Cardiff, Exeter, Birmingham and the London airports I'd have thought.
Some probably although with an apparent significant increase in bmir's CDG passenger numbers in 2017, perhaps confirmed by their increased number of weekly rotations on the route this summer, they might well be the chief beneficiary of people being unable to get on easyJet flights.
With sold out flights it may be simple as changing aircraft models around.
Sounds like teaching easy jet how to suck eggs.
Yet other routes have been increased in frequency that, on the face of it, don't looks as good bets as CDG. We don't know how expensive CDG is for easyJet to serve, although bmir doesn't seem to have a problem, and it's likely that the sun routes have much bigger takes in onboard spending which goes into the easyJet yield equation.
Going forward both Bristol and Cardiff airports strategy is to stop the 7 million plus passengers who trek up the m4 to Heathrow to fly on a short haul route. Until last year myself and Mrs Marko would not even look at a short haul route that did not fly from brs or cwl but given the lack of choice of frequency and fares I often now look at ba out of Heathrow as an option for a quick break abroad. I think Bristol is reaching the mass demand where some of these city destinations in particular need more competition and choice of flights
It is frustrating and if easyJet can't or won't increase frequencies on some routes then perhaps the airport
should be looking to attract other carriers. Quite who I'm not sure as Jet2, perhaps the obvious one, is more and more a holiday airline. It's a balance though because the airport can't afford to fall out with easyJet who might give a sideways look if competitors came on board and reduced their yield.
Given a new aircraft stand will be ready for this summer (adding to the three introduced last year) and two or three more rumoured for summer 2019 (on part of the old terminal area) it seems the airport is geared up for more aircraft. The question is though - whose? More from existing carriers or new entrants? Ideally more growth would come from non-based aircraft as it would help to spread the load throughout the day.
More and more easyJet BRS routes seem to be selling out regularly these days. If easyJet has done its sums properly they ought to be milking the demand.
Quite simply, most routes need to be a minimum of daily. I’ve lost count of the number of times I have had to fly from a London airport instead of Bristol due to either an outbound or an inbound flight not being available.
Even today, my family has flown to Basel. They could have flown from Bristol today but as they are coming back on Monday and there isn’t a Basel - Bristol flight on Monday they have had to trek to Stansted. That’s where the leakage to London is. If the flights were there, demand would increase. Whilst some people are able to fit their plans around schedules eg I flew BRS to DBV even though the days from BRS aren’t great, sometimes it just isn’t possible and you have to fly from elsewhere
Even at 4 x weekly Basel still frustrates at times. I don't know whether Basel is ready yet for a daily service. If easyJet thought it was their next problem would be finding aircraft. At least with all their 320s now having 186 seats (I think they all have that number now) it represents a tiny increase in capacity but at times that clearly is not always satisfying demand on many routes.
There will always be times when for whatever reason daily or multi-daily rotations on a particular route might not be satisfactory for everyone. We're (Mrs TLY and me) trying to fly relatively locally on long haul later this year but at the moment only LHR satisfies all our criteria which is extremely annoying but probably not a surprise given the wealth of options there. BRS can never completely replace LHR for West Country travellers even on short haul.
