Can some one explain to me all these rumours about Ezy in Brs. Having worked at BRS for over 3 years and with my other half flying for Ezy from BRS you would think I may have heard some of the rumours first hand.

Next we will have terror-is-firmer telling us Ezy are pulling out of BRS the same way as BMI are pulling out of CWL?!!!

(no offence t-i-f) :confused:

The winter schedule will be published in the next 10 days or so - in the run up speculatuon reaches feverish proportions as to new routes or routes being axed. Its the same every 6 months.

Nobody 'knows' 'owt - not even the pixies in La La Land at Luton one suspects most of the time.

Wait and see. Personally I think there has got to be a market for a scheduled low cost winter Ski route out of BRS. I tried to use FlyBe to Toulouse last year to reach Andorra but I was fresh out of gold bullion...

Cheers

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Not quite. But the grapevine has told me that Easy may consider using Cardiff to compliment its Bristol routes should ramp congestion become an issue.

Did Boeing add winglets to the B757-200 or only the 757-300?


Mutt.

I haven't been to BRS recently so I don't know whether it's happened already, but I understood that the fuel farm situated between the GA parking (as was) and the Terminal building will also be removed, making even more space for the toys.

It's about time you DID visit again. Come and see us in our fancy new premises!

No the fuel farm has not been moved yet.

Nasib

Interesting discussion about my old habitat. EZY rumour has got to be a load of BRS rubbish in my view. Its well documented about the success of EZY there. Just try to book a flight from there and you will see how much more it is to fly from BRS than say LTN or up here in good old STN.
Personally I would dismiss the thought of EZY pulling things out. After all in my view BRS is all about EZY and charter ops except for TCX no longer being there.
In response to the A320 problem that is correct especially with a low pressure setting and using the older V2500 engined a/c. Our folks used to use bump quite often at BRS. However Im not sure the FCA aircraft were effected as much as i think they were CFM equipped. Anyway nice to here about things there. Would be nice to see a new handling agent there too. I did hear a very good rumour from a relible source about that 2 weeks ago. Any one heard any more??

BRS flights warrant a premium because you don't have to drive East down the M4 and you don't have to pay £78 to park for a week. ..

Drive east to Thiefrow when you can go west quicker to Bristol - I shoul co-co. Scheduled daily transatlantic coming soon...

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The parking at Bristol has to be the most expensive I have seen at any Airport in the whole of the UK, it's about time they got that sorted.
No discounts for pre-booking either :mad:

Flower = Cardiff ATCO

- you are just so full of cr@p........ just stay your side of the water and keep us all happy.:p

(PS. Check your facts while you're at it.)

Avalon may I ask what you are referring to regarding crap?

Yes Flower is a Cardiff ATCO which if you know your stuff would also mean you know i spend a considerable amount of time working Bristol traffic so take a great deal of care and interest in what ever goes on there, there success is important to me.

The parking is extortionate, it is well known and reported all the time I am assured in the local press. It is way cheaper to Park at all other airfields and is one very good reason for me not to fly out of there and has put me off flying out of there.

I now have heard from so many people from this side of the water that instead of paying such ridiculous parking charges that they prefer to travel the distance and go to Birmingham and Heathrow Gatwick etc, so i think you will find my comments are highly valid and Bristol Airport should be looking closely at what is going on

Flower - far be it from me to interrupt your flow whilst mid spat with Avalon, but Brizzel does offer discounts on parking if it's pre booked. As to how expensive it is, well I have no idea, but then again, I'm not one for parking at airports.

Standard Noise, then that is an extremely recent change as even one month ago that wasn't available when a friend tried to acquire a discount by pre-booking.
Anyhow this has nothing to do with New York and I have no intention of being in a spat with anyone on here just with greedy car park owners.

As a regular observer of this wonderful site I have now been driven to register by the farcical comments made by Flower..!

Airport parking - prebooked prices from the airports' own websites for 15th July for 1 and 2 weeks:

1wk (8 days) 2wks (15 days)
BRS £33.75 £49.00
CWL £31.50 £42.00
LTN £78.00 £135.00
BHX £39.20 £78.40 (offsite)
EMA £42.00 £71.00
NCL £50.00 £85.00
LPL £29.90 £44.90
STN £46.90 £93.80 (offsite)
SOU £46.90 £93.80
LHR £56.00 £112.00
MAN £47.60 £89.25
LGW £52.50 £105.00

I believe these "extortionate" prices speak for themselves? BRS parking (Early Bird) has been available for a year now, and this is the £33.75 above. Not sure why your friend couldn't find this.

As for the press, I think you'll find that ALL regional newspapers have a love/hate relationship with their respective regional airport and that car parking is always a contentious issue. The problem is one of perception and not fact.

Hopefully the next time those people tell you that they're all off down the M4 this year because the parking is so much cheaper, perhaps you could set them straight...?

Many thanks

Well done BOB, a fine piece of detective work and oohh look, Cardiff is oh so cheap compared to Brizzel, about the price of a cup of tea and a bun. Oh my god! Give Cwl the transatlantic route! Cos it's got really cheap parking!!!

This car park issue is really getting up some Brstolians noses. They are car parks which I believe are both owned by NCP. Off site parking is the better option these days. More secure and cheaper.

Anyhow I'm sure its access to the city that Continental will be looking at as both airports are outside their cities. Both cardiff and bristol have very good bus links. But driving to Bristol is not very friendly. Cardiff I belive will soon have a direct rail link and a new road giving direct access to the M4.

Both airports are a drive away from the nearest motorway, but to get to cardiff is more straight forward. Bristol is a nightmare through Clifton because of the traffic during rush hour and that stupid one way system where you have to cross three lanes of traffic twice. With Cardiff you just keep going straight on at every roundabout untill you are told to turn right. Then you keep going straight on again. Traffic at Culver House Cross can be a pain during rush hour but nowhere near as bad as Clifton and surrounding area.

I think CO/AA or whoever flies in a NYC route will not be too bothered about whether the parking ie expensive or the road is particulary bad.

They will just ask businesses based in the area whether they are likely to use the airport or not. Do businesses from the US fly in to the area etc etc

Thank god for that, I'm not a Bristolian, so he's not talking about me.
But the off site car parks at BRS are in pub beer gardens and fields with not a great deal of security anyway and in this day and age with insurance companies doing their damnedest to get out of paying for claims, I don't think they'd be too happy if you said you parked your pride and joy in a pub car park for 2 weeks and went off to wherever. It's not as if the off site parking is run by a reasonably well established company like Pink Elephant for example, no, on the contrary, off site parking at BRS is run by chancers on the make.

As for road links, why does everyone think that being close to the M4 is the be all and end all. BRS is only 15 mins from the M5 from where you can access the M4 (on the right side of the Severn, natch) or the Midlands quite easily.

Yes as you have identified CWL is that much cheeper to park than BRS but from this side of the bridge to get to CWL you have to pay the bridge toll to get there and back.

Also why dont all people take into consideration the fact that even if regional airports charge that little amount more than other airports you will will probably have to pay more in petrol to get there.:confused:

T-I-F once again you have your facts muddled if you are driving to Brs city centre from BRS Airport you need not touch Clifton.

Oh goodness I hope you aren't turning this into a Cardiff versus Bristol thread .

As an aside I happen to know that Baby were paying the toll fee of the bridge for those entering Wales from England for a while if they pre booked parking. Not sure if that is still the case mind.