EasyJet to Alicante now on sale again for Summer 2024. Most flights now operated by easyJet Europe (EJU) ALC based.

easyJet
 

Looks like a few extra flights to LBA. 6 weekly flights in May / June 2024

This is an improvement, albeit for 2 months. It's not great where a domestic route is 4 weekly, against 3x daily from BHD/EIR.

easyJet - Summer 2024
 

Looking at the current timetable for Tuesday 2nd July 2024 it seems that easyJet may be planning on basing another aircraft bring the number of based aircraft to NINE

Looks like 4x A319s & 5x A320s

1. EZY3041 Faro 06:00 (A320)
2. EZY35 Stansted 06:00 (A319)
3. EZY3051 Amsterdam 06:05 ( A320)
4. EZY3071 Enfidha 06:10 ( A320)
5. EZY818 Gatwick 06:15 (A320)
6. EZY25 Birmingham 07:00 (A320)
7. EZY67 Newcastle 07:00 (A319)
8. EZY15 Luton 07:00 (A319)
9. EZY89 Manchester 07:05 (A319)

Could still be updating the timetable but Tuesdays seem like nine aircraft are need all day!

There's been talk of this for some time.

Not seeing any MAH now, looks like an increase for TFS??

​​​​​​Quick look on the app at Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sunday 9x departures with based a/c.

Hurghada and Southampton now bookable for Summer 2024 with easyJet

Hurghada 2 Weekly (Wed & Sat)
Southampton 5 Weekly (No flights Tues & Wed)


Ryanair now showing Girona on sale for Summer 2024 at four weekly.

TUI 2025 is on sale, no major suprises.

CAA stats for September 5.568 million

Two points.

1. Very recently I flew into Dublin from Turkey on Turkish Airlines. I was quite surprised at the number on the flight with NI accents. I have read on another site that the route carries a lot of NI pax. A few years back there was speculation that Turkish was looking at Belfast. I don't know what happened to that if there was any truth in the rumor, no doubt Covid didn't help. Any views on whether Turkish might renew their interest, or another carrier like Pegasus? I travelled back to Belfast on a full bus, the loss of pax from Belfast to Dublin is huge.
2. With the recent news on more new routes, what routes are left that might be a good shot for speculation. Jet2 had Izmir on sale, but cancelled it due to Covid. Madrid? And could we see any more based units from Ryanair next year?

If Ezy has 9 based next summer, Jet2 will have 4, Ryanair 2 at the moment and Tui 1, that is a total of 16, the highest ever if that holds?

TUI 2025
 

TUI showing A320 for 2025 flights from BFS, guessing Avion Express (Malta) or Smartlynx

How reliable will these be or just the same crap like Sunwings.

Does this mean an additional aircraft for summer 24

https://nitravelnews.com/news/ryanai...-belfast-base/

From the experience I’ve had with all three. I would say Sunwing are actually the better (I know it’s hard to believe), followed by Avion Express.

easyJet adding a 4th flight to BHX on Sundays for Summer 2024 using a BHX based A320.

Arrives 09:05 (EZY6661)
Departs 09:35 (EZY6662)

easyJet ninth based A/C confirmed
 

Any hope of them reinstating Saturday evening flights back from Liverpool?

The timing of flights on several routes with Ezy I find just weird. Not sure at all the sort of thinking now employed by the scheduling team.

NEW Routes!
Ryanair loading Malta into system for Summer 2024 operating twice a week (Tuesday & Saturdays), starting 2nd April.

Also Warsaw Modlin being added again from BFS with Ryanair for Summer 2024, showing 1 weekly (Sundays) for now, starting 31st March.

Thanks to SeanM on X!

More good news for BFS and NI....Congrats Ryanair

Are there any EZY routes for summer 24 still to be announced

Next Ryanair route could be Birmingham going by the BHX thread!

Scanning over EZY app BHX has flights in January for £26 return, I'm not sure how much lower FR could push this, I suspect we'll see EZY launch from BHD in response. It'll be interesting times ahead if it's true - the potential for domestic growth from BFS has been hinted at recently by FR at a press conference.

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Ryanair
 

From NI travel

RYANAIR EXPECTED TO LAUNCH NEW ROUTES FROM BELFAST FOR SUMMER ’24 | Northern Ireland Travel News (nitravelnews.com)

Malta and Warsaw twice weekly

Disappointing….. thought there would be more interesting routes on sale 😭

🙄🙄🙄 Seriously. Ye have high hopes in NI. They are lovely destinations.

What routes do you want? BFS has so much good new routes lately. Airlines will do routes where theres demand

New Ryanair routes from Bfs
 

In all fairness he does have a point,could they not have brought on something different not already served from Bfs,Malta and Warsaw we know about but offical announcement has not been made,rumoured Birmingham brings 2 routes in direct competition with Easyjet/Jet2,guess we will have to wait and see what happens over next few days.

Thats Ryanair though. They will announce routes in competition with other airlines.

BFS has got other interesting routes from them like Porto, Girona & Valencia. Hurghada being added by easyJet was great also. Dublin even doesnt have any direct service to HRG or SSH

I think it's fair to say Ryanair are taking safety shots with the majority of routes. Warsaw will probably always work with a combination of city break tourism and emigrants visiting family etc. Malta works from virtually any UK airport. I guess where they've taken a risk you may say it's running Porto over winter, and to some degree Beauvais which seems to have steady loads.
There certainly is some truth in the argument regarding the Northern Ireland market, it's not like say Stansted where Ryanair could fly to literally any random airfield in Europe and create a demand, sunshine and UK domestic works best for operators, it would be nice to see more capital cities across Europe on the board, not having the likes of Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid etc seems a loss to me.

These are the usual rinse and repeat routes from BFS. I’d like to see some big cities on there that people would definitely travel to.

Berlin, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Madrid. I think these routes would get some good numbers from BFS

Totally agree! It’s not like we are expecting all sorts of routes like there would be from Stansted.

Nice city destinations like you’ve mentioned would surely get some traction from BFS. It just seems like there are multiple airlines doing the exact same routes from BFS.

I suppose cost has to be factored in for Ryanair but if the likes of Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Copenhagen were in there they’d not be fighting against other airlines for those cities.

If the demand was there Ryanair would do them. Pretty sure EZY did Berlin before and it was dropped. They go where the money is.

Malta now on sale with Ryanair. But Warsaw Modlin not showing again.

Mahon now on sale for S24 with Easyjet after not being loaded into system with the rest of the routes. On sale Wednesday and Saturday.

I see Freebird has added Bfs - Ayt to their online site, but no dates showing. This has been added very recently, so wonder what is happening here, if anything?

Ryanair making Porto year round, Wednesday flights loaded for S24.

Ryanair Saturdays flights from Palma will be operated by Lauda Europe A320 for S24.

Fair certain TUI will be using them for peak summer

EZY
 

I tried to book UK domestic and there's none loaded for the multiple routes I searched

The UK Government has announced its response to Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill’s independent Union Connectivity Review.

Many of the recommendations relate to issues where the responsibility for transport is devolved, particularly in Northern Ireland - although I know that Stormont isn't currently sitting at the moment.

As part of this, Translink are to conduct a £700k study on the feasibility of re-opening the Antrim-Lisburn railway line, which could see the creation of an additional stop to help serve BFS.