BELFAST AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL
 

Feel free to edit the title of the thread.. can't think of any other way to name it without using international.. (why remove this?)

Emergency training on Sunday
Belfast International Airport holds Emergency Training Exercise - Belfast International Airport

easyJet is committed to BFS-LPL, looking at increasing flights due to BE suspending BHD-LPL
easyJet committed to Liverpool flights - Belfast International Airport

edit - in reply to BHD2BFS

There is currently 1 EMB120 in BFS which might be Fedex, belongs to swiftair, but the original rumors were that it would be ATR42/72s operated by swiftair.. although no official announcement has been made yet and with the story the Belfast Telegraph has online ( Cause for celebration as parcel firm wings in - Editor Viewpoint, Opinion - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk ) you'd like to think its more than an EMB120 otherwise its the most over-hyped story this year.. but then again the EMB120 could be for something else..

Why were the BFS and BHD threads terminated and restarted?

And why the need to remove International ? It's the official name of the place for goodness sake.

I have asked the Mods...it is a simple case of making the title fit better. Nothing sinister just practical for the board layout.

I shall once again retire from this board.

Any news of any new routes from Belfast International next summer?

CAA provisional stats for Sept have been published.
Terminal passengers are +4.1% compared to September 10, and rolling year -0.2%.

Compare this to LDY, +16.8% for September and +17.4% rolling.
BHD -20.2% for September and -14.2% rolling year.

Hopefully with MAN starting soon, this will help improve the figures some more.

With MAN starting, LTN running this winter which didn't last year, increases in AMS and GVA and various other domestics, hopefully we will see positive figures for the rest of the year

Heathrow
 

Source: CAA

Belfast Int - Heathrow September 2011 27572 +3% the only domestic route
out of LHR to show an increase. BHD-LHR was down 21% to 31629.

Aer Lingus seem to be getting the numbers.

Pete

Pete

It's what happens when you put the ERJ on a route sadly.

Even with the LHR numbers looking very positive, EI are reducing their Heathrow flights next summer, down to three daily from four this year. Has yield been suffering to get the bums on seats???

This 25% reduction is bound to have an effect on passenger numbers next year on the route!

Eastern,

Please stick around! This forum needs a few experienced aviation folk to comment on the interesting stuff that does happen from time to time...not just the statistics and guesses about what routes may or may not come to us...

Don't go!

Flight Tax is still a threat...

Flight tax is still a threat to air routes says Sammy Wilson - Northern Ireland, Local & National - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Wondered how long it would take other airlines to start about the tax.

airport66
 

Looks like the airlines are going to start holding a gun to are heads get rid of the tax or we are off.Think also the issue needs to be addressed once and for all.

Even with the tax, I doubt an airline would walk away from a profitable route. It was well known that CO was making a loss on the EWR, and that particular route was seen as a vital trading link.

However I doubt that EZY or others could really use the same reasoning regarding domestics. Some niche routes may suffer, as shown by BE with DSA, MSE; but can't really see any vast withdrawl from either Belfast airport.

BHD STN
 

Well nearly 10 months in to WW switch to the city and despite all the negative comments on here about it won't last, huge mistake and all, it seems to be working just fine, STN is a solid route now with good volume and yield. Just a few weeks from the start of AMS and more importantly the early EMA rotation which might see BE follow it's LPL move.

So all in all baby is at the city to stay

So long as Baby is here to stay!!

BFS101
 

There's life in baby going forward, but not as we know it Jim!:p

INKJET; I admire your positive words and I wish WW well, but to my mind they are ditching CWL and MAN, so clearly they were not 'working well'. The excuse WW give about closing the man base is a non starter, as if MANBHD was viable, they would be serving the route with BHD 737s. Instead a route like AMS is being launched to compete with EZY and lets not forget when Aer Lingus did BFS AMS opposite EZY it didnt last and the winter will in my view be very lean.

EI-BUD

new airline on its way to belfast in the next few months

One question, prop or jet aircraft?

from what i understand it is turboprop and talks have been ongoing for the last 6-12 months

So its EI regional/RE?

that is what i have heard

airport66
 

An airline was in BFS over week ago they were looking and talking about the vacant checkin desks next to Easyjet.

negotiations must almost be finished now, if check-in desks are being considered :)

One route must be BHX, any guesses what the others will be...

It was rumoured a while ago that CWL-BHD/BFS was being looked at as a EI Regional route.

my source seems to think the routes will be more french and short european routes rather than regional

In a turboprop......nice!

I see are lingus have dropped Rome and jet2 have dropped Leeds, I think Leeds is gone for good, but will easy or jet2 not pick up Rome

When is this from? I am able to book twice daily flights on their website all summer 2012? Prices from £18.99.

it seems that jet have put belfast to leeds on sale for summer for 2012 but thays going to drop the route in march

Would be nice to see some EI Regional ATRs in BFS. Would be something different.

Seems strange that after a long period when Leeds flights were not on-sale (leading to speculation that LS were to pull the route), they then put it on-sale only to withdraw after March 2012. Has this withdrawl been officially confirmed???

Regarding Rome, I doubt anyone else will pick up this route. Easyjet operated to Ciampio in the past from BFS and was pulled. LS also seem to be pulling underperforming routes from Belfast, with TLS now gone (possibly LBA). Pisa also operates a very limited summer season, so certainly couldn't see a full schedule to Rome.

airport66
 

Find that very strange at AerLingus dropping Rome it was doing very well this summer.Is AerLingus the airline that met with Sammy Wilson last week complaining about the Apd stating they were considering pulling routes off because of it.If thats the case they didn't waste no time in starting there cull.No1 question is what they gonna replace it with or just extra flights to usual crap thats being offerd out of Belfast these days.

Aer Lingus currently have all three aircraft utilised for summer 2012, even with Rome culled, so don't expect any new destinations.

One aircraft would appear to do the thrice daily LHR. With 2.5 hours sitting on the ground at BFS between morning flights!!

One aircraft will operate either ALC (Tues, Thurs, Sat) or BCN (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun) in the morning and then to the Canaries, LPA (Mon, Fri), TFS (Wed, Sun) or ACE (Tues, Thurs, Sat).

The third aircraft will operate daily AGP in the morning, followed by a daily FAO, returning late evening.

Jet2 have always left BFS to LBA as the last to go on sale every year,I never doubted that it would end,just finalising the schedule.EIN also only sold FCO up to Feb 2012.However EZY Manchester bookings are well above expectation.My source tells me that up to three little Green Birds are to be based at BFS shortly,and only 12.5 percent of baby bookings at BHD are sold,including the STN route.Seems like WW will stay put until the Franz says No.....

Take it that refers to EI Regional?? Any rumours on routes??

Excellent news about EZY Manchester!! Has the popularity of MAN affected future LPL sales??

BFS101
I have a feeling this may refer to Airbus 319s instead of ATR!! We will have to wait and see. I think 2 of the 3 being taken on from Iberia in Madrid have already arrive in Dublin but will not go into service until January.

I am not sure that even Aer Arann in the guise of Aer Lingus Regional would put 3 aircraft in, even if they took on say BHX, CWL and LBA (assuming Jet2 pull this route) couldnt see there being need for 3! 1 would be a great step forward.

I would love to see Aer Lingus regional doing BHX with one based unit and fitting in another route during the day say CWL...
EI-BUD