Doncaster Sheffield-2

[ROC10]

May also be a little unsettling for TUI who have basically held a monopoly on holiday routes at DSA for a while now.

[egcntristar]

Great news for the airport and a 180 from the naysayer.

Interestingly the below article names Tenerife, Barcelona, Prague, and Szczecin which aren't on the list today - genuine mistake or Freudian slip?.

https://airlinergs.com/wizz-air-base...onomic-growth/

[TimmyW]

Originally Posted by egcntristar

Great news for the airport and a 180 from the naysayer.

Interestingly the below article names Tenerife, Barcelona, Prague, and Szczecin which aren't on the list today - genuine mistake or Freudian slip?.

https://airlinergs.com/wizz-air-base...onomic-growth/

The DSA press release states that further aircraft will be added soon, so maybe these are just yet to be announced officially.

[SWBKCB]

It says they go on sale today and that just looks like a cut and paste from a press notice - maybe an early version and there have been late changes?

[egcntristar]

Another slip, this one mentions Tenerife, Barcelona and Prague...

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/busi...region-2941170

[TimmyW]

Wizz will base a 2nd aircraft with a further 6 new routes

https://flydsa.co.uk/latest-news/wiz...d-6-new-routes

[Albert Hall]

Hmmm ... Doncaster to Eindhoven.

Why?

[Alteagod]

Seens the most unlikely city paring.

[flyerguy]

Originally Posted by Albert Hall

Hmmm ... Doncaster to Eindhoven.

Why?

Offers a quick and easy road connection to Amsterdam City Centre, which is a massive city break destination for U.K. travellers, with wizz already large number of flights out of EIN.

any new destination should be welcome news during these times.

[virginblue]

Originally Posted by Albert Hall

Hmmm ... Doncaster to Eindhoven.

Why?

As in "we want to cream off the AMS business built up by Flybe but" (make your pick) a) "we cannot get slots at slot-constrained AMS" or b) "we are too stingy to pay AMS fees"

[AirportPlanner1]

Originally Posted by Alteagod

Seens the most unlikely city paring.

Its not too strange when you consider the catchment of Eindhoven which is huge and the catchment of DSA. Eindhoven is within about 90 mins of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Maastricht, Rotterdam.

[G-FORZ]

Maybe a good City route for its connectivity but Sunday and Wednesday only and early afternoon is Going to limit its practicality

[OC37]

Originally Posted by AirportPlanner1

Its not too strange when you consider the catchment of Eindhoven which is huge and the catchment of DSA. Eindhoven is within about 90 mins of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Maastricht, Rotterdam.

That sounds about the same logic as Ryanair's early logic of "Let's fly people to the middle of nowhere where nobody actually wants to travel to"!

[southside bobby]

Certainly works/worked for Ryanair...

[AirportPlanner1]

Originally Posted by OC37

That sounds about the same logic as Ryanair's early logic of "Let's fly people to the middle of nowhere where nobody actually wants to travel to"!

Yes but Eindhoven, an actual city with a regular Champions League team and which is home to a huge multinational in Phillips as well as a lot of other industry and with an airport that already serves a number of destinations, is a somewhat different proposition to say Skavsta or Hahn which previously had almost nothing.

[OC37]

Originally Posted by AirportPlanner1

Yes but Eindhoven, an actual city with a regular Champions League team and which is home to a huge multinational in Phillips as well as a lot of other industry and with an airport that already serves a number of destinations, is a somewhat different proposition to say Skavsta or Hahn which previously had almost nothing.

So shall Doncaster Rovers be playing PSV Eindhoven anytime soon?

Eindhoven is a loco and holiday charter airport, pretty much people fly from Eindhoven to take a nice holiday and not to travel to Eindhovem, not even KLM are interested in serving it, roll on Costa del Doncaster!

[MDS]

Originally Posted by OC37

So shall Doncaster Rovers be playing PSV Eindhoven anytime soon?

Eindhoven is a loco and holiday charter airport, pretty much people fly from Eindhoven to take a nice holiday and not to travel to Eindhovem, not even KLM are interested in serving it, roll on Costa del Doncaster!

KLM focuses on their bread and butter - Amsterdam. Similar to why BA doesn't fly to Birmingham or Stansted for example.

Wizz also serves Eindhoven with a couple of dozen routes already which makes it easier for them to fly there.

I think the Canary routes are a great move, although I'm not too sure EIN will be a big hit. I don't think there's many VFR or business pax in either direction (unless I'm missing something) and I agree that Amsterdam city itself is quite far (and expensive to get there from Eindhoven airport).

[ATNotts]

Originally Posted by MDS

KLM focuses on their bread and butter - Amsterdam. Similar to why BA doesn't fly to Birmingham or Stansted for example.

Wizz also serves Eindhoven with a couple of dozen routes already which makes it easier for them to fly there.

I think the Canary routes are a great move, although I'm not too sure EIN will be a big hit. I don't think there's many VFR or business pax in either direction (unless I'm missing something) and I agree that Amsterdam city itself is quite far (and expensive to get there from Eindhoven airport).

Not that so many people holiday in such areas, but Eindhoven isn't so far from Maastricht (an excellent city break destination) and the South Limburg area of the Netherlands which is just about the most undulating part of the country, very picturesque and contains attractions such as Valkenburg and the ZLSM preserved railway, both of which are worth a visit. Further afield is the Ardenne in Belgium, and the Eifel in Germany, again both very much under rated tourist areas. If it weren't for the fact that we prefer to drive to the region, living where I do, DSA/EIN would be attractive.

Job to do for some tourist bodies in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium methinks.

[richardwpprn]

Originally Posted by MDS

KLM focuses on their bread and butter - Amsterdam. Similar to why BA doesn't fly to....Stansted for example....

BACF have operated lots of flights to Stansted last summer and winter. When you have lots of planes you utilise them when you can.

[OC37]

Originally Posted by MDS

KLM focuses on their bread and butter - Amsterdam. Similar to why BA doesn't fly to Birmingham or Stansted for example.

BA might not do STN, the same as they don't do LTN, because they already operate to/from three LON airports.

KLM Cityhopper and/or KLM Exel targeted such regional airports as EIN, GRQ, MST & RTM when they operated an appropriately sized puddle-jumper fleet of 50 seats or less, nowadays operating a fleet with their smallest sized aircraft being some 88 seats the regional airports, in KLM's apparent opinion, are no longer viable.