BELFAST AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL

[BFS BHD]

Any rumors of new airlines or routes at BFS?

[GAZMO]

its a question we would all like an answer to. Its getting very late for any new routes for this summer. As I previously posted LON can cope with an extra daily flight (with ending of BE to LGW and EZY to SEN). There are always been a lot of hot air coming from BFS, last year with the big 50th anniversary .......very little and so far this year the same. Maybe I will wake up some day and there will be some good news on route development

[True Blue]

I see Easyjet has changed the Luton schedule from the start of the summer timetable so that flights are operated by Luton based aircraft.

[GAZMO]

Wonder what the BFS based aircraft will be operating instead of LTN

[GAZMO]

Diversions from DUB today. Anyone know reason?

[Jack1985]

Diversions from DUB today. Anyone know reason?

Weather, operations at Cork, Dublin, Knock in tatters.

[BFS BHD]

Diverts into BFS:

EI-RJZ Cityjet (Ended up Squawking 7700)

EI-DWO Ryanair
EI-DWT Ryanair

EI-DEA Aer Lingus
EI-DVM Aer Lingus (Retro)
EI-DEN Aer Lingus

BHD got two:

EI-FAT Aer Lingus Regional
EI-FAV Aer Lingus Regional

Edit: Another for BFS- EI-DYY Ryanair

[BFS Dude]

Air Contractors for TOM Reus

TOM will be using ABR for two flights in July just for the peak season:

Outbound: ABR 419J Tue 08 Jul 14 19:00 22:40

Inbound: ABR 420J Tue 15 Jul 14 16:35 18:10

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Outbound: ABR 419J Tue 15 Jul 14 19:00 22:40

Inbound: ABR 420J Tue 22 Jul 14 16:35 18:10

[GAZMO]

I notice somebody doing silly things on the wiki BFS page

Probably someone's wish list

[BFS BHD]

Onur Air now loaded for S14 for TCX

Onur air will now be doing a few flights to Dalaman on Wednesdays:

DLM-BFS- 0500-0800
BFS-DLM- 0900-1550

Not sure if the aircraft types will be A320s or A321s.

Flights operate from 2nd July-16th July.

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More from Onur Air!

This time Bodrum:

BJV-BFS- 0500-0750
BFS-BJV- 0850-1530

Flights operate 27th June-11th July

Updated: 10/02/2014

[BFS BHD]

Jet2.com B738 G-GDFD due into BFS soon took off from Leeds 5 mins ago due to operate EXS309 to Lanzarote tomorrow morning.

[El Bunto]

Tower and approach services will be combined onto the approach frequency daily from midnight to 05:00.

[BFS BHD]

Been like that for a good few months now.

[BFS BHD]

Three news story's in Belfast Telegraph about Rail links and Long haul flights at BFS to Toronto and Abu Dhabi:

Fears over future of Belfast International Airport as long-haul plans to Toronto and Abu Dhabi stall - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Lack of Canada route and no rail link to Belfast International Airport 'hurting our economy' - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Belfast International Airport needs to look again at its offering as Dublin soars ahead - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

[stab3.5up]

Good news day for belfast then. Looks good for the 50th celebrations

[EI-A330-300]

Well the BT should get an award for most diatomic headlines.

An airport that is still making a profit believes future is at risk, think the journalists need to look closer to home as BHD didn't have a fall in passenger numbers, in fact it soared like Dublin. Having x or y routes will not secure the airports "future" but at least they got the regional airports in Ireland market sport on.

[ILS25]

The editors at the the Belfast Telegraph don't just wake up in the morning and decide to do 3 seperate stories on BIA. It's an obvious cry for help from an airport with no obvious future expansion or investment if it continues as it has for the past five years.

[BCALBOY]

Does Dublin Airport have a rail link ?

[All names taken]

Quote: It's a disgrace that we're not getting an air link with Canada.

Well I've heard it all now.
One of NI's many problems is that those in charge are not familiar with the real world; still believing that a diatribe of Paisley style bombast and outrage will win the day. To the outside world it comes across as a spoiled child stamping its feet till it gets its way. All the moaning and political slagging actually is a deterrent to inward business.

The reality is that Belfast is a pretty small city in the scheme of things. With 2 airports. The entire population of NI is what 1.7m or so. That's about the size of a small to middling English county.
Is it a disgrace that all those counties don't have an air link with Canada?
No because there are other airports that do, and you just travel to them.

Celebrate the fact that Dublin is doing so well and that the road links from the North (and Dublin is conveniently on the northside of Dublin) have improved immeasurably in recent years. Dublin's success can and should be good for the north too.

[El Bunto]

Does Dublin Airport have a rail link ?

Indeed, a failing that 45 - 60 minutes to the journey to Dublin airport by the time one decamps at Connolly, tramps out, dodges the LUAS and waits for the bus.

A DART rail service to the airport has been studied on many occasions, would cost arond EUR100 million.

But so long as Dublin airport has an island monopoly on services people need to use, their attitude is why spend money when the pax are going to come anyway? Not a good role model for BIA, an airport that needs to attract passengers by all means possible.