FR appear to have cut a few AGP/ALC/PMI/BCN flights for the month of June.

The first ALC looks to be 89% full (168 Pax)

To be replaced by FAO I believe on some days. No shock that June flights rolled back as no clear guidance on next stage or relaxation. I think India variant will make some think twice about travel especially first few months of Summer

It sounds to be getting quite out of hand. Eastern have brought forward the re-launch of Cardiff services and will fly from 27 May - so clearly trying to get well established ahead of EI Regional / Stobart. I'm told Eastern management were in BHD yesterday. There's then rumour of Eastern having a go at Stobart on Leeds / Belfast City in view of their service cuts and Stobart having a go at Loganair on Glasgow / Belfast City after their deferred re-start date. You'd have thought the airport would be trying to encourage stability during the re-build period rather than this dogfight.

Belfast - Glasgow now added to the Aer Lingus website. Looks to be starting 1 July 2021

Quite impressive line up by Stobart in the guise of Aer Lingus REGIONAL. With 9 destinations now, what will come next, my guess would be that there may be gaps for more leisure orientated routes in between schedules, stand outs might be LPL and NCL.

I wouldn't rule out Saturday flights to JER and RNS in summer 2022.

Looks like loganair have dropped GLA-BHD, when I seen this at the time route was stopped at the time until September I did hear something at the time Stobart Air might take over the route. Interesting to see if Stobart Air Cut back at Leeds and Eastern Airways run flights to Leeds instead.

Leeds seems to be a good performer on relative passenger loads. I’d expect Stobart to defend their turf on that route.

leeds was a winner for Flybe too when they operated the route. At one stage it was 5x daily and you could never get a seat on it apart from the 12:35 flight. I suspect stinker will continue to operate it.

I understand T3 is twice a day to LBA. Surprised at LM thought they would have stuck at the GLA. But a dogfight none the less.

In the Manx Airlines days it was always BHD-LPL, not BFS, then when Easyjet came along everything moved to BFS. There has been both Belfast airports served since, Ryanair and Flybe have done it. I'm sure there is a market but they will need to be able stand up to Easyjet which is very dominant between Belfast and Liverpool.

I agree BACsuperVC10 (great handle by the way!), I think this is why a daily rotation for a leisure audience may work on LPL and NCL to for in between frequency on the bigger routes, rather than trying to take on easyJet. In any case Stobart will only have so many airframes available for BHD, DUB will come back and expectations are that Ireland UK will be quite unrestricted by end of July.
I believe an update by Irish government will come this week in that regard.

Manx Airlines was a great little airline and they were trailblazers with low fares too, specific flights off peak were sold on 'farecracker' flight and BHD was included!

Yes Manx were a great little airlines and for many years they provided a dependable service. I remember the "farecracker" fares too.

and those horrific deafening vibrating ATPs !

Looks like IOM - BHD Flights have been cancelled ?
flights showing as sold out.

Stobart Air taking over flights to IOM?

Most likely cancelled in like with their other cancellations from IOM. If anything STK taking over is probably near the bottom of the list of possible reasons in this case.

Could be a great little filler at off peak times miss morning between rotations on bigger routes like BHX, MAN & EDI, and a very quick rotation too, at not far from 70miles flying!

Start date on IOM-BHD is now 25 October.

Stobart Air Gone?!?
 

Stobart Air Gone!

Stobart Air appear to be entering liquidation following the unsuccessful purchase from Ettyl.

All flights today are unfortunately cancelled and aircraft grounded.

Not correct. EI have terminated the franchise

Stobart are in the process of appointing liquidators

Alteagod

http://www.irishnews.com/business/bu...t-air-2353250/

I have heard contrary and the attached link indicates Stobart terminated the contracts

Not a good time for Aer Lingus to be offering refunds....

Some EI flights operating tomorrow and Monday, I'm presuming as a rescue effort. BHX, MAN, EDI

I wonder if BA Cityflyer could pick up some of these temporarily until a permanent solution is found. Keeps the business inside the IAG Group and crews busy until (if) summer season actually starts.

BACF will operate Belfast to Exeter and Leeds. Not sure for how long.“Aer Lingus will operate the Dublin/Edinburgh, Dublin/Manchester, Belfast City/Manchester, Belfast City/Birmingham and Belfast City/Edinburgh routes.

BA City Flyer will operate the Belfast City/Exeter route and the Belfast City/Leeds Bradford route.

Plans for the Dublin/Kerry and Dublin/Donegal Public Service Obligation routes are still being worked out.

Customers due to travel on the Belfast City/East Midlands, Dublin/Glasgow and Dublin/Newquay routes are being offered alternative flights”

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/202...5-stobart-air/

Now showing on BA website aswell.

Aer Lingus are now selling BHD-MAN/BHX as a daily A320 service up to July 18th.

No surprise there really good to see. Very popular routes will do well

EDI being loaded onto EI website currently, same dates

I see the MAN is showing 2 daily on some days

I'm imagining they will run the routes for now while they organise Regional again, prices are currently a kings ransom but they were with EIR and EZY are currently too, unsurprisingly.

It'll be interesting to see will anyone pick up the leftovers, Eastern, Loganair etc

I believe T3 already had slots for LBA filed for a while but not used. Maybe they will now

It looks like an additional A320 is required to operate the new Aer Lingus flights:

• 07:40 dep to LHR
• 09:00 dep to MAN
• 09:30 dep to EDI

Looks to be BHX and EDI once daily and
MAN 11x weekly

MAN is important to EI for the new Long fights so connecting flight from BHD - MAN will be a priority

EI to BHX/MAN/EDI
 

What about after July 18th? I've got BHX-BHD-BHX booked for 25th to 28th July. Will EI continue on this route? EZY fares to BFS on these dates have already gone rocketing up.

The issue is from 19th July full Int travel is to be permitted from ROI and the fleet is back to work they don't have the capacity. Perhaps BA CityFlyer might be able to get themselves sorted to allocate an aircraft short term at BHD (or find a carrier to fill the gap short term) and EI will operate what they can out of Dub.

There is strong possibility that BA Cityflyer might be operating all flights that Stobart Air ran from BHD by then. And may announce this in the coming days

Makes a kinda sense. Are they part of IAG under BA Mainline. They already diversifying from LCY with the new base in SOU. I suppose we will wait and see. BCAF had already committed to a PMI flight.

Two units required for BHD schedule, 1 for LHR, the other for the 3 routes EDI, BHX & MAN.
Already are 2 units at BHD.

Was the EDI not a w pattern from DUB on Sunday. All very early I suppose in the planning stage for EI