easyJet
 

Summer 2024 now on sale. Same as summer 2023 as far as I can see.
No SOU after March 2024......disappointing

According to Southampton thread. Aer Lingus increases to 3 times a day maybe that is why

Plans for a new 81-room Premier Inn hotel development close to BFS have been cleared by Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.

Source: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/b...392639289.html

Belfast Telegraph: "Changes to air passenger duty could bring in £2.3m each year."

...any idea what the government are proposing?

Ryanair new London routes
 

Ryanair announced yesterday 7 new routes from London for Winter including Belfast. Does this mean a new route to Luton from Belfast? Nothing on the website yet.

I suspect they are claiming Stn - Bfs as a new route.

TB you are correct. From MSN.com"Despite cutting its winter flight schedule, the airline has also announced seven new routes this winter from Stansted Airport and increased frequencies on 30 more routes.

Ryanair will now be flying to Belfast, Basel, Ouarzazate, Tatry, Tirana, Treviso, and Vigo this winter"

easyJet
 

Ryanair routes next summer
 

Does anyone know when Ryanair release their summer schedule ? I heard it was spring end of November time.

Will be interesting to see if they add any new routes for next summer or if they’ll decide to leave again 😂😂

Has anyone heard any rumours of routes for next summer?

Jet 2
 

Jet2 and Jet2Holidays Launch Biggest Ever Summer Sun Programme From Belfast | Northern Ireland Travel News (nitravelnews.com)

Dublin Airport / Ryanair
 

https://www.irishnews.com/business/2...hjway-hDaV3Rfo

Could be some good news for BFS here

Ryanair - Winter 2023/24
 

Appears Ryanair is adding Saturday flights to Faro for Winter 2023/24 but won't operate the whole season.

2nd & 9th December plus 13th January to 17th February loaded but showing 'Sold Out'

Nothing showing for the other Saturdays during the Winter Season.

Flights on the website available to book, three weekly (Mon Wed Sun) non based aircraft

Only three weeks to start filling up 3 aircraft per week??

Ryanair - Summer 2024
 

Few non based flights starting to get loaded into the system for next Summer.
ALL showing 'Sold Out' on the Ryanair App.
And appears they start in June? Guessing April and May may be added later.

- Budapest 2 Weekly
- Gdansk 1 Weekly
- Krakow 1 Weekly
- Malaga 3 Weekly
- Milan 2 Weekly
- Palma 1 Weekly
- Valencia 2 Weekly

Guessing all Ryanair UK flights will be loaded in the next few weeks

The Extra Saturday flights now on sale for Winter 2023/24 to Faro.

So has the Southwind airlines flight to Ayt been taken off sale? HolidayBest seem to be selling the packages via other airlines, including BA and LH from Bhd with overnight routings. Not sure why anyone would book that. Risk of missed connections etc.

CAA stats to July 23 - 5.375m. Will Bfs break the 2019 total in 2023 - 6.2m?

More flights loaded into system (On App) for Summer 2024, All seem to be Ryanair UK routes (Based Flights).

- Alicante 5 Weekly
- East Midlands 4 Weekly
- Edinburgh Double Daily (One Daily Fridays)
- Gdansk now showing 3 Weekly
- Krakow now showing 2 Weekly
- Lanzarote 2 Weekly
- Stansted 2 Daily
- Manchester 2 Daily
- Milan now showing 3 Weekly
- Palma now showing 2 Weekly
- Paris 2 Weekly

No Girona, Faro or Porto loaded yet. And looks like Cardiff is gone.

Holiday Best / southwind airlines
 

Looks like holiday best not using Southwind Airlines to Antayla 2024, as pointed out by TB

Flights now with Lufhansa out of BHD via Frankfurt. Outbound flights anywhere between 14 -23 hours, a little shorter on the way back at 10/11 hours. Could be longer if you have a missed connection in Frankfurt. Some flights with BA via LHR to Istanbul then private transfer to Antayla !!!! Lose the first day of your holiday in travel

Give me 4 hours with Tui, easyJet or Jet2 anytime

The arrangements out of BHD are mad, especially when there are direct flights. They do seem to use some TUI, Ezy and Jet2 flights. I see Southwind launched a full programme of flights to mainland airports today, Bfs was not one of the new options.

As soon as i seen this Southwind Airlines i knew it wasn't going to succeed,as what was said before 3 other operators serving Antalya one of which is increasing the number of flights each week from summer 25,it's near that time of year again for Easyjet to announce anything new for summer 24.

£100m Redevelopment
 

ITTN reporting the airport will undergo a £100m redevelopment over 5 years.

But once clicking on the article it comes up with a 'ERROR 404' message.

BFS
 

https://www.itv.com/news/utv

£100m revamp of Belfast International Airport set to get off the ground | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

This covers 100 million pound article

August 5.487 million

I needed to book Bfs - Lgw for 8th November. Easyjet has 3 flights on sale for that date. On a route that would normally have supported 6 flights mid-week. Ezy are really trying very hard to ruin this route through this scheduling.

have to agree TB
I had flight on 23 November at 12.30 LGW to BFS and they cancelled it Next flight 16.30 to BFS
So either a long wait or 12.05 to BHD and an expensive taxi to BFS to collect my car.
They are destroying this route

New Development
 

From the recent press releases "with additional departure gates and extra seating" - does anyone know where the extra departure gates will be?

Ryanair
 

Ryanair Officially Launches Winter 2024 Ski Schedule with THREE DIRECT FROM BELFAST! | Northern Ireland Travel News (nitravelnews.com)

Ryanair - Summer 2024
 

Ryanair has loaded Faro into the system, showing on the app for Summer 2024.

Operates Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, all non based flights.

Shows 'Sold Out'. Likely be bookable from next week.

Now on sale for Summer 2024

Did this morning's Ryanair from Fao to Bfs divert back to Fao? If so, anyone know the reason yet?

SOU
 

Anyone know of passenger numbers on first flight to/from Southampton today?

Belfast-bound plane makes emergency landing in Portugal following 'tech issue' (msn.com)

Don't know the exact pax numbers on the SOU but the Oporto was 171 on inbound and 179 on outbound.

easyJet - Summer 2024
 

Two new easyJet routes for Summer 2024:

Larnaca - 3 Weekly from 2nd May (Summer Only)

Enfidha - 2 Weekly from 20th April (Year Round)

Thanks to SeanM on X for the information!

Good news....Would this mean an extra based aircraft in Summer 24

SeanM1997 reporting that BFS ALC is being dropped. STC

So a/c could be free to operate these routes.

From NI Travel
EasyJet Launches THREE NEW Belfast Routes! | Northern Ireland Travel News (nitravelnews.com)

Seems a little strange EZY operating 6 flights per week to ALC from BFS in May then zero. Only 2 per week from BHD, therefore net loss of flights to ALC??
Can anyone here get into EZY brain as their route allocations are crazy especially LGW and now ALC

the route has not been cut is the obvious explanation.

It was STC so glad its been kept