Dubai
 

The Dubai flights are Belfast telegraph holidays charters , 4 or 5 through the summer if I remember correctly.

victoria73
 

I was under the impression not all the runway was closed it wasn,t earlier today they are doing work there whats the problem.Bfs is bosses are woking on the issue of getting replacement for BHX&MAN its gonna take time on the issue of WW at BHD when the cheap landing charges fininsh and the germans get tired of throwing money at it then you will see things change there thats for sure its like having a very old car all you do is throw money at it.

If this is in reference to my earlier post, the Belfast Telegraph Business headline was about Emirates starting scheduled service into BFS. Like I said this may have been about 4 or 5 years ago. Remember flicking through the paper while working one evening in Tesco, and couldn't believe it. Of course we now know it came to nothing. We can't even get our summer direct Toronto back, never mind DXB.

victoria73
 

Not in relation to anything you said earlier mate.

If this is in reference to my earlier post, the Belfast Telegraph Business headline w
 

Sorry bfs101..... I wasn't very clear in my last post.........Belfast Telegraph readers holidays section a couple of months ago had holidays to Dubai with direct flights from Bfs.... I think this is what Uel Hoey was talking about.

Victoria...




But what would I know? :hmm:

Runway 25 has been closed every day since Monday, it is closed in the mornings and opened again in the evenings. In between those times 07 is open with reduced distances (end of 07 is displaced). 17/35 is also available so 25 being closed is causing no problems.
If LVP's come into force 25 can be reopened in around 10-15 minutes.

Vicky 73
 

What are you on about?

WW loads have more than double since switching to BHD, STN will be more of a challenge but rest assured LH are fully behind bmi and perhaps more importantly have fully committed to WW.

One can never say "never" but I cannot see any circumstances that would result in a return to BFS it's not about cheap landing fee's it's about where the customers want to fly to/from and for most that matter it's city

It's matters not whether your pro or against BHD or BFS the people of NI are more than happy to fly with WW but more are doing so from BHD

The STN service is rumoured to have a few tweaks to service but you'll have to wait until next month for that.

More than double BFS numbers, sounds a bit of an exaggeration...

The widening of the road could be to allow refuellers over the the RAF side, as they have been refusing to go over there due to the roads, hence why all military charters have to taxy over to the passenger apron and get refuelled there, unless that's changed in the last few months. That is if its the same road, could be another one, probably is...

Nothing to do with the perimeter road.

I just booked to TFS with RYR from LDY on 10th May for £75.98 return yet EI are asking £191.44 return for 11th May? Why such a difference is tax/landing fees a lot higher at BFS?

Now now think about it, the EI plane aint empty like the FR one. You are probably one of the first to book.

Remenber you are saving 47.19 on taxes where Aer Lingus can't offer no taxes on flights.

Also Ryanair will charge £40 for 15kg baggage where as Aer Lingus will charge £15 for 20 kg

Thanks eastern, I'm not good with abbreviations thought it wasn't that road though.

Carmanorlad, I explained the pricing structure to you about how airlines sell prices by increasing the cost as more get sold, check the prices for july/august from LDY in a few weeks and you should see them creeping up hopefully to the same prices as LDY, as this will indicate good sales. As mentioned already FR may show lower taxes but they will make up the difference with extras such as hold baggage.

Think the average tax per ticket with all fee's from BFS was £20, bit more for LHR though now I think, well this was last year when I last booked. Varies per airport/destination

I`d be pretty surprised if Ek started Dxb-Bfs. Etihad already fly Auh-Dub daily and the price isn`t any better than flying through Heathrow. Admittedly it would be nice to fly direct but I think it would be hard to get the loads for a scheduled operation.
Besides, I don`t think you guys would like it out here, it`s way too much fun!

It's 10 weekly.

Does anybody know how the new Malta route is doing? Are loads good etc?

Iceland Express have cancelled flights from Belfast this summer. This is a few weeks after Dublin was pulled.

While this is still a complete shame, it's really not that surprising. I saw or heard very little advertisement of the route. Who was to know esp when most bookings are taken through their website. What about EDI that was to share the route, pulled also???

With no or little advertising, what do the airlines expect. Same with Balkan at Londonderry, no awareness!!! Hopefully BE will get their marketing team on the ball with the launch of LDY - MAN.

Think most of us knew that the iceland flights would fail anyway however wasnt expecting it before they actually happened, unless its to the sun and temperatures of 27*C+ its just not going to work from N.I.. the current sun destinations are ideal and unfortunately it will stay this way as thats what our population wants.

The only real advertisement i saw for the iceland express was on BFS's website, no local media at all that i heard of.. as far as i know the EDI part of the route will still be operating.. unfortunately for a few friends down south they had been planning to fly from BFS after the DUB route was pulled..

Press release from nitravelnews.com
I wait and see, though not holding my breath. Dublin was to operate direct yet it too has been pulled!!

I heard sum mubblings around DUB that they had thought that JFK/BOS bound pax could use the CBP facility in DUB and then get on the same plane as pax bound only for Iceland and after disucssing it discovered not an option.

A once a week flight was never going to work, would only have worked if you could have had a weekend city type break in either countires.