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SCOT747
29th May 2005, 14:37
Can anybody help? Has BWIA stopped their service from PIK? I haven't seen it on the flight board for the past 3-4 weeks. Any info?
Service withdrawn,
Appears to be various rumours. "Lack of available aircraft" being the official rumour. Financial difficulties, A340 impounded by lessors and poor loads being the speculation. Chat of restarting, but can't see it myself.
Runway 31
29th May 2005, 18:44
Restarting 25 June.
BFS/BHD
29th May 2005, 19:04
BFS starts again on the 26th.
Eh....no mention of it on -
http://timetables.oag.com/bw
and
http://www.bwee.com/index2.php
BFS/BHD
30th May 2005, 20:48
Here it does:
http://www.nitravelnews.com/latest-travel-news/barbados-service-not-under-threat-airline.php
GoEDI
30th May 2005, 21:04
BWIA's Irish Sales Representative, Declan Murphy described the outlook of the route as "promising" and said he wanted to reassure both customers and agents on the its future. He told NI Travel News that 'aircraft servicing' was the reason behind the confusion. "The Airbus that operates the Manchester-Belfast-Barbados route is undergoing a major overhaul so we are replacing it with a different aircraft. "We are unaware of the size of the substitute plane, but we are sure that it will be smaller, not by much, probably an A320. So because we know the flight is quite full already for May and June, we had to take it off the system to avoid overbooking," he said.
A320?! Right...:suspect:
GW76, I'm going to presume you are referring to only the BFS service.
andybsei
31st May 2005, 16:00
the reason BW are taking a break fromtheir MAN/PIK/BFS service is that during the quiet months (May/Jun) it was decided to do the service on BOTH the longhaul aircraft..they have leased an MD-11 for these 2 months until the services are completed.
The MD-11 is currently being used on the LHR services (where they make money) while the MAN/PIK/BFS services are suspended.
ALLMCC
8th Jun 2005, 11:14
Looks as though BFS/PIK both stopping June 23 as per this report
www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_business?id=82240651
Like we didnt see that one coming.....
Shame.:(