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Is it my imagination or does the arrivals/departures info look at lot busier tomorrow than we have seen for a while? Even taking into account it is the start of the summer season.
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Is it my imagination or does the arrivals/departures info look at lot busier tomorrow than we have seen for a while?
Saturdays will be interesting, they hit a low of 58 back in January ( even worse than Wednesdays ) but have managed to climb up to the mid-60s.
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And those 170 on 2 flights before Ezy get started, had to use another airport or route. Ezy did not serve them well at certain times of the day. I know Ezy do not have to do that, but in the process of maximising yields for themselves has left themselves open to attack, in this case from Ryanair.
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Just bear in mind True Blue FR won't suffer losses forever, the only profit from today's flights will have been ancillary revenue. They are very good at maximising yield once they have the opportunity, look at MAN-SNN, FR muscled in pushed out 3x daily EIR and were in double daily at one point, now 5x weekly and no competition. Same on many UK - DUB routes they got complacent and through a combination of fares creeping uphill and dire customer service EI started overtaking them on numbers, they are now fighting their way back with £9.99 flights all day every day and have had to refit aircraft, change policies and website and much of it in O'Leary's own words because EZY wiped the floor with them under their noses.
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I know 100% what FR are like.
Do you believe that Ezy offer good times on all routes out of Belfast? They hold themselves out as going after the business traveller. Do they offer a business friendly schedule on the Lgw route, for example? Look at their offering ex London on a Saturday during the summer, the last flight out is at 14.40. As a very regular user of Ezy, I think they have become too focused on getting the trips out and back to Spain in. Remember, that all companies are capable of one big mistake, they lose sight of their "why". The big banks, big energy suppliers, Tesco, all became so focused on profit that they lost sight of the bigger picture. Profit was all that mattered, at the expense of other issues they should have been taking into account. Profit is very important, but you need to consider the paying customer, will they want to buy what you have.
And FR are not the only one capable of cutting when it suits. We have just had our BA flights from Gatwick to Bodrum canned in July. That has caused us just as big a problem as a FR cancellation would do.
Bfs has seen a big increase in pax these past few months. I believe that is because Ezy has lifted capacity. What explanation do you offer, as you certainly can't say there has been this great improvement in our economy?
I know 100% what FR are like.
Do you believe that Ezy offer good times on all routes out of Belfast? They hold themselves out as going after the business traveller. Do they offer a business friendly schedule on the Lgw route, for example? Look at their offering ex London on a Saturday during the summer, the last flight out is at 14.40. As a very regular user of Ezy, I think they have become too focused on getting the trips out and back to Spain in. Remember, that all companies are capable of one big mistake, they lose sight of their "why". The big banks, big energy suppliers, Tesco, all became so focused on profit that they lost sight of the bigger picture. Profit was all that mattered, at the expense of other issues they should have been taking into account. Profit is very important, but you need to consider the paying customer, will they want to buy what you have.
And FR are not the only one capable of cutting when it suits. We have just had our BA flights from Gatwick to Bodrum canned in July. That has caused us just as big a problem as a FR cancellation would do.
Bfs has seen a big increase in pax these past few months. I believe that is because Ezy has lifted capacity. What explanation do you offer, as you certainly can't say there has been this great improvement in our economy?
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Ezy and Fr loads to London and returns have been nearly full all weekend so a big uptake in pax numbers. Think Gatwick will take over as the number 1 destination from Belfast very soon. See Flybe emergency yesterday made the Dash return with 37 pax. Obviously the competition affecting Flybe loads already.
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Thomas Cook - Summer 2017
I know its early days and times could change but Ibiza as moved from 06:00 to 07:25 departure and not getting back to 14:25 instead of 12:15.
Las Palmas is meant to depart at 14:00. Could this mean a 2nd aircraft coming or just still updating flights.
BFS-IBZ - 07:25-11:20
IBZ-BFS - 12:20-14:25
BFS-LPA - 14:00-18:35
LPA-BFS - 19:35-00:30
Las Palmas is meant to depart at 14:00. Could this mean a 2nd aircraft coming or just still updating flights.
BFS-IBZ - 07:25-11:20
IBZ-BFS - 12:20-14:25
BFS-LPA - 14:00-18:35
LPA-BFS - 19:35-00:30
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What will the requency be?
Cancun commences 28 June 2017 and will likely be at least one or two flights in July 2017 also, should be on sale next week or week after.
Las Vegas 21 March 2017, not sure about more but on sale lather today.
Orlando, TBA, not going on sale for a few weeks but one would expect 2-3 flights like Cancun.
All A330 operated.