BELFAST AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL

[ILS25]

Great news.

Heard a rumour about EI a while back. As with most of the stories I hear I took it with a pinch of salt though.

[Mlinnie]

Jet2

What type of aircraft will the extra based plane be?

[GAZMO]

Any new routes is always great news. Congrats Jet2................will there be anymore from Jet2
One aircraft = 14 weekly rotations
2X Prague
2X Rome
1X Zante
1 x LPA
4X ALC (operated this summer by ALC based aircraft)
!!!!!!!!!!!

[NWSRG]

The other option would be if there was traffic operating at high level over the Belfast city area. The outbound may have been in confliction with that AND with outbounds from the City and general inbounds it may have been easier to co ordinate a higher level from Scottish and pop the outbound out on the "wrong"way to keep it climbing above conflicting inbounds outbounds and operational traffic.

Thanks Eastern...makes sense. Didn't notice much else in the way of traffic, but then Planefinder isn't exactly comprehensive!

[BFS BHD]

Jet2.com 2015:

Airport 2014 2015

ALC 4 Weekly 4 Weekly
DBV 1 Weekly 1 Weekly
FAO 3 Weekly 3 Weekly
LPA 0 Weekly 1 Weekly
IBZ 2 Weekly 2 Weekly
ACE 1 Weekly 2 Weekly
PMI 6 Weekly 6 Weekly
AGP 2 Weekly 3 Weekly
MAH 1 Weekly 1 Weekly
MJV 2 Weekly 3 Weekly
PSA 1 Weekly 1 Weekly
PRG 0 Weekly 2 Weekly
REU 2 Weekly 2 Weekly
FCO 0 Weekly 2 Weekly
TFS 2 Weekly 2 Weekly
ZTH 0 Weekly 1 Weekly

[GAZMO]

ThanksBFSBHD

36 weekly flights , plus I assume 5 weekly cargo runs making 41, maybe one more route to come?

[mart901]

Really great news finally!

[GLAinsider]

Must say the timing of the start of the BFS-LPA service is very odd. The Pride Maspalomas festival takes place from 8 - 17 May in Gran Canaria. It attracts over 120,000 people from all over the UK and Europe every year. Festival will be over by the time the Jet2 service starts on 26 May 2015 though. Definitely an opportunity missed but I guess the new a/c simply won't arrive in time.

[EI-BUD]

GLAinsider,
You refer to pride mas palomas, there are no people in Northern Ireland who'd be interested in going to that . We are a god loving country here, those who might have been interested in such an event have reached out for help, as they've been advised by their betters that such people can be 'cured'.

[belfastmark]

Lol!! Terribly whitey reply!!! ^^^

On a serious note .. Surely they must be looking at the turkey market ? To me jet2 have a real section of the market to exploit with the likes of turkey, Greece perhaps even Cyprus. Just my opinion. Anyone agree.

[Waldo1]

Agree! A bfs to paphos flight would literally open up a whole new destination for the irish market...for everyone that used to goto cyprus, they would love to do it all again on a "new" part of the island

[El Bunto]

Norwegian Historical Flight DH Vampire apparently arrived yesterday; nothing mentioned on the airport news page though . PR folk still off on 12th Fortnight?

As far as I can determine this is the first Vampire over Aldergrove since 1987.

23 MU used to process them back in the 1960s.

[GAZMO]

With TCX not doing Antalya next year maybe an opportunity for Jet2 to pick up.

Big push on for Greek resorts next year

[AIRPORT66]

airport66

I would say the Bfs management will be watching to see what easyjet do in the next 6 months when they introduce there summer schedule and if they axe flights the airport will be concentrating on getting them replaced so will probably encourage Jet2 to take them up but the idea's mentioned above Turkey,Cyprus are really good possibilites seems Thomascook don't want to expand much we might get another new destination from Olympic holidays.

[GAZMO]

With one less EZY plane next summer, some routes have to go. My view is that NCE is top of the list with Malta and BCN cut in frequency ..........

[FRatSTN]

EZY's S15 schedule isn't released yet. Do we really know for certain that EZY will pull one plane out of BFS next summer. And if they do, do we even know if it will mean they will axe routes? They might just use more inbound aircraft from other bases?

[tigger2k8]

Well, after good few months of sickness I have returned to working which involves travelling quite often to the mainland, I have been travelling over the last 3 weeks and all I can say is there has been some change in the ground handling of easyJet, in a negative way, that's all I will say in this matter otherwise I will bore everyone.

Good news about Jet2, wasn't expecting that after all the route cuts we have witnessed over the last few years.

[midfieldgeneral]

FRatSTN. Internal email sent to all crew stating that Summer 2015 would have just 5 based aircraft but one of them being an A320. No news was revealed in the memo as to what routes are dropped, reduced in frequency or operated by out of base aircraft instead.

[BFS BHD]

Easyjet-Barcelona W14/15

Now on sale but only a few flights.

December:
Wed 17th
Sat 20th
Sat 27th

January:
Sat 3rd
Wed 7th

February:
Sat 14th
Wed 18th
Sat 21st
Wed 25th
Sat 28th

March:
Wed 4th
Sat 7th
Wed 11th
Sat 14th
Wed 18th
Sat 21st
Wed 25th
Sat 28th

[BFS101]

Hopefully that might mean EZY are more likely to keep BCN for forthcoming summer seasons!! With rumours of BCN and NCE being dropped, its good to see these winter BCN flights confirmed.

Would be a big loss, should BFS loose NCE and BCN, especially as BCN had two operators on the route at one stage, EZY seeming to hold their own; and that NCE operated daily at one stage, and has been an established summer route for years, again facing EI competition at one stage.

I wait with bated breath, to see what EZY have in store for BFS 2015, hopefully being more positive than negative.