Passengers 'Abandoned' by cancelled AMS flight
 

BOURNEMOUTH-bound passengers were "abandoned" at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport at the weekend after a Thomsonfly flight failed to take off on Friday night.

Police were called to Bournemouth Airport to remove protesting passengers when the 7.15pm Amsterdam flight was cancelled without explanation.

Thomson spokesman Harry Helps told the Echo the aircraft arrived at Bournemouth late because of fog and would not have got to Schiphol before the airport closed that night.

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Meanwhile at Amsterdam there were passengers waiting to fly back to Bournemouth on the aircraft.

Trudi and Jason Barlow, from Arcadia Road in Christchurch, had been on a short break and were among those who got a message from Thomsonfly delivered by airport staff at 11pm.

Trudi said they were told their flight had been cancelled and there would be no other flights to Bournemouth until 4pm on Sunday.

Passengers could book that flight or have a refund.

She said: "We were therefore left abandoned with no hotel, transport, food or even information on how to sort ourselves out.

"The airport shuts at midnight and therefore any means of getting this information or making last minute bookings were closed.

"There were families with young children and people travelling alone who were obviously even more vulnerable than ourselves."

Mr and Mrs Barlow, who both work for Bournemouth Borough Council, managed to book seats on a flight to Southampton airport.

"There were families with little kids and some of the mothers got quite emotional and did not know what to do."

The would-be passengers also included two teenage girls.

"Anything could have happened to them," said Mrs Barlow.

"We ended up with a mature lady, and she asked to come along with us because she was left on her own.

"It really was quite scary. We did feel abandoned."

A Thompsonfly spokesman said: "As passengers in Amsterdam were informed of the Thomsonfly cancellation due to fog, they were all advised to contact the airport handling agent in Amsterdam for further assistance.

"Customers were given the option to transfer their flight or receive a full refund."

Air Berlin
 

Hi all I think have said this before but cant remember it now, here goes on the Air Berlin website the route map shows BOH does flights to Parerbon and Palma do they fly to PMI or do you have to fly Parerbon then down to PMI? Oh and do AB use there Fokker 100 on the BOH route?:ok:

Regards
James

Air Berlin
 

John, Air Berlin use the B737-800 winglet version on the BOH-PAD route. The PMI route is winter only but operates via PAD only on the way out. They do not offer a service from PMI to BOH. Strange I know. I think it would be a useful addition to their networks to offer a year-round BOH-PMI.

I have heard on the grapevine that Air Berlin are looking to expand at BOH with flights to their other German destinations.

Nakata77

Ok thank you for information. If they do expand at BOH I wonder what other German destinations they will do be great if they do expand from BOH be brilliant:ok:

James

Bournemouth Airport needs a new terminal "now"!!! Not in five or ten years time. If Easyjet or Ryanair decide to base a couple of aircraft each and Thompson add another then that could mean seven or eight 737 departures at the same time in the morning. 1000 passenger craming into that tiny little 1980s terminal at the same time. Food for thought I'd say - or nigh on impossible!!!
As for the other facilities that still pass through the "World War two" buildings - come on Manchester Airport Group. Get real!!! The low cost revolution has arrived at Bournemouth - please encourage all these carriers to expand before they change their mind and go elsewhere!
I can't believe that a link to the Spur road isn't on the cards either, in the short term. That little country lane was designed for traffic in the 1940s!!!
Hear's hoping that someone does something sooner rather than later!

here here!!

I can't believe that MAG release £362m for re-development of the airports in the group a couple of years ago and nothing has been done to BOH apart from the odd car-park extention

Get this: even the airport op's team don't think its necessary because they believe in all their stupidity that airlines will come in equally 3 or 4 times an hour (in an ideal world). They don't believe airlines need to come and go un-restricted!

NEW FOR SUMMER 07 - CRETE WITH OLYMPIC HOLIDAYS

Olympic Holidays - a name known and trusted throughout the UK for 40 years - has today confirmed that it will be offering a series of weekly flights to Crete next summer.

Flights to Heraklion will depart every Tuesday - between 15th May and 30th October.

Depart Bournemouth 09.55 hrs
Arrive Heraklion 15.45 hrs

Depart Heraklion 07.00 hrs
Arrive Bournemouth 08.55 hrs

Anyone heard anymore about possible Easyjet expansion or Geneva going throughout the year? I assume that Easy will release their summer 07 schedule soon!

What airline is dong Crete?

IIRC the HER flghts should be Eurocypria

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Now that Flybe are taking over BA Connect and thereby removing the competition on some of the domestic routes from SOU perhaps it is now a good time for the likes of Air Southwest and Easyjet to move into BOH and provide some decent competition from there on routes such as MAN, EDI and BFS. What are the chances?

Le Tirer

Why BFS? - Jet 2 tried it a couple of years back and it was a resounding failure! Much better to use BHD, at least there would be some chance of success there!

ALLMCC

Jet2 never advertised their service to Belfast so how are customers/passengers suppose to even know that you can fly to Belfast from Bournemouth? Thomsonfly.com advertise on all the local buses and at one point had alot of ads on the TV, people know that Thomsonfly fly from here - they didn't know Jet2 did. If easyjet came here I'd expect they'd put out some kind of advertiseing, perhapes giving them a better chance at exceeding. I highly doubt the likes of Easyjet would start a route without knowing if it would do well or not.

BOHEuropean, easyJet already operate to Geneva from Bournemouth 8 times per week. Perhaps their advertising aint THAT good if you didnt know that!

(-: Hoping they will launch a few more from Bmth like Berlin... but yeh the public definately need a choice of carrier if Flybe are the only ones in the market - their reliability is appalling

BOHEuropean
'Jet2 never advertised their service to Belfast'
Now I'm wondering what my daughter was really doing in Bournemouth, for all those hours, wearing a jet2 'T' Shirt, and dishing out advertising leaflets about the Bournemouth to Belfast route. :rolleyes:

Jet2 also advertised in the local press on an almost weekly basis. BOH airport also had it as one of their Wave 105FM adverts. Belfast could work from BOH if the operator used smaller aircraft. Air southwest would be perfect for the route.:ok:







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I'm afraid I don't know about BASCO, but has everyone heard about the Earl of Malmesbury suing the estate agents that negotiated the deal for airport land to him - FOR £100 MILLION!!!

Yeah they did saw them in the Daily Echo:ok:

James

re: Jet2 - Ok guys, you proved me wrong. Apologies!
On easyjet subject, I already knew they flew here I saw them many a time last year!
And on the BASCO thing, I have no inside information but I have been told that BASCO will cease as of 22nd December and at this current time they are trying to finish off 9G-LCA and EC-CFI before they pack it in.

Summer 2007

Air Berlin have loaded the Paderborn service into the booking system. Route stays as 3X weekly.

Thomsonfly have loaded Amsterdam and it remains as a 6 X weekly service. Pleased to see this back and with no rotations missing. Obviously TOM are going to continue the fight next year with Flybe up the road.:ok: