BELFAST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - BFS (Aldergrove)
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Thomas Cook have availability on flights to Sanford for June and July next Summer 
Last flight 31st July 2X week SAT and SUN
Last flight 31st July 2X week SAT and SUN
With these flights going on sale earlier in the year, then pulled, and now allegedly back on sale, Thomas Cook have really messed around or completely missed the early bookers from NI. Many may have wanted to fly direct from Belfast but now went ahead and already booked EI from DUB or via the mainland. Hopefully enough people will book between now and next summer to make these flights successfull.
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Tried just now and can book flight only, but brings up that no flights are available if you try and book a package from either the homepages of thomascook.com or directholidays.co.uk
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Oh right. Well they may still come, as these flights only came on very recently! At least we have something!!
The packages are available for early July, from Thomas Cook Homepage, choosing FLORIDA as the destination. Reasonable enough eg £700pp for 2 weeks flights and accomm!
The packages are available for early July, from Thomas Cook Homepage, choosing FLORIDA as the destination. Reasonable enough eg £700pp for 2 weeks flights and accomm!
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Doesn't make for good reading, especially on the routes that FR competed on. Guess though we may see this figures returning slightly now that FR have vacated BHD, tho I'm sure the recession has still taken its toll. Most UK airports seem to be reporting non-positive passenger growth of late. BHD was really bucking the trend there for a while.
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BHD was really bucking the trend there for a while.
I reckon that they will join the rest of the herd again. Even if there was very little yield there were a load of people flew simply because it was cheap/below cost (I know we did!)
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BFS hasnt had much luck within the last few years with airlines and travel firms going bust, to name 3 that i can recall GSM, XL, Goldtrail .. with the going down of goldtrail wiping out most of the turkey flights halfway through the season, i think there was 4 flights on a monday night alone using turkuaz and onur air... hopefully 2011 will bring better luck
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I heard a whisper at the start of the week that the forever talked about move of Bmi Baby from BFS to BHD is back on the table.
I can see the management of BHD keen to have another another operator fill the void left by RYR but surely BMI Baby would compete very heavily with Flybe on all routes their routes: Cardiff, Birmingham, East Midlands and Manchester.
Doesn't seem viable to me ?
I can see the management of BHD keen to have another another operator fill the void left by RYR but surely BMI Baby would compete very heavily with Flybe on all routes their routes: Cardiff, Birmingham, East Midlands and Manchester.
Doesn't seem viable to me ?
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That rumor and the Jet2 rumor has been flying about for years, as has the rumor that EI will move and all of EZY flights and potentially CO 
... as for bmibaby, i dont think its happening as they are in the process of awarding their ground handling contract to either Servisair (renewal) or switching to Menzies at BFS.. and contracts are generally 3-5 years long and i would put my money on the company beginning with M, due to servisairs recent performance (or lack of) and the recent contacts at LHR with BMI/Lufthansa
bmibaby has already added an extra flight to EMA from BFS due to FR's departure
... as for bmibaby, i dont think its happening as they are in the process of awarding their ground handling contract to either Servisair (renewal) or switching to Menzies at BFS.. and contracts are generally 3-5 years long and i would put my money on the company beginning with M, due to servisairs recent performance (or lack of) and the recent contacts at LHR with BMI/Lufthansabmibaby has already added an extra flight to EMA from BFS due to FR's departure
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That would be the very one MontyP, between all the handling agents thats ever been in BFS, id say combined they have helped the airport re-wire most of the international side 
and helped remove a couple of windows in the older terminal config if you remember that one..
The only damage this time round is 1 cable for the fire alarms, which has to be replaced and the metal supports for the cables, as far as im aware none of the heavy duty cables need replaced, last years incident caused more disruption with the power being knocked out over that side
and helped remove a couple of windows in the older terminal config if you remember that one..The only damage this time round is 1 cable for the fire alarms, which has to be replaced and the metal supports for the cables, as far as im aware none of the heavy duty cables need replaced, last years incident caused more disruption with the power being knocked out over that side
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Looking at the jet2 thread each base on the mainland getting more aircraft based and new routes no mention of Belfast getting anything seem to be just concentrating on there airports on the mainland think the business development department at BFS needs to get its finger out thats if they are interested.
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think the business development department at BFS needs to get its finger out thats if they are interested
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Looking at the jet2 thread each base on the mainland getting more aircraft based and new routes no mention of Belfast getting anything seem to be just concentrating on there airports on the mainland think the business development department at BFS needs to get its finger out thats if they are interested.
The routes they had from BFS this year performed well, so they are probably sticking to them, as they know they work.. maybe EI stepped on their toes with the TFS flight, seems a strange one to not run
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Tenerife flights from Jet2 are ending on the 25th April i think... dont know the reason behind it... seems a bit stupid to me. And does anyone know why there was a Thomson flight going to bridgetown last night, they dont fly from BFS
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And does anyone know why there was a Thomson flight going to bridgetown last night, they dont fly from BFS
They do this every year .I believe it may be a Belfast Telegraph readers holiday offer.
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The flights to Barbados are for P&O Cruises. Every year P&O operate a few sporadic dates from more regional UK airports for customer convenience. Belfast will also have direct Bridgetown flights on 22nd Jan and 11th Feb 2011 for the same reason. These flights have been operating the past few years at least, and are generally if not always operated by TOM / BY (in the past).