BELFAST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - BFS (Aldergrove)

[david1994]

Its departing tomorrow morning again at 11:00 as LS6454

[EI-BUD]

CO EWR Flight today.....

CO 95Newark New York11:05-CANCELLED

I see that Continental´s departure to Newark this morning is cancelled. Is this a technical issue or what is happening?

EI-BUD

[StbdD]

It would seem they don't want to fly into this:

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[BFS101]

I see Balkan Tours are using Jet2 for their Plovdiv flights this winter. Is this the first year they have chartered a British carrier to operate the flights. I remember Hemus Air, Bulgarian Air Charter and Balkan, but never a UK carrier.

I remember flying on a Balkan TU-154 many moons ago to Plovdiv, what an experience!!

[tigger2k8]

Was that the same TU-154 operator that was grounded with metal sticking out from worn tyres? Think it was a TU-154

[Aaron9890]

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hope next year will be a much better year for belfast, hopefully the new routes will work out well and maybe this year we will get a route to canada all we can do is hope, these spanish owners need to wind their necks in and run the airport like it used to be run.

[ILS25]

Couldn't agree with you more about the Spanish. Don't know if this takeover bid will happen or not, but if it does maybe new owners will make a difference ??
CVC preparing takeover bid for Spain's Abertis: report | Reuters

[EI-BUD]

Abertis

Hello all and a very Happy and successful 2011 to one and all of the you!!

I was speaking to a guy from Abertis from Barcelona at BFS 2 weeks after FR announced the closure of BHD operations. Of Course I was curious to ask what he was doing over and he said he 'couldnt say', however, he did say he had important business on the visit so it's hard to say what, I did understand he worked in business development so there could have been any number of issues going on.

However, we ended up taking about FR arrival at BCN El Prat. He said he was based in Barcelona, and I commented that they dont operate the airport at BCN and he replied 'not yet' so I tried to get him to elaborate and he said 'I cannot discuss'.

Now in the last number of weeks the Spanish media is reporting on how the state are to sell off some of the national assets including some airports. So is there anything related here? Are Abertis going to be buying some of these airports?

EI-BUD

[True Blue]

With WW now off to Bhd, did they ever do what they should have been able to do on the Man and Bhx routes? Man and Bhx are two of the largest cities in England, yet in my opinion WW never made a success of these routes with regards to the number of pax carried . Consider the number of pax who go to Man via Lpl. Do you agree and what was the reason? Poor schedules?

True Blue

[DannyKelly22]

anyone know what the flight from shannon at 00.30 tonight is about, looks like a loganair flight, is it a positioning flight, has an arrival but no departure on the boards

[tigger2k8]

Ulster Rugby team charter to SNN, came in from GLA at 0915 this morning and left for SNN shortly before 1000, bringing them back up to BFS then positioning back to GLA around 0100, flybe (loganair) Saab 340.

[BHD2BFS]

BFS routes

does nobody else think that it is terribly bad management on albertis' part that they are unable to establish routes to airports they own i.e. cardiff and luton and that airlines decide to use the other airport down the road??

surely this shows that they just do not care about route development, also they are the owners of sanford which is in one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world yet once again belfast no longer has this route available

[dog in park]

phone the nolan show!

It all comes down to local management and the 3L'S. Also the fact that BCA has a load of free pr in local papers!

[tigger2k8]

All you have to do is read through the last 15 pages of this to find out how pathetic abertis is, there's been many times airlines (big names) have almost been in BFS, only for the Spanish to mess it up (local management probably can't authorise a wall to be painted without asking the Spanish).....also with the routes development funding cut it probably explains why there's not many new routes this year, even though air travel is starting to recover, I don't think they realise the potential that BFS has, considering the land available, if they invested in transport links or part funded better road networks, it would pay off in years to come...but as long as they are making a profit they are happy...all we can do is hope for them to sell the airport, although the estimated £30m runway resurfacing on 25/07 isn't appealing

Mr dog, not the local management at BFS, its the Spanish owners that are the problem

[gate 22]

All you have to do is read through the last 15 pages of this to find out how pathetic abertis is, there's been many times airlines (big names) have almost been in BFS, only for the Spanish to mess it up (local management probably can't authorise a wall to be painted without asking the Spanish).....

Maybe they are taking a more calculated approach. I would say that EZY will announce something with regard to it's NI operation very shortly. Don't forget that the airlines had alot on their plates before Christmas. BE, EI/Aer Arran, EZY, LS all should be at least interested in MAN/BHX/EMA from BFS for whatever reason.
The worst time at BFS was November 2001, MAN/EMA/BRU/NYC there were more lost (can't remember), by losing Sabena, BA, EI and most of BD's operation. However 2005 then became one of the greatest years ever. So over the next short while slowly but surely services will be added just as per 2001.

[victoria73]

Victoria73

One of the major problems at bfs the owner not the local management.These guys in spain basically need to just go back and own roads not airports they have not got a clue or just don't care,the management at Bfs have lined up some good airlines and interesting routes i would say the whole thing is not dead in the water yet, this is the new financial year at Bfs so just wait and see what happens.One major problems at Bfs which has been said is the runway the huge cost to resurface seems to be getting up the spaniards backs whether they do it all or do the necessary bits to cut the cost down case of wait and see this year.

[gate 22]

Well no new routes yet, however BFS has a new website. Not straight forward to get to arrivals/departures board-which is probably the most important page.

[Facelookbovvered]

Gate 22

I understand that you want new routes from BFS to replace the WW services, but the fact that baby moved and weren't exactly pulling up tree's in terms of pax numbers will make many think twice before committing to new services from MAN/BHX/EMA/CWL, to do so would put them up against both WW & BE.

My own take on WW move is that its likely to be part of larger change of strategy that will see WW doing more London (STN) services from GLA/EDI as well with regional doing LHR in E jets (170-190) LHR is only going to get more expensive for domestic operations, this will force British Midland International to use bigger aircraft on long haul routes out of LHR and cut costs on loss making domestic ops by using regional's lower cost base, the aircraft released by this (319/320) will probably end up at baby starting 2012/13 and pilots who wish to remain in Scotland will be given the choice of LHR or baby, any one want a fiver on GLA/EDI being baby bases in two years time?

[Jamie2k9]

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[david1994]

http://www.belfastairport.com is coming up as Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)