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BM to HAM and FRA
Airline Routes is reporting that bmi Regional is to start flights to HAM and FRA
HAM looks like the Airbus Staff Shuttle going public since FZO closed, and the ABZ aircraft going to FRA.
Pretty good news. If they can sort out codeshare/interlining with LH, it'll be even better. The FRA timings aren't *ideal* (too late for a Europe trip, a bit too early for the Asia departures around 2200) but hey, take what we've been offered.
Happy New Year
bmi Regional in 2013 is introducing new services from Bristol to Germany. Starting 11FEB13, bmi Regional introduces Bristol Hamburg operation, where itll operate the route on weekdays only with Embraer ERJ135 aircraft, followed by Bristol Frankfurt 6 weekly ERJ135/145 service from 07APR13. Reservation for these routes will begin shortly after New Year.
Bristol Hamburg
BM1831 BRS0700 0935HAM ER3 1
BM1837 BRS1650 1925HAM ER3 x167
BM1832 HAM1005 1045BRS ER3 1
BM1838 HAM1955 2035BRS ER3 x167
From 02APR13, service operates 6 weekly with following schedule.
BM1837 BRS1650 1925HAM ER3 x6
BM1838 HAM1955 2035BRS ER3 x6
Bristol Frankfurt
BM1825 BRS1205 1435FRA ER3 7
BM1825 BRS1205 1435FRA ER4 x67
BM1826 FRA1520 1600BRS ER3 7
BM1826 FRA1520 1600BRS ER4 x67
Bristol Hamburg
BM1831 BRS0700 0935HAM ER3 1
BM1837 BRS1650 1925HAM ER3 x167
BM1832 HAM1005 1045BRS ER3 1
BM1838 HAM1955 2035BRS ER3 x167
From 02APR13, service operates 6 weekly with following schedule.
BM1837 BRS1650 1925HAM ER3 x6
BM1838 HAM1955 2035BRS ER3 x6
Bristol Frankfurt
BM1825 BRS1205 1435FRA ER3 7
BM1825 BRS1205 1435FRA ER4 x67
BM1826 FRA1520 1600BRS ER3 7
BM1826 FRA1520 1600BRS ER4 x67
Pretty good news. If they can sort out codeshare/interlining with LH, it'll be even better. The FRA timings aren't *ideal* (too late for a Europe trip, a bit too early for the Asia departures around 2200) but hey, take what we've been offered.
Happy New Year
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Good to hear from you again B_T. Happy New Year to you too.
In the airport/airline blurb that announced these routes it was stated that the HAM route would increase to 12 per week from 8 April - not sure whether that's 12 return flights (which I had assumed) or 12 sectors, ie six return flights.
From January the Airbus Corporate shuttle to Toulouse will commence from BRS operated by bmi regional, and the aforementioned blurb also contained a comment from bmi regional's CEO that the airline hopes to announce 'additional routes' from the airport in the new year.
In the airport/airline blurb that announced these routes it was stated that the HAM route would increase to 12 per week from 8 April - not sure whether that's 12 return flights (which I had assumed) or 12 sectors, ie six return flights.
From January the Airbus Corporate shuttle to Toulouse will commence from BRS operated by bmi regional, and the aforementioned blurb also contained a comment from bmi regional's CEO that the airline hopes to announce 'additional routes' from the airport in the new year.
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ema extra from b.m reg,
Was stated that a extra number of flights to new airports may be added in the new year but no date or start date was quoted,
may be has it is the H.Q now it may fit in for extra services.
Stuart
may be has it is the H.Q now it may fit in for extra services.
Stuart
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BMI Regional
With the Airbus Shuttle plus the pubic routes operating/announced, BMI Regional is going to be much in evidence at BRS. It will be almost like the BA franchise days with the small Embraer jets in and out.
Looking at next week's Mayfly which shows the Airbus Shuttle rotations operated by Bmi Regional on weekdays together with the existing BMR Aberdeen rotations, there will be a need for four separate aircraft using the airport at times from next month when the initial Hamburg service comes into operation.
This is on the assumptioon that next week's Shuttle programme is replicated each week. Of course, it may change from week to week. I don't know.
On some days the Shuttle seems to need two aircraft to operate parts of its programme, yet Friday's last arrival is at 0800 with no departures after that. Even then there appear to be some unbalanced rotations at certain times in the week so perhaps Mayfly is not entirely accurate about it all.
The Shuttle aircraft are shown on Mayfly as E145s which is the type used on the ABZ service. The Hamburg and Frankfurt routes (the latter starts in April) seem to be E135 routes.
For what it's worth the timetable would be as follows from February assuming the Shuttle programme remains as next week.
Monday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0700 dep Hamburg
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
1045 arr Hamburg
1100 arr Toulouse
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
2000 arr Aberdeen
Tuesday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0800 arr Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
0830 dep Chester
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Wednesday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0800 arr Toulouse
0830 dep Chester
1020 arr Aberdeen
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
1830 dep Chester
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Thursday
0700 dep Aberdeen
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
0800 arr Toulouse
0830 dep Chester
1020 arr Aberdeen
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
1830 dep Chester
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Friday
0700 dep Aberdeen
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
0800 arr Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
2000 arr Aberseen
2035 arr Hamburg
Saturday
No scheduled work though some aircraft used for charters, especially football/rugby teams plus a Bastia IT charter from BRS for 13 weeks in peak summer.
Sunday
1640 dep Aberdeen
2000 arr Aberdeen
From April Hamburg will operate Mon-Friday 2 x daily departing at 0700 and 1650 and returning at 1045 and 2035, plus the later rotation on Sundays. Frankfurt will operate Mon-Friday departing 1205 and returning at 1600.
Looking at next week's Mayfly which shows the Airbus Shuttle rotations operated by Bmi Regional on weekdays together with the existing BMR Aberdeen rotations, there will be a need for four separate aircraft using the airport at times from next month when the initial Hamburg service comes into operation.
This is on the assumptioon that next week's Shuttle programme is replicated each week. Of course, it may change from week to week. I don't know.
On some days the Shuttle seems to need two aircraft to operate parts of its programme, yet Friday's last arrival is at 0800 with no departures after that. Even then there appear to be some unbalanced rotations at certain times in the week so perhaps Mayfly is not entirely accurate about it all.
The Shuttle aircraft are shown on Mayfly as E145s which is the type used on the ABZ service. The Hamburg and Frankfurt routes (the latter starts in April) seem to be E135 routes.
For what it's worth the timetable would be as follows from February assuming the Shuttle programme remains as next week.
Monday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0700 dep Hamburg
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
1045 arr Hamburg
1100 arr Toulouse
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
2000 arr Aberdeen
Tuesday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0800 arr Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
0830 dep Chester
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Wednesday
0630 dep Toulouse
0700 dep Aberdeen
0800 arr Toulouse
0830 dep Chester
1020 arr Aberdeen
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
1830 dep Chester
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Thursday
0700 dep Aberdeen
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
0800 arr Toulouse
0830 dep Chester
1020 arr Aberdeen
1030 arr Chester
1540 dep Chester
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
1740 arr Chester
1810 dep Toulouse
1830 dep Chester
2000 arr Aberdeen
2035 arr Hamburg
Friday
0700 dep Aberdeen
0715 arr Chester
0745 dep Toulouse
0800 arr Toulouse
1020 arr Aberdeen
1640 dep Aberdeen
1650 dep Hamburg
2000 arr Aberseen
2035 arr Hamburg
Saturday
No scheduled work though some aircraft used for charters, especially football/rugby teams plus a Bastia IT charter from BRS for 13 weeks in peak summer.
Sunday
1640 dep Aberdeen
2000 arr Aberdeen
From April Hamburg will operate Mon-Friday 2 x daily departing at 0700 and 1650 and returning at 1045 and 2035, plus the later rotation on Sundays. Frankfurt will operate Mon-Friday departing 1205 and returning at 1600.
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pubic routes.
had to smile at the pubic route bit mv. time of posting you might have been tired. any case it brought a smile with pubic route.
happy new year mv.
happy new year mv.
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Can't even put it down to the subconscious either - far too old for those sorts of dreams.
Sounds as though it's some sort of advert for the Mile High Club.......all those Barbie jets too.
Incidentally, I hear that some are calling the Bristol Flying Centre terminal 2 now that it's home to the Airbus Corporate Shuttle.
Happy New Year to you, yeo valley.
Sounds as though it's some sort of advert for the Mile High Club.......all those Barbie jets too.
Incidentally, I hear that some are calling the Bristol Flying Centre terminal 2 now that it's home to the Airbus Corporate Shuttle.
Happy New Year to you, yeo valley.
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Airport infrastructure expansion
Firms land £150m Bristol Airport revamp framework Ι Construction Enquirer
The latest preparatory step has been taken along the road to the major expansion with 13 companies selected to bid for work on the various schemes in due course.
The latest preparatory step has been taken along the road to the major expansion with 13 companies selected to bid for work on the various schemes in due course.
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Airport infrastructure expansion
Further to my #2109, an airport spokesman was interviewed on the local BBC radio station this morning regarding the appointment of a pool of contractors in a 'framework' (created in order to avoid the tiresome EU procurement rules) to undertake the various parts of the infrastructure expansion.
The spokesman said that the next piece of work will be a central walkway which will be equipped with air bridges. The airport has not previously featured air bridges.
He gave no timescale for the work but rumours have been circulating for a while that the work would commence during the current winter.
Work on the onsite airport hotel is also expected to begin soon according to the BBC.
BBC News - Bristol Airport expansion: Pool of contractors appointed
The spokesman said that the next piece of work will be a central walkway which will be equipped with air bridges. The airport has not previously featured air bridges.
He gave no timescale for the work but rumours have been circulating for a while that the work would commence during the current winter.
Work on the onsite airport hotel is also expected to begin soon according to the BBC.
BBC News - Bristol Airport expansion: Pool of contractors appointed
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The central walkway will cover the area from stand 2 past 3, 5 and up to stand 4, basically replacing the so called rat run.
It will then connect opposite stand 2 with the western walkway and lead in to international arrivals, the design apparently looks very good with proper seating areas at stands 4 and 5, not sure of the gate set up for stands 2 & 3, I believe they may expand and enclose the areas just beyond the gate and make them similar to the gate holding areas in the current western walkway.
From what I'm led to believe an airbridge will serve stand 5, not sure about stand 4 as the stand runs alongside the airside road and only a few meters from the apron/taxiway boundary so I think an airbridge on stand 4 may impead on space by the road. I stand to be corrected however. Be great to see this starting to come in to place finally, and the long awaited hotel is well overdue at BRS.
It will then connect opposite stand 2 with the western walkway and lead in to international arrivals, the design apparently looks very good with proper seating areas at stands 4 and 5, not sure of the gate set up for stands 2 & 3, I believe they may expand and enclose the areas just beyond the gate and make them similar to the gate holding areas in the current western walkway.
From what I'm led to believe an airbridge will serve stand 5, not sure about stand 4 as the stand runs alongside the airside road and only a few meters from the apron/taxiway boundary so I think an airbridge on stand 4 may impead on space by the road. I stand to be corrected however. Be great to see this starting to come in to place finally, and the long awaited hotel is well overdue at BRS.
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Why is the long term car park still not tarmac to an acceptable standard? Lots of loose stones in the parking areas I noticed the other day and no improvement since I last used the long term car park there...although the car park space distance from the driving "lanes" appear narrower - but maybe that is just me!
Also big wave to the misreable security chap working who was loadly rude to the lady in front of me who asked a simple and reasonable question especially when security rules at different airports apply.....
"should I take my boots off as well"...(letting him see what kind of boots she was wearing)
answer - "well what do you think since everyone else is doing so"......
Ah Bristol - changed days indeed and they say bigger is better,,,,,,
Also big wave to the misreable security chap working who was loadly rude to the lady in front of me who asked a simple and reasonable question especially when security rules at different airports apply.....
"should I take my boots off as well"...(letting him see what kind of boots she was wearing)
answer - "well what do you think since everyone else is doing so"......
Ah Bristol - changed days indeed and they say bigger is better,,,,,,
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Direct bus link coming from Swansea via Cardiff and Newport to Bristol Airport.
Great news for BRS and Welsh travellers, one hell of a sucker punch for CWL
BBC News - Cardiff Airport: Direct South Wales coach route to rival Bristol Airport
Great news for BRS and Welsh travellers, one hell of a sucker punch for CWL
BBC News - Cardiff Airport: Direct South Wales coach route to rival Bristol Airport
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CAA stats for December
Interesting stats for December.
Whoever compiled them seems to have had plenty of liquid accompaniment to a good lunch before addressing the figures.
Apparently atms were down 36.5%, there were 0 passengers in December, yet the percentage change on December 2011 was 0%. December 2011 saw over 340,000 passengers.
The rolling 12-month total is shown as 5.576 million, down 3.3% on a year ago when only a month before (November 2012) the 12-month rolling total was 5.917 million, up 3.1% on the same period a year ago..
Do people actually get paid for publishing such nonsensical gobbledygook? Doesn't anyone ever check it?
Whoever compiled them seems to have had plenty of liquid accompaniment to a good lunch before addressing the figures.
Apparently atms were down 36.5%, there were 0 passengers in December, yet the percentage change on December 2011 was 0%. December 2011 saw over 340,000 passengers.
The rolling 12-month total is shown as 5.576 million, down 3.3% on a year ago when only a month before (November 2012) the 12-month rolling total was 5.917 million, up 3.1% on the same period a year ago..
Do people actually get paid for publishing such nonsensical gobbledygook? Doesn't anyone ever check it?
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It is only the provisional stats. They often release incomplete sets of data to keep to schedule. The full Bristol stats and any other missing data will be added in the coming days
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I realise that the CAA releases its monthly provisional stats in batches with not all airports included in the first batch, but that is not my point.
As you know, the monthly provisional stats are in three sections: domestic route analysis; international route analysis; airport statistics.
No problem with the domestic and international lists this time: all the BRS routes are shown as 0 in those as is normal because BRS is one of the airports not in the first batch of figures to be released.
When this happens such airports are not included at all in the provisional airport stats list (the headline one that seems to interest most people). For example, Norwich Airport is yet to be included for December.
I've seen mistakes before in the provisional list such as figures being transposed but never such nonsense as that appearing against the BRS entry.
The entry is more than incomplete, it's simply inaccurate.
There hasn't been a reduction of over a third of the flights compared with December 2011; the 12-month rolling total is not 5,576,501 - it's close to November's 12-month total which was 5,917,170.
As you know, the monthly provisional stats are in three sections: domestic route analysis; international route analysis; airport statistics.
No problem with the domestic and international lists this time: all the BRS routes are shown as 0 in those as is normal because BRS is one of the airports not in the first batch of figures to be released.
When this happens such airports are not included at all in the provisional airport stats list (the headline one that seems to interest most people). For example, Norwich Airport is yet to be included for December.
I've seen mistakes before in the provisional list such as figures being transposed but never such nonsense as that appearing against the BRS entry.
The entry is more than incomplete, it's simply inaccurate.
There hasn't been a reduction of over a third of the flights compared with December 2011; the 12-month rolling total is not 5,576,501 - it's close to November's 12-month total which was 5,917,170.
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Bristol Airport's Own Stats
Bristol Airport have published their own stats for December and 2012, which are as follows:
December 2012
Pax: 338,035 Up 0.36%
Atms: 3,756 Down 8.30%
Annual 2012:
Pax: 5,887,526 Up 2.84%
Atms: 61,477 Down 7.26%
Will be interesting to see what the CAA stats show when they are finally published as they tend to differ from the Airports own stats.
Figures courtesy of Bristol Airport website.
December 2012
Pax: 338,035 Up 0.36%
Atms: 3,756 Down 8.30%
Annual 2012:
Pax: 5,887,526 Up 2.84%
Atms: 61,477 Down 7.26%
Will be interesting to see what the CAA stats show when they are finally published as they tend to differ from the Airports own stats.
Figures courtesy of Bristol Airport website.
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Ryanair
Ryanair thread is reporting BRS-Szczecin commencing from 30 April. Szczecin is now shown in the Ryanair web timetable and booking engine but not yet bookable.
This route was operated by Ryanair in 2008-2009.
If all the routes operate that are currently shown for summer 2013 there will be nine Polish routes from BRS:
Ryanair
Gdansk
Katowice
Lodz
Poznan
Rzeszow
Szczecin
Warsaw Modlin
Wroclaw
easyJet
Krakow
This route was operated by Ryanair in 2008-2009.
If all the routes operate that are currently shown for summer 2013 there will be nine Polish routes from BRS:
Ryanair
Gdansk
Katowice
Lodz
Poznan
Rzeszow
Szczecin
Warsaw Modlin
Wroclaw
easyJet
Krakow
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far to many imo, they need some diffrent destinations to diffrent countries that polish destination was a disaster last time, so im baffled as to why they are bringing it back, lets hope oporto, seville, marrakesh, rimini, calgari returns. they all had good load factors