BELFAST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - BFS (Aldergrove)

[BFS101]

Is BFS relay that busy to need slots??? If EZY wanted to fly to more European routes they could without moving there STN route to Belfast City.

Completely true, plus remember there is still a market for BFS London. Easyjet split their London operation to tap into two Belfast markets, and to compete with FR at BHD. Moving STN to BHD to join LTN would just leave a gap at BFS for competition there.

[Aaron9890]

FlyBe

I think that flybe will add those routes to their destinations and furthur expand their destinations from BHD

obviously apart from stansted

[mysecretsmile]

I could maybe see Flybe taking over the London Stansted route, as for:

Liverpool - pulled of the route a few years back
Bristol - tried before and never lasted long
Glasgow Prestwick - already serving Glasgow International from BHD
East Midlands - they already serve Birmingham from BHD

[Aaron9890]

oh didn't really think about that ^^ yeah you are right..
though flybe don't do any flights to STN at the moment so its unlikely that they will add just one route from BHD.

There could be a new airline joining then..
what about ba cityflyer

[INKJET]

bmibaby set to increase flight to BFS to 3 daily

[gate 22]

though flybe don't do any flights to STN at the moment so its unlikely that they will add just one route from BHD.

Under Jersey European they operated BHD/STN not that long ago.

[tigger2k8]

While no one can say what will happen for definate as to the pick up of demand I honestly can't see any EZY routes moving as you can be rest assured that their booking for flights from BFS will take a jump this winter. The whole fall out between EZY and abertis is in the past, well, at least at the BFS side of things, I've said this before, but abertis needs EZY as EZY basically made the airport what it is... As for slots into BFS, don't think there's any shortage for them... Currently EZY is in expansion mode at BFS, not reducing... Could even see a few more rotations on some flights due to the loss of FR ar BHD.

FR had been in negotiations with BFS to jump across but they failed as they had wanted a subsidy of just over £100 per aircraft that landed, following this was a dig at management in a press release.... Both the airport and FR won't get along...

As for EI, their LHR is busy enough, boosted by the loss of LTN... There is something in planning by EI but, everyone is keeping a tight lid on it..

Let's wait and see what happens...

[flying officer kite]

the rumours about Ryanair closing up shop in BHD had been going around within the company for a few months. O'Leary gave it 3 years then threw the rattle out of the pram, as he always does. It seems to be getting mixed views from the various politicians.

People within Easyjet have been talking about moving some more London routes down to BHD, and i could see this happening. The other routes, like LPL and BRS whilst popular with FR, arent likely to get the same passenger figures with other airlines, this could be a reprieve for Flybe perhaps?

Regardless of who goes where, FR has shown that there is a massive market for STN, and airlines would be foolish to ignore that.

Personally im backing Manx2 lol, an airline that can fly under volcanic ash, and if you take off from BHD in the Let in Nov you might just make STN by springtime lol

[mutleyshriek]

BYE BYE RYANAIR.....how ironic.

[Skipness One Echo]

There could be a new airline joining then..
what about ba cityflyer

Given that BFS-LCY failed aquite recently filling a Do328 I doubt that filling an ERJ-170 would be realistic given the market is pretty price sensitive.

[Jamie2k9]

Aer Lingus 2011

Alicante operating on Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday.

Tenerife operating on Wednesday and Sunday.

Rome ?????

[Jamie2k9]

Aer Lingus - Summer 2011

A/C 1
London Heathrow - MTWTFSS
Depart BFS 07:15 - Arrives LHR 08:45
Depart LHR 09:30 - Arrives BFS 10:45

London Heathrow - MTWTFSS
Depart BFS 11:20 - Arrives LHR 12:35
Depart LHR 13:25 - Arrives BFS 14:45

Malaga - MTWTF-S
Depart BFS 15:30 - Arrives AGP 19:45
Depart AGP 20:25 - Arrives BFS 22:30

A/C 2
Alicante - T-T-S
Depart BFS 06:00 - Arrive ALC 09:55
Depart ALC 10:35 - Arrive BFS 12:35

Barcelona - M-W-F-S
Depart BFS 06:40 - Arrive BCN 10:10
Depart BCN 10:50 - Arrive BFS 12:35

London Heathrow - MTWTFSS
Depart BFS 13:10 - Arrives LHR 14:25
Depart LHR 15:05 - Arrives BFS 16:35

London Heathrow - MTWTFSS
Depart BFS 17:10 - Arrives LHR 18:35
Depart LHR 19:15 - Arrives BFS 20:30

A/C 3
Faro - M-WTF-S
Depart BFS 07:00 - Arrive FAO 10:00
Depart FAO 10:40 - Arrive BFS 13:40

Malaga - -----S-
Depart BFS 06:40 - Arrives AGP 10:55
Depart AGP 11:35 - Arrives BFS 13:40

Lanzarote - T-T-S
Depart BFS 14:30 - Arrive ACE 19:00
Depart ACE 19:45 - Arrive BFS 23:55

Tenerife South - --W---S
Depart BFS 14:30 - Arrive TFS 19:00
Depart TFS 19:45 - Arrive BFS 00:10

If Rome is returning it will be operated by A/C 3 on Monday afternoon, Friday afternoon, Saturday aftenoon or Tuesday morning. It will most lightly be operated twice a week. EI may launch a new route for the other two spaces.

[ILS25]

A fighter did a performance fly past yesterday, I think it was a Tornado. Went right over the top of the control tower with afterburner lit. Scared the c**p out of me. He went around and did 2 more slow fly pasts over 25 but didn't land. Anyone know what he was doing over here ?

I thought maybe it was MOL sussing out if the runway was long enough for his planes.

[dublindispatch]

No i here down here in Dublin he is going u reactivate Nutts Corner or Langford lodge!!!!

[Kavs8]

Jesus Jamie2k9 you shore know how to talk! 231 posts since June 2010 ****! some ppl have been here since 2003 and have less then 100

[tigger2k8]

Jamie2k9, it is possible there will be new routes from EI, as like i said before, they have something planned but a tight lid is on it, no one is spilling the beans ...

ILS25, saw a tornado not yesterday but the day before from Bravo, didnt have the afterburners on though, a very gracious journey down the runway... also there was a A340 in on a troop flight, first A340 in a long time i think?

[ILS25]

That A340 was back in today, saw it land and taxi towards military. It parked up at the DA2 beside Foxtrot. I was told that it was being loaded with equipment as the seats had been removed. I watched it take off on 07 and it was definately heavy as it nearly took the full length of the runway before it lifted.

[aidoair]

bmibaby NEW EXTRA FLIGHTS EMA

bmibaby.com will add 5 extra weekly flight between EMA & Belfast.

I believe it will be; 3 x daily Mon - Fri (excluding Wed with 2x daily)??
1 x Sat and new 2 x daily on Sun

Flights to go on sale early next week.

[ards_boy]

Air Canada? BFS-YYZ? 2011?

[JonnyBfs]

Air Canada

Has there been any development in a Canada route by AC?
BFS-YYZ weekly would be good!