Shamrock7seal, here here - you really hit the nail on the head on this one. i'm sick of seeing billboards for easyJet advertising flights to Geneva from Bristol and not Bournemouth in BOURNEMOUTH!

I certainly don't agree with stopping the Wave 105fm advertising which by the way advertises both the easy and air berlin flights. Power fm is very hard to get along the south coast here and wave is the most listened to radio station in the south. Wave is also listened to by the right age group, as far as I'm aware power is mainly aimed at teenagers!

On the other hand the airport advertising boards around the perimeter of the field are still pushing the Jet2 Belfast route that ended in October.

Bournemouth airport very rarely advertise in the local papers and seem to leave it up to the airlines to organise their own campaigns.

Maybe this will be manchesters next improvement for BOH.

Easyjet is advertised on 2CRFM the local Radio Station, you can even have the chance to win flights with them last week.

Also Air Berlin and Easyjet are both on the front cover of SkyBourne news which is in the entrance to the Airport...

I remember Thomsonfly advertising their routes alot on the TV, don't see why these two can't!!

I can never remember easyJet advertising their routes from Bristol on local television in the Bristol area.

They did use the buses a lot, indeed a couple of years ago it seemed every Bristol bus was carrying adverts for either easyJet or Flybe.

I've seen a few Wilts and Dorset Buses with Easyjet advertising Bournemouth as of late, if I'm not mistaken they were to do with Bournemouth!?I know that about a month back there was advertising on the London Underground for Easyjet from Bournemouth and Bristol on the trains and on station platforms, so there is advertising, just in the wrong areas! 2CR would be the best option for advertising around the local Dorset Area, it must be the most listened to radio around here?!

As I said in my earlier post, they are advertising on 2CRFM, You could win return tickets on the station last week, and you could also win a ski holiday with easyjet flights (2 seperate prizes)

I know that about a month back there was advertising on the London Underground for Easyjet from Bournemouth and Bristol on the trains and on station platforms, so there is advertising, just in the wrong areas!

If such ads are in stations near Waterloo or Paddington respectively, there might be some sense in appealing to people who commute into London, but would rather take the family from their local airport.

Thomson holidays have just launched Ibiza as a summer destination from BOH for 2006.

The departure is at 6.55am so will be operated by Thomsonfly and maybe this will be one of the new destinations they introduce.

not even a press release on the website about the first ever easyJet flight. what is going on? do bournemouth think they are too big now to mention things like this?????

shamrock7seal, I feel you're getting a little too carried away with things. There is a press release in the news section regarding the new route to Geneva. The route was announced back in August and has sold very well so space needs to be given over to other routes. The Edinburgh route was the last to be announced so they take the prime hompage slot.:ok:

ok, forgive me but i can't help being over enthusiatic about my little local airport - and its big news to see the first ever easyJet flight. BOH and easy were in talks (on and off) for over 8 years to secure some kind of service.

can anyone tell me what kind of passenger loads easyJet and air berlin have been getting on their new Bournemouth services?

Easyjet are doing well. The first 10 outward flights have less than 40 seats left to book, with many around 20 seats left unsold so most outward flights for the 1st 2 weeks have had over 135PAX onboard. But will it continue...... hope so.

Closed tonight due to an AGL issue I gather (from NOTAM's)... anyone know any more? Serious or not?

Whats and AGL issue?!

Aircraft Ground Landing incident? i dunno...

FlyBoh, thanx for the reply on a DSA post re TOM cutting flights for summer 2006 from both BOH AND DSA. You mentioned that for the flights already announced, TOM needs 3 based aircraft to operate them from BOH.

How is this possible, since only 33 weekly departures = 11 weekly departures per aircraft. thats a hell of a lot of down time. you said TOM are going to announce more routes... when?! all the passengers will be booking up with Flybe by the time TOM actually releases the remainder of the programme...

are they using the Titan 737 too?

AGL - Normally stands for Aerodrome Ground Lighting?

there was an electrical fault on the approach lighting system (the main junction boxes/controls of which are in the tower building)which led to a smell of burning and a precautionary evacuation of atc. the airfield lighting had to be notamed as unserviceable until the fault was checked, hence the airfield efectively being closed for about 45mins from about five o clock.

no passenger flights were effected,any subsequent diversions/cancellations were due to the fact that when the airport re-opened the visibility had dropped to about 300m

shamrock7seal,

There are 3 flights on mondays that clash in April departing and arriving BOH as follows

Faro dep 10.15 arr 16.10
Alicante dep 13.00 arr 18.25
Lyon dep 13.30 arr 17.40

This requires 3 seperate aircraft.

Also if you take into consideration the charter flights that they will carryout on behalf of Thomson Holidays for summer 2006 then there are days that 3 aircraft will be needed too.

Thomsonfly have put on sale the destinations that FLybe serve in competition with them already. Malaga, Palma, Alicante & Faro. Amsterdam was added a week or so ago with the rest to follow.

Just as there website says..........

'Look out for more Summer 2006 destinations coming soon.'

Flights could be operated as a 'W' route where the a/c is based in Coventry, say, then operates 4 sectors ie COV-ALC-BOH-ALC-COV. Many airlines do this.

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