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[Jamie2k9]

2) DUB and BFS are close enough to be played against each other and this is fairly common with KIR/SNN/ORK/DUB

DUB and BFS, would you stop the daa are not one bit worried about FR and BFS....not like FR are going to move almost 30 aircraft up to Belfast because of a spat with the daa.

4) If you look at FR's route offering at DUB it's totally disproportionate to BFS and population and tourist wise BFS could withstand a lot of extra routes, hopefully the buses which run down to DUB will be emptier......

Traffic on buses is only going one way and I wouldn't expect that to change anytime soon.

Would be good to see the routes do well and they actually fly to some "new" places from BFS.

[owenc]

Milan and Berlin are new routes.

[Jamie2k9]

Milan and Berlin are new routes.

Was referring to any further announcements, i.e not Faro, Palma, Barcelona etc

[True Blue]

So just under 81000 pax on the Lgw route in June. With the movement in the exchange rate, I wonder if Bfs is benefiting from any pax travelling up from the south to take advantage of the rate?

Any feedback yet on what initial loads have been like on the new Ryanair routes launched this week?

[j636]

Rates would of been seen in June as it was only the last few days. FR have been selling lots of cheap seats like 9.99 ones and that's bound to get bums on seats. Given the very competitive fares to LON from DUB I don't see such a short flight been worth a trip than perhaps to somewhere in Spain.

FR had just under 45,500 seats for June while EZY should have more (?) as they carry around 40,000 so either have excellent LF and both are holding or one is losing a little.

[EI-BUD]

Excellent question True Blue, interestingly at BHD this morning I was going through enroute to LHR, some people were doing market research, with one question, from which country did you start your journey today, so they may well be trying to get a sample on that stat, they were surveying 1 in 5!! However, without a comparable metric from last year, the results may not answer that question!

I'm not convinced the penny had dropped re the change, and the rate is turning this week, after some changed since Brexit vote. A great indicator will be if there is an enormous pick up in shoppers going to Newry and Strabane for Grocery shopping!

[mart901]

I was at BHD a couple of weeks ago and I did notice how many southern registered cars there were in the car park, not DUB reg which are often rental vehicles but a lot of border counties. Hopefully we are benefitting.

[True Blue]

Lgw route up 102% on last year for August.

[GAZMO]

WOW great figure for LGW

[GAZMO]

14.5% increase in pax in August


Airport jobs boost on the way as August overtakes Ju...

[BFS BHD]

EasyJet Barcelona W16/17

I see easyJet has put Barcelona on sale from 19th February 2017. Three weekly using a Barcelona based A320 (Mon, Fri & Sun). Was stopping in October to Summer 2017.

[GAZMO]

Wonder if this is going to be a trend using non based aircraft for bucket and spade routes or just spare capacity at BCN in the winter time.
Any date for EZY summer 17 release?

[BFS BHD]

26 Mar – 25 Jun 2017 - On sale EARLY OCTOBER 2016

26 Jun – 10 Sep 2017 - On sale MID NOVEMBER 2016

Flight schedule release dates | easyJet

[mart901]

August now busiest month for Belfast International Airport following surge in new routes - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

[GAZMO]

Travel solutions doing holidays to Orlando for 2017 Assume they are using VS for flights
https://www.travel-solutions.co.uk/c...n%20Adventures

[BFS BHD]

They will be using Thomas Cook to Orlando.

[owenc]

Virgin will be offering 8 return flights. This was announced a few months ago.

I can't see there being enough demand for Thomas Cook and Virgin though. This year so far there was around 10 flights..

If Thomas Cook and Virgin both add Orlando frequencies that will bring it up to around 15 flights, how is that going to be sustainable?

Pick one airline and leave it? Surely?

[BFS BHD]

Some increases for Ryanair for S17.

Alicante looks to be going from 3 weekly to 5 weekly.
Malaga looks to be going from 4 weekly to 5 weekly.

Gdansk & Krakow stays the same. Lanzarote & Tenerife isn't on yet for S17.

[BHD2BFS]

Considering lots of people travel to Dub, MAN, GLA and LGW for flights to Orlando I recon 15 flights is sustainable I also think a few around the school holidays in October December and Easter time would also do well even if only done by a 330 by VS or TCX

[SecondDog]

Originally Posted by owenc

Virgin will be offering 8 return flights. This was announced a few months ago.

I can't see there being enough demand for Thomas Cook and Virgin though. This year so far there was around 10 flights..

If Thomas Cook and Virgin both add Orlando frequencies that will bring it up to around 15 flights, how is that going to be sustainable?

Pick one airline and leave it? Surely?

Well considering Virgin doubled their offering, I imagine they have done their homework. Considering in previous boom years we had two, weekly for a full summer, I think we can manage the increase again.