Bristol Airport - General Thread

[kraktoa]

Sorry guys. Read in the EZY thread about new route to GOA. Yes its Genoa as Goa airport is GOI. i got confused and excited.

But Goa (GOI) would be great.

 

[Jerry]

Bristol Airport have appointed David Lees the current Managing director at Southampton Airport as CEO. He starts 1st August 2018.
www.ukaviationnetwork.com/bristol-airport-appoints-dave-lees-as-new-ceo/

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol Airport have appointed David Lees the current Managing director at Southampton Airport as CEO. He starts 1st August 2018.
www.ukaviationnetwork.com/bristol-airport-appoints-dave-lees-as-new-ceo/

Press release on BRS website.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/ab...ews-and-media-centre/2018/2/new-ceo-dave-lees

Dave Lees Appointed as Bristol Airport's New CEO
Created: 9th Feb 2018

Bristol Airport announced today (Friday 9 February) that, following an extensive search and selection process, Dave Lees has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Mr Lees is currently Managing Director of Southampton Airport, which has achieved record passenger numbers and customer satisfaction scores during his time at the helm. He will be taking up his new role on 1 August.

Before becoming Managing Director, Mr Lees served as Operations Director and Planning & Development Director at Southampton Airport. Prior to this he was Head of Service Improvement at Heathrow Airport, where he also held roles in operations and engineering. He has a BSc in Transport Management from Loughborough University.

Mr Lees’ appointment follows the departure of Robert Sinclair in October 2017, since which time Bristol Airport’s Chairman, Janis Kong, has been operating as Interim Chief Executive, a role she will continue in until August. Commenting on the appointment of Mr Lees, she said:

“I look forward to welcoming Dave to Bristol Airport. He brings with him a track record of success and wide-ranging experience at major UK airports. Dave joins at an exciting time as we look to the future as part of the process of preparing a new Master Plan. He joins a successful team which has consistently delivered results for passengers, airline customers and shareholders.”

On his new role, Dave Lees said:

“This is an exciting opportunity, and I am looking forward to working with the team at Bristol to build on the Airport's success and ambitions for the future.”

Currently the ninth busiest airport in the UK, and the fifth largest outside London, Bristol saw passenger numbers grow by more than 8 per cent to 8.1 million in 2017. A recent consultation began the process of developing a new Master Plan setting out how the Airport could serve around 20 million passengers per annum by the mid-2040s.

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I don't know anything about Mr Lees other than what's written in the above press release. He's not joining until August which is a great pity in my opinion given all that is currently going on regarding the airport's future direction.

Mind you, the airport company's chairman, Janis Kong, who is currently acting as interim CEO is no slouch when it comes to the aviation industry. Her past record includes executive chairman of LHR, managing director at LGW and chairman of Heathrow Express. Her non-executive directorships have included Network Rail, Kingfisher, Portmeirion Group, TUI Travel, Visit Britain and Copenhagen Airport.

 

[Jerry]

He was the MD of Southampton Airport which is a more business focused airport so i wonder if Bristol will look at more business routes.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

He was the MD of Southampton Airport which is a more business focused airport so i wonder if Bristol will look at more business routes.

They might. BRS has a pretty decent portfolio of business routes (I remember last year a senior easyJet figure said that half of her airline's 4 million-plus passengers at BRS were on business travel), albeit frequencies and perhaps timings could be improved on some and there are some glaring omissions (Zurich perhaps the obvious one) as I'm sure that regular business travellers will confirm.

I don't really know how much influence a CEO has on an airport's policy. With airports often regarded like football clubs by some 'supporters', I wonder if a good CEO can have the sort of beneficial effect on an airport that a first-class football manager does on a football club.

 

[Marko1]

Given mr lees dealings with Flybe at soh maybe he could tempt them to come to brs. Plenty of regional France to be served if they choose to

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Given mr lees dealings with Flybe at soh maybe he could tempt them to come to brs. Plenty of regional France to be served if they choose to

Flybe did fly to Bergerac and Toulouse for a couple of years in the mid 'noughties'. I'd be very surprised to see them come back. They did ok at BRS before easyJet, and then Ryanair, became really established at the airport but generally found it difficult to compete with the big lo-cos there.

After their takeover of BAConnect in 2007 Flybe pulled all the BA routes from BRS. They did return with Isle of Man for a couple of spells but it didn't really work out for them. I used them once for a return trip to IoM but neither flight was more than half full which was pretty much par for that particular course.

 

[Jerry]

Problem for Flybe going back to Bristol would be any successful routes would be jumped on by Easyjet and Ryanair to a lesser extent and they as airline would want to operate a more extensive operation than just regional France and as Easyjet already operate most of the routes that Flybe would want to operate it would just be a bloodbath. There is no way EZY would be happy to coexist with Flybe at BRS. Also I don't think Cardiff would be happy if their main airline launched new routes to regional France from Bristol instead of Cardiff. Same goes with Exeter as well.

 

[superking]

So true if flybe pitched up in BRS it would end in a blood bath. It wont be a blood bath cus it aint going to happen.

 

[kraktoa]

Hmmmm......they got a CEO from an airport with just 2 million passengers? Bigclimb up for him but a bit of a climb down for BRS.

If an aiport wants to go places they need a CEO who has played in bigger clubs.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

Maybe there wasn't a suitable one currently looking. Don't forget BHX is looking for a new CEO, and they are a bigger club than BRS.

 

[Jerry]

From what I've read on the SOU thread on the other forum they seem to be glad to get rid of him. They also said he worked for BAA at Heathrow before.

 

[rollo]

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Maybe there wasn't a suitable one currently looking. Don't forget BHX is looking for a new CEO, and they are a bigger club than BRS.

Apparently we have a new CEO at BHX but as to who is a secret ! Presumably he/she are working their notice although there are some novel suggestions on the BHX forum.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Problem for Flybe going back to Bristol would be any successful routes would be jumped on by Easyjet and Ryanair to a lesser extent and they as airline would want to operate a more extensive operation than just regional France and as Easyjet already operate most of the routes that Flybe would want to operate it would just be a bloodbath. There is no way EZY would be happy to coexist with Flybe at BRS. Also I don't think Cardiff would be happy if their main airline launched new routes to regional France from Bristol instead of Cardiff. Same goes with Exeter as well.

So true if flybe pitched up in BRS it would end in a blood bath. It wont be a blood bath cus it aint going to happen.

Flybe would bring little to the BRS table. As has been said it would be trumped by easyJet and Ryanair (as happened in the past leading to Flybe upping sticks; they were bothered far more about easyJet than vice versa). There are a few routes where Flybe's smaller aircraft might have been more appropriate but in the main bmi regional is already operating these.

If anything happened to bmi regional at BRS that would provide an interesting situation because there are not many airlines around with the size of aircraft appropriate to the routes.

Hmmmm......they got a CEO from an airport with just 2 million passengers? Bigclimb up for him but a bit of a climb down for BRS.

If an aiport wants to go places they need a CEO who has played in bigger clubs.

Maybe there wasn't a suitable one currently looking. Don't forget BHX is looking for a new CEO, and they are a bigger club than BRS.

From what I've read on the SOU thread on the other forum they seem to be glad to get rid of him. They also said he worked for BAA at Heathrow before.

After the days of Les Wilson who was MD from 1980 until 1995 when he was killed in a car accident, BRS then had CEOs.

The first was John Parkin - I can't remember where he came from (was he promoted from within?) - who was in charge when undoubtedly the biggest game changer in BRS history occurred; the arrival of GoFly that was bought by easyJet. JP went on to NCL and then LBA but has since left the latter.

He was replaced by Andrew Skipp who was promoted from within - I think he had been finance director - but his tenure ended in 2007 brought about some say by the runway resurfacing fiasco earlier that year. Paul Kehoe put in a brief appearance before being lured away to that bigger club at BHX.

Robert Sinclair then arrived from Auckland Airport where he'd had a senior role. I suspect that if he arrived now some of us might be saying. "Who's he?" He came as a qualified lawyer and accountant with senior level airport experience at New Zealand's largest. He is a Kiwi himself of course and I was always impressed by him as the public face of BRS.

I'm all for giving anyone a chance and I look forward to seeing what impression David Lees makes once his feet are firmly under the table

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Apparently we have a new CEO at BHX but as to who is a secret ! Presumably he/she are working their notice although there are some novel suggestions on the BHX forum.

Novel suggestions indeed! Jasper Carrott and Trevor Francis would certainly be a hit with the Blues fans. Perhaps they could become joint CEOs.

 

[Marko1]

Interesting debate I have started about Flybe . However if you look at the routes the airline already offers from Southampton to France and look at what is missing at Bristol plus probably Bergerac now then I think there is more than enough for a 2 aircraft base for example Bastia Avignon Toulon Perpignan biarritz Bergerac Lyon Rennes and Brest alone would keep busy. As for Cardiff or Exeter being offended well it would be just business wouldn't it ?

 

[Jerry]

Except those routes are part of a much bigger network just like at BHX and i believe many destinations are unique to SOU.
If BRS wants more French routes then it'll be better off looking to Easyjet and Ryanair.

 

[Marko1]

I agree with your points but I think neither would be interested in them to be honest. They need not be unique to Southampton and Flybe has the aircraft type suitable for those routes with a cost base to match.

 

[Jerry]

Flybe obviously has it's reasons for not operating them out of Bristol and personally I don't think Flybe has much interest in Bristol and I'll be surprised if they do in the future as well.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Interesting debate I have started about Flybe . However if you look at the routes the airline already offers from Southampton to France and look at what is missing at Bristol plus probably Bergerac now then I think there is more than enough for a 2 aircraft base for example Bastia Avignon Toulon Perpignan biarritz Bergerac Lyon Rennes and Brest alone would keep busy. As for Cardiff or Exeter being offended well it would be just business wouldn't it ?

Those routes are largely niche routes and I doubt that they could sustain a base. BRS isn't likely to make Flybe an offer it can't refuse because in terms of overall footfall Flybe would not be adding a great deal, and it's the footfall that sustains the ancillary revenue streams that BRS largely depends on to make its not inconsiderable profits.

At EXT and CWL it's the mainstay of their route network and it's likely that these airports are a better bet because they probably give Flybe a very good deal. According to the BBC it's a tremendous deal at CWL. If easyJet and Ryanair had small presences at BRS it's highly likely that Flybe would have an impressive presence there. That they haven't is really because in the present circumstances neither really needs each other.

Ryanair tried both Toulon and Perpignan for one summer season (2009) and loads were disappointing. It looks as though Ryanair has dumped Bergerac after nearly a decade of summer operations, and Flybe did operate it for a couple of years before Ryanair too. easyJet has tried both Biarritz and Bastia in the past and until recently bmi regional operated to Bastia for a tour company.

EXT has Rennes and Bergerac with Flybe in summer. It used to have Brest and Avignon too.

easyJet operates Lyon in the ski season.

Given that easyJet hasn't really stopped expanding its BRS route network since its early days, and with routes such as Genoa and Seville which might not have been in everyone's mind if asked to speculate which destinations easyJet would take up next, it would not be a massive surprise if the likes of Biarritz and Bastia were given another look at some point. Bergerac too might have been an option if Ryanair really has given it up but easyJet doesn't appear to fly there from anywhere.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

BRS press release

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/news-and-media/news-and-media-centre/2018/2/jobs-fairs

Jobs Fairs Kick off Year of Growth at Bristol Airport
Created: 7th Feb 2018

Following the success of similar events, Bristol Airport will be hosting a number of Jobs Fairs to showcase the range of job opportunities on offer.

The Airport will be teaming up with business partners based across its site at the two events – one in February and one in March, giving prospective candidates the chance to find out more about the different roles available and the skills and experience required.

Around 3,000 people are employed at the Airport, we handled over 8.1 million passengers in 2017. But, with approval to develop facilities to handle up to 10 million passengers per annum in the future, the workforce is forecast to grow.

The Jobs Fairs will provide a ‘one stop shop’ for anyone interested in working at the Airport, with many of the different employers on site represented, including security provider, ICTS, food travel experts, SSP, ground-handling specialist, Swissport and duty free shopping operator, World Duty Free.

Jobs on offer span customer service, security, catering and retail, many of which are available on a permanent and fixed term seasonal basis; commencing April until the end of October 2018.

The Jobs Fairs will be held on the following dates:

• Wednesday 21 February, from 10.00 until 13.00 at the Hans Price Conference Centre (part of Weston College), Weston Super Mare.
• Thursday 8 March, from 10.00 until 13.00 at Temple Street Jobcentre, Bristol

To find out more and register to attend, please visit:
https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/careers/recruitment-events

Recruitment Events at Bristol Airport
Interested in a career at Bristol Airport? Come along to one of our Recruitment Events to find out more about all the job opportunities available.

In an ever-evolving industry we're growing fast. The fifth largest UK airport outside of London, we serve our region as an inbound gateway to the South West and with over 100 direct routes, we don't just transport people; we make amazing journeys happen.

Bristol Airport is at the centre of an integrated network of more than 50 individual employers, directly employing more than 3,000 people. The Airport has a real diversity of roles available, ranging from cleaners to retail assistants, PCV drivers to security agents as well as niche roles in HR, IT, finance and commercial... and many more.

We want to recruit the best people into the right roles. Are you interested to find out if we are right for you? Come along to one of our recruitment events to meet some of our people and find out more.

Bristol City Centre Careers Fair
Date: Thursday 8th March 2018
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Temple Street Job Centre, 100 Temple Street, Bristol, BS1 6AG

Types of jobs: Security, Catering, Retail, Check-in, Ramp and Dispatch and plenty more...

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Weston-super-Mare Careers Fair
Date: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Hans Price Conference Centre, Knightstone Campus, Lower Church Road,
Weston-super-Mare, BS23 2AL

Types of jobs: Security, Catering, Retail, Check-in, Ramp and Dispatch and plenty more...

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Security Compliance Officers Recruitment Day
Date: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Time: 09:00 am - 3:00pm
Location: Administration Building, Bristol Airport, Bristol, BS48 3DY

Types of jobs: Security Agents and Compliance Officers

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Security Compliance Officers Recruitment Day
Date: Wednesday 7th March 2018
Time: 09:00 am - 3:00pm
Location: Administration Building, Bristol Airport, Bristol, BS48 3DY

Types of jobs: Security Agents and Compliance Officers

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Security Compliance Officers Recruitment Day
Date: Thursday 22nd March 2018
Time: 09:00 am - 3:00pm
Location: Administration Building, Bristol Airport, Bristol, BS48 3DY

Types of jobs: Security Agents and Compliance Officers

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