Their are a few oil workers that use the service , however it main purpose has been to bring Norwegian premier league football fans and bargain shoppers into the North West over weekend period. Suspension until the proposed start of the 2020/21 season is no coincidence

Wideroe have done some repatriation in the last week or so from STN including to Oslo which isn’t a normal destination. So that could be the purpose of the Bergen flights, again making use of Liverpool as an airport they already use so probably already have handling in place at.

There's no guarantee the new season will start in August and nor is it certain football matches being played in front of a crowd will be allowed by then.

The current thinking is to resume the current season in order to finish it off as soon as it's safe to do so and probably behind closed doors. June is the current earliest estimate, but nobody really knows. Either way, next season is likely to start late.

Personal perspective only .Couldn't really care less if and when the Football season finishes or starts . 22 men kicking a bag of wind isn’t my thing !

The next LPL-BGO flights are in the system for August, of course this could change.

i think they were repatriated flights.

It has - one inbound at the moment.

Wideroe are operating a Bergen service today at 12.40 WF381

The last Bergen flight went last Friday 1 May, now seems a gap before they restart, but of course could change. Wizz Air is due to re-starts ops next week.

I know it's early days and still alot can change, but, does anybody know if EZY is looking to reduce the Liverpool base for S21?

It's just that the initial release up to May 4th next year shows a number of reduced frequencies on several routes, notably BCN (12 to 8x pw), CDG (daily to 5x pw) and GVA (5 to 3x pw) amongst others, as well as what looks to be the ending of services to SXF/BER, NAP and PMO.

No other base in the UK seems to have these kinds of reductions, mirroring almost exactly what's in the current schedule end of May/early June this year; So all the more curious.

The schedule still looks to require 8x aircraft on certain days, but with some re-jigging it could easily be done with at least one fewer aircraft in the based fleet. Anybody aware of anything?

I think possibly EZY have extended routes out of manchester including CDG, BCN and GVA which are all performing well out of Manchester - under normal circumstances. So they may just be rejigging a few frequencies between LPL and MAN. We have seen EZY add routes to Liverpool though, so maybe a few more bucket and spade routes might fill the gap.

I think the LPL- BFS route may have increased have seen up to 8 a day.

CDG was only 5pwk peak summer 2019. BCN was 11 and GVA 7 so some reductions but to be honest surely to be expected.

If there is space available with the aircraft, It wouldn't surprise me is they add a new destination.

Wizz Air are now operating to Budapest W6 221 at 21.40 departing tonight.

Operating again tonight at 21.55 W6 2211

Easyjet
 

Easyjet are starting up again with Liverpool to Isle of Man and to Belfast as of 16 June 20.

Wizz Air
 

Liverpool to Varna restarts this evening. Budapest has been running for a few weeks now.

29 Oct, new route from Wizz , Liverpool to Bacau.

Wizz to cut its Cluj - Liverpool route from 27 June 2020