Bit stupid if you ask me if they are doing well on the flight from the airport why stop the flight it is so much easier to get to sou than boh .

I wonder if thomas cook will also pull out ?


cheers colin

Yields. Maybe incentives from the BAA have also expired.

Better filling a 787 to Palma from Gatwick, than a costly -300 from Eastleigh?

Making a 787 work financially inter european is another story!

Vueling
 

Are Vueling actually going to operate from SOU to BCN next year as it has gone very quiet regarding this new route and with no press release from either Vueling or BAA Southampton.

Although it has a city guide to Southampton on the Vueling website Southampton does not show on their drop down menu?

I do hope this flight actually does start as it is WELL LONG OVERDUE from Southampton.

SOU-BCN ?
 

Agreed Canberra, a long overdue addition to the destination list from SOU but....the Barcelona link has disappeared from the SOU Airport web destination map...and the city information about Southampton has also disappeared from the vuelling web site. Not a good sign !!:(

Looks to be a quiet year in 2012 so far, Vueling looking unlikely, SI are using Jetstreams rather than the ATR's they had on the timetable's Thomson gone and nothing new from Flybe other than the odd frequency gained/lost here and there and even then the losses seem to outweigh the gains! Still they could be making space for new routes which have yet to be announced -keep your glasses half full everyone!! :ok:

I think you're all jumping the gun a bit here... the Vueling city guide remains online and there has been no official announcement either way.

Good to see that TCX/BE should have all of the balearic isles served from SOU now!! Capacity-wise I suppose it makes up for the loss of the TOM flight as that was down as being a BE E195 for next year although I wouldn't be surprised if PMI at the least was eventually upgraded to a TCX A320 and possibly even a A321/752 at some point but I shan't get too ahead of myself.

EDIT: This is the most recent post in the thread posted at 20:34 on the 24/11/11 uk time but the timing problem just shows otherwise!!

i dont know if any one knows this but Thomas cook for are doing charter flights to ibiza for summer 2012 using an flybe 195 but there is nothing on the airports website but you can book it thought thomas cooks website

A quick search reveals the following:

TCX Summer '12

Palma - Sat 7:00
Ibiza - Sat 14:00
Mahon - Sun 7:40

All flown on Flybe E195's.

Vueling
 

Any ideas on the Vueling flights yet

Vueling at Sou?
 

Hi,

I have emailed Vueling and here is the response:

'
Thank you for contacting Vueling. In response to your e-mail, we would like to indicate that, currently, it is not planned to add Southampton as a Vueling destination anytime soon.

As of now, the only England destination available for booking, from several spanish cities, is London. However, a new route, Barcelona - Cardiff, is planned to start operating next spring, and is already available for booking to fly on dates between march and may 2012.

We can only recommend you to keep an eye on our website, www.vueling.com, and to subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest news about routes and offers as soon as they appear.'

I guess that means, No, Vueling are not going to start flying to Sou.

Cheers

Steve

Looks to be a fairly quiet Summer then, can't see too many changes happening at this stage! So we have the following:

Aurigny: Pretty much the same as last year.

Blue Islands: As above, all flights now showing as a J32 rather than the ATR 42 which was originally on the schedules.

Eastern: Aberdeen continues at ~3 daily, Stavanger and Leeds (why!) are available via ABZ but Durham, Liverpool, Dijon and the direct Leeds flights are all gone.

Flybe: Similar to last year with a few small changes. Pau seems to have been dropped, with the slack taken by adding extra weely fights to BZR and PMI (Both up to 3 weekly). Overall the frequeny's on some of the domestic flghts seem a little lower than this summer but nothing significant. Worth noting that none of the 'leisure' routes are not showing beyond W11/12 on the SOU website timetable so we may see some more revisions prehaps with an E175 or two thrown into the mix now they are finally being delivered! :ok:

Skybus: Similar to last year, ops via NQY outside peak season.

Thomas Cook: PMI and MAH continue on the same days (Sat and Sun morning) and IBZ has been added on a Sat afternoon. All operated by Flybe E195's.

Thomson: Dropped PMI route as part of their bigger focus on their more major airports/bases so will not operate anything from SOU next year after many years of flights!!

For what it's worth Barcelona - Southampton was in Click Air's original 5 year plan (before they merged with Vueling). Not that a 5 year plan is worth much in aviation anyway :cool:

Didn't Chairman Mao have Five Year Plans? :rolleyes:

Anyone else think this is all very strange? I mean surely if an airline gets to the stage of creating a location guide on its website the route is pretty much going ahead. Yet it has all disappered and now they pretty much state there was no such route proposed? I suspect a certain airline at Southampton threw their toys out of the pram and the airport ended up having to rethink the offer it made to attract Vueling. Obviously this is just my opinion and things often change in this industry but Flybe if you don't want Vueling serving Bcn then serve it yourself!

I used to have the unfortunate task of working for Flybe. When they 1st opened the SOU base, NCE and BCN were 2 of the 1st few routes they said they were going to operate.....NCE came eventually and still no BCN.

More false promises

BCN
 

BCN is LONG LONG overdue from SOU escpecially considering how many UK airports are connected to BCN and not SOU.

The popularity for Barcelona as a city is huge for visitors, conventions, sporting events as well as the growing cruise trade which makes the port the busiest in Europe.

It is my favourite European city as well as my companys HQ so come on Vueling or even Flybe at that matter and consider opening BCN.

I remember that too Gcilover. Nice and Barcelona are two of the best places I have visited and the latter seems to be offered at most other uk airports. Think Barcelona is the sort of destination that would do well in this part of the Uk where people have more income and would go for a city break. I certainly planned to be one of the first to use it! :hmm:

Vueling SOU-BCN
 

A good point Rivet Joint but I doubt that the airport would have pushed Vueling away because of pressure from a dominant airline. If an airport meets the terms of its' operating licence, it wouldnt be able to favour one particular airline over another. The reality is that Vueling have more to lose at other UK airports by going up against FlyBe at SOU. I suspect that this was a commercial decision from Vueling and am certain that SOU will be very disappointed at the loss of a potentially strong airline partnership.:(

Also wonder if the the BCN route was announced by Vuelling it could well be Ryanair at BOH would suddenly switch from Gerona to BCN , they seem to have Gerona pretty well rapped up at Bournemouth with 5 flights a week in the summer with good loads but much of there work is slowly moving to BCN