This was taken from the Irish Independent, could the southern airport be BOH? as they already fly to LGW.

'Separately, Ryanair is also increasing capacity at Shannon, Cork, Knock and Derry airports. Tomorrow, the airline will announce plans to add two new routes out of Shannon: one is expected to be to a location in western France, the other to southern England'.

Thomas Cook comes to Bournemouth

FIERCE competition amongst airlines at Bournemouth Airport will leave passengers spoilt for choice, it has been predicted.

High-profile travel company Thomas Cook is the latest contender to enter the ring, switching its business from Southampton in a bid to take advantage of soaring customer demand at Bournemouth.

The decision means that, for the first time, every one of the big four travel companies - Airtours, Thomson, Thomas Cook and First Choice - will be flying from Bournemouth.

Airport officials are delighted with the decision and say customers can only benefit from the airport's current boom.

And David Skillicorn, managing director of Bournemouth-based Palmair, has confirmed they will also be extending their flight programme and are confident they can handle the increased competition.

Thomas Cook will begin flying to Majorca, Cyprus and Turkey from next summer, providing customers travelling to Spain with the choice of using them, Thomson Fly, Thomson Holidays, First Choice or Palmair.

A spokesperson for the company, which won't be using its own liveried planes, said: "Bookings show that these areas in particular have really soared in popularity on the South Coast and seats from Bournemouth are already being snapped up.

"Adding these additional flights from Bournemouth during the summer months means we have opened up accessibility to many more passengers for summer 2006."

But Mr Skillicorn warned there was only a limited catchment area of potential passengers.

"Operators succeed or fall by the wayside here based on their reputations," he said. "We've had some very high-profile failures here.

"Competition is a great thing and I welcome it but the acid test will be whether these other airlines are still here in a few years.

"It's an archetypal David and Goliath situation - we've been throwing our small stones for years now and have got no intention of stopping."

Sally Windsor, marketing manager at Bournemouth International Airport, said the arrival of Thomson Fly had prompted other operators like Thomas Cook to sit up and take notice.

"Success breeds success and we're delighted to welcome Thomas Cook to Bournemouth," she said. "There's no doubt we're currently going through a very successful phase."

First published: July 6, 2005

The reason why PMI is being dropped is because it is a summer destination, it does get chilly there in the winter too! Being a relatively small island, the only likely business you'd get in the winter period is from the ex-pats of which I doubt there are enough to fill an entire aircraft going to Bournemouth every week let alone 4 times a week.

When it starts getting hot again people will want to travel there on holiday again and so the flights will recommence.

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great route analysis trislander. seriously, I suppose you're right but seeing as Palmair arn't running their long established Palma winter flight believing Thomsonfly would continue the service - meaning the airport is without a Palma winter flight.

new 500 space car park being constructed today at the airport to end use of the overflow... great to see success being actualised in construction work. hopefully the next major development will be the construction of a decent terminal area.

Palmair are actually operating to Palma this winter albeit on a much smaller scale than of previous years
The flights operate on a Sat Wed or Fri with Palma being operated in the am and a Faro rotation in the pm , about 15 flights on sale this winter
The services to Alicante and Malaga are not operating this winter though

Good to finally see the car park expanded although with next summers inreased flights its going to have to be ongoing i would have thought
The terminal especially the portacabin departure lounge needs to be sorted out quickly as well

Still its all good news for BOH , we have waited a long time for such expansion and it invariabley comes with these sorts of problems !

Role on the new terminal !!

The Jet2.com Belfast loads seem to be improving, will Jet2 have faith in it for the winter??

loads on the daily BFS have improved to around 65% which is encouraging. Whether they keep the service running through the winter remains to be seen. Personally I don't think so. The route is useless at 4 weekly (from September 1st) against Flybe's 3 daily at Southampton.

Yea I fear Bournemouth will lose its Belfast link come wintertime. Encouraging to see the route performing better though, where did you get the 65% figure from? The route seems to be performing better for inbound traffic rather than outbound.

Does Anybody know of any special movements happening at Hurn this week between Mon and Fri as im on Work Experience with the ATC all week?

Now that it looks really unlikely that Jet2 will continue with the Belfast route.

Does anyone think that AirSouthwest may reconsider their twice daily Bournemouth/Belfast service as there is definately demand for around 80/90 pax per day. If they offered an early morning and late evening run then they would target a larger pax group than the present Jet2 service.

Anyone got any news re the 3rd TOM aircraft. Have heard mumblings about its still coming in October, but surely this would have been announced by now.

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How stupid

Secucicor (security) going on work to rule.

Now the has goto be the worst idea out with the recent problems.

Think I might reschedule my flights now.

Have heard on good authority that all of JET 2 winter programme is up and running and that the Bournemouth route is not being operated this winter , real shame as loads are building up but not enough obviously .
A tall order to fill a 737 each day to Belfast in the winter

For those interested this is the Thomsonfly operation for the winter season

Mon 1) BOH FAO BOH LYS BOH AMS BOH

2) BOH ORY BOH ALC BOH AGP BOH

Tue 1) BOH ORY BOH ALC BOH AGP BOH

2) BOH TFS BOH AMS BOH

Wed 1) BOH ACE FAO BOH AMS BOH

2) BOH ALC BOH AGP BOH

Thu 1) BOH LYS BOH FAO BOH AMS BOH

2) BOH ORY BOH SZG BOH AGP BOH

Fri 1) BOH LYS BOH AMS BOH TFS BOH

2) BOH ORY BOH ALC BOH AGP BOH

Sat 1) BOH ORY BOH ALC BOH AGP BOH

2) BOH LYS BOH SZG BOH (Poss another LYS rotation)

Sun 1) BOH LYS BOH SZG BOH AMS BOH

2) BOH ALC BOH ORY BOH AGP BOH

What is the start date of Easy jet flights to Switzerland.

15th December. flights go on sale this week

announcment is on the website now... easyJet starting 15th December from Bournemouth to Geneva with A319. Flights will be daily.

Nakata, what version of the EZ site are you looking at - I can't see any mention of BOH.

Its on the internal easyJet intranet. Sure it will be soon put on easyjet.com

i meant the Bournemouth Airport website (www.bournemouthairport.co.uk)
easyJet will place it on their site by early afternoon...

Great news for Bournemouth :ok: Shame its not a year round service

if the demand is there it will be... it is the start of Bournemouth becoming a major alternative to Southampton and Gatwick which are becoming blocked up and need to spend mega millions to expand. Bournemouth will never need to spend maga millions so will always be cheaper to land at. Therefore securing the best low-cost routes.