Oh ok then, South - SouthEast!!

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Sorry, I meant Winter 05/06 flights.

Got an email from Thomsonfly today saying winter seats would become available to book from the 30th June...not long to go now

Does anyone know why a FRA Falcon 20 flew over Corfe Mullen coming from the airport direction today at about 11am very low?

What about Bournemouth Teesside (sorry Durham Tees Valley)? Surely a couple of 30/40 seat rotations a day would go? Sunny south coast and FRA and all that?

The FRA falcons fly almost daily from BOH. Normally 3 fly in formation back to the airport quite low over the town during the late afternoon. As far as I know they are often used as dummy missles for the Royal Navy to practice on and the Government uses them to keep tabs on the fishing vessels.

if BOH-BFS aint working too well then BOH-MME will never work!

Nakata77 I would suggest the reason why the BOH-BFS is not working is the same as the MME-BFS. The fact that it is once a day, and from what I hear being reduced. Routes like this that are really there for business links should be twice a day minimum. Who knows maybe a twice a day MME-BOH with a sensible sized aircraft (maybe J41 or a 328) would work. Fact is that MME has no link to the south coast although a Gatwick is starting and BOH has no link to the North East. Don't dismiss routes just out of hand. Who would of thought Bournemouth would have a Pisa! (I think it done 5 times a week as well!). If I had told you that 5 years ago you would of called the men in white jackets to take me away.

You say that MME has no link to the south coast apart from LGW, dont forget that Newquay has just started.

Would a LBA-BOH route work do you think?

Or do we already have that to well covered with our new flights to Newquay, Southampton (With FlyBe) and Exeter as well as connections to Plymouth?

Regarding Newquay it is not really on the south coast but the south west, like MME is in the north east and Norwich is in the east.
LBA Leeds would work probably, but let MME in there first you've got enough already:O

Just a note

At Bournemouth they have closed the road off to the Museum as they are using the overflow car cark next to the long term aircraft park now.

Good news

Hoping for some good news for thomsponfly routes. Will hold off buying flight today and wait what thomsonfly will come up with.

There is a new map on homepage of Thomsonfly.com showing new routes from Bournemouth to:

Alicante
Tenerife
Lyon
Salzburg

flights are now bookable but you have to search for a summer flight first then click search again tab.

Paris has switched CDG to Orly and gained an extra flight.

Amsterdam has also gained an extra weekly flight now daily

Alicante is new and daily

Malaga daily

Faro drops to 4 x weekly

Tenerife is new and 2 x weekly

Salzburg is 3 x weekly

Lyon is 5 x weekly

Palma, Valencia and Pisa are not in the system. Don't know if Valencia will return now that there are flights to Alicante and Pisa might not return till next summer.

More info when I get it



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Is this a 3 aircraft base then? Surprised to see Paris switch to Orly...didnt expect that.

From what I can make out TOM can still operate the schedule with 2 aircraft. There are 6 rotations a day, 3 per aircraft.

If there are any more flights then they will have to bring in a 3rd craft. Shocked that Palma hasn't appeared yet as this is the joint best route from BOH along with Malaga. Would of thought they would have at least operated 4x weekly there this winter.

The following services will not be featuring in our Winter flying programme. Services to these destinations will end on:

From Bournemouth:

Paris Charles de Gaulle - 29th October 2005
Palma - 29th October 2005
Pisa - 29th October 2005
Valencia - 29th October 2005

I think that TOM are making a mistake by not continuing some form of schedule to Palma. In fact I feel that maybe they're holding something back. They have 2 737's coming into the fleet in the next few months with others later on according to Jethros site, so maybe Palma and a couple of other routes may appear over the next few weeks.

Just noticed that you can't book any Palma flights with Thomsonfly from the 3 bases. Is this normal for their winter schedule?

Does this mean thomsofly change to ORLY instead of CDG.

Also Lyon and Salzburg, are these winter flights or tagged along with charter flights.

Also on Thomsonfly site BOH-TENerife

TOM will operate to Orly instead of CDG from the end of October. Orly is closer to Paris so may attract more passengers?

Lyon and Salzburg are operating through the winter from BOH as loco destinations. The saturday Lyon flight will also carry ski charter passengers.

Tenerife is operated tuesday and friday and will carry both charter and loco scheduled passengers.

Really surprised that TOM are not operating to Palma from any of the 3 bases. But it will return next spring so its not too bad.

CDG was very easy by train to the centre taking around 30 mins.

The question how easy is it to get to Disney Land from Orly as most of my flight where going there this week.

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The car parks are ful,theyl even closed the road to the museum to use the car park. Heard rumour that the airport looking to buy next field to main car park for parking.

Just need to start building the new term and not to waste any more money on tarting up.