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Is it true that when one of Aurigny's ATR's went tech recently they used a Trislander to do the Bristol to Guernsey run? 
Much though I like flying on the Tri I can't imagine that would have been much fun if it is true!
Much though I like flying on the Tri I can't imagine that would have been much fun if it is true!
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I used the CO over the weekend, just thought i'd share my experiance, what a great service...last time i went to NYC in 2005 was with AA from LHR, this was so much better, flight was pretty much on time leaving BRS, great crew who were telling me how much they enjoyed their little 48 hr BRS jaunts and that they love the "Party scene" and the random locals,
O/B, flight was full in economy but business was nearly empty, but then it was a friday...got to EWR, strait off the plane, cleared customs in 2 minutes(compared to 1.3 hrs at JFK last time), had bags within 10 mins, strait outside for a taxi, at my hotel 30 mins later and at the top of the Empire State building within an hour and half of landing!
Coming home, no que at check-in, flight on time again and i reckon 95% full incl business, great crew again got a couple of free beers just for chatting with the crew and telling them that "the other place like Stonehenge" that they wanted to visit is called Avebury, and that yes Bath is well worth a visit, 6hrs 10 mins later and i'm pulling on to stand 2 at BRS, 20 mins later(good work s-air) i'm in my car for my half hour drive home....and one very happy girlfriend!
A great service and a much more relaxing way to visit NYC.
It was also great to hear that the CO crew seem to enjoy coming to BRS, long may it continue
O/B, flight was full in economy but business was nearly empty, but then it was a friday...got to EWR, strait off the plane, cleared customs in 2 minutes(compared to 1.3 hrs at JFK last time), had bags within 10 mins, strait outside for a taxi, at my hotel 30 mins later and at the top of the Empire State building within an hour and half of landing!
Coming home, no que at check-in, flight on time again and i reckon 95% full incl business, great crew again got a couple of free beers just for chatting with the crew and telling them that "the other place like Stonehenge" that they wanted to visit is called Avebury, and that yes Bath is well worth a visit, 6hrs 10 mins later and i'm pulling on to stand 2 at BRS, 20 mins later(good work s-air) i'm in my car for my half hour drive home....and one very happy girlfriend!
A great service and a much more relaxing way to visit NYC.
It was also great to hear that the CO crew seem to enjoy coming to BRS, long may it continue
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Well we did supply them with a list of half decent eateries and watering holes within staggering distance of their crew hotel.
Nice to know that they like what they have found.
Nice to know that they like what they have found.
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Anyone know what happened to the thomson Luxor service that was supposed to operate this winter and when they close the thomson base will the a/c still operate 'W' patterns through Brs
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yv,
The apron website has been down for a couple of days or more.
I hope it's not being taken out of use because it is very useful, especially the Mayflys.
The main airport website had problems yesterday with online car park booking but that's now back.
The apron website has been down for a couple of days or more.
I hope it's not being taken out of use because it is very useful, especially the Mayflys.
The main airport website had problems yesterday with online car park booking but that's now back.
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Maybe its all to do with thepower cut they had a couple of days ago. It was a planned 1 but it still caused a lot of problems the next day! A few of the shops couldnt open cus of their tills and i think it affected the fid screens as well.
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January 2008 CAA provisional stats show BRS passenger numbers increased by 19.8% compared with January 2007, although the latter was untypically low following the temporary closure of the airport because of the well-publicised runway problems. Rolling 12 months show BRS handled 5.94 million passengers, up 4.7% on the same period the previous year.
A few points below taken from the latest airport consultative committee minutes that have been published this week.
The Airport Flyer coach saw a 22% increase in the number of people using the facility in 2007 compared with 2006. 440,000 people travelled on the coach, representing around 7.5% of airport users.
This has prompted the airport to look at extending the Flyer service to Bath and Weston, something the master plan says won’t be feasible until annual airport throughput reaches 9 million so a change there then, and to increase the frequency of the Flyer to ten-minute intervals at certain times of the day; it is currently at fifteen-minute intervals for much of the day and early evening. They are to introduce a web booking facility for the Flyer.
The controversial walkway to the western apron will cost £9 million and will have air-conditioning and be heated, assuming it is built. Originally, the airport’s rationale was that the walkway would save numerous bus journeys to remote stands and thus be better for the environment. In the minutes the CEO seemed to be placing more emphasis on the operational advantages, saying that during the morning rush they are encountering problems finding enough buses to service the parked aircraft in the time the likes of easyJet and Ryanair require.
The CEO said an increasing number of business people are using the low-cost airline services from BRS - doubtless aimed in the direction of at least one committee member who is vehemently anti-expansion.
In fact, the 2007 influential Cushman and Wakefield UK Cities Monitor survey of senior executives of two hundred major companies in the UK found that in international transport links Bristol comes fifth after London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.
The city was also judged fourth best UK city in which to locate a business behind London, Manchester and Birmingham and, along with Birmingham, could expect to see the biggest influx of new companies in the next five years with only Manchester seeing more.
This sort of thing needs to be pushed publicly by the airport to counter the anti-expansionists’ mantra that the airport is overwhelmingly a facility for leisure travellers.
Addendum: The apron website is back today after around ten days out.
A few points below taken from the latest airport consultative committee minutes that have been published this week.
The Airport Flyer coach saw a 22% increase in the number of people using the facility in 2007 compared with 2006. 440,000 people travelled on the coach, representing around 7.5% of airport users.
This has prompted the airport to look at extending the Flyer service to Bath and Weston, something the master plan says won’t be feasible until annual airport throughput reaches 9 million so a change there then, and to increase the frequency of the Flyer to ten-minute intervals at certain times of the day; it is currently at fifteen-minute intervals for much of the day and early evening. They are to introduce a web booking facility for the Flyer.
The controversial walkway to the western apron will cost £9 million and will have air-conditioning and be heated, assuming it is built. Originally, the airport’s rationale was that the walkway would save numerous bus journeys to remote stands and thus be better for the environment. In the minutes the CEO seemed to be placing more emphasis on the operational advantages, saying that during the morning rush they are encountering problems finding enough buses to service the parked aircraft in the time the likes of easyJet and Ryanair require.
The CEO said an increasing number of business people are using the low-cost airline services from BRS - doubtless aimed in the direction of at least one committee member who is vehemently anti-expansion.
In fact, the 2007 influential Cushman and Wakefield UK Cities Monitor survey of senior executives of two hundred major companies in the UK found that in international transport links Bristol comes fifth after London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.
The city was also judged fourth best UK city in which to locate a business behind London, Manchester and Birmingham and, along with Birmingham, could expect to see the biggest influx of new companies in the next five years with only Manchester seeing more.
This sort of thing needs to be pushed publicly by the airport to counter the anti-expansionists’ mantra that the airport is overwhelmingly a facility for leisure travellers.
Addendum: The apron website is back today after around ten days out.
Last edited by MerchantVenturer; 29th Feb 2008 at 14:12. Reason: apron website
Security Queues
Arrived at BRS on Sunday evening (9th March) for my regular flight to Berlin to find that the queue for security screening went down the stairs, across the check-in hall and through the little tunnel almost as far as the Subway sandwich place. The queues have been getting worse and worse each Sunday evening for the last few weeks. I queued up for 45 minutes just to get to the security screening area only to find they only had three machines in operation.
Sunday evening is a busy time with about 8 flights going out between 17:30 and 18:30, surely they should have all their machines manned during that period? The whole situation was given a touch of farce when final boarding calls were being made and the pax were still trying to get through security.
The team of operators on the fourth machine shut down and left at the end of their shift at 17:30 when the queue was still out past the boarding pass check desk and probably still off down the stairs. I appreciate Sunday evening shifts are probably the least sought after, but are they really having problems manning the security area or have the airport management deliberately created this situation?
Is it also like this on other days?
Sunday evening is a busy time with about 8 flights going out between 17:30 and 18:30, surely they should have all their machines manned during that period? The whole situation was given a touch of farce when final boarding calls were being made and the pax were still trying to get through security.
The team of operators on the fourth machine shut down and left at the end of their shift at 17:30 when the queue was still out past the boarding pass check desk and probably still off down the stairs. I appreciate Sunday evening shifts are probably the least sought after, but are they really having problems manning the security area or have the airport management deliberately created this situation?
Is it also like this on other days?
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This sounds like the morning situation although when I left in the morning rush a few Fridays ago the queues weren't that long; took about 10-15 minutes to get through security from the back of the queue.
I shall be through again this week in the morning rush so will be hopeful things are at least as good.
As I'm sure you are aware, the entire security scene is being revamped and enlarged. Not before time by the sound of it, although there will still need to be people to man it in appropriate numbers.
It seems that easyJet now have eleven 319s based at BRS (eleven in tonight and eleven out in the morning according to the boards). Presumably the eleventh aircraft which operated in peak summer last year is becoming permanant.
Tomorrow morning shows 25 departures between 6 and 9, including the eleven easyJet 319s plus two easyJet 737s from BFS and NCL, 3 Ryanair 738s and an assortment of other scheduled and charter operators.
If it's like this in early March what will it be like in the summer with the extra charter flights and new scheduled routes and carriers?
The security system will need to be in tiptop shape.
I shall be through again this week in the morning rush so will be hopeful things are at least as good.
As I'm sure you are aware, the entire security scene is being revamped and enlarged. Not before time by the sound of it, although there will still need to be people to man it in appropriate numbers.
It seems that easyJet now have eleven 319s based at BRS (eleven in tonight and eleven out in the morning according to the boards). Presumably the eleventh aircraft which operated in peak summer last year is becoming permanant.
Tomorrow morning shows 25 departures between 6 and 9, including the eleven easyJet 319s plus two easyJet 737s from BFS and NCL, 3 Ryanair 738s and an assortment of other scheduled and charter operators.
If it's like this in early March what will it be like in the summer with the extra charter flights and new scheduled routes and carriers?
The security system will need to be in tiptop shape.
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BRS was bad last night also. The last KL flight from AMS was stuck on the ramp for 20 minutes 'as the steps don't seem to go low enough for this type of aircraft'. Let's see - 4 flights a day for how many years, and they don't which steps fit the Fokker?!
If that wasn't enough the passport check queue snaked its way all the way back up up stairs to the ramp, wasting another 20+ minutes. And that at 23:00. Goodness knows what it was like earlier.
Seems BRS has outgrown its own level of competence.
If that wasn't enough the passport check queue snaked its way all the way back up up stairs to the ramp, wasting another 20+ minutes. And that at 23:00. Goodness knows what it was like earlier.
Seems BRS has outgrown its own level of competence.
Indeed EZY does now have 11th aircraft based at BRS and in August the 12th will be there - temporarily (just like the 11th one was, hopefully).
The security queues are eye raising I agree. The improvements shortly to be unveiled will hopefully ease the situation greatly.
WWW
The security queues are eye raising I agree. The improvements shortly to be unveiled will hopefully ease the situation greatly.
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Lufthansa booking engine
Hi all
Despite my lack of postings I'm an avid reader of the BRS threads, and M.V. always manages to provide an objective viewpoint.
So maybe M.V. can assist with this
Lufthansa booking page on their web site 
I've tried unsuccessfully to book a flight to Athens via FRA recently and all I got on the LH web page was a blank page once I'd filled in all the required fields.
Eventually I had to resort to another search engine and have succesfully booked the trip. But doesn't bode well for LH if they can't get their own web page up and running correctly.
Despite my lack of postings I'm an avid reader of the BRS threads, and M.V. always manages to provide an objective viewpoint.
So maybe M.V. can assist with this
Lufthansa booking page on their web site I've tried unsuccessfully to book a flight to Athens via FRA recently and all I got on the LH web page was a blank page once I'd filled in all the required fields.
Eventually I had to resort to another search engine and have succesfully booked the trip. But doesn't bode well for LH if they can't get their own web page up and running correctly.
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I've tried unsuccessfully to book a flight to Athens via FRA recently and all I got on the LH web page was a blank page once I'd filled in all the required fields.
Having kept an eye on this, I have a strong suspicion that lufthansa pre-cache or otherwise pre-calculate the fare matrices for routes, and that they only do so once someone had asked for them. In a few instances on this board, people have had problems getting fares, or only getting full Y fares, only for it to clear up a few days later.
The couple of lufthansa people I've mentioned it to assure me that there's nothing nefarious going on, so maybe this is just new-route-teething problems for their own website. Ironic, isn't it?
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The security queues are eye raising I agree. The improvements shortly to be unveiled will hopefully ease the situation greatly.
The security queues are eye raising I agree. The improvements shortly to be unveiled will hopefully ease the situation greatly.
My foremost concern with the security situation is the impact that missing a KL flight to AMS or a LH flight to FRA might have on a passenger who's flying on long-haul somewhere else. That kind of re-booking can be extraordinarily expensive for airline, and all because a bunch of hens and stags on a 99p flight to Prague can't get their fluids sorted out!