Planespeaking
A very valid point,SOU should have moved forward when they published there 2005 master plan,but as usual nothing materialised,and so have they left it to late?
There's no guarantee that they will get planning permission,and the timescale might be academic if Flybe go under.I would say that the next few months will be critical to SOU future.

RW20/Planespeaking

From what I recollect of the 2005 Masterplan it was focussed on the insane intent to build a second Terminal Building in the northeast corner with no mention of runway extension. The current airport operator has at last apparently recognised that business development is not going to be possible catering for 70 seat turboprops.

Bournemouth passenger statistics:

August 2018 80,517 down 6%
September 2018 76,101 down 3%
Rolling 12-months 672,000 down 3.4%

Not terrible results - the decrease is a result of less peak 'additional' flights by FR and some strike related cancelations.

Southampton seeming to be in a lot more trouble with August falling by 9% and September 6%.

Interestingly Doncaster Sheffield (where our new CEO has come from) was showing falls of 11% in August.

Exeter continues to do well growing 2% in August and 3% in September and with new double daily services to CDG and AMS this winter and 6 new routes next summer should be well ahead of BOH performance most likely breaking through 1m pax in 2019.

CDG + AMS
 

Unless BOH plan to go longer haul and direct in the future, they themselves badly need the likes of CDG and AMS as hub routes just like Exeter.

If you look in more detail BOH-PMI did very well in September 2018 with just shy of 18,000 pax handled. Massive volumes for a single route and beat CWL-PMI.

Re CDG & AMS, I think an LCC serving these destinations a few times a week would suffice given the services from SOU-AMS. I think where BOH could excel could be on routes like Doha, Abu Dhabi & perhaps Istanbul for global connections.

Following on from the August / Sept passenger figures , they were all down indeed to Ryanair only , not operating any extra flights in those months to Faro , Malaga and Las Palmas which made a big difference to the figures
All down to no extra aircraft available

Those flights that did operate saw high load factors as usual except the TUI " Corfu " route for some resaon which was down a bit .
Palma as already mentioned saw a wopping 18 , 000 passengers use it , just proves the demand is there

Still no sign of Ryanair continuing the Paphos route passed April at the moment , the first flight out last week went full . A gap still exists on Saturday morning though , which no doubt will be filled soon

Titan Airways are much in evidence this winter operating a lot of Santa flights in December and have also bagged the contract to operate for Hurtigruten tours to Bergen with 3 flights operating in place of Germania

Finally great to see the first BA 747 at BOH in for maintenance for a few weeks with " Gama " ( G-CIVX was seriously damaged at JFK recently in a ground accident and is being looked at here )

I wonder if anyone can help please.

Ryanair still show Murcia flight operating, and taking bookings, to San Javier MJV even for flights after it's closure on the 15th January when flights transfer the new Murcia International Airport (Corvera) RMU.

Wednesday the 30 October was the deadline for winter flightslot requests from airlines to be finalised, yet nothing has been published from Ryanair.

Has anyone heard anything about this and does missing the flightslots deadline mean that Ryanair are now unable to fly to Murcia?

Ryanair have added another flight throughout the summer to Palma on a Thursday taking the route to 7 a week plus 4 flights a week from TUI

This year the only extra flights to Palma were in Aug / Sept

Thats now 7 extra flights for next summer with Ryanair , quite considerable growth from them

Noticed that Liverpool now have Paphos on sale from April with 1 flight a week using a based LPL aircraft so fingers crossed this happens from BOH on the vacant Sat am slot as well

Good to see a first visit of a TUI 787 900 series on the inbound charter from Barbados at the weekend

Certainly all seems to be heading in the right direction, as mentioned, filling the Sat am slot would be a further improvement. Anyone know if is any strength behind the rumour of a jet2 announcement in Jan 19 for a 2020 base?

Thanks Falcon666. I do keep in touch through all the reports here in Murcia, but nothing had been confirmed by Aena or Ryanair,

MARKEYD the additional FR Palma flight is actually 1st June to 26th September not the full summer schedule season of April-October. Granted it's an increase but only of two months. I would prefer to see them adding an additional Palma flight on Sunday to make the service daily.

Ryanair seem to have loaded the BOH-PFO flights for S19 as follows:

Tuesdays DEP PFO 13:55 ARR BOH 16:40 // DEP BOH 17:05 ARR PFO 23:50
Saturdays DEP BOH 06:30 ARR PFO 13:15 // DEP PFO 13:40 ARR BOH 16:25

Tuesday uses a Paphos based aircraft, Saturday fills the 'gap' that existed on the BOH based aircraft

Excellent news!

Also to 'shamrock7seal' above: Ryanair have read your post and added a Sunday Palma service using a Palma based plane (!) for the same period as the extra Thursday flight so now 8 flights per week to and from Palma with Ryanair Jun to Sept.

If no other additions for 2019 then the airport could be looking at around 815,000 passengers for the full year, a nice increase on 2018.

Any ideas ?
 

As you say.it's a matter of perspective

To Channel Isles now from BOH airport on FB
 

Channel Islands
 

Good find! Jersey looks to be Mon/Fri/Sat and Guernsey Sat only, both operated by an E135. Presumably w patterns off the existing NWI/GLA/EDI flights.

Great news this, pure coincidence, what with the current flybe issues, or more to it?? Maybe more announcements of possible routes to the likes of EDI, GLA and ABZ in the future perhaps??

Rather than being a strategic move against BE, I think this is more a tactical move to fill up the schedule of the new jets

Bournemouth seems to be on a roll right now. Rigby are starting to prove themselves.

Southampton will most likely double down to try and secure some kind of LCC operation with all this news and the uncertainty of Flybe.

Pug.. i concur entirely about the comedy.

Great news about the flights too

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Left Bournemouth to Islamabad as E9573, before heading back to the UK (Gatwick) via Baku as E9574, then positioning to Madrid as EVE075P.

Despite all the rumours about TUI adding additional aircraft for S20 including new 787 services nothing has been announced. However EXT has announced a new W19 service and DSA has announced a new S20 787 service already.

The only TUI long haul from BOH are the few cruise ship charters on P&O for Hays Travel (1 or 2 a year) - certainly up to end 2020
They were planning a Xmas shopping 4 night package to NYC but with the dire £ v $ exchange rate that was canned.
Hays have not got the stomach to try things like Palmair/Bath Travel once successfully did in the past such as the day trips to Cairo Rome and Prague (These trips pretty much sold out as soon as they became on sale)
A few summers ago Hays did some package holiday and Cunard cruise charters from BOH to PMI VCE and BCN using BA Cityflyer and Titan but lack of advertising saw them not selling well - never to be repeated

BOH is not going to see TUI 787 short haul ops -

more flights from regions for some TUI packages have been given over to 3rd party airlines such as Freebird Air Europa Norwegian Volotea and Alba Star

Where has the rumour come from about TUI and extra aircraft for 2020 , bit like the Jet 2 one I think !!

TUI have only put a carbon copy of 2019 on sale or help future bookings and I doubt very much they will add anything to any UK airport until they see how the destinations added to a lot of regional airports fare for next summer first

Egypt sold very well from Exeter a few years ago but not so much from BOH for some reason , and indeed they pulled the programme half way through the winter season as it was that bad for sales

However things do change in booking trends with the public , look at TUI pretty much going full season to Paphos next winter

Hopefully the airport may consider a lounge being added in the not to distant future in the terminal , plenty of space
I would hope though first , Rigby group have a look at the car park and get some gypies in to tarmac the whole lot , dreadful to walk through all that mud , holes and wet grass with your luggage . Better still build a cheap metal multi storey over the winter when it's quiet ( wishful dream I know ! ! )