I eat my words
 

New Bristol base!

BRATISLAVA, BUDAPEST, DERRY, DINARD, KATOWICE, KNOCK, MILAN, PORTO, POZNAN, RIGA, RZESZOW, SALZBURG, WROCLAW

Charlie Roy re BRS Base
 

I am delighted at the news , but surprised! Just been reading the info on their webseite.

Just had an email from Bristol airport today.....

New routes are.....

The new destinations include...
Poland - Katowice, Poznan, Rzeszow, Wroclaw
Latvia - Riga
Portugal - Porto
Italy - Milan
France - Dinard (Brittany)
Slovakia - Bratislava (Vienna)
Hungary - Budapest
Ireland - Derry, West Knock
Austria - Salzburg

A very polish feel to the new base, also dont forget to add DUB,SNN,GRO already served from BRS

You certainly won't see Ryanair at SEN (other than for maintenance as is the case now anyway) as the runway is way too short for commercial operation of the 737-800.
There is an airline (other than Flybe) who have very tentative plans for a route network out of SEN, perhaps in 2008. Before you ask, I cannot say who it is as I received the information last month on a confidential basis. If I hear anything than I can mention it will appear on the Southend thread.

Interesting that FR chose to serve Katowice as that is their first ever service there.I assume Bristol asked/told them that they could not fly to Krakow because of Easy?

I have heard from a friend at EMA that Ryanair are finalising there routes for the 2 new based units. Word has it that Porto, Stockholm and Oslo are all on the cards. Also Hahn is high on the wanted list for the airport. Announcement due late June early July.

Anyone heard this. I think Ryanair is performing better than they expected from EMA and that they are really pleased with how its going

Regards

Stu

I won't be too smug! Bournemouth just doesn't have the catchment. :)

If it's not already happened in Bristol brace yourselves for a polish invasion :oh:

Now on Milan-Bristol:

MXP-BRS daily Easyjet

BGY-BRS daily Ryanair

Who win?

Hi Guys

Well just to let you know, my next door neighbour is aenior with FR and she has been with them a few years, and today she has informed me that there is indeed 2 more aircraft coming to EMA, and that FR are wanting EMA to be there largest base in the UK after STN, apparently management at FR and EMA are so impressed with FR they are going to make it big !!!!!!


Bring it on i say

Mike

Hmm, Oslo and Stockholm, what a surprise considering Sterling's recent announcement :}

As said before - Ryanair fear NOBODY!

But I wouldn't like to see them take on BA a long haul route!;)

Katowice
Ryanair have been in negotiations with Katowice airport since last November. Expect more Katowice routes.

NEW(!) Bristol routes
What's great about the new Bristol routes is how they are nearly all new routes for the airport (with the exception of Milan).

Aer Lingus
I'm really surprised though as there have been no rumours about a Bristol base in the run up to this! Was this decision made in haste? Did FR learn that EI are planning a Bristol base (theory) and decide to beat them to it? (That said, I still expect EI are looking at an Eastern European airport for the first non-Irish base...)

Eastern European base
It would still seem that Riga, Bratislava and Wroclaw are FR's favourites to become their 1st Eastern European base. However Budapest seems to be Ryanair's new favourite child, so that could be another potential candidate... This despite the fact that FR seem to be actively avoiding competing with Wizz.

Probably next week MOL will be in Marseille to annunce several new routes from MRS base....

Marseille?
Mr Caldi please tell us FR has not forgotten about Prestwick and has some plans at least for end 2007/start 2008.

At the moment i don't know any news for PIK... Sorry

Next Ryanair annunce probably will be for MRS, MAD and CRL. ;)

whitehorse
 

Looking back over the chat and the mention of Lydd and other airports, I have a question.
The proposed extention at Lydd is to 1799m, do the Ryanairs, Easyjet and Flybe have a policy on the minimum length of runway that they would consider operating from?

The shortest runway that I know of that Ryanair fly to is Aberdeen at 1,829m

Pretty much the same as BLK's.

I know that EZY looked at IOM for a possible connection to LTN/STN, but was about 200m too short to be able to use sustainable pax loads. Think that is why IOM are looking at extending runway out into the sea - could make runway very loooooooong!;)