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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?
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Thomas Cook will now also be flying to Crete in summer 2006 PP |
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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:
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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.
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plans for Bournemouth including Glasgow International, Edinburgh and Manchester direct Palma flights from next summer 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? |
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?
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
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Or lets hope the cash machine gets another terminal!:ok:
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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. |
flyGlobespan launching a daily EDI-BOH flight from March 2006
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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. In August the load factor on BRS-EWR was 83% and in September it was 80% (CAA Stats). In fact, in both those months more pax were carried than on the CO BFS-EWR, a route that started around the same time as BRS-EWR last May. I posted on the Bristol thread earlier this week that I had spoken to the BRS managing director at an airport roadshow and asked him how the EWR route was performing. He was candid in that he said initially they failed to attract the US market but that he thought the fares had been too high at the beginning. They have been revised with the resulting higher take-up of seats and he feels that on occasions the fares may now be even too low. The route was always intended to go to five a week in winter. BFS has gone to five as well, and the EDI route that started in summer 2004 and had exceptionally high loads form the outset still went down to five a week in its first winter. CO were looking to carry 75,000 pax in their first year on the BRS-EWR and thus far are well on course to achieve that, if not better it. I know that yields are more important than loads but the Bristol MD seemed very confident about the route and very pleased with its performance and, perhaps more importantly, he said Continental are too. Sorry to have strayed a bit into BRS territory but a question was asked and all I can do is supply the 'evidence' so that people can make up their own minds as to the likelihood of the BRS-EWR being extended to include BOH. |
Good news about the new Edinburgh route !! lets hope its well marketed and sells better than the Belfast route did , although it has to be said a smaller aircraft on that route may well have helped it stay as loads were not to bad towards the end
Busy on the ramp this morning with 2 Thomsonfly 767 300 off to Montego Bay with cruise passengers , extra demand for this holiday promted an extra flight . 8 flights this winter to the Caribbean alone , not bad at all for a small regional airport |
BFS was pretty good compared to EUJet loads at Manston. BFS should really be able to support a daily Dash 8-300 operation. Perfect operator would be air southwest.
great news about flyglobespan - hopefully the route will support a two daily operation if they use B737-600's but cant see more than daily if they use the -800. JFK would make sense but only if it originated in bristol and flew straioght from BOH - there are no payload penalties in bad / hot weather from BOH |
easyJet summer 06 flights are now on sale for Geneva. Flights to BOH are only available until 23/04/06 so I guess they aren't going to operate it yr round?
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i dont think this is any indication of poor performance though because the new Geneva routes to Doncaster Sheffield and Edinburgh are also stopping (as advertised) on 23rd/24th April 06. Besides, Geneva tends to be quite week in the summer from all UK airports. I would'nt worry. I'm sure they will be considering further route development from Bournemouth, and will certainly be back for winter 06/07 to Geneva from there from feedback i've heard
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You can book the Geneva flights through until sunday 23rd of
April - appernetly extended. -- Also, it's the end of European 747-200 operations as all have parked up. BOHEurpean |
BOHEuropean, do you know whats happened to the Bournemouth movements log on airliners.net? I can't seem to find it, and it was great with all the pics and news of movements.... I think you were one of the most regular contributors...
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Hi,
It was decided that we would not continue it due to the fact that not enough Bournemouth members were on the site. |
A lot of GVA flights are seasonal obviously to take advantage of the skiing season. Bookings on the BOH-GVA-BOH are very good. Plans are being considered to perhaps base aircraft at BOH for the Summer season to the 'normal' Summer destinations.
Hopefully BOH will become a year round easyJet destination. |
But the question is, which summer are you refering to? It would be great for BOH if it was summer 06, but what about the slots and the crucial launch period? if they dont launch now bookings wont be as strong as they could be as people will book with flybe/elsewhere.
are easyjet bothered about competition from TOM/FR? |
Thomsonfly have added 3 morning flights to their Amsterdam route which makes it possible to have a good 10 hours in the city on a monday, tuesday (from 27/03) and friday (from 05/05).
Looking forward to the rest of their summer schedule which hopefully be loaded pretty soon.:ok: |
Good news for TOM :ok: Paris isn't available yet is it although it is from COV/DSA? :confused: As you say, hopefully the full schedule will be released soon. Is it definite that BOH will have 3 based aircraft?
easyJet start operating the GVA route next week as well :ok: |
If you look at the timetables in April it will take 3 aircraft to operate the flights.
I don't know why they're taking so long to release their schedule though. Maybe its slots or something holding them up. |
Great News for Amsterdam.
Air Berlin start in 7 days. Just been looking around the airport but supprised not to see any signs / leaflets or advertising for Easyjey or Air Berlin. There are empty Billboard holders in the Arrivals hall and Jet2 banners / signs still on show. Looking forward to seeing Easy jet Swiss start soon after. Best of Luck but please advertise these flights then you may get some passengers. |
thats the marketing department for you! haven't a clue!
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Nakata this seems very true.
The airport does not even have their Airport Newspapers in the Arrivals hall where meeters and greeters wait. There are at least 5 advert boards in there all BLANK. Brochures for Bournemouth on the wall that no body sees as arriving passengers are walking away from them. Comment Card box on wall - Good idea but there has been No Cards to write on for AT LEAST 2 MONTHS and see some people wrote on Servettes and scrap paper to complain. Coke machine not been working since it was installed. But.... Did hear Easy jet on the local radio today, not sure what they where advertising as I missed it. Its a real shame to mention this but I hope that somebody does read this and do some action. |
If either of the Easyjet or Air Berlin flights are successful it certainley won't be down to BOH airport or the Airline marketing departments. I occasionally visit the airport, but would not have known anything about these flights if it had not been for overhearing a conversation in the WC !!!
I can't personally recall seeing/hearing anything official to suggest that Easy or Air Berlin will be flying from the airport. In fact just three hundred yards away from where I work is a bus stop billboard advertising Easyjet flights from BRISTOL !!! Local media include up to 5 local radio stations including the BBC, a daily newspaper and numerous weekly publications covering the local area. I may be wrong, but i don't think I've ever seen/heard anything in any of these apart from Ryan Air advertisements. I do hope for the local economy that all these flights will be a success. |
Does the airport actually manage the advertising boards at the airport? I know at other airports, 3rd parties are responsible.
Also, I'm guessing its not particularly cost effective to advertise loads when you only have one daily route into an airport. I agree with the points made by others but just wanted to try balance the argument up! |
i would like to second that... unless they realise that they need to do some hard graft to get bums on seats it will be a dissappointing 2006
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