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I agree - I wasn't saying that SAS were doing the wrong thing running on Mon and Fri only; I was suggesting they needed some Star Alliance company at Bristol, preferably BD or LH going out to FRA twice a day.
Anyone know what happens if you check-in for the SK flight with Star Alliance Gold Card? Do you get a voucher for the Servisair lounge, or just a nice smile?
Anyone know what happens if you check-in for the SK flight with Star Alliance Gold Card? Do you get a voucher for the Servisair lounge, or just a nice smile?
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When I did the flights last weekend they were selling the Economy+, so I would think you would get lounge access.
The flight is very popular with both UK pax and Scandinavians and it looks like a 50/50 split. Both my flights were full. OK there are only 2 a week on a 736, but as I mentioned before SAS are really pleased with how well the flight has sold. It should be extended to a longer operating period next year, with hopefully a larger aircraft.
With this, you would hope that someone like LH would get wind of how well this is selling, without the connecting traffic and get something going themselves!
The flight is very popular with both UK pax and Scandinavians and it looks like a 50/50 split. Both my flights were full. OK there are only 2 a week on a 736, but as I mentioned before SAS are really pleased with how well the flight has sold. It should be extended to a longer operating period next year, with hopefully a larger aircraft.
With this, you would hope that someone like LH would get wind of how well this is selling, without the connecting traffic and get something going themselves!
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LH will probably be better off operating something larger than a CRJ twice a day to FRA, prob better off with something with 80ish seats maybe an AR8. Bacon did well with a single 50 seat a/c, with a twice daily 50 seat a/c you'd be able to fill on just point to point without the connections, so 2 or 3 per day on larger a/c required. If BHX can fill 4 daily 733's, BRS can surely fill 3 daily AR8's or CR7's.
Muc will prob work well on 2 x daily CRJ's with the connecting traffic too.
Muc will prob work well on 2 x daily CRJ's with the connecting traffic too.
I was told recently that early in the morning there will be 11 scheduled departures all within 1 hour and only 8 gates to board through. Bristol is creaking at the moment, it's gonna be chaos come winter.
Nice to see easy venturing further out from a regional base. 
With the launch of easyJetHolidays to allow people to book a package holiday with all the financial protections of a traditonal package holiday but with the benefit of tailoring the holiday to your requirement, I can see along with their press release that they are going to start going after the rest of the of the tradional package market around europe, with Tenerife just a short hop away how long before easyJet start going there?
With the launch of easyJetHolidays to allow people to book a package holiday with all the financial protections of a traditonal package holiday but with the benefit of tailoring the holiday to your requirement, I can see along with their press release that they are going to start going after the rest of the of the tradional package market around europe, with Tenerife just a short hop away how long before easyJet start going there?
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I'm trying to book ARN-BRS on Friday 28th September, and it's not showing up anywhere? When does that route stop?
(Typical - I actually have a business meeting that ends at 15:00 in Stockholm, and could have really done with a ARN-BRS direct).
(Typical - I actually have a business meeting that ends at 15:00 in Stockholm, and could have really done with a ARN-BRS direct).
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Has the local press picked up on the Congonhas disaster yet and re-interviewed any of the more blase airport spokespersons about runway grooving? Would have thought that'd be right up the Evening Post's street.
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New FCA routes for summer 08, BRS - Verona, Naples and Kefalonia.
Naples and Kefalonia were covered from CWL by FCA, so guessing they're being transfered to BRS after the pull out of FCA at CWL.
Verona is an interesting one, First Choice dont have a lakes and mountains brand anymore, so i'm guessing this is to accomodate Thomson and Crystal(part of TUI) Lakes and Mountains brands!
Naples and Kefalonia were covered from CWL by FCA, so guessing they're being transfered to BRS after the pull out of FCA at CWL.
Verona is an interesting one, First Choice dont have a lakes and mountains brand anymore, so i'm guessing this is to accomodate Thomson and Crystal(part of TUI) Lakes and Mountains brands!
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No extra a/c at the moment, as for longhaul, POP will operate FEB-APR 08 weekly, it will then be replaced by CUN weekly. The SFB will break between NOV and FEB, but will come back weekly again.
As for extra a/c, dont think BRS will see an extra a/c until possibly 2009, when BRS should see 'fingers crossed' a based 787.
Bet FCA arent too chuffed with EZY's FNC, although saying that, FNC is definatly an upper class OAP flight, i'll be surprised if any people wanting to go there would know how too, let alone want to book with a budget airline, but i guess EZY know what they're doing.
Great news on the LIS flight though.
As for extra a/c, dont think BRS will see an extra a/c until possibly 2009, when BRS should see 'fingers crossed' a based 787.
Bet FCA arent too chuffed with EZY's FNC, although saying that, FNC is definatly an upper class OAP flight, i'll be surprised if any people wanting to go there would know how too, let alone want to book with a budget airline, but i guess EZY know what they're doing.
Great news on the LIS flight though.
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what happens next summer regarding TUI ?, are they gone for good or will they operate through Bristol on ' W ' patterns. Also heard rumour that TCA-MYT are basing two a/c at Bristol for summer 08. if FCA dont have additional assets based and there are no TUI, then there is a lot of capacity uncatered for
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Well the FCA EXT programme is only showing 12 or so flights a week, compared to the current 16-17 at CWL, so maybe there is scope for some W patterns on a 320 next summer, wait and see i guess.
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More new routes announced today.
easyJet will fly to Gdansk 3 x weekly from 30 October and to Innsbruck 3 x weekly from 14 December.
Ryanair will fly to Turin 1 x weekly from 22 December.
This means that from this coming winter BRS will have twenty-five departures to Polish destinations each week, viz
easyJet to Krakow (7), Warsaw (3) and Gdansk (3).
Ryanair to Wroclaw (4), Katowice (3), Poznan (3) and Rzezsow (2).
With Ryanair's new routes to SZG (announced recently) and TRN, and easyJet's to INN, it seems that BRS's extremely healthy winter ski market (sixteen weekly ski charter flights in each of the last few winter seasons) is being gnawed at again by the low-cost scheduled airlines, what with easy's GVA (at least double-daily each day last winter and 4 x daily on some Saturdays) and GNB already well-established.
And who, a couple of years ago, would have thought there would be four Portuguese sched destinations? Need to get back some of those lost German routes now.
It seems that FR will not be flying BHD-BRS just yet in competition with easy's BFS-BRS because BRS was not amongst the routes to BHD announced by FR today.
easyJet will fly to Gdansk 3 x weekly from 30 October and to Innsbruck 3 x weekly from 14 December.
Ryanair will fly to Turin 1 x weekly from 22 December.
This means that from this coming winter BRS will have twenty-five departures to Polish destinations each week, viz
easyJet to Krakow (7), Warsaw (3) and Gdansk (3).
Ryanair to Wroclaw (4), Katowice (3), Poznan (3) and Rzezsow (2).
With Ryanair's new routes to SZG (announced recently) and TRN, and easyJet's to INN, it seems that BRS's extremely healthy winter ski market (sixteen weekly ski charter flights in each of the last few winter seasons) is being gnawed at again by the low-cost scheduled airlines, what with easy's GVA (at least double-daily each day last winter and 4 x daily on some Saturdays) and GNB already well-established.
And who, a couple of years ago, would have thought there would be four Portuguese sched destinations? Need to get back some of those lost German routes now.
It seems that FR will not be flying BHD-BRS just yet in competition with easy's BFS-BRS because BRS was not amongst the routes to BHD announced by FR today.
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The INN flights will be *very* interesting. INN is a horribly expensive airport to fly into normally (I speak from bitter experience), and suffers from terrible peak loading on Saturdays. I wonder if the airport have offered Easy better terms if they don't come in on "Bettenwechselsamstag"?
My in-laws flew in on Wednesday from SZG on the OS operated charter flight, and the A321 was completely full....
My in-laws flew in on Wednesday from SZG on the OS operated charter flight, and the A321 was completely full....
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I am delighted that both FR and EZY are expanding at BRS. Of course, the former only recently announced the base, so we should hopefully see a lot more routes from it in the forthcoming years.
I am pleased that there are now 7 routes to Poland from BRS (4 with FR, 3 with EZY). The vast majority of this will, of course, be ethnic- and VFR-based.
The transformation of BRS in the past few years has been astonishing, albeit not that surprising, and long may it continue.
I am pleased that there are now 7 routes to Poland from BRS (4 with FR, 3 with EZY). The vast majority of this will, of course, be ethnic- and VFR-based.
The transformation of BRS in the past few years has been astonishing, albeit not that surprising, and long may it continue.