TUI & others
 

TUI - 06:40 Palma departed 06.58 this morning the first regular flight in nearly 4 months for them at BHX but is the only flight today as Kos had to be cancelled as well as Heraklion on Sunday

Next Flights are Tuesday Palma, Wednesday Rhodes, Thursday Arrecife, Friday bonanza time, Palma, Tenerife and Corfu. Kos starts Saturday week, Heraklion Sunday week.

A bit of a gap but Saturday 25 will see Alicante and another Rhodes, Sunday 26th will see Zante and Malaga, Monday 27 July Las Palmas then Friday 31st a third Palma.

Veuling - Next Monday and Friday lunchtime twice a week and Sunday added in August

Jet2 - They restart with an excellent Wednesday schedule (15th) but more enforced reductions - Faro, Funchel, Paphos, Larnaca, Burgas and Reus all cut for July or longer. The first 4 all planned for the first week in August. Burgas and Reus have gone until next May.

Turkish - Back this Thursday coming with the afternoon service and the same time Friday and then Saturday and Monday morning. Antalya has been pulled from sale

Aegean - Harsh but BHX has completely been removed from the booking engine.

Aer Lingus - All delayed with Dublin now 17 August and Cork 20 August and Shannon September

Loganair - Inverness now 31 August and Aberdeen remains twice a week.

Austria - delayed now winter as it stands

Air France - Still no Wednesday service and this Sunday has none but two flights Sunday week but next Friday is back to one

Ryanair - Bratislava and Malta showing next Thursday and Chania and Corfu Saturday week

easyjet - - no change until Edinburgh going daily Monday week.

KLM - Next Friday a 738 is showing and Monday week but remains daily at the same times with Hopper on Tuesday and Wednesday

Lufthansa - Frankfurt double daily remains in the week

Emirates - Remains 1st September

Over 80 movements Thursday but boosted by priority freight for JLR.

Pete

Weekly update
 

Emirates September reduced from double daily to 5 a week A380 - does not operate Tuesday and Thursday. This is a recent change as Airlineroute reported Glasgow, Gatwick and Manchester reductions last night but not BHX

Some changes but not a huge amount until August

easyjet - Edinburgh is now daily and some time changes to Belfast in the week but nothing in terms of frequency changes

Wizz - No new flights but some day changes - Warsaw changes Monday and Friday 18.35 inbound from this Monday and Bucharest Monday, Wednesday and Friday and slightly earlier inbound 20.15. Wroclaw and Krakow stay Monday and Friday and Budapest now in the evening Tuesday and Saturday 19.10 inbound. Cluj remains Wednesday and Sunday leaving Thursday without Wizz.

Lufthansa - the change to Cityline seems to be for the foreseeable future - as it is showing the same double daily in the week, Saturday morning outbout and two inbounds on a Sunday and this is the same for August. Munich still daily CRJ9 in August although the first flight was showing Air Dolomitee

Jet2 - They do add some flights next weekend, Heraklion and Arrecife Saturday with Dalaman Sunday

TUI - Heraklion starts today and Rhodes next Saturday (4 flights) then Malaga and Zante Sunday Week, Las Palmas Monday Week, Tenerife Tuesday week and Palma Friday week.

Ryanair - Not noticed anything other than Bratislava next Thursday but a Monday Ibiza in August has been added making 3 a week and a Wednesday Arrecife making 3 but no sure how long they have been bookable but Ibiza has never operated on a Monday in previous years.

Air France - Two today and next Friday both HOP but still no Wednesday service

KLM - No change although the 738 is showing the next two Mondays

Loganair, Vueling, Turkish appear to be the same although Turkish Antalya bookable next year from June

Air India was showing for 1st August but not holding my breath on that one

Pete

Re clarification of Emirates where Manchester was referenced.

Reported earlier that its 3x A380 a day Ex MAN from Sep1st due high load factors.

Emirates
 

Airlineroute

The above link does not mention BHX or Newcastle but is timed at 23.30 and was probably not in GDS at that time.

BHX double daily in September when compared to the UK Governments list of recommended countries where you can visit simply didn't add up unless something significant changed worldwide.

Added info although Manchester still shows 2 daily in September BHX has been restored to double daily every day but I still think this is unlikely to happen unless something drastically changes for the good. Another case of website jitters?

Pete

Update
 

Two bits of hopeful news from press releases today. Emirates confirming 1st September restart on EK39 four times a week Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday on the 77W - Emirates press release and Air India despite cutting several European routes BHX will remaim.

Jet2 - Still many unknowns due to the position with Spain, Portugal & Cyprus but Palma & Ibiza are listed next Sunday and then Mahon and the Canaries. They have issued a press release stating Cyprus will restart next week

However they have added extra Greek and Turkish flights last week and more this week with next Friday seeing an extra Dalman and Zante, Saturday Skiathos and Kos and Sunday Antalya. Heraklion on Monday started this week adding to the extra Antalya and Dalaman from the previous Monday.

The downside Murcia and Almeria have moved to 2021 rather than mid August. They have also removed 4 Christmas Market destinations from sale - Cologne, Copenhagen, Nuremburg and Strasbourg. However Newark and Berlin remain as does the increases in Reykjavik, Krakow, Budapest and Prague. Vienna also remains.

easyjet - Glasgow increased Monday to 2 daily Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday which matches Edinburgh.

TUI - A bit like Jet2 waiting on Spain & Cyprus but in the meantime the second Monday Corfu continues and an Antalya has popped up on a Monday for at least 2 weeks but I have not found anything additional beyond that for this month.

Ryanair - Dublin goes double daily except for Wednesday. Other than the known frequency cuts on the original schedule I haven't seen anything new for August. They are still persisting with two Barcelona flights Monday and Friday, the extra Monday Ibiza and Wednesday Arrecife.

KLM - Although this was positive last week with the 3 daily flights, including the night-stopper, but still E175's appearing as well as 190's although the 73G is in the schedules on one of the three flights but I think this is week of the 17th.

Air France - Still no real pattern although they are daily now with the second flight turning up some Fridays and Sunday (16th). Air France mainline showing for 31st

Lufthansa - No noticeable change, Cityline on both services Frankfurt the 190 twice a day in the week and CRJ9 on Munich daily

Eurowings - Still 6 a week

Loganair - Aberdeen was showing two weekly in September but Inverness staring on 31-08 5 a week but that could change. No sign of Isle of Man as rumoured

Wizz, Vueling, Turkish - Nothing of note of difference

Blue Island and Aurigny - Still the last day of the month

Aer Lingus - Dublin mid September still and Shannon & Cork in winter plus Belfast City mid September

Pete

Aurigny now from 21st September

Air India will be operating inbound 'Evacuation Flights' on 23rd & 30th August using B788 / AI113

Wow - that strikes me as a great way to start a local outbreak of Covid. The word 'evacuation' sums it up nicely.:ooh:

Agree 100%. Of course all the PAX will be placed in closely monitored quarantine won't they? Thought not!

There are currently 5 VT biz sitting at Luton, don't seem to be in any rush to go home, maybe the operators think it is safer to stay in UK!

Wizz - BHX - Riga
 

Twice a week from 18.10.20

Another week and another Wizz route BHX-Vilnius now from late October

3pw

8 routes from BHX with Wizz this winter and up to 4 departures on some days. Not bad going considering the current climate. One to watch for potentially more routes in 2021? MXP would be nice, they have a base there I think?

Blue Air are also returning BHX-OTP from March 2021.

Obviously all subject to change.

I flew FR BHX-VRN last week, BHX was the quietest I have ever seen in my 20+ years of travelling through it during all hours and seasons. The departures board was more like it was in the early 90's with hefty time gaps between flights. My flight itself however was quite well loaded I'd say 75% full. Just goes to show how tough times are and are likely to be for a while which is why it's nice to see the new Wizz routes.

The Air India evacuation flights and the PIA flight with Hi Fly have all been cancelled

BHX July PaxBHX - 135,145 pax

Others

LHR – 866,655 down 89%

STN – 468,318 down 83%

LTN – 465,000 (approx.)

MAN – 332,158 down 90%

LGW – 280,475 down 94%

EDI - 168,976 down 89%

LPL – 81,890 down 83%

EMA – 79,447 down 86%

NCL – 49,623 down 92%

SEN – 12,653 down 97%

LCY – 12,653 down 97%

Just out of curiosity, are the airports towards the bottom of this list (below EDI) busier than BRS/GLA/BFS/ABZ?

No figures yet for BRS/GLA/BFS or ABZ

I see, thank you for that.

What percentage is BHX down out of interest. I am guessing it is on a par with the others. Amazing that LTN is so high , even higher than MAN. I am guessing this is the effect of WIZZ and Ryanair who seemed to go back to flying a lot quicker than other carriers

BHX down 90%

Yes LTN is the clear winner here with LGW / LCY the biggest losers.

With MAN behind STN but ahead of LGW