995 will end as of this year, as will the SOU route to the Scilly Isles.

The reason seems to be to do with the closure of the BIH helicopter link to the islands from Penzance and Skybus's decision to try to fill the void by running a high-volume shuttle from airports in Devon and Cornwall (Exeter, Newquay and Lands End) to the Scilly Isles.

The BRS route was not high volume (just over 3,000 passengers in 2011) and was expensive but it will be a shame to see it disappear from the network.

[BAladdy]

BMI regional's fares are much cheaper than flight operated by T3

BM's lowest economy fare (excl sale fare) is £115.00 rtn compared to T3's £235.90. Also BM's flights will be more appealing to business pax as they are direct compared to T3's that operate via LBA.

I wonder if T3 will make changes to there operation before october and lower there fares

[BAladdy]

CDG

According to Airlineroute.net AF are going to reduce there schedule to CDG from 18 to 12 x weekly for 13

AIRFRANCE S13 European Service Reductions as of 18SEP12 | Airline Route – Worldwide Airline Route Updates

Tried to book flights for mid summer next year. However only 1 flight was available to book 6 x weekly. With flights being operated by a E190

[fjencl]

BMIREGIONAL

Individual.com

[EI-BUD]

BMI Regional *NEW ROUTE*

Great to see bmi regional starting new routes, however, they will need to market this heavily and effectively. How do they market the current passengers in the most effective way to ensure that the frequent flyer on ABZ BRS know that they fly, as people are creatures of habit so need to be marketed effectively.

[WATABENCH]

Is BMI Regional owned by BA nowadays? If so I wonder if eventually down the line somewhere we could see a return to BRS of the flag carrier?

Anybody know what is going on with the hotel at BRS? no signs of any ground being cleared, havent heard anything about terminal expansion in a long time, guessing the owners are being careful on funds??

[mathers_wales_uk]

bmi Regional have no link with British Airways and was bought by Sector Aviation Holdings after it was initially aquired by the IAG Group.

If I am correct Sector Aviation Holdings also own Suckling Airways and the newly aquired Loganair.

At the moment all three will be in seperate AOC's.

[andayxd]

completely off topic.
Is there any Airlines and Aircraft that you would like to see at Bristol?