Bristol: EasyJet Route News & Base Updates

[Marko1]

Looking a bit more detail I suspect no 16 won't be needed now.

 

[Severn]

That is correct, looks like it will stay at 15 based aircraft from June through to end-of-October.
The number of departures per week is around 350, and there is no longer a peak in late Aug/early Sep.
This still means that during the whole summer period, EZY will operate around 23-25 extra departures per week this year, in comparison to last year which is very impressive.

In summary, peak summer 18, EZY will operate 349 flights per week to 58 destinations - (25 more departures and three more destinations than the same time last year!).
The biggest increases are to NCL and PMI with 3 more flights per week in S18 over S17.
AGP, PRG & VCE see 2 extra flights per week
ATH, ARN, GOA & SVQ are all new routes operating 2x weekly.
AMS, NCE, PSA, IBZ, CPH, TFS, BIO, PUY all see 1 extra flight per week.
GVA has 2 less flights per week in S18 than S17 and RAK has been cancelled in S18 (was 1x weekly in S17)

 

[superking]

GOA being a new route. I'm wondering what aircraft they will use and where they will refuel enroute.

 

[NOSIGWX]

GOA being a new route. I'm wondering what aircraft they will use and where they will refuel enroute.

GOA/LIMJ=Genoa/Italy

 

[superking]

GOA/LIMJ=Genoa/Italy

My mistake. Sorry I should have checked which I now have done wide awake. Also to you severn I should not have douted what you put in post. Sorry humble pie.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Looking a bit more detail I suspect no 16 won't be needed now.

That is correct, looks like it will stay at 15 based aircraft from June through to end-of-October.

Disappointing when easyJet withdraws some flights only weeks after putting them in their booking engine. I've always had generally good service with easyjet and have flown with them well over 200 times. I always felt confident that if I booked a flight it would not be pulled.

We on the sidelines always thought that increasing to 16 aircraft for just a short period in August was odd. Why would easyJet even have contemplated that, especially as it now seems it isn't going to happen? Perhaps the schedulers got themselves into a muddle and only retrieved their mistake after reading F4A. 😆 In the past easyJet used to introduce the additional aircraft each summer in mid July for the peak part of the season. Well, there is an additional one (the 15th) for longer than that this summer.

When did the 14th arrive in summer 2017? Was it around mid June?

 

[Marko1]

It is disappointing because those anomalies have been there for a long time as you know. I was kind of hoping for some peak summer extra routes to fill in the gaps like Rhodes and larnaca. Incidentally there are 3 weeks of a fifth split service still on sale during June . But hey let's look on the positive side look at all the extra frequencies we have got this summer. Next week easyJet launch their winter schedule , let's hope we may see some extra routes and frequencies then

 

[Jerry]

Apparently Easyjet release their winter schedule on Thursday. Anyone expecting anything new for BRS?

 

[Marko1]

Apparently Easyjet release their winter schedule on Thursday. Anyone expecting anything new for BRS?

They don't usually announce new routes when they launch a new seasons schedule. However I would like to see some nice increases in frequencies on key routes that sell out regularly . It will also be interesting to see what they do with the Venice route given that Ryanair will be flying daily this winter and I wonder whether they will fly to Seville head on as well

 

[Jerry]

It'll be interesting to see if they increase the frequncies on routes like Athens and Seville.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Athens would be a good bet for a frequency increase given the passenger numbers but so have routes such as CDG and FCO and they've seen little expansion since they began. As Marko pointed out, easyJet new routes are usually announced separately.

Again taking up Marko, it's difficult to see both easyJet and Ryanair operating to Seville in the winter or both airlines operating daily to Venice, but perhaps there will be some brinkmanship. The last time a route was over-cooked between both of them (Milan) it was easyjet that backed down and they have never returned to it.

 

[Marko1]

New winter flights to Catania (2 weekly ) , Naples ( 2 weekly ) and nice returns to an all winter schedule at twice a week. Seville increases to 3 weekly and Prague goes daily .

 

[TheLocalYokel]

New winter flights to Catania (2 weekly ) , Naples ( 2 weekly ) and nice returns to an all winter schedule at twice a week. Seville increases to 3 weekly and Prague goes daily .

Thank you for that Marko. I've only had a cursory look so far but all the routes from last winter seem to be intact for next winter, some of which were new for winter last time. If that is the casevit means another increase with easyJet next winter.

Catania and Naples might seem a little odd for winter and Seville at 3 x weekly plus Ryanair's new 2 x weekly from next winter is certainly a famine to a feast, possibly slightly indigestible at that frequency across both airlines. Good to see Nice back for the entire winter and Prague going daily is a return to yesteryear when it and a number of other routes that were later reduced in frequency in winter went daily year-round.

This summer Venice MP will see easyJet going daily for much of the summer with Ryanair 4 x weekly; then next winter it's reversed with Ryanair daily and easyJet 4 x weekly, although for much of December and the first week in January easyJet increases to 5/6 weekly.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

easyJet passenger's 'journey from hell' on Bristol Airport flight with broken toilets

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/easyjet-bristol-airport-flight-hell-1454411

Bristol Post at it again. A passenger on an easyJet GLA-BRS flights found that his seat was labelled 'inoperative' apparently because of a broken armrest. Because the flight was nearly full he had difficulty finding an alternative seat but did so in the end with the help of the crew.

The plot thickens though. Opposite his new seat was another damaged seat and, to complete what the Post labels a flight from hell on a decrepit aircraft, one of the two toilets was out of use.

The passenger had a long car drive to Cornwall from BRS after the flight and was counting on a piddle on the aircraft to ease his journey to Kernow. That there are free toilets at both BRS and GLA seems to have escaped him, but then his distress would not have seemed so acute nor the Post story such a shock if these options had been revealed.

To cap it all, easyJet's sole response was to say they were sorry to learn of his experience and would pass on the details to the cabin crew manager. The passenger wants it taken further but where and how is not clear.

The cynic in me wonders whether the compensation culture in modern society is lurking in this passenger's mind.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

New winter flights to Catania (2 weekly ) , Naples ( 2 weekly ) and nice returns to an all winter schedule at twice a week. Seville increases to 3 weekly and Prague goes daily .

Further to the above post there seems to be additional flights on the EDI and BFS routes next winter.

With EDI November and December see 27 weekly rotations with Tuesday and Wednesday increased to 4 x daily and BFS sees 4 x daily on Thursday and Friday until the end of January - easyJet has not produced a schedule beyond that date for any of its routes.

There might be increases elsewhere - I've only checked a few routes. Thus far I can't see any reductions in frequencies anywhere and GVA remains at 21 x weekly in January, as last winter. Some easyJet airports are reporting reductions in their GVA route next winter.

 

[Marko1]

Geneva has actually increased during November and December. On some days in early December it is twice daily

 

[Jerry]

easyJet passenger's 'journey from hell' on Bristol Airport flight with broken toilets

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/easyjet-bristol-airport-flight-hell-1454411

Bristol Post at it again. A passenger on an easyJet GLA-BRS flights found that his seat was labelled 'inoperative' apparently because of a broken armrest. Because the flight was nearly full he had difficulty finding an alternative seat but did so in the end with the help of the crew.

The plot thickens though. Opposite his new seat was another damaged seat and, to complete what the Post labels a flight from hell on a decrepit aircraft, one of the two toilets was out of use.

The passenger had a long car drive to Cornwall from BRS after the flight and was counting on a piddle on the aircraft to ease his journey to Kernow. That there are free toilets at both BRS and GLA seems to have escaped him, but then his distress would not have seemed so acute nor the Post story such a shock if these options had been revealed.

To cap it all, easyJet's sole response was to say they were sorry to learn of his experience and would pass on the details to the cabin crew manager. The passenger wants it taken further but where and how is not clear.

The cynic in me wonders whether the compensation culture in modern society is lurking in this passenger's mind.

Its made the Daily Mirror as well now.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-flight-hell-after-easyjet-12361577

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Its made the Daily Mirror as well now.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-flight-hell-after-easyjet-12361577

It's the same newspaper group, Trinity Mirror, and virtually the same report.

 

[Severn]

If the winter schedule remains the same and no extra Christmas rotations are added then in comparison to 2017, 2018 will see roughly 16 extra departures a week in November and about 14 extra during the first two weeks of December.

Anyway, taking a look at a week in mid-November 2018 in comparison to the same week last year sees the following changes:

New routes/new routes for winter:
SVQ - 3x weekly (New Route)
CTA - 2x weekly (was Summer only in 2017)
NAP - 2x weekly (was Summer only in 2017)
NCE - 2x weekly (was Summer only in 2017)

Increase in flights:
GVA - 8x weekly (+4 flights a week)
LIS - 4x weekly (+2)
BFS - 19x weekly (+1)
FAO - 5x weekly (+1)
MAD - 6x weekly (+1)
FCO - 6x weekly (+1)
GIB - 3x weekly (+1)

Decrease in flights:
KRK - 4x weekly (-1)
ACE - 2x weekly (-1)
SXF - 4x weekly (-2)

 

[superking]

Still no increase in rotations to CDG. This is sure a strange one.