Belfast International-2

[West Brit]

Tea time departure DK1418 Las Palmas 17.00. This seems to be a TCX danish subsidiary. Is this a one off?

[AIRPORT66]

Its a flight that operates from Stockholm to LasPalmas stops in Belfast for refuelling,it has done this for the past few years during the winter.

[West Brit]

So 2 DK A321s bound for the Canaries from far north Scandanavian cities, refuelling at BFS. The above one on Friday and one on Saturday evening. Are there any other regulars? Do they need a refuel on the return journey as these cities are maybe 2 hours north of Belfast?

[Refuellerman]

Not if they have a good tailwind on the way back

[GAZMO]

BFS to GIB?

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.1...lled-next-july

[Alteagod]

Its actually a jolly interesting place to visit so why not give it a go. Might be a bit of a wee sleeper of a route

[True Blue]

Just back from a return trip to London using Stansted. Have to say, Fr coming off Lgw is a big loss. I used Stansted as the fares to Lgw on Ezy were too high. Used the so-called Stansted Express, £44.00 return for 2. I have got into London from Lgw for £5.60 single. The "express" was caught behind a slow train on both journeys so at times went at a crawl. Only in the UK would we be proud on having a slow train, I have been in trains twice now that were advertised as slow trains. The journey to/from Stansted is slower than Lgw and is more un-predictable in the sense you can easily be delayed by these slow trains, it has happened to me on that route several times. So Lgw is by far the most convenient route into London, but fares are higher now and the Ezy times are not as good as Fr. Big loss in my opinion.

[owenc]

Northern Ireland is not part of the National Rail network, so i'm not sure how you can be proud of a slow train in England.

The Stansted Express service costs £26 for an Off Peak return travelcard. As I have a 16-25 railcard I can get that for £17 or £13 for the Return journey.

So, if you live in GB that journey will not cost you that much. I mean £13 return is cheap as you will get.

[West Brit]

Owen I think True Blue was talking from a UK wide perspective! Also not everyone is under 25 and travels off-peak!

[owenc]

There is no UK wide perspective, Northern Ireland rail travel is completely different to Great Britain. Not Privatised, only one operator, very small network, not widely used, not electrified.

[West Brit]

Sorry, but TB was in the UK travelling on a train in the UK......

[GAZMO]

Interesting arrival tomorrow IVALO S7 aircraft. Assume only for refuelling?

[El Bunto]

Small Planet A320 kicking-off the Lapland trips for the month

[BFS BHD]

How many trips is there to Lapland this year?

[BFS BHD]

Luxair B738 to operate flights to Bourgas for Travel Solutions in S18

Replaces Bulgaria Air E190 from last year.

https://nitravelnews.com/news/travel...2018%e2%80%a8/

[GAZMO]

Have flown with them before and have been very impressed with the standard of service.

Is this a larger number of seats per flight than operated summer 17?

[Refuellerman]

The aircraft was only a embraer 95 if my memory is good so extra 100 or so seats?

[DUBSHNORK20]

108 on the E195, 186 on the 738 so an increase of 53% per flight

[El Bunto]

Originally Posted by BFS BHD

How many trips is there to Lapland this year?

Don't have the exact numbers but about eight in all I think, about half-and-half day-trip versus multinight.

Also Small Planet sent us an A321 tonight which is nice of them.

[BFS BHD]

Cheers El Bunto