Well i cant see BMI adding any more rotations to LHR from BHD, if there is an annoucement, its either going to be timing changes or cuts.. 6 flights a day is probably pushing it on certain days.. but who knows, they could add another one for all we know

I think 4 per day from BFS is optimal in summer.. although at peak season a 5th could be threw in, in winter 3 is enough

aer lingus regional
 

anyone think there is a chance aer lingus regional might take up the routes recently lost by the departure of bmibaby, because we all know how much bfs management love aer lingus so they might strike a deal with ther partners, aswell as that the atr would be a perfect size for the routes

anyone heard a possibility of this??

Its something id like to see, as you said the ATRs would be perfect for the routes from BFS, especially as a trial. Unfortunately i have heard nothing about EI, although you never know.

I see the old car parking place, cant remember the name, in between cosmo and mccausland's is being demolished, wonder what will go in there (if anything)

I see the Maderia route has been added to the news section of the airports website, heres a section of it. I wonder if the bit in bold has any hope, or is it just the usual nonsense

victoria73
 

The airport authority owns that ground the building is on,the reason they are knocking it down is to do with the ground rates,knock it down and just run electricity over to it i think then they don't have to pay any rates or just very little but you can be assured they won't sell.aerlingus regional picking up the Man'Bhx would be good to see as you say who knows said while back nothing was in pipline and next thing Madeira comes along.Uel hoey says things like that about all new flights/airlines would'nt look to much into that.

victoria73
 

Totally agree in what you say,they have the aircraft sitting there then again so does jet2.com they have 2 aircraft sitting there some days doing absolutly nothing i am baffled by it all,if EZY are interested they being very slow about it.

Quote: I see the old car parking place, cant remember the name, in between cosmo and mccausland's is being demolished, wonder what will go in there (if anything)

Nothing is planned for the site. It was called the Glendinning building. Victoria73 you are right about the rates. The only people using the building was Sixt car rental and they only used it to valet the cars. The building was in a serious state of disrepair and if I remember correctly contained asbestos.

Thomas Cook are operating SFB again on a Sunday departing at 11:15 returning 06:00 on Monday

Ok good news everyone Thomas Cook is reintroducing flights to Orlando for a 3 week duratrion starting 3 July. Hopefully passengers will use this ad Thomas Cook will bring it back to weekly deperatures next summer. Some Bad news BFS passenger numbers dropped to 4,011,632, not bad considering the Icelandic volcano caos and winter weather.

yeah just noticed David1994, cheers

Aer Lingus
 

There will be never be any A321 on the BFS - LHR route.
1 - only 3 left in the fleet. (3 left over the last few weeks)
2 - current 3 will be based in DUB this summer to operate sun routes and some LHR flights
3 - all A321's to leave the fleet on a phased basis
4 - no A321's on order or planned lease in the near future.

Aer Lingus Regional/Aer Arann

There would be no spare ATR 72's but there should be a few ATR 42's around after July 21.

obviously the MAN is a diversion from LPL- but wouldn't it be good!!!!

Diverting to BFS when the flights original destination was MAN, talk about a nightmare.. lets hope they get back out before crew hours become an issue.. but could place them on the LPL flights for the rest of the night depending on PAX numbers..

A drop of 534,843 pax, not great but as mentioned, considering the volcanic ash which lasted about 2 weeks maybe more if you add up the days and the bad weather... coupled with the collapse of goldtrail and a couple of others.. i was expecting to see round 3.7m.. lets hope this year will be more promising

Well if Ltn is to return to Bfs, it has gone off the Bfs drop down on the Easy site.

True Blue

have no idea... spring cleaning?
 

but did hear rumble of new EZY route to warmer climates. que Sir Tigger!

Its about time the LTN was removed from the drop-down box, never seen it take so long for a route to be removed before. Mr doggy, theres that many rumors flying around at the minute, is this the Madrid rumor or the Turkey one, or has another appeared?

Surely a Madrid flight, say four times a week, would do well with both outbound and inbound pax? A city of over 6.5 million people (metropolitan area) must have enough demand to sustain a scheduled route to NI. When one considers the propensity for Spanish to head to Northern Europe for holidays, and also educational visits, this, in my mind, would definitely work from BFS.

A scheduled route to Turkey on the other hand.

Hey cuthere, While I would just be delighted to have a direct flight down to Madrid from BFS, it would suit me greatly, would save a drive to Dublin or a connection en route. However, I am not confident that the route would be a big hit. I fly to Alicante quite frequently and I rarely hear a spanish accent though from Dublin the proportion of Spaniards is much greater, though interestingly in the last year there does seem to be more on ALC BFS than there had been, but not significant.

So my feeling is that most of the traffic originates here, Rome as an example that from the sound of the comments on here and the fact that Easyjet axed it in better times seems to be at best marginal. So Madrid compared to Rome, I am just not confident that it would pay its way.

EI-BUD

from bhd
 

heard EZY BHD to Spain. Baby might have somthing too. heard story of 2 based 737 as cheaper parking. would think unlikely. but BE to AMS ?