Belfast International-2

[BFS BHD]

Any plans for Norwegian to expand or they happy with just operating to Newburgh and Providence?

[AerRyan]

Norwegian are actually decreasing slightly next year, moving one of the Stewart rotations to Shannon.

[BFS BHD]

Thomas Cook has released flights for Winter 2018/19.
Seems to be a few reductions to TFS.

[GAZMO]

Any news yet on the new easyJet routes?

[mart901]

Has anyone worked out is there actually capacity available or do the existing routes require the six aircraft?

[BFS BHD]

Yes a 6th Aircraft is need some days.

Here is a Sunday morning...
EZY6755 Malaga 06:00 A319
EZY6701 Alicante 06:10 A320
EZY6793 Faro 06:25 A319
EZY6783 Krakow 07:00 A319
EZY6707 Dubrovnik 07:05 A320
EZY6671 Barcelona 07:50 A320

Few other days need 6 six aircraft.

[BFS101]

Is there still an aircraft based at BFS for the winter, and flying every day? Cheers

[BFS BHD]

Yes appears to be based. No not flying everyday.

[GAZMO]

Stats now out eventually from for August
Overall good performance but GLA down 31%........thankfully additional domestic flights next summer

[BFS BHD]

Last Wizz Air service to Katowice tomorrow for good.

And last Ryanair services to Gatwick tomorrow until March.

[Refuellerman]

Back again for more fun and laughter boys and girls, apparently more in the way of the big military busses coming through in the future, global trek, trying to step it up a gear and push for the heavies

[BFS BHD]

Yes great to see them doing good! Going to need a bigger apron soon Delta was full today with one C130 and then some smaller stuff from Woodgate and Juliet Apron had three C130s parked up on it.

[Refuellerman]

Sometimes the juliet apron and the 35 tango aprons are used.

[SecondDog]

Come on guys, first rule of Fight Club.....

[A320.b744]

CAA August stats are out - here are the highlights.

592,045 passengers used BFS in August, an increase of 11% on last year.

Domestic passenger numbers are pretty flat, with falls in BHX (-7%), GLA (-31%), but increases in LTN (+10%), BRS (+8%).

Huge growth in passenger numbers to Croatia thanks to easyJet expanding operations - DBV (+221%) and SPU (+78%).

Large growth on Portuguese and Spanish routes, including FAO (+42%), ALC (+52%), IBZ (+49%), MAH (+39%), AGP (+68%), LPA (+299%).

Ryanair's central and Eastern European routes were nearly all operating at over 90% capacity; SXF (98%), BGY (92%), GDN (94%), WMI (93%), WRO (80%), KRK (98%).

Norwegian's routes are doing okay, with SWF performing a lot better than PVD. SWF 4,034 pax (83%) and PVD 2,315 pax (69%)

[Refuellerman]

Serious growth for bfs sometimes hundreds of percent, but how long can it last?

[AerRyan]

Not long, ryanair has alot to do with the growth.

[A320.b744]

Quite a lot of the growth comes from Ryanair, given these figures represent the first August that some of these routes were operated by the airline. However, Thomson caused the huge growth in figures to LPA, and Thomas Cook caused the growth in IBZ figures. Both easyJet and Jet2 are boosting figures as well. Next year we'll see further growth on some easyJet and Jet2 routes, given that they are both basing larger aircraft at BFS next year.

The most important figure to look at however is the overall growth, which was 11% for August 2017.

[mart901]

Also apart from EZY and LS basing larger a/c they are both adding an additional one. The figures for Norwegian are actually pretty good, Aug was only their second month of operation.... flew to SWF recently I'd say was about 80% maybe a tad more.

[El Bunto]

Come on guys, first rule of Fight Club.....

Perhaps should be usurped by the zeroth rule: "If you don't want civvies talking about your aeroplanes, don't use civvy airports"

Look, these machines are fitted with pretty awesome defensive systems. They're better protected than any civilian aircraft, perhaps with the exception of some Israeli airframes. They're designed to fly into places where they're not welcome. Some spotters talking excitedly about them doesn't pose a risk.