Thomson Lakes & mountains have anounced some new routes for 2006 and BOH has gained 2.

'Regional flying has increased significantly with departures from Bournemouth and Doncaster-Sheffield airports to Salzburg (Austria) and Verona (Italy), '

This was taken from the TUI news section.

Austrian Getaways currently fly weekly to Salzburg and New Market has announced a weekly Verona flight next summer, so maybe Thomson will use these flights.

Can anyone confirm?:ok:

Perhaps these will be new Thomsonfly.com destinations? Especially as these flights are from BOH and DSA (both Tfly bases).I think Salzburg is a winter Tfly destination from Coventry.

Went through this week on RYR. I just didn't believe it ,,,, the cash machine was out of order. I mean it was like Blackpool without the Tower. What are things coming to ?:ok:

But now theres a coffee machine and vending machine in the New Arrivals hall

Jet2 arrived this week from Belfast with 18 passengers on board.

When are they starting a Manchester Flight.

I think Jet2 will pull off BOH-BFS this winter, it just hasnt been a success (so far anyway). Not sure if they would bother replacing it with anything e.g. Manchester.

18 Pax! That is apalling!

I actually thought the route would work, most UK-BFS routes do, and with the sucess of Thomsonfly and Ryanair there, I am surprised by this.

I suppose Jet2 can go two ways about this route - scrap it or up the frequency to two daily to try and attract more day trippers.

At least they stopped taking bookings for BFS-ORK, that was a dreadful choice for an airline with 737s.

What about a service to MME?

Jet2 should have introduced EDI. Most people I speak to down here aren't that interested in N. Ireland. Don't understand why as its really beautiful and has some great places to visit.

Good news from Thomson Holidays this week as they are introducing new winter charters from BOH to:

Las Palmas, Alicante X 2, Arrecife, Malaga X2, Algarve & continuing with Tenerife.

All flights will be by a BOH based TOM aircraft. So I would hazard a guess that TOM will launch an Alicante service from BOH this winter season. I wonder if this will replace the Valencia service that appears to be a little slow at the moment.

When is the third based aircraft due to arrive to operate another two new routes.

I agree, surely more appeal to leisure travellers than Belfast?

The reason it was BFS not EDI they operate to was that they had an aircraft spare at BFS and not EDI

not really true, airhumberside.

BFS - BOH was chosen as LS had a spare W on their BFS aircraft. TBI identified the south coast as being the last major UK region not served from BFS with what they saw at the time as an unserved market. It was either SOU or BOH that would get the business. MAplc gave the best deal, LS took that opportunity.

There was no strategic decision by LS to serve BOH from BFS (along with ORK). It seemed a good idea at the time, cost/market wise. EDI - BOH was never in the equation at that time, although an EDI - south coast UK route is currently now being evaluated (along with others from EDI in the spare "W" avaliable with the EDI based aircraft from the beginning of Aug).

That is good news. SOU would make no sense at all as a single daily rotation would struggle to compete with the multiple rotations from BA and BE.

the reason why ryanair at BOH works is cos the B738 undercuts flybe by a whopping margin so Glasgow and Dublin work well compared to SOU. Barcelona is obviously successful as it has the market to its-self.

Jet2 cannot undercut flybe Q400 on BHD, and so withi similar fares but flybe's superior frequency they will hoover up the market share on Belfast-South Coast. No chice but to reduce frequency to a similar level as seen on MME-BFS.

As for Thomsonfly, they can undercut Flybe 146's easily and offer superior comfort/performance. Certainly better option on AMS and CDG too.

Bournemouth to Edinburgh should do well as long as the fares undercut SOU by a significant enough margin. However on route like this Ryanair would probably be the better operator....

Flybe certainly know how to hold their share of the market. Ryanair have lost ground to Flybe on the Glasgow route with passenger numbers on the PIK-BOH route dropping since the launch of the daily SOU-GLA last September. I think this is why the Jet2 Belfast route hasn't worked out.

Having said that the stats for April on the CAA site indicate Flybe loosing ground to Thomsonfly on the Malaga route, but we will have to wait a few more months to see how this pans out.

Any news as of yet on the rumour of Ryanair bringing back Hahn and also starting out to Milan?

... and where did that rumour come from?

Quoting flyBOH
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Ryanair:

Possible re introduction of Hahn & new to Bergamo
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Was in the first post of this topic!I know it was a while back now though.

Thomsonfly passenger figures seem to be rising now, many flights have been over the 100 pax mark in the last week or so.

Surely one the 2 extra B733's that Thomsonfly are expecting this autumn must be on its way to Bournemouth?

Heard the third plane to arrive on the third quater of the year.