Big aircraft were actually very common at bfs not that long ago, daily md-11 to jfk weekends would regularly see b767 cruise charters to europe or east coast us, 2x a300 turkish charters mondays, a330 cyprus charters, the list goes on, some people dont know the airports history on wb and other aircraft to be shouting their mouths off😏

Exactly Refuelerman!

I can't believe you guys are arguing with such an obvious Troll.

BFS can handle anything short of a 225 or 380.

124 upcoming also.

124 expected any time soon?

Was to be tomorrow. Canx now though.

Cheers dawg

New Route
 

Jet2 has put Dalaman on sale from 26th June 2018. Once weekly on a Tuesday. Departing 16:20/arriving 02:45. On the B738.

Great news from Jet2
I think this was the last available gap in the summer timetable......... No Wednesday appears only to be using 3 aircraft

EXS New Route
On Tuesdays, it looks like the morning flight to ALC has switched to a midday departure as it is now operated by an ALC based B738.
The afternoon departure to REU has then moved into the morning gap left by the ALC, allowing for this new DLM flight on Tuesday afternoons.
All the schedule for the rest of the week remains the same.

So we now have 2 operators to both Antalya and Dalaman. No service to Bodrum were one could have a clean run with no competition. What is with airlines that they have to compete and yet ignore routes with no other competition?

So that they can bang the price up to suit themselves, if it was a 1 horse race there would be no competition therefore small prices but 2 or more competitive airlines can actually up the price, just watch and see

Will we see Easyjet announce new service to Bodrum next month,wonder what new flights they are going to announce.

I believe tomorrow is just an extension of the current and new routes will be announced next month.

Out of the 3 destinations, BJV would be the smallest (vs DLM/AYT), both for airport size and accomodation. Jet2 are probably testing the water with DLM first, then could look to add BJV is things look good

Forecasting 5.7 million passengers for the year!

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/b...-36343433.html

I wonder if they will be congratulated by Mr Ambrose and Ms Best and the rest of the management team from Belfast's favourite airport. Ahem.

Very impressive figures indeed. How will FR taking winter off on the LON route impact numbers? Is there likely to be enough organic growth on other routes to make up for this?

It’s a shame to see FR (apparently) mess around another NI airport. That’s a full house now! Also, as one who used to do LDY-STN a lot in the past with FR (and now occasionally with BMIR), getting into central London from LGW has always, in my experience, been much easier.

The rolling passenger figure for Oct 16 - Sept 17 is 5,831,624. The loss of Ryanair on BFS-LGW equates to 119,070 fewer seats than last year, but the introduction of MLA as well as an increase in capacity on existing routes from several airlines means that the airport will exceed 5.7 million passengers, and may even pass 5.8 million.

Cheers for that A320. :ok:

From memory, 6M/year was believed to be a 'critical mass', where the big airlines would begin to show interest. Not sure if that still holds, but we can but hope...

Tea time departure DK1418 Las Palmas 17.00. This seems to be a TCX danish subsidiary. Is this a one off?

Its a flight that operates from Stockholm to LasPalmas stops in Belfast for refuelling,it has done this for the past few years during the winter.

So 2 DK A321s bound for the Canaries from far north Scandanavian cities, refuelling at BFS. The above one on Friday and one on Saturday evening. Are there any other regulars? Do they need a refuel on the return journey as these cities are maybe 2 hours north of Belfast?

Not if they have a good tailwind on the way back

BFS to GIB?

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.1...lled-next-july

Its actually a jolly interesting place to visit so why not give it a go. Might be a bit of a wee sleeper of a route

Just back from a return trip to London using Stansted. Have to say, Fr coming off Lgw is a big loss. I used Stansted as the fares to Lgw on Ezy were too high. Used the so-called Stansted Express, £44.00 return for 2. I have got into London from Lgw for £5.60 single. The "express" was caught behind a slow train on both journeys so at times went at a crawl. Only in the UK would we be proud on having a slow train, I have been in trains twice now that were advertised as slow trains. The journey to/from Stansted is slower than Lgw and is more un-predictable in the sense you can easily be delayed by these slow trains, it has happened to me on that route several times. So Lgw is by far the most convenient route into London, but fares are higher now and the Ezy times are not as good as Fr. Big loss in my opinion.

Northern Ireland is not part of the National Rail network, so i'm not sure how you can be proud of a slow train in England.

The Stansted Express service costs £26 for an Off Peak return travelcard. As I have a 16-25 railcard I can get that for £17 or £13 for the Return journey.

So, if you live in GB that journey will not cost you that much. I mean £13 return is cheap as you will get.

Owen I think True Blue was talking from a UK wide perspective! Also not everyone is under 25 and travels off-peak!

There is no UK wide perspective, Northern Ireland rail travel is completely different to Great Britain. Not Privatised, only one operator, very small network, not widely used, not electrified.

Sorry, but TB was in the UK travelling on a train in the UK......

Interesting arrival tomorrow IVALO S7 aircraft. Assume only for refuelling?

Small Planet A320 kicking-off the Lapland trips for the month

How many trips is there to Lapland this year?

Luxair B738 to operate flights to Bourgas for Travel Solutions in S18
 

Replaces Bulgaria Air E190 from last year.

https://nitravelnews.com/news/travel...2018%e2%80%a8/

Have flown with them before and have been very impressed with the standard of service.

Is this a larger number of seats per flight than operated summer 17?

The aircraft was only a embraer 95 if my memory is good so extra 100 or so seats?

108 on the E195, 186 on the 738 so an increase of 53% per flight

Don't have the exact numbers but about eight in all I think, about half-and-half day-trip versus multinight.

Also Small Planet sent us an A321 tonight which is nice of them.

Cheers El Bunto