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Old 18th Feb 2016, 19:26
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Well said Steamer Ned.
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APD

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articl...-apd-in-budget

The Airline Operators Association (AOA) has been vocal on the APD subject again this week demanding that the chancellor reduces APD by at least half in next month's Budget. I doubt that they expect that he will.

However, their spokesman does make the valid point that 'the prime minister was quite clear during the 2015 General Election campaign that he would not allow unfair tax competition to damage UK airports'.

The AOA also wants the government to respond to a review of the impact of devolving APD that it launched in the summer of last year with a discussion paper that set out three possible ways of mitigating the effects on English airports if APD is devolved to the other countries in the UK.

The options involved variable rates of APD in England (which might be illegal under EU rules - the government was to seek advice from Europe. I wonder if it did and if so what that advice was); devolving APD within England; aid to regional airports although anywhere with a throughput of over 3 mppa would not be eligible except in some exceptional cases where the limit could be 5 mppa.

The options are said to have drawn 'universal criticism'.

So if Wales is get APD powers it will be fascinating to see what the chancellor proposes to compensate English airports. Probably nothing in reality although there may be some political spin to cloud the issue.
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Originally Posted by MerchantVenturer
http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articl...-apd-in-budget

The Airline Operators Association (AOA) has been vocal on the APD subject again this week demanding that the chancellor reduces APD by at least half in next month's Budget. I doubt that they expect that he will.

However, their spokesman does make the valid point that 'the prime minister was quite clear during the 2015 General Election campaign that he would not allow unfair tax competition to damage UK airports'.

The AOA also wants the government to respond to a review of the impact of devolving APD that it launched in the summer of last year with a discussion paper that set out three possible ways of mitigating the effects on English airports if APD is devolved to the other countries in the UK.

The options involved variable rates of APD in England (which might be illegal under EU rules - the government was to seek advice from Europe. I wonder if it did and if so what that advice was); devolving APD within England; aid to regional airports although anywhere with a throughput of over 3 mppa would not be eligible except in some exceptional cases where the limit could be 5 mppa.

The options are said to have drawn 'universal criticism'.

So if Wales is get APD powers it will be fascinating to see what the chancellor proposes to compensate English airports. Probably nothing in reality although there may be some political spin to cloud the issue.
It's not just Wales.....remember that.....its Scotland and Northern Ireland too
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the government was to seek advice from Europe. I wonder if it did and if so what that advice was
At a rough guess, it will be on the lines of:

1. This is what the relevant Regulation/Directive says;
2. it's up to you to interpret how that applies in your particular circumstance;
3. Only the European Court of Justice can give a definitive answer to the question you've asked

It's not just Wales.....remember that.....its Scotland and Northern Ireland too
Quite right, but in a discussion on Bristol Airport, what happens in Wales is the key point.
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APD

House of Commons Hansard Debates for 24 Feb 2016 (pt 0001)

In a Commons session yesterday on matters affecting Wales Liam Fox, MP for North Somerset, asked the Secretary of State for Wales, Stephen Crabb, what assessment had been made of the potential effect of devolving air passenger duty to Wales.

The Sec of State replied, "This Government have a proud record on devolution in Wales: establishing the Silk commission, devolving landmark new fiscal powers and taking forward the St David’s day agreement through the new Wales Bill. In that agreement, we committed to consider the case for devolving APD to Wales and this work is currently being undertaken and assessed by the Treasury."

Dr Fox then asked, "Devolving air passenger duty will create a market distortion favouring a state-owned airport against a private one. It will damage the economic viability of Bristol airport and have consequential detrimental effects in the south-west. When my right hon. Friend discusses this with the Chancellor, will he gently reflect on the fact that, had our colleagues not made such great gains in the south-west, there would not be a majority Conservative Government?"

The Sec of State replied, "I am sure that my right hon. Friend, like me, welcomes the fact that the Government are cutting APD in all parts of the UK. However, let us be clear: I want Cardiff airport to be a success story, but I also recognise that there are serious concerns about the effect APD devolution might have on competition issues in relation to Bristol airport."

I suppose the reference to cutting APD 'in all parts of the UK' refers to passengers under 16.

No surprise that this little exchange shed no new light on what the government may decide and I doubt that Dr Fox's attempt to pull in some favours for the South West's help in bringing in a Conservative government will cut much ice. Perversely, Bristol itself provides three of the four Labour MPs in the South West region with the other 51 being Conservative.
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APD again

Ministers hint at action to protect Newcastle Airport in George Osborne's Budget - Chronicle Live

Similar story up North. Lets see what the Budget brings...
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Gianni Infantino, the new FIFA President, used easyJet on Friday to fly from Geneva to BRS for the annual FA International Board meeting in Cardiff this weekend.

I couldn't imagine his predecessor, Herr Blatter, using a low-cost airline.
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Originally Posted by MerchantVenturer
Gianni Infantino, the new FIFA President, used easyJet on Friday to fly from Geneva to BRS for the annual FA International Board meeting in Cardiff this weekend.

I couldn't imagine his predecessor, Herr Blatter, using a low-cost airline.
Probably wouldn't have stooped low enough to fly on an airline, biz-jet more like for that (alleged) rogue.
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Passenger numbers

CAA stats show that BRS handled 437,478 passengers through the terminal in February an increase of 14.8% on February 2015, although as with other airports the additional day this leap year helped. The rolling 12-month total reached 6,885,518 which is 8.2% up on a year ago.

The 7 mppa stage seems certain to be reached and passed this year, although the summer is not likely to see the scale of monthly gains of last year as the base figure will be that much higher, although there will be an additional easyJet aircraft (making 13 at the BRS base) for the main summer period and the Wizz flights will operate right through the season which was not the case in 2015 as the airline only began operations in July and then only to Katowice.

However, what perhaps is more noteworthy is the fact that the winter performance is now assuming a greater role. For a number of years winter has been disproportionately weaker than summer in terms of flights and passenger numbers.

This winter though the period November through to February has seen double digit percentage increases each month.

November 2015 saw over 38,000 more passengers (than November 2014) and December saw 41,000 more than the previous December. This year there were 47,000 more in in January than in January 2015 and February saw an increase of over 56,000 over the previous February.

Overall this has given a percentage rise of 12.2% for these four winter months and in real terms over 182,000 more passengers.

I've not included March as this can be skewed depending on when Easter falls.
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That APD issue again.........

So no mention of APD devolution to Wales was made in this week’s Budget, despite predictions that it would be by many media commentators, but this may only be a temporary reprieve for BRS.

Once the Wales Bill was withdrawn a few weeks ago, mainly on the grounds that it might lessen the Wales Assembly Government’s (WAG) fiscal powers rather than enhance them and was so full of holes that the European Court of Justice might have been occupied for years dealing with legal challenges, it seemed to me that any decision to devolve APD would await the new Wales Bill which will be presented later this year.

The Westminster government continues to say that English airports will not be disadvantaged through APD devolution to other countries in the UK.

Of the three options mooted last year in a Government Discussion Paper only the one that would see powers over APD devolved fully or partially to local authorities or Combined Authorities (including mayoral city-regions) within England is likely to be both legal and pertinent to all airports irrespective of annual passenger throughput.

EU state aid rules dictate that Member States must not vary national tax rates so that they are more favourable to some regions or a region, because it would be deemed that a selective economic advantage had been provided to businesses operating in those regions or region.

Any devolution of tax powers must meet the ‘Azores criteria’ to comply with EU state aid rules which essentially means that the regional authority within a member state to which tax powers are devolved must bear a sufficient degree of fiscal and economic autonomy from central government.

Clearly the WAG does fall within these criteria but the current local authorities around Bristol don’t; at the moment but see below.

In yesterday’s Budget the chancellor gave the go ahead for a metro mayor for the Greater Bristol area; that’s the area that used to be the county of Avon but is now governed by four separate unitary authorities: Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset. If the proposal is agreed by these local authorities central government would give the mayoral-region power, and cash, to regulate transport and housing. Although not publicly stated the next step could be to extend this into genuine fiscal and economic autonomy.

However, the idea is unlikely to proceed as the short-lived county of Avon was reviled by nearly all the local residents and elected representatives, and this proposal is seen by many as a return to ‘the bad old days of Avon’. Although the Bristol and South Gloucestershire political leadership seem supportive of the idea those in the other two unitary authorities don’t as they believe that most money and power would reside in Bristol itself. Prominent Conservative MPs in these areas, Liam Fox and Jacob Rees-Mogg, have also come out strongly in opposition to the proposal.

Even if the plan went ahead and APD was one of the powers devolved the metro mayor region would find it impossible to cut APD. Devolution of APD would also mean a cut in government grants similar to the amount that could be raised in APD by the devolved authority.

With Wales it’s different because the WAG has a multi billion pound budget and CWL provides a relatively small return in APD, so cutting it to nil/abolishing it would be much more easily achievable within its much larger budget and the WAG leadership says it will do it.

BRS generates a far higher sum in APD and, put against the much smaller budget of the Greater Bristol area councils, cutting it would be impossible as there would be a huge shortfall in the authority’s overall budget. Even the Scottish government will only be able to afford to cut APD by half initially although the long term aim is to abolish it.

So having a metro mayoral region for the Bristol area could be a way for the chancellor to devolve APD to Wales and at the same time say he is not disadvantaging the West Country because they could have the power too if they wished, even though he would know their finances would not allow the sort of APD reduction that would take place in Wales.

Of course, if the UK votes to leave the EU the government would not be bound by any of the EU state aid rules and would be free to explore other ways of minimising any harm to English airports caused through devolution of APD to the rest of the UK.
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Just received the following on a BRS Airport newsletter - don't recall
it being posted on this thread



More flights and better schedules to key business destinations

•Improved day returns to Paris with evening flights Monday to Thursday
•A second daily flight to Düsseldorf every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
•New Sunday morning Frankfurt service, offering worldwide connections with Lufthansa
•Extra Monday morning flights to Munich


Got to be a positive, can't believe they would be adding frequency if the
routes weren't profitable
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The net result will be an additional five rotations per week.

CDG will see much better timings, at least on Monday through till Thursday when the second rotation will be an evening one instead of an afternoon one as is the case at present albeit Friday will remain like this through the summer.

Given that easyJet still only operates one daily rotation to CDG bmir will be useful for those wanting a day return journey on this route with the later second rotation.

The additional flights to FRA and MUC add a bit more to what is already a good frequency with FRA 3 x daily and MUC 2 x daily M-F with fewer at weekends. Loads seem very good for the most part although we don't know how much bmir gets from the LH code share.

DUS is the one that surprises me a bit. Loads have not been great and I would not have been surprised to see it disappear rather than be increased, although bmir's fares probably mean that the return is acceptable on relatively lightly loaded aircraft.

Looking to the summer Ryanair will be operating an average of around ten more rotations each week compared with summer 2015. Most are increases in frequency on some of the summer sun routes but there are also two new routes this summer: Reus returns after an absence of a couple of years and Krakow commences in competition with easyJet's long established route. All routes that operated last summer return for the coming summer.

Looking further ahead to next winter Wizz Air has now put all four BRS routes -Katowice, Kosice, Sofia and Warsaw Chopin - in its booking engine at the same frequency as the current winter. Sofia will be increased to an A 321 next February.
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CDG - the better Bmi timings together with the fact that Flybe have totally screwed the EXT-CDG schedules for the summer ought to give the Bmi regional Bristol-Paris operation a great jump start
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easyJet's new routes to Venice Marco Polo (4 x weekly) and Nantes (2 x weekly) began this week.

Easter seems to have given them a flying (yes, I know) start with the first outbound VCE flight on Wednesday shown as sold out as are the next two outbounds tomorrow and Sunday.

NTE begins today with the outbound shown as sold out.
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easyJet has extended its Keflavik route that was not due to operate after mid April. It will now operate at 2 x weekly until 9 June which means that for about a month in May and early June it will run in competition with the new WOW route to Keflavik operating at 3 x weekly .

WOW has recently put its Keflavik route into its booking engine for next winter at 2 x weekly. With easyJet due to resume KEF at the end of October there will be at least 4 weekly rotations next winter across both airlines.

In the past easyJet has operated KEF in winter at 3 x weekly. It remains to be seen whether there will be enough passengers for both airlines, albeit the winter months have proved busier than the summer months on BRS-KEF since the route opened in 2013 which until this year has been a year-round route for easyJet, and WOW has its transatlantic connectivity.

Thomson

Thomson summer 2017 programme has appeared on the Internet in recent days and shows additional rotations on a number of routes plus new ones for Thomson to Chania, Girona and Catania albeit these are already operated by Ryanair (the first two) and easyJet.

Early indications also suggest that Thomson will resume its routes to Mexico and Florida in summer 2017 operating respectively on Saturdays and Sundays. Both routes were axed after the summer 2013 programme.

It has to be said that history tells us that early versions of such networks don’t always come to fruition in entirety but these initial signs might be seen as a positive signal in general.

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Where abouts is these shown on the Thomson website ?
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Where abouts is these shown on the Thomson website ?
If you do a dummy booking search you can see it there. No flights loaded yet but give the option of USA and Mexico 👍🏻
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Begs the question if Thomson do USA / Mexico from BRI next summer (2017) what will they operate it with?
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Begs the question if Thomson do USA / Mexico from BRI next summer (2017) what will they operate it with?
Especially as the 787 and 767 are too big to operate from Bristol. 757 long haul would be so restricted as well.
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Previous long haul flights from BRS operated by Thomson a few years back where on the 767, so not to big to operate from the airport....
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