British Airways Cityflyer

[jfy1999]

Looks like Florence is staying on with interesting revised flight times...

BA7025 BHX 06:00 FLR 09:20
BA7024 FLR 10:05 BHX 11:30

This suggests the aircraft is BHX based, more to come maybe?

 

[User001]

The aircraft becomes BHX ‘based’ for the flights

Sat
BA7032 PMI 0155 BHX 0330
BA7025 BHX 0600 FLR 0920
BA7024 FLR 1005 BHX 1130
BA7029 BHX 1220 PMI 1550
BA7028 PMI 1645 BHX 1820
BA7031 BHX 1905 AGP 2300
BA7032 AGP 2350 BHX 0145+1
Sun
BA7029 BHX 0815 PMI 1145

 

[IanFarquharson]

BA Cityflyer for S18 is now a based aircraft

Florence is a 0600 dept on Saturday then Palmas 1220 then Malaga 1905 plus Palma on Sunday at 0815

 

[richard winterbourn]

Maybe a few posters got up early, ruffled their feathers but missed the worm! Methinks we should have taken a bit more notice of BA general manager, Luke Hayhoe earlier this year when he praised the infrastructure, location and transport links at BHX with the comment that BA will 'look at future opportunities from Birmingham' and that the airport was 'in the framework for future growth'.

Well apart from Ibiza, City Flyer will be back next summer with a based frame and with improved timings to flights.

Mr Hayhoe at his word? And might there be future opportunities and future growth. Better to be calm and hope that there is....

 

[thunderchild]

FLR always appeared to be the strongest performer so I’m please that someone got the wrong end of the stick and the route will continue; hopefully with these new flight times and the fact they are bookable much sooner might see them perform better.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Indeed. Lots of talk of Florence moving elsewhere and BACF pulling out and what do we end up with, a based aircraft

Ibiza definitely looked the weakest last year but Palma didn't seem a stellar performer either, hopefully a choice of improved flight times will help. Florence and Malaga both looked strong so hopefully with the revised times we'll see them grow even more.

 

[User001]

In all fairness, ‘technically’ the Florence (evening flight) did move elsewhere for that aircraft, but BHX gained a new flight time instead.

 

[Brum X]

Good to see BACF improve there BHX operation, ive got a feeling S18 will be a good one for them.

 

[Matt995]

Do we know if its going to be an Embraer 190, or a Embraer 170 to be based on Saturdays?

 

[User001]

E190

 

[thunderchild]

Confirmation;

http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/News-1/9026?ref=Home

 

[nwoody2001]

were our flights a 170 last year or a 190. is this a slight growth?

 

[jfy1999]

Florence was an E170 last year, everything else was an E190.

 

[Ianbutty]

Confirmation;

http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/News-1/9026?ref=Home

Not sure if I read the press release correctly as I could see 8 routes (not 7 as they state) from MAN, 4 for BRS and only 3 (not 4 as they state) from BHX.

Good news though that this summer was not a one off.

 

[thunderchild]

Not sure if I read the press release correctly as I could see 8 routes (not 7 as they state) from MAN, 4 for BRS and only 3 (not 4 as they state) from BHX.

Good news though that this summer was not a one off.

I think the four “routes” refer to the number of flights; x1 Florence, x1 Malaga and x2 Palma.

 

[User001]

It refers to routes, but the article is a very poorly worded one considering it’s an official airline release.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It refers to routes, but the article is a very poorly worded one considering it’s an official airline release.

The BRS press release is similarly ambiguous as I've commented on the BRS BACF thread. On that they say all BRS flights in summer 18 will be the E190 but test bookings show a E170 on FLR as in summer 17.

 

[User001]

Well it’s the fact that they are saying things like pretty much all the BHX routes, MAN-NCE/ALC and BRS-AGP are new routes for S18 and that MAN-IBZ sees one extra flight (it goes 3 to 5 weekly).

Like I say, for an official airline release, it’s very poorly written. It’s almost like it was a rushed job because the info was leaked?

 

[Ray Finkle]

To me it seems that the quality of airline and airport press releases has been steadily deteriorating over the last few years.

There have been quite a few recently that have been really bad, non more so than that one posted on here from Thomas Cook.

I wonder if there is such a thing as proof reading anymore?

 

[Coathanger16]

Well it’s the fact that they are saying things like pretty much all the BHX routes, MAN-NCE/ALC and BRS-AGP are new routes for S18 and that MAN-IBZ sees one extra flight (it goes 3 to 5 weekly).

Are you referring to this part:

"Additional summer routes include flights from Manchester to Alicante and Nice, from Birmingham to Malaga and Florence and from Bristol to Ibiza, Palma and Florence."

I took that to mean "other destinations we will be flying to are.." (not necessarily implying that they are new)instead of "these are new routes that we will be flying".

I guess if 2 people can interpret it in different ways then it is too ambiguous and poorly written.