BIRMINGHAM - 6

[LAX_LHR]

Vueling start Alicante 17th June 3 weekly Mon/Wed/Fri.

[insuindi]

CAA provisional stats for BHX:
Aug '15: 1,138,325 +3.1% MoM
Rolling year: 9,995,724 +5.1%

Below UK average (4.5%) for monthly growth (and trailing all other major UK airports), but ahead of rolling year average growth (also 4.5% for the UK).

[Daza]

Veuling Alicante

Timetable for the new Veuling BHX-ALC service eff. 17/6/2016

Mon VY1394 ALC 06:05 BHX 07:50 VY1395 BHX 08:30 ALC 12:05
Wed VY1394 ALC 12:25 BHX 14:10 VY1395 BHX 14:50 ALC 18:95
Fri VY1394 ALC 06:05 BHX 07:50 VY1395 BHX 08:30 ALC 12:05

Daza

[Daza]

August Passeneger numbers

Insuindi wrote

Below UK average (4.5%) for monthly growth (and trailing all other major UK airports), but ahead of rolling year average growth (also 4.5% for the UK).

Remember BHX, MAN and EMA lost Monarch aircraft and BHX lost multiple Flybe routes, the loss of which will be felt until next spring. Winter 2015/6 is looking much stronger at BHX compared to 2014/5. In August MAN managed 5% increase but EMA lost 10%!
Daza

[MANFOD]

Remember BHX, MAN and EMA lost Monarch aircraft and BHX lost multiple Flybe routes, the loss of which will be felt until next spring

MAN was very badly hit with the loss I believe of 3 of the 11 based MON a/c from the previous summer, including some A330s. The ACL start of S15 report indicated a loss of 497,000 seats for MON at MAN which was a lot to make up for. Did BHX have 1 or 2 less based a/c?

[Daza]

Monarch lost one aircraft but BHX lost multiple Flybe routes. I was explaining what BHX lost and why passengers in August 2015 are not up as much as some airports. I was comparing it to near-by airports that lost similar. BHX as well as the loss of one MON aircraft lost multiple BE routes too (10 I think) all multiple daily so its good that BHX had a increase in passengers at all. As always a positive figure including EK passengers up a third has been spun into a negative.
Daza

[MANFOD]

I agree, BHX seems to be recovering well from the loss of those routes, and with developments by Norwegian, Vueling and Wizzair, you should have a good winter.

AA picked up too with an LF of 76% if all flights operated and although EWR was down 4%, it was still 89% LF.

[Daza]

Wizz WAW

More good news Wizz increase BHX-WAW to 3 per week (extra Saturday flight) from 14th May 2016
Daza

[Daza]

Wizz@BHX

Less than a week after commencing flights to Birmingham Wizz not only add capacity to WAW next Summer, but add another route to Poznan from Monday 18th December. Source https://wizzair.com/en-GB/about_us/news/wizzen348

Mon 0800 1110 0610 0730 W61907/8
Fri 0800 1110 0610 0730 W61907/8

Lets hope there is more to come
Daza

[Daza]

BHX-MAD

Iberia Express Madrid to Birmingham four times a week from 28th March. They keep coming! Bookable now

Mon 1035 1405 0845 1000 32S
Wed 1735 2105 1545 1700 32S
Fri 1035 1405 0845 1000 32S
Sun 1735 2105 1545 1700 32S

Daza

[j636]

Malaga - up from daily to nine a week although the two flights with different flight numbers at exactly the same times on a Thursday look odd.

Times have both been changed to all AGP based on Thursday.

I could be wrong but a flick across July and there is a load of non based flights, are they staying at 3 aircraft again?

[OltonPete]

Ryanair

j636

Its Ryanair who knows.

Thus far every morning has four based departures and every evening four based arrivals but in between very little. A clear case of keeping their options open me thinks.

It could easily be changed to three based with some re-timings but with over 40 away based flights as well it could be a full schedule for 4 based units. Perpignan remains the only route not on sale.

Of course this week has seen Vueling add Alicante (Palma rumoured) and Wizz have added further Polish frequencies but without directly treading on Ryanair's toes and it will be interesting to see they react in any way. The addition of Norwegian and Vueling on Barcelona of course saw an increase in frequency.

Pete

[jon01]

W15/16

The Germania Chambery Ski charters on Saturday mornings I mentioned back in May will be operated by A319s

Freebird A320s showing twice a week, I believe some of the flights will go to Ercan in North Cyprus

S16

Aegean to Athens is now bookable on Tue and Sat but with a much shorter season, 21 Jun - 27 Sep. This is better than nothing as I heard they were on the verge of dropping the route

W16/17

Thomson B787s showing to Dubai during December 2016

[ATNotts]

Aegean to Athens is now bookable on Tue and Sat but with a much shorter season, 21 Jun - 27 Sep. This is better than nothing as I heard they were on the verge of dropping the route

I'm guessing that the Greek market may find it tough next season with all the adverse publicity surrounding "migrants", even though only a tiny fraction of the islands are affected. People's knowledge of geography is sometimes not all it ought to be, and many will tar all of Greece with the same brush.

[cheesebag]

787 TO Dubai???

[LGS6753]

Freebird A320s showing twice a week, I believe some of the flights will go to Ercan in North Cyprus

Any flights to Ercan must land in Turkey first.

[bhx bod]

cheesebag,

Thomson are operating a number of flights during Dec 2016 to Dubai(DWC),to support cruises from that part of the world.
BHX plus a couple of other airports are getting these flight during the month.

[jon01]

Freebird A320s showing twice a week, I believe some of the flights will go to Ercan in North Cyprus

Any flights to Ercan must land in Turkey first.

So the flight will probably route UK - Antalya - Ercan

[cheesebag]

Thanks BHX Bod... new one on me... so potentially four departures to Dubai in one day for that month!!!

[LGS6753]

From Airline Route:

WizzAir is expanding service operations at Birmingham, with the launch of 2nd Polish link. From 18DEC15, the airline will launch 2 weekly Poznan – Birmingham route, operating on Mondays and Fridays. Planned schedule as follow.

W61907 POZ0610 – 0730BHX 320 15
W61908 BHX0800 – 1110POZ 320 15

Also

Planned Frequency increase:
Warsaw – Birmingham Increase from 2 to 3 weekly from 13th May