As we move into a new decade hopefully Bournemouth will continue to flourish and expand under there new owners Rigby who seem to have really come up trumps so far

New for 2020 so far is mostly coming from TUI where as 2019 was Ryanair

Zante and Skiathos are new destinations with TUI while Corfu sees an extra flight as does Antalya with Freebird , Barbados cruise flights also upgraded to a TUI B 789

A 2 aircraft base also starts in May when 2 TUI B738 will operate Fri - Sun

In the winter 2020 /21 TUI are re introducing SSH and an extra TFS flight is also added to 3 a week

Ryanair continue with exactly the same schedule as summer 19 except the LPA service which is seasonal now due closure of the base . This could have been much worse though considering some other Ryanair bases and routes axed

Finally its the airports top priority to see a business lounge built ready for the start of the summer season

The airport announced a series of open days for public consultation on modernising the airspace. This includes moving entirely to satellite based airspace management by 2024. Pretty good news by the sound of it. Hope it results in reduced distances for approaches and departures.

Isn't this something like SOU had installed on R02 approach?

its a national programme, part of a global modernisation of airspace structure & management. Terrestrial Navigation aids (VOR/DME, NDB) are being withdrawn. All UK airports will be obliged by govt to participate. Southern England is first. More details here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/airspace-modernisation

Using satellites for precision navigation guidance where ILS is not available is a big step forward, but unlikely to replace CAT III ILS for a long while yet.

FF

Lauda
 

Operating on behalf of Ryanair I believe.

Lauda is a low cost airline that is now a subsidiary of Ryanair. Ryanair are also partners in another low cost airline Malta Air based in Malta. I think flights for both of these are booked through the Ryanair web site

Ryanair.
 

Ryanair also own Buzz which they bought from KLM years back.Apart from Lauda which operate A320 aircraft,Buzz and Malta air have B738 transferred over from Ryanair main fleet.

Lauda infilling the capacity lost at Ryanair by the MAX debacle.

TUI have added another flight to Dalaman this summer using Freebird A320 on a Thursday evening
This now means there are 2 services to Antayla and 2 to Dalaman throughout the summer a big increase !!

Great news MARKEYD. For BOH to achieve growth from TUI and stability from Ryanair despite all the Boeing MAX issues is very reassuring. Hopefully 2021 will be even more rewarding.

easyJet
 

Need to get to Geneva in February and searched for flights from BOH. One way fares were between £308 and £456 (depending which Saturday outbound flight you take) !

Needless to say it’s doing well

Its actually school half term week so all the Easy jet flights along with all other airlines are " eye watering " prices for Feb from any UK airport not just BOH , so not really an indication

November 2019 passengers
 

Finally the CAA statistics have been released for Bournemouth.

Seems like it grew 40% to 38,489 with year-to-date standing at 794,000.

You have to remember that its by charging a fortune for flights when they can it keeps the route open in the (many) quiet days with less than a full 'plane.

Good increase in passenger numbers for Nov up over 40 %

Mainly down to the continuation of Prague and Dublin with Ryanair into a year round service

Prague averaged load factors of 89 % and Dublin lower at 65 %

Krakow continues to perform really well at 93 % and could well do with another flight now but i think any expansion is on hold with Ryanair until the 737 max issue is sorted out

TUI was back on track with good loads on all their services and next winter will see further expansion with another flight to TFS taking it to 3 a week and the re introduction of Sharm

EZY GVA SKI flights
 

Quote: Originally Posted by Sharklet_321
Need to get to Geneva in February and searched for flights from BOH. One way fares were between £308 and £456 (depending which Saturday outbound flight you take) !
Needless to say it’s doing well.
Asturias56 replies
You have to remember that its by charging a fortune for flights when they can it keep the route open in the (many) quiet days with less than a full 'plane.

The EZY BOH (and SOU) - GVA only really operates as a SKI flight during the winter months (Very short flying season and sees high prices on some of the few days a week it goes, plus Xmas/NY & half term)
Historically SKI flights were always on weekends only - but now with a say FRI and a MON added for skiers to go for long weekends.

EZY have upped their BOH-GVA frequency to 4 or 5 flights a week so it must be doing very well.

It's actually 6 flights a week - Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat x2, Sun

LT

Ryanair are back to operating most of the Palma flights this summer

Lauda air are now operating the 2nd Palma flight on a Thursday and a Sunday flight

Confirmed that Freebird A 320 will operate the flights to AYT and DLM on a Wed and Thu on behalf of TUI holidays

December 2019
 

Finally the December CAA statistics have been released for Bournemouth.

There was a 27% increase over December 2018 to 44,293 giving an annual total of 803,307. This is the first year since 2009 that they have broken the 800,000 mark and 19% up on 2018. Hopefully similar growth again next year.

LT

Bournemouth-Kraków grew by 23% with over 3,800 pax. Faro too. I believe there were additional flights over the Christmas period to these destinations in particular.

Given the additional flights in 2020, we could see around 825,000-830,000 annual pax this year.

[Edited as I didn’t realise Le Tirer had beat me to it with the update on Dec pax]

EasyJet seem to have operated double daily services to Geneva From Bournemouth over the half term and into the ‘shoulders’. Is this unique to BOH or across the GVA network?

Not quite sure where you have got that info from apart from a tech glitch on FR 24 ?

Usual Easy jet schedule of 6 flights a week

Ryanair have loaded their winter schedule from BOH into the system but not yet on sale for 2020 / 21

Keeping the based aircraft again for the winter and its pretty much the same as this winter with the only flight missing is LPA . It was operated by the BOH based aircraft on a Sat this year so remains to be seen if it will be added again .

( Exeter also sees the same schedule of ALC and AGP twice a week but MLA has yet to be added )

Lauda air are now operating only 2 flights on behalf of Ryanair this summer on the A320 on a Sun and the second flight on a Thu

For the first time in a long time there are more flights (or is it passengers?) from BOH than there are from SOU

Is that important? Perhaps leave time for the body to cool...

Well it didn't take long for the entirely inappropriate gloating to commence :-(

Wrong. There should be 13 departures from SOU 7 from BOH.

Apologies - my point is not to gloat!

It's more the irony of the situation that i'm focusing on. I don't know how the ground handlers at those airports will cope with the sudden drop in pax number.

He perhaps should have said more ‘passengers’.

Sad day for the region and the staff of FlyBe but there is demand and so I am sure that there will backfill at SOU by the smaller regionals. I think that there also is the potential for either Ryanair or EasyJet to take up the Scottish (and perhaps Manchester) routes. Easy could select either BOH or SOU. If Ryanair that would have to be BOH.

flybe
 

I must agree the comment made by sharklet 321 is not sensative with Flybe staff will be looking for jobs. In this situation who cares which airport handles more pax than another one. Times like this must be to the Flybe staff that are about to be put out of work.All the best to the Flybe staff. Thoughts are with you all.

Ryanair just stated on national TV that they will never go into SOU as their aircraft are too big for the airport

I posted that on the SOU page lol

Easy jet have put on sale a month early there Geneva service for 2020/21

Good news is that it stays the same as this year with 6 flights a week with 2 flights operating again on a Saturday all to be operated by A320

TUI as expected have cancelled all there services until mid April at the moment . Flights are operating just inbound bringing back passengers to BOH

Great news. I suggested Krakow as a possible destination a couple of years ago and it was dismissed at the time by others. Nice to be proven right.

A twice a week winter Murcia (RMU) on a W basis by the Alicante originator would offer at least a 95% load factor.

Sorry what are you talking about ?

BA storage??
 

5x BA aircraft now at BOH for storage by the looks of it, with more on the way?? This could prove to be a great move by the management in the current situation, extra parking fees and some GA will undoubtedly help the bank balance.

11 arriving today and a further 10 tomorrow as things stand.

I'm guessing that BOH offered a very reasonable price to BA for long term parking if they are to store 21 aircraft

Shades of the 1970s when Hurn used to fill up with diversions.