BELFAST AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL

[True Blue]

Jet2 now have AGP on sale from Bfs, 2 weekly starting April 14.

TB

[BFS BHD]

And Faro up to 3x weekly from 1x weekly.

[BFS BHD]

Some interesting movements today

Austrian Airlines A320 from Vienna
Air Mediterranee A321 from cork (going to Lourdes later)
Royal Air Force A330
Transavia B737-800
Thomas Cook B757-300 which was meant to be away at 15:45 yesterday.

[CCR]

Was the biz jet a Learjet?

[BFS BHD]

I found the reg of the plane and dont think it was him has its a USA reg:

C56X N575NR

[GAZMO]

Jet2

good news on the LS front. Although Sun routes popular I would have preferred to see some key European cities.

With twice to AGP and another two to FAO are they looking at taking pax from EZY, EI or both?

[BFS101]

Is this LS growth at FAO/AGP at the expense of other routes? I see DVB is back to weekly for 2014. Anyone surmise an overall picture?

[BFS BHD]

Murcia & Pisa only ones to be confirmed with Jersey and Blackpool but they will likely be last.

[BFS BHD]

Sunwing B737-800 C-FYUH will be basing at BFS for the summer currently over Quebec. Due around 8 tonight for starting tomorrow morning

[BFS101]

TOM also starts on Thursday so expect the plane to arrive 'VERY' soon! I also hear it will be a Thomson Branded Aircraft instead of Sunwing Airlines.

Still to be full TOM livery??

Is there any noticeable diffenerce to passengers on the Sunwing Aircraft compared to TOM owned, IFE, pitch etc??? Do we get a short straw, or absolutely no difference???

[BFS BHD]

Changed at the last minute i think.

And no in Sunwings colours with Thomson Airways logo on the winglet

C-FYUH Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737-8K5(WL) - Planespotters.net Just Aviation

[IrishFlyer2013]

C-FYUH is in TUIFly colours. It has the Sunwing Logos & decals instead of the TUIFly logo's and decals.

C-FYUH is ex D-ATUH of TUIFly.

There will be four Sunwing aircraft operating for Thomson Airways this summer. FYLC is the only one in full Sunwing Airlines livery. It positioned to DUB yesterday from Quebec. FTLK is based in EDI and is also ex TUIFly but it is painted in "Hapag-Lloyd" livery. FLZR is ex Thomson Airways G-FDZR so it is in full Thomson Airways colours. FLZR is based in LBA at the moment.

[BFS BHD]

Whats the chances of Jet2 adding Rome from BFS?

[GAZMO]

There is probably a market for a twice weekly flight to Rome
With LS naturally concentrating on summer routes there are a lot of idle planes in the winter months. Maybe Berlin. Madrid or Lisbon???

[dublinaviator]

Didn't Aer Lingus try Rome from BFS and it was a complete flop?

[GAZMO]

EI did not do a good job on the FCO route, very little promotion or marketing, not like the big spend they have had on their Belfast London routes for last six months. If BFS can can manage AMS, CDG etc, surely Rome is feasible with a long lead time and promotion.

Remember EI chopped and changed their European destinations rapidly from BFS.......BUD, CDG, AMS, FCO, BCN, ALC etc tried, little promotion .....withdrawn

[EI-BUD]

Gazmo, I wouldn't necessarily agree with all you say. EI did market their routes, they launched in what has been the hardest winter season in over years, add FR flooding the market for cheap impulse travel at prices as low as £1 all in, I booked many myself, EI did market the flights. Granted not as heavily as current LGW , which is an exceptionally aggressive campaign. Though when EI arrived they had tv adverts selling the routes widely.

I wouldn't agree Fco was a flop, maybe marginal is a better word as loads reasonable in summer. Alc did well but with a new approach of having a winter operation euro routes don't fit and do given the distance and 1 airframe they are going to utilise if on the strongest routes.

Gva, nice plus canary routes all tried , canaries a success though nice and gva not so, GVA could do well over ski season say x2 weekly nos that they are well established.

CDg started when BE joined the market with a daily 195, so in effect the route went from 1 ezy daily to x3 daily wasn't sustainable.

The problem here is summer has demand winter very lean, and so size of EI operation will reflect this.

[mart901]

I'd say any airline that tackles european city routes from Belfast is a brave one given history. EI have gone for high frequency on sunshine and Lon, although how that pans out over the next 12 months is anyones guess. They did hint some months back they would consider euro city routes from BHD but who knows. I think the best thing for all the airlines in the Belfast market is to draw passengers back from Dub.

[CARNMANORLAD]

Anyone know why TOM1472 BFS-ACE is delayed by 2.25 hours this morning. I thought the a/c that arrived from YYZ last night was to operate this route?

[BFS BHD]

I would say it as went tec