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Has anyone heard any more about the potential withdrawal of Aer Lingus from BHD?? Understand with the new requirements from the CAA its AL's preference to not operate from Belfast
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What new requirements @Sharket7? And do they apply to Emerald as well as EI as all services are operated by Emerald?
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What I heard from another site is that
EI is closing down their Belfast crew base at the end of October . Belfast Flight Crew have been offered long haul flights from Dublin to allow them to commute from Belfast.
Emerald to remain unaffected at the moment but have the same issue of not having a UK AOC
I have noticed that EI-GZY on jethroseu is going to be go on UK AOC and will be registered G-CMJN
EI is closing down their Belfast crew base at the end of October . Belfast Flight Crew have been offered long haul flights from Dublin to allow them to commute from Belfast.
Emerald to remain unaffected at the moment but have the same issue of not having a UK AOC
I have noticed that EI-GZY on jethroseu is going to be go on UK AOC and will be registered G-CMJN
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What I heard from another site is that
EI is closing down their Belfast crew base at the end of October . Belfast Flight Crew have been offered long haul flights from Dublin to allow them to commute from Belfast.
Emerald to remain unaffected at the moment but have the same issue of not having a UK AOC
I have noticed that EI-GZY on jethroseu is going to be go on UK AOC and will be registered G-CMJN
EI is closing down their Belfast crew base at the end of October . Belfast Flight Crew have been offered long haul flights from Dublin to allow them to commute from Belfast.
Emerald to remain unaffected at the moment but have the same issue of not having a UK AOC
I have noticed that EI-GZY on jethroseu is going to be go on UK AOC and will be registered G-CMJN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer_Lingus_UK
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...it-secures-aoc
I do wonder though how it is only an issue now, and not before from the day of the end of EU membership.
Given Aer Lingus are today still selling LHR-BHD into Nov "Operated by Aer Lingus" using the current EI flight nos, is this route dropping confirmed? Or is it a case of dates TBC?
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Just a potential change of AOC.
Aer Lingus (UK) is a separate subsidiary, so there wouldn’t be an automatic transfer of the local pilots, unless of course they want to transfer over and have/are prepared to get a UK license.
Actually the rumour I heard was Aer Lingus were dropping it for BA. No point in having one G- A320 flying BHD-LHR with no economies of scale. So no change in sight yet it seems.
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Aer Lingus don’t have a BHD pilot base. They shut it down ages ago. BHD is crewed from DUB but with local cabin crew.
Aer Lingus UK has its registered ‘office’ in BHD albeit a broom cupboard somewhere. They could easily transfer 320’s to the UK aoc and may do so with the LR’s for MAN as the 330’s might be going back to DUB.
I’ll be sorry to see the back of them if they leave the LHR route as BA are expensive and unreliable. EI do a far superior service on it.
Aer Lingus UK has its registered ‘office’ in BHD albeit a broom cupboard somewhere. They could easily transfer 320’s to the UK aoc and may do so with the LR’s for MAN as the 330’s might be going back to DUB.
I’ll be sorry to see the back of them if they leave the LHR route as BA are expensive and unreliable. EI do a far superior service on it.
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Emerald Airlines UK Ltd made its first appearance 05 Oct, AT76 G-CMJN ( ex EI-GZY ) training between Ronaldsway, Belfast City and Southampton.
ICAO designator: EAG
RT callsign: GREENSTONE
ICAO designator: EAG
RT callsign: GREENSTONE
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Are easyJet closing their Belfast City/Liverpool route?
At the moment, there is nothing available after the end of March ... in fact, apart from Gatwick, all of their other routes are unavailable.
At the moment, there is nothing available after the end of March ... in fact, apart from Gatwick, all of their other routes are unavailable.
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Easyjet often use BFS<>UK as a filler route to keep aircraft utilisation high. It could be that the BFS routes will be added in when the European route timetable is finalised.
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Never seen a BFS to BHD route before!
We are talking about Belfast City here, not Belfast International.
And, in any case both are in the UK which includes other bits, not just England.
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We are talking about Belfast City here, not Belfast International.
And, in any case both are in the UK which includes other bits, not just England.
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Indeed they did, during 1999, with the 20min sector even appearing in their printed timetables.
CAA stats recorded as many as 16 such local pax for the whole of 1999 !
Operated as part of a combined ATR72 service between NCL and both Belfast airports.
Will it be U2 or BE who revive it first? !
CAA stats recorded as many as 16 such local pax for the whole of 1999 !
Operated as part of a combined ATR72 service between NCL and both Belfast airports.
Will it be U2 or BE who revive it first? !
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BHD-BFS
If such a repositioning flight was to return, the airline operating could encourage schools to use it for a careers day trip, inspire those who dream of becoming a flight crew or just want a career in the airport environment.
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Aer Lingus flights from Belfast-London to be axed
It’s believed the decision to remove the long-standing route is connected to Aer Lingus’s air operators certificate expiring at the end of October.