BELFAST CITY AIRPORT (BHD)

[EI-BHD]

Not long to go .

[mart901]

Be interesting what they have finally come up with

[sarcon]

LTM

check your sources I think it may have changed, again!

[ILS25]

Buck's Fizz - Making Your Mind Up - YouTube

[larry the man]

Sarc

official announcement is tomorrow but I see it's already on some press sites. I think that the AL senior managers should apply to go on the junior apprentice show, they'd all be off after week one though. These are also the people who are organising the opposition to the FR take over attempt, go on Mick me boy.

[Belboy]

Larry

You are spot on. Tomorrow AL will announce LHR LGW and number of Euro routes for next summer. LHR and LGW start in November. Believe the crew briefings are in the airport hotel at BFS around the same time, will they be able to maintain the same number of crew as they currently employ in the short term.

[elle may clampit]

and Flybe will be very very cross, but will they do anything...

[david1994]

Sarc

official announcement is tomorrow but I see it's already on some press sites.

Care to share where?

[tigger2k8]

So will BFS lose LHR? I have flights booked through to Feb 2013

[onyxcrowle]

This has been said so many times it's unbelievable . The big announcement is always tommorow.

[AIRPORT66]

AIRPORT66

This place should near be exceeding its passenger cap?

[mart901]

"this place" or Belfast city airport as most people call it was a fair way off the cap with ww there and they claim to have lost nearly half a million pax with their withdrawal so I'd say there is a fair way to go.

[cuthere]

Victoria.....sorry, Airport66, BHD is still well below its cap, as Mart correctly points out. A more pertinent question (though your post was a statement, not a question) is, what is going so badly wrong at BFS that another airline has decided (rightly or wrongly....time will tell) to leave Neaghside International and go down the road?

Any thoughts?

It seems incredible to me that if BFS offered the same T&Cs as BHD that an airline would go to the time, expense and bother to move to another airport twelve miles away (as the EI A320 flies).

[EI-BHD]

"tigger2k8 So will BFS lose LHR? I have flights booked through to Feb 2013"

Yes.

[mart901]

Nice one ei-bud! Personally I reckon what drives airlines to move is both airports suffer the same problen and they believe moving to BHD will bring them closer to the customer. It will take a few years losses to deliver at either airport imho.

[SecondDog]

BHD is still well below its cap, as Mart correctly points out. A more pertinent question (though your post was a statement, not a question) is, what is going so badly wrong at BFS that another airline has decided (rightly or wrongly....time will tell) to leave Neaghside International and go down the road?

Not sure there is anything badly wrong, it is just a different strategy whereby BFS ride the Easy cash cow and can't/won't compete with the free deals offered by BHD who are so desperate for airlines that they have chosen the tactic of trying to pilfer airlines at any cost while trying to make money through parking/footfall in the terminal.

Any thoughts?

Plenty

It seems incredible to me that if BFS offered the same T&Cs as BHD that an airline would go to the time, expense and bother to move to another airport twelve miles away (as the EI A320 flies).

I agree, except that BFS won't have tried to match the offer, they can't afford to for various reasons, not least the worry of having to offer EZY the same terms (seriously better for them if EI leave in that case)

I believe the deal that BHD offers really cuts their own throat in order to get some route/airline expansion. Any airline has to consider a big Zero on fees for three years very seriously even if they have to live with the City's numerous restrictions

[IrishFlyer2013]

Aer Lingus definately moving to BHD.

BHD has now appeared on the EI website.

Routes from BHD include:

London Heathrow
London Gatwick (3 Daily from 28 October 2012)
Malaga (Daily from 31 March 2013)
Faro (Daily from 26 March 2013)

[KNT544]

You must have a different web site or I am looking in the wrong place. I cant seem to find any departure from BHD.

[IrishFlyer2013]

If you click on "Book Now" on the EI website. Then look through the list of airports under "From" Belfast City should be there. It's showing as BHD (BHD).

[KNT544]

Dont even have a Book Now.

Under Home tab I see (with no BHD option):

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