Belfast International-2

[Refuellerman]

Big aircraft were actually very common at bfs not that long ago, daily md-11 to jfk weekends would regularly see b767 cruise charters to europe or east coast us, 2x a300 turkish charters mondays, a330 cyprus charters, the list goes on, some people dont know the airports history on wb and other aircraft to be shouting their mouths off😏

[canberra97]

Exactly Refuelerman!

[SecondDog]

I can't believe you guys are arguing with such an obvious Troll.

BFS can handle anything short of a 225 or 380.

124 upcoming also.

[Refuellerman]

124 expected any time soon?

[SecondDog]

Was to be tomorrow. Canx now though.

[Refuellerman]

Cheers dawg

[BFS BHD]

New Route

Jet2 has put Dalaman on sale from 26th June 2018. Once weekly on a Tuesday. Departing 16:20/arriving 02:45. On the B738.

[GAZMO]

Great news from Jet2
I think this was the last available gap in the summer timetable......... No Wednesday appears only to be using 3 aircraft

[Severn]

EXS New Route
On Tuesdays, it looks like the morning flight to ALC has switched to a midday departure as it is now operated by an ALC based B738.
The afternoon departure to REU has then moved into the morning gap left by the ALC, allowing for this new DLM flight on Tuesday afternoons.
All the schedule for the rest of the week remains the same.

[True Blue]

So we now have 2 operators to both Antalya and Dalaman. No service to Bodrum were one could have a clean run with no competition. What is with airlines that they have to compete and yet ignore routes with no other competition?

[Refuellerman]

So that they can bang the price up to suit themselves, if it was a 1 horse race there would be no competition therefore small prices but 2 or more competitive airlines can actually up the price, just watch and see

[AIRPORT66]

Will we see Easyjet announce new service to Bodrum next month,wonder what new flights they are going to announce.

[toledoashley]

I believe tomorrow is just an extension of the current and new routes will be announced next month.

[Plane.Silly]

So we now have 2 operators to both Antalya and Dalaman. No service to Bodrum were one could have a clean run with no competition. What is with airlines that they have to compete and yet ignore routes with no other competition?

Out of the 3 destinations, BJV would be the smallest (vs DLM/AYT), both for airport size and accomodation. Jet2 are probably testing the water with DLM first, then could look to add BJV is things look good

[GAZMO]

Forecasting 5.7 million passengers for the year!

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/b...-36343433.html

[DC9_10]

I wonder if they will be congratulated by Mr Ambrose and Ms Best and the rest of the management team from Belfast's favourite airport. Ahem.

[cuthere]

Very impressive figures indeed. How will FR taking winter off on the LON route impact numbers? Is there likely to be enough organic growth on other routes to make up for this?

It’s a shame to see FR (apparently) mess around another NI airport. That’s a full house now! Also, as one who used to do LDY-STN a lot in the past with FR (and now occasionally with BMIR), getting into central London from LGW has always, in my experience, been much easier.

[A320.b744]

The rolling passenger figure for Oct 16 - Sept 17 is 5,831,624. The loss of Ryanair on BFS-LGW equates to 119,070 fewer seats than last year, but the introduction of MLA as well as an increase in capacity on existing routes from several airlines means that the airport will exceed 5.7 million passengers, and may even pass 5.8 million.

[cuthere]

Cheers for that A320.

[NWSRG]

Originally Posted by GAZMO

Forecasting 5.7 million passengers for the year!

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/b...-36343433.html

From memory, 6M/year was believed to be a 'critical mass', where the big airlines would begin to show interest. Not sure if that still holds, but we can but hope...