And did you know that EZY are the only airline to operate the '19 with twin overwing exits?? The standard '19 only has one - it was one of the extra's put in by airbus to try and sway the order.

Anyway, back to more important things, who have England got this weekend - would be nice to see them win at least one match :D

Smug git!! :mad:

Just heard from my good mate, EZY will be opreating the 'bus' at BRS by Nov.

Cheers all!

I travelled on the Berlin-based 319 to SXF and back from BRS last year. Lovely a/c but I have always wondered about the economics of having 156 seats because it requires an extra cabin staff member, just for half a dozen extra seats (or is it seven?).

Can anyone explain how this makes economic sense if all the flights are not full which effectively means the fourth flight attendant is being carried for no reason? I understand it is the number of seats and not the number of pax filling those seats that is the criterion.

WATABENCH

I saw a big poster advertising the CO service to EWR on an advertising hoarding at the junction of Cumberland Road and Prince Street on Sunday - near the Harbourside. Perhaps they think they can attract some sailors. :D

Windsheer

England doing very nicely thankyou. No game this weekend but Northern Ireland coming up, and the return against Wales later on. Not quite sure when but Sven's men will have qualified by then.

Oh sorry, just realised you are talking about egg chasing. :=

Indeed BRS will start turning into an Airbus base as of November following East Midlands. As for 4 cabin crew. easyJet makes 50p on every seat sold and 150p on 'other' sales. It is therefore better business practice to sell more tea and coffee to each passenger than to actually sell more seats. Guess who does the tea and coffee selling..

Cheers

WWW

Yep, crew at EZY have definatly been told the BUS's are on the way, copying Firstgroup if you ask me , wait for one and eight come along!!

MV - CO posters - sailors and p*ssheads if they've put them down by the waterfront, just about somes up the city of Bristol (only joking, I der lurve Brizzle my baber, up the GAS):ok:

Seen plenty of CO signs going up in weston

Also WOW are increasing their Jersey service to 6 times weekly

Just recieved some interesting news from Easyjet. New routes to be Ibiza, Athens and Dortmund.

The interseting part I have heard is that Easyjet will be expanding their fleet to not 9 aircraft next summer but 12! This comes from a very good source.

T21

Sorry but all wrong - your source is talking tosh!!

How do you know its tosh? Someone else I know also heard that these routes are to be started....sounds feasible to me!

Hello again terrier,

Nice to hear that Westonians are being reminded about the new service to the US. When I was at school there (Weston that is, not the USA) the most exciting flights locally were flips around the bay for 7/6 from Weston Airfield.

WOW did a Mondays to Fridays daily JER rotation (via PLH) last summer. It seems they have added an extra day this summer. All good news although I wondered whether four airlines on the BRS-JER route last year was a bit of an overkill.

Your twelve easyJet a/c info does seem rather extravagant. Where would they all fly to? It would be marvellous if it were true because it would mean easyJet thought the extra routes would be sustainable.

Finally, did you see the ITV West series on BRS that finished recently? I thought it was pretty good, from an outsider's perspective anyway. I believe that at least two PPRuNers had speaking parts at various times in the series.

ATCO

I rather think that a bristolian does know what he is talking about. He is a man of comparatively few words most of the time on this forum, of necessity at times I suspect.

He has usually been right in the past on this forum - have a look at his profile.

Did think it was a bit far fetched but we can live in hope!!!

Apropos the daily CO BRS-EWR service that is to commence on 20 May this year, the Bristol Airport official website is carrying a news item to the effect that return fares are on offer from £325 return, all taxes included. They have to be booked by 15 April and the flights taken before 22 June.

Having never worked in this industry can anyone who has/is suggest whether this is a normal marketing ploy for a new route or an indication that bookings need a bit of a shove?

I think that CO was just testing the water with the new route to see how much people will pay. This reduction in price has been timedtimed with the recent marketing surge which has been commented on already on this site. It was also advertised in the recent travel weekley mag with front and back covers advertising the new BRS/BFS services.

Merchant Venturer: The last time I watched the TV series about Bristol airport it was all about whatsisname from the ASU chasing rabbits and showing viewers how to marshal an aircraft. I thought that Servisair did the marshalling? Another thing that made me laugh was seeing a BA dispatcher congratulating him/herself on turning a WOW around in nine minutes. It only had about three people on it. Don't some of the Easyjets turn round from 100+ pax to 100+ pax in 20 minutes? Personally I thought that the TV series gave Joe Bloggs the wrong idea about who does what and how its done at Bristol.

Leading European Tour Operator Launch New flights From Bristol International

Detur UK is the latest addition to the International DETUR chain of tour operators which includes operations in Sweden , Norway and Finland.

Bristol International Airport is delighted to announce that DETUR UK which launch Bristol as a departure point to Turkey during Summer 2005.

Detur UK will operate flights from Bristol to Dalaman in Turkey on August 10th, 17th and 24 August which will serve a variety of resorts including Marmaris , Hisaronu and Icemeler. Detur UK will be offering return flights from £239 return and a variety of self catering and hotel based accomadation.

I believe they are also offering flights from NCL using an MD83 from some airline

Morning peeps
Schedule airlines often put out special fares that have to be booked by a certain date, on previous experiance from working for a travel agents for 5 years a lot of these are usually put out through bucket shops or links with travel agents not usually direct from the airline, so it is normal practise to have these lower fares with book by dates, but it is a coincidence they drop the fares when the advertising starts going up, as i said on this thread earlier CO would be testing the water then bring there fares more in line with their BHX/LGW/GLA departures, looks like they're doing it.
Also I agree with Redfield, the TV prog wasn't the best, neither was the first series last year, who the hell produced a show about a busy regional airport and puts in the following - ASU picking mushrooms/ASU - setting Hare traps/ASU - plane spotting in MAN!!!!!, should of re-named it the ASU Show, but they also included a fire fighter on his bike!? and a whole show dedicated to some bit of bint shipping her 2 dogs to PFO with BY.
I would imagine viewers would be more interested in following a S-air dispatcher on a bigger jet like FCA/MYT and seeing the whole process from where the bags go, to dealing with p-port issues and late pax, and all the running round that gets done behind the scenes, sorry going off on another tangent, but you know what i mean!:mad:

WATABENCH

Looks like the big wheel is starting re the CO EWR route.

Bristol Evening Post today reports a meeting of nearly 500 travel agents from all over the Southwest, hosted by the airport and CO, to push the route.

Re the tv programme, the new series on LHR was dire: the usual problem passengers and the adventures of a trapped squirrel, and hardly an aircraft in sight. In that context BRS's hares and mushroom were acceptable. :D

Speaking as a non-industry person I enjoyed much of the BRS series although such things as cycling firemen and guitar-playing despatchers did not interest me. However, there was quite a lot of apron and runway action, whether strictly accurate in terms of who does what is probably something that did not concern the majority of viewers who would not be air aficionados.

Apparently this series was again very popular with viewers, as was the first.

MV - Hey don't diss the talent of our loaders mate(not dispatch) cuh get it right:E , BRS's very own rock and roll idol is the 'KING' of the ramp ha ha, I take on board what your saying as an outsider, but being someone who plies his trade up here on the hill its a tad frustrating as there are so many areas and intresting bits and bobs that weren't covered in the prog, ask anyone who works up here and they'll prob say they same my friend, well apart from ASU, i herd they're getting their own chat show soon, Jim's hosting and Badger producing!! - just pulling your leg lads!:ok: