BRISTOL - 2
 

BAConnect is to commence a three times a week service from BRS to TFS commencing on 3 October this year. It is also to begin a similar service from Nottingham East Midlands at the end of the same month.

Must be the first scheduled route from BRS to the Canary Islands. I believe the equipment may be A 320s but it seems they won't be BRS-based.

Nice one BA :ok:

03OCT - 28OCT -2--56- BRS-TFS 1750 2150 BA6834 320 GT
31OCT - -2--56- BRS-TFS 1735 2135 BA6834 320 GT
03OCT - 28OCT -2--56- TFS-BRS 1235 1635 BA6835 320 GT
31OCT - -2--56- TFS-BRS 1235 1635 BA6835 320 GT

Just yer boarding pass please
 

<rant mode>

Every bl**dy time to practically every bl**dy passenger! :ugh:

Yes, you, the pre-screening wallahs at Bristol International!

It's in the passport! I'm holding it with my finger in the photo page where the boarding pass is sitting since I got it from check-in! I keep them together so I know where they are, just like almost every other Tom, Dick or Harriet you see every day! Have you not got used to it by now? We keep them together, get it? So when we come towards you at the pre-security check and give you our passports, clearly in many cases containing boarding cards, no more of the "Just yer boarding pass please", just take the bl**dy passport, check the boarding card and give it back.

</rant mode>

Ah, I feel better now :)

Cheers,

Rich.

Not every passenger is as efficient as you are.:E

Last visit I was just pleased they weren't laptop swabbing, as I had two of the buggers.

How's the extended coffee shop on the upper level going? Chaos last visit (Bank Hol) as I think it'd just opened and there was the usual too many chiefs, startled rabbit indians circus that happens on such occasions going on. Like the extended comfy seating area next to it, particualarly as there is another socket for use of aforementioned laptops! (There was previously only one accessible one on the whole upper floor.)

Cheers,

Rich.

fyrefli

I have the misfortune to use the upstairs catering almost every week. It must be bad as it's forced me to break my PP virginity. The Echos(?) bar is appalling, even on a quiet Monday morning the service is abysmal. On the Sunday of the last Bank Holiday it was absolute chaos with the coffee shop closed, lots of pax getting compensation vouchers for a delayed flight and the usual busy Sunday afternoon crowd. I imagine that the staff are treated pretty poorly as they show no interest in customer service - on asking what had happened to my order the responses from them ranged from "I'm going home now" to "I just pick up the dirty plates".

On Tuesday this week, asking for a receipt produced the answer that "all the till printers are broken" and a shrug of the shoulders.

I like travelling from Bristol but they really need to sort out the airside catering (they've spent enough building new shops). I suppose that at the end of the day they have a captive eating audience.

Birmingham Diversions
 

Did Bristol get any of the diversions from Birmingham yesterday after the problem with runway after the emergency landing of the TNT 737?

Anybody had a look at the Gibralter thread? rumour of GIB-BRS, nice little route for pax if it turns out that way

Nowt much going on latley then people? Does this mean its all been running tickedy boo? surely not!
Anyway if anyones interested the new route to AGA being operated by TCX this winter instead of FCA, fraid thats all i got folks, must be something juicier out there surely:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Whats the latest on Menzies setting up at Brs, rumours are rife that it has been confirmed they will be here within the next couple of months,if so where the hell are they going to put them ?

Air Scotland are to start a weekly GRO on 22nd July using an A320.

Watch out for an orange quiet culling of some routes from Nov 06 onwards!

:eek:
Easyjet cutting routes?
If so wonder what ones?:\

Now called TopJetAir :}

Easyjet
 

WOWBOY

Had a quick trawl through the booking engine and ones not bookable
in November are: -

Budapest, La Rochelle, Hamburg, Marseille, Mahon, Pisa and Rijeka.
With Grenoble I got an error message rather than "the flight only operates
until 29th October.

As for the rest, there is work for eight aircraft with few gaps. I might have
made a mistake but I had nine evening flights plus the Belfast & Newcastle
originating aircraft.

Krakow ops Mo, Wed, Fri and PMI on Tue & Thur (did not check weekends).

I am not sure how this compares to now or last winter but I have always
been impressed with Easy's Bristol operation for destination choice.

OltonPete

Pete

I have also done a trawl through the booking engine and discovered that thus far next winter there are 25 daily weekday rotations allocated to BRS-based aircraft (this includes PMI on Tu and Th mornings plus KRK on M, W and F mornings making one rotation for this purpose, and the second daily GVA which commences in December).

In addition NCE operates on M, W and F. So this gives one spare rotation each day and a second spare on Tu and Th, assuming the nine based Airbuses each does three rotations per day, and they will need nine because you are correct when you say there are nine evening arrivals between 2145 and 2225 - ALC, EDI, GLA, AGP, MJV, CIA, TLS, VCE and SXF.

Changes from last winter and indeed from this summer include a second daily AMS rotation and the SXF route being operated by a BRS-based aircraft for the first time instead of a German-based aircraft.

As to the routes apparently dropped, Mahon is a high summer venture only and the new routes (commencing next month) to La Rochelle, Marseille and Rijeka may well be considered summer routes too. BRS is the only easy route from La Rochelle and Rijeka flies only to BRS and LTN. LTN is not bookable after October either, and neither are the Marseille routes to LGW and LPL as well as BRS.

The other routes currently flown from BRS not bookable at present are Budapest, Hamburg, Valencia and Pisa. Apart from Pisa to Paris Orly, no easyJet routes from/to these cities are currently available to book.

Last winter (and this summer) Budapest was/is only flown on M, W and F during the week. Valencia, although daily in the summer, was also M, W and F last winter. Pisa is also daily in the summer but was Tu and Th only last winter. Hamburg was daily during the week last winter and this summer. Grenoble was Tu and Th only last winter.

It may be that some of the destinations not yet bookable from anywhere may well come into play eg Valencia M, W and F; two of Grenoble, Budapest and Pisa on Tu and Th.

In addition the BFS (operated by Belfast-based aircraft) remains at three per weekday whilst the NCL (operated by Newcastle-based aircraft) increases to four per weekday from the previous three with an additional mid-morning arrival and with the last arrival of the day put back to slightly later in the evening.

I have not mentioned weekend flights but the programme seems reasonably full already.

Although some routes are apparently ceasing this winter (some will doubtless return next summer) the net result seems to be that BRS will have more easyJet flights this coming winter than last winter because there will be nine based aircraft instead of the eight last winter and the schedules seem to need them all, albeit there are still one or two gaps as stated earlier.

In summary the winter weekday daily flights currently bookable in the web engine are AMS (x2), ALC (x2), BCN, EDI (x3), FAO, GLA (x3), GVA (x2), INV, MAD, AGP (x2), MJV, PRG, CIA, TLS, VCE, SXF, KRK (M,W, F), PMI (Tu and Th), NCE (M, W, F), plus BFS (x3) and NCL (x4), the last two being operated by non-BRS aircraft.

Hope you've got all this - there will be a test later. ;)

Blimey MV, No offence but you must of been daaaaaaaamn bored last night mate :E

Easyjet
 

MV

Cheers for that, restored some faith in my own counting ability!

Assuming aircraft number 9 is fully occupied then this is quite a decent
spread of routes (still pretty good even if it was 8).

Off to do some revision :ok:

OltonPete

Just reading in the GB Airways thread, someone has written that 'TFS will not be the only destination served, news of more routes will be along soon' Page 3 of the thread, could be intresting as GB do some nice little routes from LGW and MAN.