Inverness - 2
 

Since the last thread was locked, I decided to start off a new one!

In recent news, Courtyard by Marriott will be opening Inverness' first airport hotel, with construction to start soon!

Earlier today the airport's official Instagram posted a picture of an Ryanair 737-800 with the caption of "Plane spotting....". Does anyone know if a FR 738 came into INV today?

Perhaps this could be teasing an announcement of FR at INV, the lack of APD would certainly attract them! Then again it could just be a picture from FRs days of flying to EMA a decade ago - but the photo looks far too recent for that, and a reverse image search came up with no results.

Thoughts?

I understand that an FR FAO>PIK flight diverted to INV on Wednesday of this week due to storm Ali. The post could just be a picture of that aircraft.

Ryanair
 

Ryanair EI-FRZ FR652 FAO-PIK Wednesday 19/9/18 diverted from PIK to INV landing around 14.35 and departed to PIK around 17.45 per FR24.

Pete

Wow! Triple daily in the weekends and 16 weekly overall! Was expecting an upgrade but not on this scale! I wonder if BA will bulid a lounge in INV since the operation is quite large now, or will the aspire lounge will suffice? This looks like the announcement that will push INV past 1 million pax in 2019.

KLC are also going to have a night stopper next summer again and 3 on a Saturday to AMS going to be very busy

I used Inverness twice last month and thought it was a superb clean and tidy airport and was a credit to Scotland.

I can't believe how short sighted HIAL were when the original terminal was built considering that it will be running at well over double the original design capacity of 400k pax (and has been for the last 2 years in fact). Will there be any more terminal expansions in the next year?

1 *KL 922 7 INV AMS 0630 0905 0 07JUL19 07JUL19 E75 1:35
2 *KL 922 X7 INV AMS 0630 0905 0 01JUL19 06JUL19 E90 1:35
3 *KL 922 1 INV AMS 0635 0910 0 08JUL19 08JUL19 E90 1:35
4 KL 924 6 INV AMS 1055 1330 0 06JUL19 06JUL19 73W 1:35
5 *KL 928 X67 INV AMS 1325 1600 0 01JUL19 05JUL19 E75 1:35
6 *KL 926 7 INV AMS 1550 1825 0 07JUL19 01SEP19 E90 1:35
7 *KL 926 16 INV AMS 1715 1950 0 06JUL19 31AUG19 E90 1:35

and
1 KL 923 6 AMS INV 0930 1010 0 06JUL19 31AUG19 73W 1:40
2 *KL 927 X67 AMS INV 1200 1240 0 01APR19 05JUL19 E75 1:40
3 *KL 925 7 AMS INV 1425 1505 0 07JUL19 07JUL19 E90 1:40
4 *KL 925 16 AMS INV 1605 1645 0 06JUL19 31AUG19 E90 1:40
5 *KL 931 6 AMS INV 2135 2215 0 06JUL19 31AUG19 E75 1:40
6 *KL 931 X6 AMS INV 2135 2215 0 01JUL19 01SEP19 E90 1:40

Dalcross Handling, same as everyone at INV I think.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...lands-47040581

A hotel is being constructed on a site next to Inverness Airport using modules manufactured at a factory in Poland.

The 130-bedroom Courtyard by Marriott will be the Highlands airport's first hotel. It is being developed at the Inverness Airport Business Park (IABP) by Molo Hotels and will be operated by RBH.
The hotel, which will have meetings and fitness facilities, a bar and bistro, is due to open later this year. Graeme Bell, manager at Inverness Airport, said he believed the hotel would be a "real asset" to the airport and wider region. He added: "Inverness Airport continues to grow and is playing an ever increasing role in improving connectivity in the Highlands."

The modules are being manufactured in the port city of Gdansk.

Thanks for the link! But I see the BBC was six months behind Pilot Prune with the hotel news!

To be fair to them the only reason that I knew that the hotel was being opened by them was because the planning permission had renderings of the building with Marriot logos, it was not actually explicitly mentioned anywhere.

inverness
 

what a shame the modules could not be manufactured in the uk.https://www.pprune.org/images/icons/icon8.gif

what a shame the modules could not have been made in the uk.

Not a hope - the UK just isn't competitive at this sort of thing

Only 10% of the population is in manufacturing these days - maybe less and it only in building Mini's, RR engines and similar that you are competitive

Same over most of Europe and the USA -

They used the same construction method for the hotel they just opened at Luton Airport. Took around a year to complete. Google Courtyard by Marriott Luton Airport to see what we ended up with.

Fly lolo are operating to Palma in October, 2 flights are scheduled in using Albastar B 738

Maybe Lolo has bought some seats in for F/O sales?

INV says -
just announced three new autumn flights from Inverness to Mallorca with tour operator JetsGo.
The return flights will fly direct from the Highland capital to Palma on the Balearic sunshine island on October 12th, 19th and 26th. A selection of flight only and package deals are available.
Package holidays are available now from £399 per person over the October break

Compared to this part of Scotland Mallorca would seem like a tropical paradise in October but the reality is that Mallorca will be out of season and somewhat on the cool side for us southerners.

Has anyone heard any news of the new train station since it was awarded planning permission last year?

LTN man
Check your facts before suggesting things can be chilly anywhere outside of the South East
.... London high forecast tomorrow 12C, Inverness forecast high tomorrow 12C

The Highlands often does actually get the warmest temps in summer. I think they hit 30 degs a few times last summer.

Any gossip up there concerning Loganair to operate Inverness to London-Southend ?

Doubt they could complete with easyjet and their fare structure to LTN and LGW as Loganair is not a low cost airline.

not heard anything

Majorca is not out of season in October LTNman I can assure you. I hav been there in early November and the weather's very pleasant thank you. There are plenty of places to see etc other than sitting on a beach. It is a very beautiful island away from some of the renowned beach resorts.

I would agree having lived there for several years. October is one of the nicest months and the tourist trade is still going moderately strong. November sees things winding down a bit and the weather generally is still lovely. December though, it does change cold wet on many occasions, even snow!

A lot of the tourist trade switches off end October and you can get cold windy rainy days been t October is normally cool for Spain
in but beautiful

KLM increases Inverness flights from July 2019

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in the second quarter of 2019 is increasing service on Amsterdam – Inverness route, where the airline scheduled 3rd daily rotation from 08JUL19, excluding Saturdays.

The following schedule is effective for the week of 12AUG19 only.

KL923 AMS0930 – 1010INV 73W 6
KL923 AMS1045 – 1125INV 73W x67
KL925 AMS1425 – 1505INV E90 7
KL925 AMS1555 – 1635INV E90 5
KL925 AMS1605 – 1645INV E90 x57
KL931 AMS2135 – 2215INV E90 x6
KL931 AMS2135 – 2215INV E75 6

KL922 INV0625 – 0900AMS E90 x57
KL922 INV0625 – 0900AMS E75 7
KL924 INV1055 – 1330AMS 73W 6
KL924 INV1210 – 1445AMS 73W x67
KL926 INV1550 – 1825AMS E90 7
KL926 INV1715 – 1950AMS E90 x7
Regards 4ea

Who would have thought...

The "Glorious Twelfth" I guess.

Seems like this will be the year where INV breaks the 1 million pax barrier. With the way things are going at ABZ it seems somewhat possible in the long-term future that INV could overtake ABZ in terms of yearly pax.

They have nothing to do with KL, according to their booking system. I wonder why there's a charter when whoever needs it could just book some seats on the existing KL route?

maybe because the tour operators have negotiated a better deal with Corendon. Also KL will want to keep the seats to feed it's AMS hub.