WATABENCH,

Glad it's all selling well - it did from Brum as well rest assured!

Before you get too carried away, just let the operation run via the debacle that tends to be a tech stop at Manchester, and see how feedback effects future bookings. If they have a poor time on the outbound, rest assured they won't re-use the service, and word soon spreads!

I think you can forget any sign personally of any routes south. Bear in mind GOA, MLE etc all require a tech stop from BRS, I don't think you will see commercial being too keen to let you utilise a precious LGW slot for it!! Therefore, non-starter I think.

30W

Yeah i know exactly what u mean with regard to LGW slots, no harm in dreaming though, well at the mo the tech stop in MAN is just for fuel and cargo, no pax offload etc, lets hope it all go's well, the one off BRS-CUN in oct should give us a clue as to how it'll go i suppose

That's all it was before....... but i do hope they do it better this time round. Problem is that it's not not down to FCA's will, it's all reliant on third parties (fuel, cargo.....)

30W

Easyjet to start BRS-Paris CDG from 30th of October. been a long time coming but must surely be a winner

Seems to be one rotation a day per easyJet web booking engine.

I hope this won't impact too adversely on BAConnect. They operate several other continental routes from BRS that easyJet probably wouldn't be interested in.

It would be a shame if BAConnect had to dump their Paris route which might then lead to abandoning the airport at BRS altogether.

KLM Cityhopper seems to be coping with the easyJet competition on BRS-AMS and of course BACx/BACon have gone head to head with easyJet on BRS-GLA and BRS-EDI for a number of years.

Fingers crossed that the CDG route is big enough for easyJet and BACon.

Any of you helpful Bristol locals able to tie up flight numbers and routings for the following callsigns?

BRT46VK
BRT8JF
BRT54E
EZY6JZ
EZY4PF
EZE2LT
EZE26LT


Thanks guys, any help much appreciated.

EZY4PF goes to Glasgow, BRT 8JF may well be another Scottish one.
Far as I can remember, EZE2LT doesn't exist, but the EZE26LT sounds like another Scottish trip number.

Good god, I should pay more attention at work.:hmm:

The EZE 26LT is the 4506 BRS-ABZ.

MNG Kargo & Titan Aircraft
 

Why are the MNG Fokker 50's and Titan 146 at Filton? They have been there for the past few days, does anybody know?

the Titan and MNG are at Filton for the winter period due to work being carried out on Bristols main runway and taxiway, when the airfield will be closed overnight for this work to proceed. They will be back in May when all runway/taxiway work is completed, in addition when they get back they will have brand new building and their own apron on South side of airfield.

We're still figuring out why they've gone so early? S'not as if we'll have less work to do since Filt aren't bringing in enough staff to man radar. Miserable buggers.

the post office had to vacate the old Brymon/BA hangar that they were using for the mail operation so that it could be taken down ready for the next phase of the ramp extension this winter, so work can start at the end of this season and completed for the summer 07 season

Hamburg
 

So Easyjet have officially axed their daily evening flight from Bristol - Hamburg...

Do we know already how that aircraft will be used from November then?

continental
 

**official** Continental are to keep there summer 07 routes reduced to 5 weekly flights. what do you guys think of that.

Charlie Roy

The easyJet BRS-HAM certainly seems to have disappeared from the winter schedules but I haven't seen an official announcement.

In fact, the easyJet web booking engine still shows the BRS-HAM operating this coming winter, with the winter period being described as 29 October 2006 to 24 March 2007.

However, test bookings on the web site for the winter bring up a notice saying the route is for sale only to 30 October this year.

Similarly, BUD, PSA and VLC are all still shown in the web booking engine as operating this coming winter, but again test bookings bring up the 'on sale only to 30 October' notice - there may be other routes that have been axed for the winter still being shown as operating on the web timetable. I gave up looking when it became apparent that the web timetable is a complete farce.

It's swings and roundabouts because there still seems to be work to keep the nine A 319s occupied throughout the winter.

For example, compared to last winter, the axed routes are 'replaced' with the likes of a second daily AMS, and new routes to CDG, TLS and KRK, with SXF being operated by a BRS-based aircraft for the first time.

CO at CWL
 

I have been reading the Cardiff thread and they are banging on about Continental starting a service to New York from there in summer 07 , also that CO are reducing the Bristol service to 5 weekly from then.
I find this hard to believe and sounds like wishful thinking, does anybody know anything about this? :eek:

co at brs and cwl
 

I have also heard off other sites ie airliners search 'co at cwl' they all say there that co are reducing brs service and from what ive been told by a pilot freind this is true and he says thatthey are also going into cwl 5xweekly next year (posted details aon cwl page)

kellycsi,

See my post on that thread, purely a rumour with no hard facts to back it up, there is however far more of a chance of Zoom airlines or someone else starting up more North American routes from over the Bristol Channel. There is nothing on the Continental website about Bristol services being reduced, until there is any official announcement I would take it with a large pinch of salt.

If you go onto continentals website and try and book a flight in summer 07 youll see only mon-fri flight also chech their news section

1)BRS-EWR is down as daily for next summer using a 757-200W
2)CO are not starting flights to CWL in the forseeable future
3)STN or NCL will be their next UK destination
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