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Hardly a ringing endorsement of your "often cheaper" assertion if you have "flown twice" and "once" it was cheaper and the second was 25 quid more.
I would dearly love to use BFS however the combination of higher expense and the often long lines at immigration in the USA works against it. The single North American connection on a narrow body also does it no favours.
Dublin is cheaper,more choice,and I can clear immigration before I leave. That lets me get a tighter connection home.
I would dearly love to use BFS however the combination of higher expense and the often long lines at immigration in the USA works against it. The single North American connection on a narrow body also does it no favours.
Dublin is cheaper,more choice,and I can clear immigration before I leave. That lets me get a tighter connection home.
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Willie Walsh at BFS later this week?
Rumour on another website that Willie Walsh is going to be at Belfast International Airport this week. Anyone heard anything?
Vueling maybe moving to BFS or maybe BA moving to BFS is true....
Vueling maybe moving to BFS or maybe BA moving to BFS is true....
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"It’s probably going to come with Iberia Express ... Iberia or Vueling, more so than British Airways. It could be an option. The problem with Belfast City Airport is the runway length, so we can’t use all of our aircraft.”
Interesting statement from wee willie in today's business telegraph. Perhaps there is some substance in the IAG rumour.
Interesting statement from wee willie in today's business telegraph. Perhaps there is some substance in the IAG rumour.
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Flew yesterday evening to Lgw on Ezy and back tonight. Both flights full. With the recent up-turn in pax numbers at Bfs, it makes me wonder how much Ezy has been restricting growth at Bfs in the past. Increasingly thinking that the arrival of FR is a good thing, Ezy has been getting it too comfortable for too long, in my opinion.
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TrueBlue,
You've always held this theory and you might just be right. I've used easyJet on LGW a few times in the last few weeks. Flights full on early out and late back, while interestingly Aer Lingus still selling seats at reasonably low prices 2 days before flights and not full. The easyJet brand is going from strength to strength here.
Ryanair to my mind have done next to no marketing for the LGW BFS route, perhaps they don't think they need to. The last foray into Belfast the marketing splash was huge..
You've always held this theory and you might just be right. I've used easyJet on LGW a few times in the last few weeks. Flights full on early out and late back, while interestingly Aer Lingus still selling seats at reasonably low prices 2 days before flights and not full. The easyJet brand is going from strength to strength here.
Ryanair to my mind have done next to no marketing for the LGW BFS route, perhaps they don't think they need to. The last foray into Belfast the marketing splash was huge..
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Key Partnership Manager
Just perusing current job vacancies in Belfast. BA are advertising for a "Key Partnership Manager" to work locally leading a team of three with a revenue target of 100 million Euros. The ad refers to a co-ordinated BA, JB and IAG environment. They're obviously planning something here.
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This is nothing more than to drive business to IAG, you see companies like EK and EY doing it to drive business to DUB etc
You are over analyzing everything about BA and BFS, if they come they will come (unlikely IMO) however just wait and see. It's like EI planing to split BFS/BHD ops, nothing ever came of it.
You are over analyzing everything about BA and BFS, if they come they will come (unlikely IMO) however just wait and see. It's like EI planing to split BFS/BHD ops, nothing ever came of it.
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From NI Travel News
"Berlin Expected to be Ryanair's 'Headline' Route German capital Berlin looks like being the headline-grabbing new route to be announced by Ryanair next month when it adds to its inaugural Belfast International route to Gatwick which begins in at the end of March.
Two other major European cities, Brussels and Barcelona, are also tipped to be on the schedule for start-up later this year, along with services to East Midlands, Newcastle and Leeds/Bradford"
"Berlin Expected to be Ryanair's 'Headline' Route German capital Berlin looks like being the headline-grabbing new route to be announced by Ryanair next month when it adds to its inaugural Belfast International route to Gatwick which begins in at the end of March.
Two other major European cities, Brussels and Barcelona, are also tipped to be on the schedule for start-up later this year, along with services to East Midlands, Newcastle and Leeds/Bradford"