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Old 13th May 2011, 12:03
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Bit of news from the BEP website

BRISTOL Airport is to introduce charges for people who are dropping off and picking up passengers at Lulsgate.

The move to charge people dropping passengers off puts Bristol in the same category of world class airports as Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh and Liverpool

Whilst I agree that promoting more sustainable travel to the airport is essential, this does seem like a highly cynical money grabbing move to me.
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Old 16th May 2011, 11:44
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Passenger number for April 485,382 up 33.24% ( ok, it was the Ash Cloud last year and this year includes all of Easter) but even taking that into account there must be some generic growth in that somewhere.
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Old 16th May 2011, 12:56
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re drop off parking charges

this was always going to happen from the time they shut off the forecourt for drop offs.
you have to pay for virtually everything else at bristol so there was no way they would miss out on the opportunity to generate more revenue.
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Old 16th May 2011, 20:18
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Passenger number for April 485,382 up 33.24% ( ok, it was the Ash Cloud last year and this year includes all of Easter) but even taking that into account there must be some generic growth in that somewhere.
The airport's own monthly figures are usually a few thousand down on the CAA provisional stats when they are published. I was told the difference is partly because the airport excludes transit passengers from its figures but so does the CAA seem to in its monthly provisional airport figures though not in the final figures published a month or two later.............bit of a mystery then.

Yet again this month BRS is not in the first batch of CAA provisional stats but when they do appear they will likely be around 490,000 which will equal the best ever April (2008) in the record-breaking year of 6.23 mppa, and about 17% up on April 2009 when Easter was only a week earlier than this year. That said, in 2008 Easter was in late March.

It's obviously accepted that this April's huge percentage rise in passenger numbers is a statistical freak because of the volcanic ash closure (and early Easter) of April 2010, but there are still signs that give cause for some optimism.

The airport does not record rolling 12-monthly passenger totals, only the current calendar year. The first four months of 2011 saw 1,547,043 passengers passing through the airport, up 4.49% on the same period last year but we have to take into account that ash closure in 2010.

"Full Service Airline" you say?

I hope for a ME (But no one has suitable equipment as far as I know) or US carrier. I don't think it will be either of those.

I imagine it will be either SAS or a link to Germany from someone.
A web site that specialises in aviation news suggests that the routes will be to Germany, Scandinavia and eastern Europe.

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Old 16th May 2011, 20:32
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Return of SAS on the cards then I wonder? Loads were always good I believe.

I would also not be surprised to see BMI Regional picking up DUS/ MUC.
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MV, What is the other web site that specialises in aviation news ? Pray do tell
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Old 18th May 2011, 19:55
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Munich, hamburg and a Scandinavian capital city would be very nice indeed!
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Old 18th May 2011, 21:54
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Check your PMs. Link forwarded.
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Old 18th May 2011, 23:25
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Why is it a secret?
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Old 19th May 2011, 10:40
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For anyone else who might be interested the link is:

Bristol Airport expects new routes for 2012 : Bristol Airport News Stories
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Old 19th May 2011, 22:37
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Someone mentioned the £1 charge to drop people off, and the money making opportunity BRS has seen. Well, they have been kind enough to increase the drop off time to 20 minutes which is a great help - £1 for 20 minutes, or a several pounds for exceeding 10 minutes? Besides, there's a new 10 minute free drop off point nearby, apparently. All reported in my local newspaper, so could be wrong!

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MV,

Thanks for that, i was going to ask if you'd seen that as well.

Regards CJ
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Old 22nd May 2011, 10:09
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Nice to see a couple of different visitors to BRS this weekend for the Rugby airlift, Blue Panorama B767 parked up all day on stand 26 and Aeronova metroliner on stand 10 parked up all day also, plus some extra FR's all from/to DUB
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Old 1st Jun 2011, 17:32
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"Full Service Airline" you say?

I hope for a ME (But no one has suitable equipment as far as I know) or US carrier. I don't think it will be either of those.
I'm not too fussed about a 'full service airline' (and what's one of those these days anyway?), but I do think it's time to have an 'alliance affiliated' airline other than Skyteam.

I'm trying hard with SN to BRU, but BRU isn't a good hub and particularly not for long-haul.

If I was writing to Hr. Prock-Schauer at bmi, I'd be encouraging him to take his soon-to-be-returned-from-Lufthansa-Italia A319 and sending it off from BRS to useful places like ZRH, MUC, CPH or even FRA. That would even be in line with his recent comments about BD's future role delivering UK passengers to LH group hubs. Failing that, another jungle jet would do.

Twice weekly to ARN/OSL on SK (or a relocation of LH's Summer Saturdays NQY-DUS!) would be a disappointment.
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Yep I agree it is time to get someone other than Skyteam in at BRS, and yes, BD to BRU doesn't really count

I mentioned ME for purely selfish reasons, as I work a lot in ME and Asia and fly about once a fortnight to *somewhere far away* (Currently writing this from a hotel in Maldives! (Here for work though ))

As I said with BHX and LHR both only 100 miles away I don't think QR, EY, or EK would bring anything to BRS even if we had the rwy for the A330.

I still reckon it will be LH/ BMI to MUC/ DUS first to appear though (At least that gets a decent *A carrier with decent connections in though!)
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Ryanair Welcomes 260M UK Passengers

New route to Katowice and Knock dropped.
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Old 2nd Jun 2011, 18:27
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I still reckon it will be LH/ BMI to MUC/ DUS first to appear though
MUC, OK. DUS, errr.. I'm not sure even LH has worked out what it's doing with DUS, and it's certainly not a long-haul hub except for a few flights to the US East.

I've been using ZRH a lot more than FRA recently, so it would potentially pip FRA in a "which hub do you want?" race. In terms of short/mid/long haul options, it's better than MUC. And LX do some jolly reasonable intra-European fares too.

Wherever it is, please can we have flights that line up with the flight banks, not drop into the gaps between them? BRU consists either of 35 minute sprints down escalators, along travellators and up escalators again; 4 hour stopovers, or 10 hour stop overs (on Royal Wedding day) due to cocked up 35 minute connections.
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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 16:45
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RAK seems to have gone too.....
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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 18:35
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RAK seems to have gone too.....
I believe the "Arab Spring" has led to arrogant, crass, potentially insane autocratic dictators who treat their subjects poorly being rather unwelcome across North Africa and the Middle East.
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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 18:43
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Ryanair winter 11/12

Winter 10/11 had 18 routes whilst 11/12 is shown as 17 routes.

Of last winter's routes Beziers, Bratislava, Knock, Marrakesh and Venice Treviso don't appear in the coming winter's timetable, whilst 'new' routes will be Rzeszow, Riga, Katowice and Bergamo.

In fact, they have all appeared before at one time or another as winter routes at BRS since the base opened in November 2007.

Rzeszow and Riga have been summer-only routes in recent years whilst Katowice was axed altogether in 2009. Bergamo was a year-round route until last winter when it was discontinued but remained in summer.

The full list of winter 11/12 routes is:

Alicante, Bergamo, Dublin, Faro, Girona, Gdansk, Gran Canaria, Katowice, Kaunas, Lanzarote, Malaga, Malta, Poznan, Riga, Rzeszow, Tenerife and Wroclaw.
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