In July transported 989.000 passengers to/from Berlin. 593.000 to/from TXL and 396.000 to/from SXF. Market share in Berlin is currently 29.5%

Does easyJet harbour any plans to set up a BHX base? I'm always surprised it doesn't exploit it. A hole which Jet2 seems to be filling well.

New route

manchester to volos

begins may 2019

easyjet seem quite happy for people from BHX catchment to travel to MAN, LPL, LTN, STN or BRS which are all not that far.
I think they missed a big opportunity when Monarch went but nothing !
They do well on BHX-BFS & BHX-GVA
As you say Jet2 are cleaning up but still so many unserved routes easyjet could do well on as well as adding much needed capacity on some existing routes.

Easyjet have a thing for missing opportunities, they did exactly the same at Glasgow when Globespan folded

May I humbly suggest that easy jet are doing rather well at the moment thank you. As BHM5DME rightly says why dilute other airports reasonably close to Birmingham, it doesn't make economic sense

Agreed, easyJet are in the business of making money. They will serve the markets where they can do that best.

Also, why saturate the market? It's not about serving every nook and cranny of Europe nor flying to Barcelona from everywhere but Mother Kelly's kitchen. Its about targeting the best returns possible. Sure, Ryanair have copious amounts of 737's on order but they have to find places to put them. EasyJet meanwhile is expanding but has a flexible fleet plan in place. Despite the orange brashness, it's always been a rather conservatively run business, a strategy that seems to work well.

You guys are all missing the point.

If they leave a hole open for fear it would dilute LTN or BRS then they leave it wide open for a competitor and in this case Jet2 have done pretty well out of diluting LTN and BRS easyJet pax.

I would say it doesnt make economic sense to leave a single door open for a competitor.

How do Jet 2 dilute BRS pax as Jet 2 don't operate into BRS.

Example: Before the Jet2 BHX base opened, an easyJet customer flying from BRS may have originated (lived) in the BHX catchment. Now the Jet2 base is open that same easyJet BRS customer may now opt to fly from BHX instead.

It does seem strange that they have basically ignored BHX. I mean LPL and MAN and LTN and STN are both very close to each other, in fact closer than BHX is to any of them. I haven't checked but I would imagine BHX must be one of, if not the (excluding the mega hubs) largest airports in Europe without a larger Easyjet presence. IMO it's an ideal location with superb rail and road links to draw passengers into which I would have thought would be of interest. Jet2 haven't replaced Monarch at BHX in a like for like fashion plenty of scope for Easyjet. However if they haven't got the aircraft, still I think it's strange that they didn't make any move a many years ago.

Or maybe the Midlands have an aversion to easyJet!

Not according to BHX5DME who says they're doing well on the two routes that they do operate, more likely what AIRPORTPLANNER1 posted.

easyjet have always said they cannot get the yields they require from The Midlands (BHX/EMA) which I dont buy, I still think they dont want to dilute their existing bases, MAN, LTN & BRS are all around 80 miles away.
Or they cannot get the airport deal they want.

I agree with you BHX5DME re yields. I think EMA was inherited when they bought GO! If the yields are so bad at BHX I doubt airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France, SAS, Turkish and other legacy carriers would be there. That's without mentioning the loco's. Of course we'll never know what the yields are.

You'd think the same thing might happen at Southampton or Bournemouth which seem perfect for them...with a base there Jet2 could take passengers heading for Bristol and Gatwick.

As much as i like Jet2, everyone on here seems to think they're Easyjet Killers, which i doubt...to a point

The main benefit from Easyjet at BFS/LGW is their economies of scale, the sheer number of based a/c at both bases mean that if Jet2 were to have any major impact, they'd need to go in just as hard as they did with STN, which they won't have the available aircraft or slots in destinations to make it work
That said, Jet2 do seem to have the better product with their holidays offering and their consumer awards, and the South of England might not be as price driven as their Northern heartlands might be.

Regardless, until Jet2 put in a new order, they won't have the aircraft to make it work, so Easyjet (and everyone else) can breath easier for now

Kavala
 

Someone on wikipedia using an anonymous login (ie just IP address) has edited the page for Kavala to say routes to Stansted and Berlin Schönefeld will start in mid May next year. The edit was then reverted very shortly afterwards. It looks like someone edited carefully rather than a kid wanting to vandalise.

Major works are due to end at Kavala make me wonder if this might be someone leaking info a bit too early and then realising the mistake.

Anyone else have thoughts ?

Wikipedia you cant trust any thing that's put on it.With it I think you have to wait and see if its true and try and find out about whats printed from other directions that can be trusted.

I wouldn't be surprised if Kavala was added to EZY's route network in the future. Unserved from Berlin, yet served from other DE cities by other carriers and only served by charters in London. Greek tourism booming at the movement too. Just wait and see I guess... Talking about STN, it's been confirmed that both Tel Aviv and Hurghada will operate year round in local press. So either cuts to other services in the peak 2019 season or maybe finally some growth at STN with EZY next year.

Stansted - Kavala
 

More generally issues at LTN are more than the provision of a couple of extra stands would rectify...actually may well compound those already existing issues.

Interesting...We will have to wait & see with EZY.

Luton is operating at I think 16.7 million passengers which is 1.3 million below its planning permission. The terminal work should be finished by Christmas although a couple of taxiways have yet to be started. Easyjet have been losing market share to Wizz at Luton but don't seem bothered. It will be interesting to see who grabs those last 2 stands for next year for night stoppers but with the airport now talking about another apron and more terminal improvements to add another 3 million passengers before the push to a terminal 2 I don't think the full signs will be going up just yet.

Flights until the end of June will go on sale 20th September - flights up until 1st September 2019 will go on sale 27th September.

Notice that second A321NEO G-UZMB is in service from LGW and latest 320NEO G-UZHL has been delivered. G-UZHI has not returned from TLS since its problems in early Aug.

G-UZHI
Just for the record, it came back from TLS last Saturday (25th) and returned to service soon afterwards flying LGW-BFS. Hopefully now all sorted. ;)

Confirmed today

3 A320 for Summer19

Neither does EDI to Grenoble or Sofia, even though easter is mid April.

Easy Jet never put the SOU - GVA or BOH - GVA on sale for April until mid December , and the year before , it never put April on sale until just 2 months before

Aren't these ops by EZS - something to do with that?

All winter seasonal flights and new routes launching in W18 seem to be ending on the last day of the previous schedule release.

A few examples are
SEN-BUD
SEN-ACE
SEN-TFS
SEN-GVA
STN-GVA
STN-KEF
STN-HRG
STN-TLV
LGW-WAW
LGW-AAR

One would assume that new routes to BUD, WAW and AAR will operate in the summer and STN's new TLV/HRG routes were announced as all year in press.

The ski/winter canary routes would operate surely operate in Easter as they have done every year. So there is more to come I am sure.

My bad, seems even more odd now.