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I have already seen the YouTube video when it was first released and all the images online but I was curious if they had gone so far as installing any jetways but obviously not.
The reason I ask is because of post 3029.
Thanks for the update.
The reason I ask is because of post 3029.
Thanks for the update.
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Hi Canberra97.
If you look at the far eastern end on the open air balcony area, there is a small spur just behind the temporary coaching/holding lounge, Stand 6-7 area apparently that is where it is supposed to be attached when required. no official statement announced.
If you look at the far eastern end on the open air balcony area, there is a small spur just behind the temporary coaching/holding lounge, Stand 6-7 area apparently that is where it is supposed to be attached when required. no official statement announced.
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Is there a cheaper alternative means of transport for two adults from BRS in to the city centre - other than walking :-) £7 each for the express bus seems quite expensive.
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Most places you pay over £ 2 each for a single bus ticket anywhere in the city -
Bristol Apt is out of town and you're a glamorous international-jet-setter just off your Gulfstream G.650 from Barbados with a couple of carrier bags full of duty free booze............. Just be thankful it isn't run by Heathrow Express..........
Bristol Apt is out of town and you're a glamorous international-jet-setter just off your Gulfstream G.650 from Barbados with a couple of carrier bags full of duty free booze............. Just be thankful it isn't run by Heathrow Express..........
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From CH-Aviation:
PowdAir (Sion) is a virtual carrier looking to offer direct flights from various UK, Dutch, and Belgian airports to Sion located in the heart of Switzerland’s most popular winter sports region, the Valais.
The start-up said in a statement that effective December 17 onwards, it will offer flights from Sion to each of London Southend, Bournemouth, Southampton, Bristol Int'l, Manchester Int'l and Edinburgh in the UK as well as Brussels in Belgium, and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Operations are on-board two Fokker 100s chartered from Croatia's Trade Air (C3, Zagreb).
Transfers from Sion to the ski resorts of Verbier, Zermatt, Crans-Montana, Zinal-Grimentz, Leukerbad and Anzère will be available.
PowdAir (Sion) is a virtual carrier looking to offer direct flights from various UK, Dutch, and Belgian airports to Sion located in the heart of Switzerland’s most popular winter sports region, the Valais.
The start-up said in a statement that effective December 17 onwards, it will offer flights from Sion to each of London Southend, Bournemouth, Southampton, Bristol Int'l, Manchester Int'l and Edinburgh in the UK as well as Brussels in Belgium, and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Operations are on-board two Fokker 100s chartered from Croatia's Trade Air (C3, Zagreb).
Transfers from Sion to the ski resorts of Verbier, Zermatt, Crans-Montana, Zinal-Grimentz, Leukerbad and Anzère will be available.
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Blue Air
Last night there were strong rumours that Bristol (BRS)-Bucharest (OTP) would be one of seven new routes that Blue Air said would be announced today.
When the announcement came this morning on the airline's social media site there were only six new routes announced, but BRS-OTP was not one of them.
However, BRS-OTP appeared in the airline's website booking engine this morning (but with no booking availability) as did details of flights in the airline's website schedules section. Flights were to operate 3 x weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with timings shown. By lunchtime BRS-OTP had been removed from both the booking engine and schedules section.
Someone asked the airline about all this on the airline's social media site later today and received this reply: this route is not part of our flight schedule but keep following us, we might surprise you!
That comment might suggest the details were entered into the booking system etc prematurely but, if so, what happened to the seventh route (whatever it was) that Blue Air said would be announced today?
Bucharest would be a surprising choice to some people, including me. Ryanair only began it in the current winter - the first time OTP was operated from BRS other than odd one-off flights - and it's no doubt still building. Larnaca might be thought a better bet. Currently there are charter flights to LCA but no scheduled service. The only scheduled service from BRS to Cyprus is that of easyJet to Paphos.
When the announcement came this morning on the airline's social media site there were only six new routes announced, but BRS-OTP was not one of them.
However, BRS-OTP appeared in the airline's website booking engine this morning (but with no booking availability) as did details of flights in the airline's website schedules section. Flights were to operate 3 x weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with timings shown. By lunchtime BRS-OTP had been removed from both the booking engine and schedules section.
Someone asked the airline about all this on the airline's social media site later today and received this reply: this route is not part of our flight schedule but keep following us, we might surprise you!
That comment might suggest the details were entered into the booking system etc prematurely but, if so, what happened to the seventh route (whatever it was) that Blue Air said would be announced today?
Bucharest would be a surprising choice to some people, including me. Ryanair only began it in the current winter - the first time OTP was operated from BRS other than odd one-off flights - and it's no doubt still building. Larnaca might be thought a better bet. Currently there are charter flights to LCA but no scheduled service. The only scheduled service from BRS to Cyprus is that of easyJet to Paphos.
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Anyone know why 4 inbound bmi flights diverted to EXT last night (13MAR)?
It's causing a fair bit of chaos this morning, as it was the aircraft running the BRU, FRA, DUS and CDG flights that ended up too far down the M5, so the outbounds are being similarly delayed.
It's causing a fair bit of chaos this morning, as it was the aircraft running the BRU, FRA, DUS and CDG flights that ended up too far down the M5, so the outbounds are being similarly delayed.
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Bristol Traveller - it was due to dense fog last night. Down to 50m at one point. Lots of aircraft holding over-head for a while - guess BMIR made the decision to divert.
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Just an interesting little conversation piece !, with the addition of 3,500 new parking spaces on the south side, this is said to make it the second largest open air car park in the world, only outdone by a shopping mall in Canada. How true this claim is, I don't know
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I thought that was Royal Portbury Dock.
I was surprised the local authority approved the application to extend the south side car park which the airport said was necessary because of increased passenger numbers, with the first multi-story car park not yet built to assist with the increased numbers.
Airport consultative committee meeting minutes show that the first multi-storey car park which will be on the north side will see work on it commence this coming October with a completion date in spring 2018.
Incidentally, the airport published its own passenger figures for February this week. They show a rise of 11.4% over February 2016 (which was a leap year of course) meaning that the first two months of this year have seen over 100,000 more passengers than the corresponding period last year which itself was another record. Currently the 12-month rolling total is in excess of 7.7 million with over 8 million seemingly nailed on for the calendar year of 2017, unless some unexpected calamitous event occurs.
This summer is unlikely to see the sort of double digit percentage monthly rises of last summer. There will be one additional easyJet aircraft which will help the airline provide 6.7% more seats this year to a total of over 4.86 million. In 2016 two million business passengers used easyJet at BRS.
Increases in non-easyJet traffic are expected to be relatively modest, especially in terms of the additional 820,000 passengers seen in 2016. Nevertheless, these figures demonstrate the need for extra car parking and other facilities. It's likely that the airport will have gone from 6.33 mppa in 2014 to over 8 mppa in 2017.
I was surprised the local authority approved the application to extend the south side car park which the airport said was necessary because of increased passenger numbers, with the first multi-story car park not yet built to assist with the increased numbers.
Airport consultative committee meeting minutes show that the first multi-storey car park which will be on the north side will see work on it commence this coming October with a completion date in spring 2018.
Incidentally, the airport published its own passenger figures for February this week. They show a rise of 11.4% over February 2016 (which was a leap year of course) meaning that the first two months of this year have seen over 100,000 more passengers than the corresponding period last year which itself was another record. Currently the 12-month rolling total is in excess of 7.7 million with over 8 million seemingly nailed on for the calendar year of 2017, unless some unexpected calamitous event occurs.
This summer is unlikely to see the sort of double digit percentage monthly rises of last summer. There will be one additional easyJet aircraft which will help the airline provide 6.7% more seats this year to a total of over 4.86 million. In 2016 two million business passengers used easyJet at BRS.
Increases in non-easyJet traffic are expected to be relatively modest, especially in terms of the additional 820,000 passengers seen in 2016. Nevertheless, these figures demonstrate the need for extra car parking and other facilities. It's likely that the airport will have gone from 6.33 mppa in 2014 to over 8 mppa in 2017.
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Quick TOM Summer 2018 summary:
Summer 2017 - 51 ShortHaul / 2 LongHaul
Summer 2018 - 55 ShortHaul / 3 LongHaul (+4 SH / +1 LH)
Extra flights to
BOJ (up to 2x weekly) (+1),
CFU (up to 3x weekly)(+1),
DBV (up to 2x weekly)(+1),
ZTH (up to 3x weekly)(+1),
New flights to
SSH (1x weekly)(+1),
FNC (1x weekly)(+1),
PUJ (1x weekly)(+1),
Dropped routes:
AYT (1x weekly in Summer 2017)(-1),
EFL (1x weekly in Summer 2017)(-1),
B788 will operate
SID on Wed afternoon, (upgraded from 757 operating on Fridays in Summer 2017)
PUJ on Thurs, (NEW)
SFB on Fri, (operated on Sunday in 2017)
CUN on Sat
Summer 2017 - 51 ShortHaul / 2 LongHaul
Summer 2018 - 55 ShortHaul / 3 LongHaul (+4 SH / +1 LH)
Extra flights to
BOJ (up to 2x weekly) (+1),
CFU (up to 3x weekly)(+1),
DBV (up to 2x weekly)(+1),
ZTH (up to 3x weekly)(+1),
New flights to
SSH (1x weekly)(+1),
FNC (1x weekly)(+1),
PUJ (1x weekly)(+1),
Dropped routes:
AYT (1x weekly in Summer 2017)(-1),
EFL (1x weekly in Summer 2017)(-1),
B788 will operate
SID on Wed afternoon, (upgraded from 757 operating on Fridays in Summer 2017)
PUJ on Thurs, (NEW)
SFB on Fri, (operated on Sunday in 2017)
CUN on Sat
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Antalya
Yes, Freebird is operating Antalya for TUI this summer, commencing next month.
Thomas Cook is also operating to Antalya 2 x weekly this summer and 3 x weekly in summer 2018, so that might be one reason why TUI has pulled its flight next year, that and the problems in Turkey.
Thomas Cook is also operating to Antalya 2 x weekly this summer and 3 x weekly in summer 2018, so that might be one reason why TUI has pulled its flight next year, that and the problems in Turkey.
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BRS has been overshadowed in recent days with the Cardiff Qatar news. The only bits of 'news' from the airport this week are that the local authority and the airport are investing £650,000 into looking at ways of improving surface access to the airport, and the new A3 Weston-super-Mare Flyer will commence operations at the end of this month.
Back to Qatar and CWL, I'm not aware of any public reaction to the news from the senior management of BRS, although I suppose there is nothing they could say beyond expressing disappointment that Qatar didn't choose them coupled with a vow to try to land a ME carrier themselves, which of course has become that much more difficult (and unlikely?).
There has been a good deal of speculation as to why Qatar decide to go to CWL when BRS has an undeniably larger and more affluent core catchment with easier access to peripheral catchments such as the South West in general.
I wonder if it's simply a matter of operational requirements. The B787-8 should have no trouble with Doha from BRS - TUI starts flying them to Mexico and Florida from BRS next month. However, if Qatar had decided that a narrow-bodied Airbus was the appropriate equipment for a Severnside route can anyone say whether any of that type operated by Qatar could reach Doha non-stop from the BRS runway (2011metres at 190 metres AMSL) with a 'typical' passenger load? It might not be that typical actually as BRS has no cargo facilities.
Many thanks for any authoritative replies.
Back to Qatar and CWL, I'm not aware of any public reaction to the news from the senior management of BRS, although I suppose there is nothing they could say beyond expressing disappointment that Qatar didn't choose them coupled with a vow to try to land a ME carrier themselves, which of course has become that much more difficult (and unlikely?).
There has been a good deal of speculation as to why Qatar decide to go to CWL when BRS has an undeniably larger and more affluent core catchment with easier access to peripheral catchments such as the South West in general.
I wonder if it's simply a matter of operational requirements. The B787-8 should have no trouble with Doha from BRS - TUI starts flying them to Mexico and Florida from BRS next month. However, if Qatar had decided that a narrow-bodied Airbus was the appropriate equipment for a Severnside route can anyone say whether any of that type operated by Qatar could reach Doha non-stop from the BRS runway (2011metres at 190 metres AMSL) with a 'typical' passenger load? It might not be that typical actually as BRS has no cargo facilities.
Many thanks for any authoritative replies.
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Couple of round-ups that haven't yet been mentioned on here:
- EZY are not operating RAK for Winter 17/18; last flight operates 24 October
- WZZ are dropping KSC; last flight operates on 16 June
- WOW to KEF is not on sale for Winter 17/18 yet...whereas EDI & LGW are?
- BMI are now allowing scheduled passengers to buy tickets on their CAG route starting 8 July (originally it was a charter)
- EZY are not operating RAK for Winter 17/18; last flight operates 24 October
- WZZ are dropping KSC; last flight operates on 16 June
- WOW to KEF is not on sale for Winter 17/18 yet...whereas EDI & LGW are?
- BMI are now allowing scheduled passengers to buy tickets on their CAG route starting 8 July (originally it was a charter)