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Wizz Air service to Katowice starts tomorrow (31/03/15) any idea what loads are like for the flights?
Also Jet2s new routes to Rome FCO (02/04/15) and Prague (03/04/15) both start this week. Any idea what the loads are on them too?
Also Jet2s new routes to Rome FCO (02/04/15) and Prague (03/04/15) both start this week. Any idea what the loads are on them too?
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Reading BFS MD twitter and seen this not sure if his talking about the start of Wizz Air or there is other good news coming tomorrow:
@grahamck63; Lots happening this week @BelfastAirport should be more good news tomorrow
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Probably linked to the press release this morning regarding domestic expansion
Airport says easyJet London expansion ?historic milestone? - Belfast International Airport and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-32133110
Airport says easyJet London expansion ?historic milestone? - Belfast International Airport and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-32133110
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BFS is hinting that there will be a few route announcement to come over the coming weeks and months.
TCX and TOM due to release their summer 2016 flights last week in April and Jet2 is reporting they are releasing theirs in May.
TCX and TOM due to release their summer 2016 flights last week in April and Jet2 is reporting they are releasing theirs in May.
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Tonight 2 flights running much later than being shown on the arrivals information, Ezy from Lgw and LS from Fco. Considering they are not that busy at this time of the night, you would think they could be a little bit better at keeping flight info a little bit more accurate. And then they wonder why pax lose the head at times!
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Tonight 2 flights running much later than being shown on the arrivals information, Ezy from Lgw and LS from Fco. Considering they are not that busy at this time of the night, you would think they could be a little bit better at keeping flight info a little bit more accurate. And then they wonder why pax lose the head at times!
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SecondDog, "they" are the people responsible for making sure that info available to the public is accurate. People who work at the airport on a very regular basis, I am sure and who should have a very good understanding of what is happening. Let us look at the first example.
The delayed Ezy to Lgw, 838 and due to operate the 839 back. Badly delayed. Showing the 839 on Bfs arrivals as due at 1.10am. On the Lgw departures, the 839 is showing as departing at 1.10am! On the Ezy site tracking, it is showing the 839 due Bfs about 2.30am. Is it not reasonable to expect the staff in Bfs to know that an aircraft that only left Bfs at 23.14 pm was not going to go to Lgw, do a turn round and be back in Bfs at 1.10am? The aircraft was on stand Lgw at about 00.24 am. At some point after midnight the Bfs arrivals changed to 1.55 am.
Second example, Jet2 from Fco, due 00.20am. Bfs arrivals showing due 23.55 pm. In fact, not that long before Bfs arrivals was showing the flight due in Bfs, the flight was still over France. Some time around midnight, the arrivals was changed to 00.25 am, it arrived about 00.40 am.
Here are 2 example of flight info out by about an hour, info provided by staff who are employees employed to carry out a professional job. Do they not see these errors? When the time for the Jet 2 flight was changed, it was still incorrect. Some of the info on display was so out that they didn't need an airline to tell them, common sense should have told them that the display needed changing.
To be fair, this happens at most airports on a regular basis. I just find it hard to understand that these types of errors are seldom noticed or corrected. I could understand why it might happen at a very busy airport, but at Bfs that time of night, less so. It does cause a lot of irritation for pax however. I have seen it happen to often.
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The delayed Ezy to Lgw, 838 and due to operate the 839 back. Badly delayed. Showing the 839 on Bfs arrivals as due at 1.10am. On the Lgw departures, the 839 is showing as departing at 1.10am! On the Ezy site tracking, it is showing the 839 due Bfs about 2.30am. Is it not reasonable to expect the staff in Bfs to know that an aircraft that only left Bfs at 23.14 pm was not going to go to Lgw, do a turn round and be back in Bfs at 1.10am? The aircraft was on stand Lgw at about 00.24 am. At some point after midnight the Bfs arrivals changed to 1.55 am.
Second example, Jet2 from Fco, due 00.20am. Bfs arrivals showing due 23.55 pm. In fact, not that long before Bfs arrivals was showing the flight due in Bfs, the flight was still over France. Some time around midnight, the arrivals was changed to 00.25 am, it arrived about 00.40 am.
Here are 2 example of flight info out by about an hour, info provided by staff who are employees employed to carry out a professional job. Do they not see these errors? When the time for the Jet 2 flight was changed, it was still incorrect. Some of the info on display was so out that they didn't need an airline to tell them, common sense should have told them that the display needed changing.
To be fair, this happens at most airports on a regular basis. I just find it hard to understand that these types of errors are seldom noticed or corrected. I could understand why it might happen at a very busy airport, but at Bfs that time of night, less so. It does cause a lot of irritation for pax however. I have seen it happen to often.
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To be fair I've seen numerous times the flights information totally out of date on the website and at the airport, including a few weeks ago my flight from BFS to BHX showing on time and BHX website telling me it was running late, the irony being the aircraft was late in from GVA, not BHX, yet BHX had updated their arrivals before the aircraft had even touched down at BFS. Its particularly bad at weekends and evenings.
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SecondDog, "they" are the people responsible for making sure that info available to the public is accurate. People who work at the airport on a very regular basis, I am sure and who should have a very good understanding of what is happening. Let us look at the first example.
The delayed Ezy to Lgw, 838 and due to operate the 839 back. Badly delayed. Showing the 839 on Bfs arrivals as due at 1.10am. On the Lgw departures, the 839 is showing as departing at 1.10am! On the Ezy site tracking, it is showing the 839 due Bfs about 2.30am. Is it not reasonable to expect the staff in Bfs to know that an aircraft that only left Bfs at 23.14 pm was not going to go to Lgw, do a turn round and be back in Bfs at 1.10am? The aircraft was on stand Lgw at about 00.24 am. At some point after midnight the Bfs arrivals changed to 1.55 am.
Second example, Jet2 from Fco, due 00.20am. Bfs arrivals showing due 23.55 pm. In fact, not that long before Bfs arrivals was showing the flight due in Bfs, the flight was still over France. Some time around midnight, the arrivals was changed to 00.25 am, it arrived about 00.40 am.
Here are 2 example of flight info out by about an hour, info provided by staff who are employees employed to carry out a professional job. Do they not see these errors? When the time for the Jet 2 flight was changed, it was still incorrect. Some of the info on display was so out that they didn't need an airline to tell them, common sense should have told them that the display needed changing.
To be fair, this happens at most airports on a regular basis. I just find it hard to understand that these types of errors are seldom noticed or corrected. I could understand why it might happen at a very busy airport, but at Bfs that time of night, less so. It does cause a lot of irritation for pax however. I have seen it happen to often.
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The delayed Ezy to Lgw, 838 and due to operate the 839 back. Badly delayed. Showing the 839 on Bfs arrivals as due at 1.10am. On the Lgw departures, the 839 is showing as departing at 1.10am! On the Ezy site tracking, it is showing the 839 due Bfs about 2.30am. Is it not reasonable to expect the staff in Bfs to know that an aircraft that only left Bfs at 23.14 pm was not going to go to Lgw, do a turn round and be back in Bfs at 1.10am? The aircraft was on stand Lgw at about 00.24 am. At some point after midnight the Bfs arrivals changed to 1.55 am.
Second example, Jet2 from Fco, due 00.20am. Bfs arrivals showing due 23.55 pm. In fact, not that long before Bfs arrivals was showing the flight due in Bfs, the flight was still over France. Some time around midnight, the arrivals was changed to 00.25 am, it arrived about 00.40 am.
Here are 2 example of flight info out by about an hour, info provided by staff who are employees employed to carry out a professional job. Do they not see these errors? When the time for the Jet 2 flight was changed, it was still incorrect. Some of the info on display was so out that they didn't need an airline to tell them, common sense should have told them that the display needed changing.
To be fair, this happens at most airports on a regular basis. I just find it hard to understand that these types of errors are seldom noticed or corrected. I could understand why it might happen at a very busy airport, but at Bfs that time of night, less so. It does cause a lot of irritation for pax however. I have seen it happen to often.
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To be fair I've seen numerous times the flights information totally out of date on the website and at the airport, including a few weeks ago my flight from BFS to BHX showing on time and BHX website telling me it was running late, the irony being the aircraft was late in from GVA, not BHX, yet BHX had updated their arrivals before the aircraft had even touched down at BFS. Its particularly bad at weekends and evenings.
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SecondDog, I don't think I inferred those responsible were airport employees. In fact, i'm pretty sure they are not. What the airport could do, is lay down the law.
Problem is in the UK, few seem prepared to state the standards expected and then insist they are maintained. One of the reasons why service in many sectors of UK economy is mediocre, but that is a different argument.
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Problem is in the UK, few seem prepared to state the standards expected and then insist they are maintained. One of the reasons why service in many sectors of UK economy is mediocre, but that is a different argument.
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If airports for some reason are unable to get the info from Airlines, take a look at flightradar at least! If a flight from Germany is over the Netherlands, its not going to be arriving in 10minutes.
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To be fair, this happens at most airports on a regular basis. I just find it hard to understand that these types of errors are seldom noticed or corrected.
So for some reason some Joe has to sit and type-in data ( or at least press a 'publish' button ), hence I assume the drop in accuracy in evenings and weekends.
I agree entirely with you; for many passengers and those collecting them from airports, the flight information boards are the only source of data since airport and airline staff are uncommunicative or know less than FR24. But that dependency is not reflected through the provision of accurate information.