BELFAST AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL

[El Bunto]

Aegean Airlines A320 arrived about 30 mins ago. Charter or summer regular?

[GAZMO]

Regular summer charter service for Olympic holidays. They are also, I believe starting a summer charter service to Heraklion later this month

[GAZMO]

Just noticed another strange flight on Monday to Iceland on flightstats Estonian air OV8718
Is this a one off charter?

[david1994]

Just noticed another strange flight on Monday to Iceland on flightstats Estonian air OV8718
Is this a one off charter?

ELL8718
EGAA
16/06/2014
13:30
BIKF
Registration Mark ES-AEB

Also Balkan Holidays tomorrow is Registration Mark LZBHG

[BFS Dude]

Have you heard about any new routes or airlines at BFS david1994??

[BFS BHD]

BFS Stats May 2014

Passengers This Month: 363920 +2.8
Passengers Rolling Year: 4041435 -4.7

Domestic:

GATWICK--------39106 +13
LUTON-----------21185 +0
STANSTED-------25553 +7

BIRMINGHAM-----16581 +28
BRISTOL---------19247 -4
EDINBURGH-------19564 +0
GLASGOW--------20568 -2
LIVERPOOL-------34463 -1
MANCHESTER-----17527 +13
NEWCASTLE------16631 +4

International:

DUBROVNIK-------961 -22
LARNACA---------1666 -23
NICE-------------2781 +4
PARIS CDG-------6966 -5
LOURDES---------2397 +12
CORFU-----------516 0
HERAKLION-------1443 0
PISA-------------413 +2
MALTA-----------2407 +9
AMSTERDAM------8570 +2
FARO-------------14331 +30
ALICANTE--------12858 +19
BARCELONA-------4649 -7
IBIZA-------------2606 +10
MAHON-----------600 +5
MALAGA----------12859 +22
MURCIA-----------2277 -17
PALMA------------20588 +9
REUS-------------3715 +36
ARRECIFE---------3860 +62
LAS PALMAS------551 -62
TENERIFE---------5128 +38
ANTALYA---------1385 -4
BODRUM----------1525 +23
DALAMAN---------3840 +106
BURGAS-----------227 +20
KRAKOW----------3979 +6
SHARM EL SHEIKH-168 -2
ENFIDHA----------1126 +426
NEWARK----------8176 +1

[Waldo1]

ezy gatwick flight

anyone know what happened last night that the Gatwick flight diverted to Glasgow?

[tigger2k8]

Delayed inbound then with the runway works and fog the aircraft couldnt land

[GAZMO]

Can anyone tell me who is operating UX 291/292 to and from Palma tomorrow

[AIRPORT66]

airport66

UX is Air Europa they do it on behalf of Thomascook.

[GAZMO]

Thanks airporter66 I thought Air Europa used AEA as their code

[VickersVicount]

They do. Just depends if it comes up as ICAO or IATA code

[left rudder]

EASY choice

Just a thought on this diversion.
Surely DUB would have been the logical option from the passengers perspective.
Would not surprise me if GLÁ was chosen to optimise revenue.

Sorry to be cynical but,........

[david1994]

Dublin wouldnt take us as our handling agents "Sky Handling" which handles our DUB Diversions was unable to accept.. So we went to GLA as its an operational base for us and easier for pax and crew to be looked after by our regular handling agents.

The flight was meant to operate back but we had no hours left as we already done 4 flight before this as we started at 1155 local.

[left rudder]

Thank you David
Cynicism unjustified.

[GAZMO]

Have to agree with david1994 and EZY statement that it was unfortunate that runway maintenance and fog caused the initial diversion. I'm sure crew would have loved to get back to base as well, but I believe airlines are very strict once crew have reached a certain number of hours

[GAZMO]

Notice a 3am departure to LBA in the morning. Flight code suggests repositioning flight. Has there been an extra LS aircraft at BFS. Two departures in morning to Palma and Faro??

[david1994]

CELA (Cargo QC) going to LBA at 0310 while GDFE is coming from EDI

[El Bunto]

Originally Posted by GAZMO

Thanks airporter66 I thought Air Europa used AEA as their code

Unusually for a charter airline Air Europa are IATA members, so they use both allocated codes ( IATA and ICAO ).

Generally the IATA code is used on the travel booking side and the ICAO for operations.

IATA has a tendency to issue their codes to all 'big' airlines even if thy're not members, presumably to try to encourage use of their system; Volotea and Easyjet are examples where IATA codes have been allocated to non-members but are ignored by all sane people.

[GAZMO]

Thanks guys for the explanations