Bristol: Airport - Video Thread

[Jerry]

Great video, Jerry. Many thanks again. if you'd been there yesterday afternoon you'd have seen 'my' Ryanair land rather heavily. Have you done Dublin? it's an easy hop for you from CWL and yesterday whilst I was there at lunchtime for a couple of hours the place was teeming with aircraft including Emirates, Qatar, United and Air Canada.

Some flight and cabin crews were staying at our Dublin hotel. From their accents they were American but I'm not sure which airline. I never like to 'question' them when they are off duty.

Thanks. Dublin is definitely one for the future as is Heathrow, i'm off too Cardiff tomorrow and Barcelona on Tuesday.

 

[Jerry]

And here is part 2.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thanks. Dublin is definitely one for the future as is Heathrow, i'm off too Cardiff tomorrow and Barcelona on Tuesday.

Enjoy the visits. I know you will.

 

[Severn]

Great selection Jerry, thanks! Looks like a day well spent in the sun!

 

[superking]

Jerry you should have sent me a pm and I would have come up and met up.

 

[Jerry]

Great selection Jerry, thanks! Looks like a day well spent in the sun!

Thanks! Yep it was! Think I even got a little sunstroke!

 

[Jerry]

Jerry you should have sent me a pm and I would have come up and met up.

Sorry! Maybe next time!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

TUI Boeing 787-9, G-TUIJ Pixie Dust, landing and taking off at BRS. G-TUIJ first appears just under two minutes into the video.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Fascinating video taken early one beautiful summer's morning at BRS in 1999. The date is given as 18 June which was a Friday.

A flying Colours Boeing 757 is featured, both loading and then taking off. From my timetable it would have been going to Menorca. Also seen on the apron and later taking off is a Britannia Boeing 757 which I believe would have been flying to Naples. An Airtours Airbus 320 can be briefly spotted on the apron also destined for Menorca. The Bae146 would have been the Sabena night-stopper scheduled for Brussels.

Although at times the bright sunlight interferes with the clarity of the picture this is a fine record of BRS before the new terminal which can be seen under construction in the background.

The video begins outside the old terminal with passengers arriving. It also shows the passengers making their way from the old terminal across the apron to the aircraft.

The five-minute video is well worth a look for anyone with an interest in BRS. It does show how homely the airport seemed then with a comparative handful of overnight aircraft parked compared with today's 30-plus, and yet this was less than twenty years' ago.

 

[Jerry]

My video from my trip to Bristol last Sunday

 

[TheLocalYokel]

My video from my trip to Bristol last Sunday

Many thanks again, Jerry. The wind which is so often an accompaniment on that 600 foot plateau was in full voice. I think you said it was a cold day despite the sunshine.

It will be a shame when the 757s depart for good. They are such elegant aircraft to my eyes.

 

[Jerry]

Many thanks again, Jerry. The wind which is so often an accompaniment on that 600 foot plateau was in full voice. I think you said it was a cold day despite the sunshine.

It will be a shame when the 757s depart for good. They are such elegant aircraft to my eyes.

Yes it was quite chilly but i had the car for shelter!
It is a shame Boeing never did a MAX version of the 757 as it is a great aircraft which for BRS spotters is great they can see regulary. What will be interesting in the future is if the proposed 797 will look similar to the 757.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol Airport has recently released this video, no doubt with an eye to the many objectors to its latest planning applications. it's basically a series of interviews with passengers who praise the airport to the skies. No surprise there given that it's a BRS video and no doubt anyone with a contrary view would have been edited out.

Nevertheless, there are a couple of interesting comments.

One woman said she lives midway between Birmingham and Bristol airports but uses BRS because it's easier there to get through security. We don't hear too many people singing the praises of airport security whether at BRS or elsewhere.

A man said he lives in South Wales but uses BRS over CWL because of ease of access, and mentioned the Silver Zone car park. Again, BRS and ease of access are not often used in the same sentence unless you live close by.

I will say one thing and it is that the BRS videos put out by the airport are usually well made and snappily edited, and they put across the message (whatever it happens to be in the particular video) in a professional way.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Beautifully filmed landing of a TUI B757 into the setting sun at BRS last night. This airline's 757s are being phased out of BRS within the next few weeks so flying into the sunset is entirely apposite.

I don't think there will be any regular 757 operations at BRS after TUI takes its aircraft away.

It seems like yesterday when I watched the first ever B757 depart BRS. It was the autumn of 1984 (it might have been the previous year but my memory says 1984) when a Monarch B757 departed for Malaga, the first of a weekly service to the Costa del Sol that winter. Quite a crowd of spectators gathered of whom I was one.

 

[Jerry]

That is a fantastic video! I'm hoping to get a chance to get down to BRS next Friday to catch the 757 before it goes.

 

[Jerry]

 

[TheLocalYokel]

A busy couple of hours during the late afternoon a week ago yesterday, including KLM's Boeing 737. I always think the western end of the airfield provides a spectacular backdrop with the Severn estuary brooding on a fine but hazy high summer afternoon.

Most of BRS's regular airlines are featured, either landing, taking off or on stands in the background.

 

[Jerry]

It is a good place for a bit of planespotting! Could do with a platform though!

 

[superking]

It is a good place for a bit of planespotting! Could do with a platform though!

It does see a lot of step ladders up there at times. The high fence was put up as 1 of the conditions for the schedule Newark flights.

 

[Jerry]

It does see a lot of step ladders up there at times. The high fence was put up as 1 of the conditions for the schedule Newark flights.

Yep I've used one when I've been there.
Interesting I wonder why it's a condition of the Newark flight and not others?