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Prepare to say Cheerio to the Air Southwest base @ Bristol!!
Once again they have proved not to be a forward thinking, ambitious Airline but a wee shrinking one. Announcement due today!
Have to feel sorry for the Lads and Lassies up there in Brs..
Crew
Once again they have proved not to be a forward thinking, ambitious Airline but a wee shrinking one. Announcement due today!
Have to feel sorry for the Lads and Lassies up there in Brs..
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Bristol to Oslo ->April 2008, Check out SAS website!
Annoyingly it would have worked out just perfectly (midnight arrival at OSL notwithstanding) for a trip to Oslo .... I had three weeks ago. D'uh.
What are the bets it gets pulled before it launched to put the aircraft in to cover a Dash-8?
I've given up hope of expecting a decent flight schedule to FRA or MUC now... a hope that sinks ever deeper each time I just miss the RailAir coach from LHR to Reading, which in turn means me waiting hours with drunk people on Reading station at 10pm on a Friday night.
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I've just had a look at the easyJet web timetable and it shows BRS-SXF as daily throughout the winter.
However, having experienced in the past that the web timetable is not always entirely accurate I always look at the web booking page and this is showing bookable daily flights for the winter period, except in January when there are no flights on some Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays.
Wednesdays seem to be available unless they have changed things and not yet put them on the timetable/booking engine. I will have to keep an eye on this because I anticipate using the service again sometime in the winter.
The Bristol evening newspaper carried a couple of airport stories this week.
The first concerned the airport's hosting a tourism conference and an airport spkesman said that 54% of the passengers on the CO EWR service now originate from the USA. This is a remarkable turn-around because it was the US end that initially caused difficulties with building up the route.
The airport also said that between 30% and 50% of passengers on services from such places as Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid and Stockholm are overseas visitors to the UK.
This is no doubt a riposte aimed towards the anti-expansionists, one of whose arguments is that Bristol Airport caters mainly for local people going abroad on holiday.
The other news item reported that the £7.5 million alterations to the departure lounge will begin next week and take sixteen weeks to complete.
They will include the security area extension, taking airside some of the current landside areas and the provision of two more catering outlets in the departure area - a fish bar and a table-service restaurant.
However, having experienced in the past that the web timetable is not always entirely accurate I always look at the web booking page and this is showing bookable daily flights for the winter period, except in January when there are no flights on some Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays.
Wednesdays seem to be available unless they have changed things and not yet put them on the timetable/booking engine. I will have to keep an eye on this because I anticipate using the service again sometime in the winter.
The Bristol evening newspaper carried a couple of airport stories this week.
The first concerned the airport's hosting a tourism conference and an airport spkesman said that 54% of the passengers on the CO EWR service now originate from the USA. This is a remarkable turn-around because it was the US end that initially caused difficulties with building up the route.
The airport also said that between 30% and 50% of passengers on services from such places as Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid and Stockholm are overseas visitors to the UK.
This is no doubt a riposte aimed towards the anti-expansionists, one of whose arguments is that Bristol Airport caters mainly for local people going abroad on holiday.
The other news item reported that the £7.5 million alterations to the departure lounge will begin next week and take sixteen weeks to complete.
They will include the security area extension, taking airside some of the current landside areas and the provision of two more catering outlets in the departure area - a fish bar and a table-service restaurant.
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and the provision of two more catering outlets in the departure area - a fish bar and a table-service restaurant.
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I happenened to watch the ITV West teatime news today and they did a trailer of some of the events they will be covering this coming week in their main teatime news programme.
They will be at BRS looking at the work that is about to commence in the terminal and (this was the intriguing bit) also for a 'major announcement' at the airport during the week.
I hope it is not simply confirmation of the PPRuNe post that a weekly charter flight will commence next summer to 'Toronto' Hamilton via Keflavik using a Globespan B 737.
They will be at BRS looking at the work that is about to commence in the terminal and (this was the intriguing bit) also for a 'major announcement' at the airport during the week.
I hope it is not simply confirmation of the PPRuNe post that a weekly charter flight will commence next summer to 'Toronto' Hamilton via Keflavik using a Globespan B 737.
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Too right MV, although a Toronto service is always welcome, I wouldnt call a weekly service on a 738 via Keflavik as major...but then media wouldnt be media without hyping things up i suppose, will be a welcome route return though.
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Having ploughed through the whole thread to find out if it has been reported already - anyway:
Got information from a reliable source that Lufthansa will start Frankfurt thrice daily on 30MAR08. No further details yet, but it fits into their long-announced, but rahter slow to take shape strategy of strengthening links to smaller British airports.
I suppose this a first. The only Lufthansa I can remember is a DUS service in the late 1980s. Was there also a CGN service in the early 1990s?
Got information from a reliable source that Lufthansa will start Frankfurt thrice daily on 30MAR08. No further details yet, but it fits into their long-announced, but rahter slow to take shape strategy of strengthening links to smaller British airports.
I suppose this a first. The only Lufthansa I can remember is a DUS service in the late 1980s. Was there also a CGN service in the early 1990s?
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Flight times already uploaded into the CRS - it will be a nightstopping BAe 146-300 operated by Eurowings (as you can see from the timings, not all done by the same aircraft):
LH4965 BRS 0620 - 0905 FRA 0910 - 1000 BRS LH4960
LH4961 BRS 1130 - 1415 FRA 1615 - 1705 BRS LH4962
LH4963 BRS 1740 - 2025 FRA 2130 - 2220 BRS LH4964
LH4965 BRS 0620 - 0905 FRA 0910 - 1000 BRS LH4960
LH4961 BRS 1130 - 1415 FRA 1615 - 1705 BRS LH4962
LH4963 BRS 1740 - 2025 FRA 2130 - 2220 BRS LH4964
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Great news about BRS-FRA kicking off, and more or less perfect timings.
This is a very credible option for hubbing out to Europe and the World via FRA. Adios KLM.....
(grinning widely)
This is a very credible option for hubbing out to Europe and the World via FRA. Adios KLM.....
(grinning widely)
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Great to see return of FRA, always like to see better international connection options that don't involve KL/AF.
Yes! My thoughts exactly. I will be really unimpressed if that is the "Major Canadian route" announcement we have been told so much about. The majority of feedback on http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/flygspan.htm does not make happy reading. Particually for those of us who work in the terminal. 
I persume GSM are coming to Bristol because it's the only area of the UK that hasn't heard of this shambles of an airline!
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Long-time exiled Bristolian lurker - always visit this forum first to see what's happenning to my beloved Lulsgate...
Anyway, Lufthansa.co.uk has the Bristol-Frankfurt announcement on its frontpage. Oh, and so does the airport's homepage.
Well done to all at BRS for getting a full-service airline back after the BACon/Flybe debacle - next time I'm down at my parents I'm going to have fit in a daytrip from Lulsgate!
BABlue (born in Weston, living in London)
Anyway, Lufthansa.co.uk has the Bristol-Frankfurt announcement on its frontpage. Oh, and so does the airport's homepage.
Well done to all at BRS for getting a full-service airline back after the BACon/Flybe debacle - next time I'm down at my parents I'm going to have fit in a daytrip from Lulsgate!
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It's fantastic news. I just wish the peeps at EXT would stop being so **** scared of a certain baby blue airline and stimulate new airlines to come in and open up Europe to us. I'm sick of being ripped off and having to travel to BRS to get anywhere.
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All looking good on LH.co.uk for BRS->ROTW. Just deciding whether to blow a bunch of miles on a celebratory trip, or stump up the cash.
Annoyingly they haven't loaded the fares right (yet). There's only fare basis from 1st April, so the first couple of days of flying might be a bit empty.... or reserved for a selected bunch of *A miles holders who can probably book it for award redemption.
I'm replanning next year's flying; BRS-FRA-SIN, BRS-FRA-BKK, BRS-FRA-SIN-SYD, BRS-FRA-LAX, BRS-FRA-KUL, BRS-FRA-ICN..... excellent...
Annoyingly they haven't loaded the fares right (yet). There's only fare basis from 1st April, so the first couple of days of flying might be a bit empty.... or reserved for a selected bunch of *A miles holders who can probably book it for award redemption.
I'm replanning next year's flying; BRS-FRA-SIN, BRS-FRA-BKK, BRS-FRA-SIN-SYD, BRS-FRA-LAX, BRS-FRA-KUL, BRS-FRA-ICN..... excellent...
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Congrats to BRS management on getting Lufty in. Hopefully the start of many routes to come!
On another matter I have found a Facebook group that has started in support of BRS's expansion.
Link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6367512443
On another matter I have found a Facebook group that has started in support of BRS's expansion.
Link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6367512443
Was on the late KLM Fokker 100 last night inbound BRS from AMS (full by the way).
Just wanted to say was impressed with baggage reclaim area and that the minutes only it took from arriving to leaving the terminal after baggage pick up. Dont expand too much guys.......(expansion means delays!!
Nivsy
Just wanted to say was impressed with baggage reclaim area and that the minutes only it took from arriving to leaving the terminal after baggage pick up. Dont expand too much guys.......(expansion means delays!!
Nivsy