BOURNEMOUTH
 

BOURNEMOUTH

Dorset County Council have published their transport plans for the next few years on their website www.dorset.gov.uk They include a direct road link from the A338 dual carriage way to the airport. A roundabout at the present road junction with the airport road from Hurn to Parley, and they also back plans for a new terminal.

Now all we need is some detailed plans from the airport.

On other news;

Thomas Cook will now also be flying to Crete in summer 2006 bringing their routes to four.

Continental is rumoured to be in discussions about a New York route operating via Bristol. Would think that if this starts the new terminal would have to be built first.

Air Berlin flights are moving from SOU to BOH in decemeber.

U2 also start daily GVA in december.

3rd TOM 737 to base by end of March with new routes to be announced soon.

2006 is shaping up to be another great year for BOH with the strong possibility of braking through the 1.5 million PAX mark. Not bad when you consider that BOH was bumbling along at around 300,000 for a good few years.:ok:

What airline will operate the Crete flights?

I'd hazard a wild guess that Thomas Cook would be doing it.......;)

PP

PP,
Thomas Cook aren't operating their own flights, they dont have a based aircraft, I think he was refering to who will operate for Thomas Cook!:hmm:

There will be Roadworks on the road from Bournemouth Airport terminal towards Hurn village from November 7th for two weeks.

Not sure what they are doing but hopefully be an inprovment.

A brief resume of current charter flights for this winter and next summer

Winter 2005 / 6

Thomsonfly Boeing 767 300 to Barbados , New York , Dubai , Montego Bay , Acapulco

Palmair based 737 various routes

Astraeus 737 700 to Luxor , Paphos

Lauda Air 737 400 to Innsbruck

European 737 various routes

Thomsonfly 737 300 to Lanzarote , Tenerife , Lyon ( plus there scheduled services )

Summer 2006

Futura 737 400 Palma Sat

Iberoworld A320 Palma Sat new route

EuroCypria 737 800 Larnaca Sun

Pegasus 737 800 Bodrum Mon new route

Spanair A320 Tenerife Tue

EuroCypria 737 800 Heraklion Fri new route

Palmair / European 737 based

Thomsonfly should be making the rest of there summer 2006 programme public soon and hopefully we will have a 3rd based aircraft here !
Next big decision must be the terminal which is begining to creak a bit at peak times as does the car park ! all good news though

In one of last weeks Daily Echos was a two page spread on BOH and its growth and future. The MD of BOH was quoted as saying that they are going to announce their plans mid December onwards re access and new terminal. :ok:

Jet2 BFS-BOH-BFS
 

When and why did Jet2 stop flying the BFS-BOH-BFS route?

Let's hope they put a replacement service on soon.

The Belfast service stopped last weekend due to poor loads. The CAA stats explain why and the best month was August when 58% of the seats sold, but they had to keep the seat price down quite a bit.

On a more positive note, Air Berlin have put Padderborn on sale through to the end of October 2006 and Easyjets route to Geneva appears to be doing well, so hopefully they will continue the route through the summer.

Re Air Berlin

They are also advertising Bournemouth to Palma too

(Via Paderbourne) but still cheap.

Re Jet2
There was no other plans for Jet2 , although they should have started Bournemouth - Manchester before they changed the route Belfast.

Re European / Ozjet
They aquired a Ryanair 737 this week to be sent out for Ozjet.

A 747 is arriving today for a Flight out to Palma / Johannesburg with passengers.

Hi

The Boeing 737-200 thats been sold to European is EI-CJG, Apperently this will be for spares and she is currently sat in European's hangar.

European Boeing 747-200 G-BDXE arrived today at about 13.20 with the titles "The South African altech GP 2005" and will depart tommorow (Sunday) at about 15.00 to Palma.

Boeing 737-200 EI-CJC (Hertz) is apperently going to be coming to Bournemouth for European when she is retired from Ryanair operations.


Jimmi
BOHEuropean

air berlin have more domestic summer 2006 plans for Bournemouth including Glasgow International, Edinburgh and Manchester. They also want to start direct Palma flights from next summer.

I cant see Glasgow or Edinburgh working, Ryanair has got both of those well covered really, surely you cant fill a B737 to both of these?I hope for manchester though!

Don't see why they would even bother, the route is just going to have a huge amount excess Capacity!

Where'd you get this from anyway?Do you know anything about Easyjet plans?

Cheers BOH

I thought the Air Berlin UK domestic flights were principally going to be used/marketed as feeder services to STN-Germany services? This doesn't seem to fit with domestic services into BOH although I believe Air Berlin do plan to launch more routes out of BOH besides PAD.

I would think its unlikely they would launch flights to GLA with the Ryanair competition to PIK. Flights to MAN and EDI could work, esp MAN.

Any ideas on further German destinations?

To get from PIK to Edinburgh City Centre takes:-

• at least a 1.5 hour by car (with added car hire costs) or;
• at least 2 hours by train with at least one change and a trek between Glasgow Central and Queen Street

OTOH Edinburgh City Centre is around 15 minutes by taxi from EDI. As a frequnt (leisure) traveller between Bournemouth and Edinburgh I almost always take BA or BE from SOU to EDI. The only time I have taken FR was when the fares were so low it was laughable. Add to that that we needed a car while in Edinburgh then PIK made sense.

BA and BE fly a lot of people between SOU and EDI. So long as any carrier who starts a service to EDI offers a twice daily rotation with sensible times that will also suit business travellers, then I think they will be on to a winner.

can assure people about air berlin plans but as for easyjet i don't know. have heard rumours about them wanting to come in with four aircraft and 1 million passengers due to the success of the GVA flights

Continental may be wanting to throw Bournemouth into the Bristol leg in order to boost pax numbers. Can anyone vouch for the latter. BRS-JFK has gone down to 5 weekly for the winter.

To get from PIK to Edinburgh City Centre takes:-


at least a 1.5 hour by car (with added car hire costs) or;

at least 2 hours by train with at least one change and a trek between Glasgow Central and Queen Street

There are also two routes from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh - via Shotts (which I believe serves every town in along the route and takes ages and the London King's Cross train which operates via Carstairs and takes around an hour. I use both Prestwick and Glasgow several times per year and I can't help but notice the amount of passengers at Prestwick from Edinburgh and even as far away as Dundee going to Stansted among other places. Personally if I lived on the east coast I'd rather fly from an airport nearer to home unless it was going to be a lot more expensive to do so.

Will the terminal get another cash machine? :O :O :O :O :O

Or lets hope the cash machine gets another terminal!:ok:

CO fly BRS-EWR, not BRS-JFK