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[TheLocalYokel]

I’m sure there will be more but I think it be more tinkering with the existing routes and frequencies rather than a clutch of new routes. It’s hard to see where the gaps are now we have so many flights lol

A number of routes could do with enhanced frequencies. There are still people using other airports, even Heathrow, on short-haul routes that are available from BRS but not at the right frequency or times or even days with some.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Anger as easyJet flight diverted from Bristol Airport

'Apparently they’re just sat on the tarmac. This is completely unacceptable'

www.bristolpost.co.uk

Another pathetic non-story concerning easyJet at BRS. Someone contacts the Bristol Post about some trivial occurrence and the paper makes a big story out of it. This is the fourth in the past month with the others being about people missing flights because of their own ineptitude whilst everyone else managed to get on board all right.

Good journalists of the past will be turning in their graves at the dross today's 'newspapers' (in the loosest sense of the word) use to fill space, particularly in their digital editions.

 

[CWL94]

Does anyone know how many EZY aircraft are based at BRS this winter and if there are any spares, or are they all operating to a schedule?

Thanks!

 

[Severn]

Does anyone know how many EZY aircraft are based at BRS this winter and if there are any spares, or are they all operating to a schedule?

16x aircraft based currently. Today only 15x aircraft are operating and 1x spare:
5x A319
9x A320 (1x spare aircraft)
2x A321

The aircraft at this time of the year are not operating a full schedule, and most might be sat on the ground for large parts of the day. For example at least a couple of aircraft today sit on the ground until around midday before operating a flight.

 

[Marko1]

The Greek islands flights have now changed to a320s as Severn said would probably happen

 

[Marko1]

Has anyone had a look at easyJet holidays recently online ? I don’t know whether it’s a glitch but when you search for dalaman based holidays from Bristol it offers a daily departure but when you click on say a Friday it comes up with an error. Is this work in progress ?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Has anyone had a look at easyJet holidays recently online ? I don’t know whether it’s a glitch but when you search for dalaman based holidays from Bristol it offers a daily departure but when you click on say a Friday it comes up with an error. Is this work in progress ?

I looked recently for a short-break holiday and only Madrid presented itself from BRS on the easyJet Holidays website.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

New easyJet routes (see Route Development thread) from early May this year to Preveza (Wed and Sun) and Kos (Mon and Fri) see more Thomas Cook gaps filled. All four departures are in the night-time movements restriction period which presumably takes advantage of some of the former Thomas Cook slots that easyJet acquired.

With the Preveza announcement it also means that no routes have been lost following Thomas Cook's cessation. Almeria was the other route operated from BRS exclusively by Thomas Cook but TUI have already taken on that one for summer 2020.

 

[Severn]

Great news that KGS and PVK are now added to easyJets impressive route network from Bristol.

By my workings out, that makes 396x weekly easyJet departures during peak summer 2020.
This is 10x weekly departures more than peak-2019 and a total of 69x routes operating this summer! 18x aircraft will be based to operate the schedule, 6x A319s, 10x A320s and 2xA321s.

Changes last year (weekly departures vs 2019):
GLA - 21 > 20 (-1)
BFS - 20 > 19 (-1)
NCE - 10 > 11 (+1)
*CDG - 14 > 7 (-7)
*ORY - 0 > 7 (+7) *New Route (transferred from CDG)
PRG - 6 > 7 (+1)
DLM - 3 > 4 (+1)
CPH - 3 > 4 (+1)
TFS - 3 > 4 (+1)
BJV - 3 > 4 (+1)
AYT - 0 > 3 (+3) *New Route
KGS - 0 > 2 (+2) *New Route
LPA - 0 > 2 (+2) *New Route
PVK - 0 > 2 (+2) *New Route
HRG - 0 > 1 (+1) *New Route
GOA - 2 > 0 (-2) *Route Cancelled
ARN - 2 > 0 (-2) *Route Cancelled

One thing to note is that last year, 7x A319s and 10x A320s were based at Bristol. With 2x A321s based this summer, 1x will replace an A319, and the other will be extra to last year.
This means that many routes which might not see an increase in flights (ATH, LYS, CDG, MXP for example) will however see an increase in capacity. It's also true for GLA and BFS which both lose a 1x weekly flight, however will see the A321 operate and the route shouldn't see a reduction in the number of seats available.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Great news that KGS and PVK are now added to easyJets impressive route network from Bristol.

By my workings out, that makes 396x weekly easyJet departures during peak summer 2020.
This is 10x weekly departures more than peak-2019 and a total of 69x routes operating this summer! 18x aircraft will be based to operate the schedule, 6x A319s, 10x A320s and 2xA321s.

Changes last year (weekly departures vs 2019):
GLA - 21 > 20 (-1)
BFS - 20 > 19 (-1)
NCE - 10 > 11 (+1)
*CDG - 14 > 7 (-7)
*ORY - 0 > 7 (+7) *New Route (transferred from CDG)
PRG - 6 > 7 (+1)
DLM - 3 > 4 (+1)
CPH - 3 > 4 (+1)
TFS - 3 > 4 (+1)
BJV - 3 > 4 (+1)
AYT - 0 > 3 (+3) *New Route
KGS - 0 > 2 (+2) *New Route
LPA - 0 > 2 (+2) *New Route
PVK - 0 > 2 (+2) *New Route
HRG - 0 > 1 (+1) *New Route
GOA - 2 > 0 (-2) *Route Cancelled
ARN - 2 > 0 (-2) *Route Cancelled

One thing to note is that last year, 7x A319s and 10x A320s were based at Bristol. With 2x A321s based this summer, 1x will replace an A319, and the other will be extra to last year.
This means that many routes which might not see an increase in flights (ATH, LYS, CDG, MXP for example) will however see an increase in capacity. It's also true for GLA and BFS which both lose a 1x weekly flight, however will see the A321 operate and the route shouldn't see a reduction in the number of seats available.

Many thanks, Severn.

Peak time will give an average of over 56 departures per day. 10 more departures per week means that the extra (18th) based aircraft won't be fully utilised, uless some of the flights operated last summer by aircraft from other bases have been switched to BRS-based aircraft.

 

[superking]

Kos I would imagine summer season only. How about PVK summer season or a year round route.

 

[alphagolf]

Kos I would imagine summer season only. How about PVK summer season or a year round route.

Both will be Summer Only, neither are Winter destinations. Not that I am aware of anyway.

 

[Jerry]

My ride to Bristol is on it's way!
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[TheLocalYokel]

easyJet statement - see below

No doubt all airlines will have to take similar action to try to combat the effects of the virus but BRS relies heavily on easyJet so any significant action that easyJet might take will impact the airport perhaps to a disproprtionate degree.

It looks as though the Tuesday MXP flights have already been taken out of the booking engine on 17 and 24 March. I haven't checked any other routes as yet.

In response to a post in another BRS thread I pointed out that BRS has 22 return flights each week to Northern Italy from the end of March (Milan MXP, Bergamo and Venice Marco Polo - 11 by easyJet, 11 by Ryanair) with slightly fewer in winter.

28 February 2020

easyJet plc
('easyJet')

EASYJET STATEMENT - COVID-19 UPDATE

Following the increased incidence of COVID-19 cases in Northern Italy, we have seen a significant softening of demand and load factors into and out of our Northern Italian bases. Further, we are also seeing some slower demand across our other European markets. As a result we will be making decisions to cancel some flights, particularly those into and out of Italy, while continuing to monitor the situation and adapting our flying programme to support demand.

While it is too early to determine what the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak will be on current year outlook and guidance for both the Airline and Holidays business, we continue to monitor the situation carefully and will update the market in due course.
easyJet is working closely with authorities and are following the guidelines provided by the World Health Organisation and EASA to ensure the health and wellbeing of our people and customers.

We have a cross-functional working group that has been meeting daily to make sure that all our processes and policies remain effective. Our procedures for dealing with communicable diseases are similar to those developed during the SARS epidemic and other global health emergencies.

In the meantime, to help mitigate the impact from COVID-19 we will be focusing on delivering operational efficiency and cost savings across a number of areas of the business, including:

· Budget cuts in administrative areas and discretionary spend
· Recruitment, promotion and pay freezes across the network
· Postponement of non-critical project and capital expenditure
· Offering unpaid leave and halting non-mandatory training
· Working with third party suppliers to further reduce cost
· Aircraft reallocation for summer 2020 which will offer the highest revenue opportunities on market recovery.

For further details please contact easyJet plc:

EasyJet cancels flights and sends workers home unpaid as coronavirus takes toll

The carrier has introduced a pay freeze for workers, with non-mandatory training suspended and unpaid leave offered to staff, after it had to cancel flights due to the deadly virus

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Jerry]

Had another excellent flight with Easyjet today from Glasgow to Bristol. The flight was about 15 to 20 minutes late but that was apparently because the aircraft was late incoming from Milan. No complaints it was a normal very good easyjet flight with the added bonuses of being cheap and not having any seat mates as the 2 seats to my right were unoccupied! Also the aircraft was their 250th airbus and is in a special livery.
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[TheLocalYokel]

Our son and his wife are currently at Vienna Airport awaiting their return easyJet flight to BRS after a short break in the Austrian capital. Last night they received this message from easyJet:

As you may be aware, Storm Jorge is expected to bring high winds and heavy rainfall to most parts of the UK. We are liaising closely with the Met Office and monitoring the weather situation. Whilst our flight schedule will be operating as normal, we advise customers to continue checking flight tracker for the latest updates about their flight status. The possible disruption is beyond our control and considered an extraordinary circumstance.

There was no forecast that Sunday would be significantly affected by bad weather in the Bristol area and it's a pleasant day today - certainly compared with what we've had to endure for much of the winter. As it happens their aircraft is on its way to Vienna having picked up a 30-minute delay earlier in the day at Geneva on the aircraft's first rotation BRS-GVA-BRS.

However, they are also part of a small group booked to go to Basel with easyJet from BRS on Friday week returning on the following Monday (16th March) and they received another message from easyJet today saying that their return flight has been cancelled. No reason was given but the supposition is that it is part of the reported culling of easyJet flights around their network because of the Corona virus.

They've managed to re-book on the Sunday evening flight from Basel to Bristol but will lose an extra night's hotel stay now their visit has to be shortened.

They travel a lot and have at least one more easyJet flight booked in the next few months (Krakow) and TUI to Marrakech - both from BRS. Their other flights already booked are from LHR on long-haul with 'legacy' airlines.

Obviously they are hoping that all these flights will operate.

I cite this as an example that not only will the virus itself impact on airlines but so will the likelihood of future cancellations. I would be very reluctant to book anything further at the moment in case the flights are subsequently cancelled - particularly with easyJet because they seem to go in for cancellations as their first option when not all airlines do. Note their mass cancellations at BRS re Storm Dennis when everyone else operated. The two return flights we've currently booked are easyJet domestic routes (Scotland and NE England) which could be reached by other means if the flights were cancelled.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Isle of Man

Down to 1 x weekly from 3 x weekly for the rest of this month. So far summer is still shown as the original 2 x weekly with additional flights around the TT period.

Edinburgh

There is some very odd pricing on this route over the next week, and indeed beyond although not to such a degree. These are the advertised fares as of a few minutes ago for the next seven days. A number of flights are shown as 'sold out'. I've shown the fares for the pairs of flights (put another way the return flights) for each day with BRS-EDI shown first and EDI-BRS second.

Saturday 7 March (1return flight)

Sold out : £126.99

Sunday 8 March (4 return flights)

£95.99 : Sold out
Sold out : Sold out
Sold out : Sold out
Sold out : Sold out

Monday 9 March (5 return flights)

£53.99 : Sold out
£53.99 : Sold out
£69.99 : Sold out
£111.99: Sold out
£185.99 : Sold out

Tuesday 10 March (4 return flights)

£81.99 : £191.99
£53.99 : Sold out
£47.99 : £82.99
£53.99 : £54.99

Wednesday 11 March (4 return flights)

£48.99 : £81.99
£48.99 : £95.99
£48.99 : £115.99
£243.99 : £162.99

Thursday 12 March (4 return flights)

£152.99 : £202.99
£240.99 : Sold out
£257.99 : Sold out
Sold out : £303.99

Friday 13 March (5 return flights)

£151.99 : Sold out
£151.99 : Sold out
£186.99 : Sold out
£256.99 : £131.99
£211.99 : £87.99

My original thought was that the 'sold out' flights had been removed from the booking engine but, Sunday 8 March apart when seven out of the eight sectors are shown as sold out, the other sold out sectors aren't balanced by sold out sectors in the opposite direction.

I've looked at LGW-EDI and, surprisingly, they mirror BRS in the number of daily departures in the next seven days except Saturday that sees two return flights compared with BRS's one. I'd have thought that normally LGW would have more EDI flights with easyJet than BRS. LGW-EDI/EDI-LGW have a number of sold out flights shown next week but not as many as BRS; neither are the fares as high generally with the highest being £225.99.

BRS-GLA next week has some sold out flights and fares higher than normal on some of the days but nothing like BRS-EDI's fares although one sector is £307.99 on one of the days.

This level of fares and so many sold outs makes no sense given the reported softening of demand for air travel. One explanation might be that with no current flights from BHX, CWL or EXT to EDI following Flybe's cessation easyJet from BRS is the only EDI route for a huge area of southern and Midlands UK west of London. Loganair and easyJet don't begin their EDI routes from the three airports mentioned until later this month.

All five BRS-EDI return sectors are shown as operating today.

Addendum

BRS-BFS has a lot of high fares and sold outs next week too.

 

[Kernow Bravo]

A friend of mine was stranded in Edinburgh by the demise of Flybe - he had a return ticket back to SOU. Lots of people will be in the same position. It's still probably cheaper and quicker to fly to a nearby airport than pay walk-up fares and endure the train journey, schlep across London etc.

 

[Marko1]

Both of tomorrow’s amsterdam flights are sold out.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Both of tomorrow’s amsterdam flights are sold out.

Yes, it does look as though at the moment some routes aren't affected very much if at all by the virus whereas others have seen reductions in frequency. CDG is showing sold out in three of the next five sectors with high fares for other sectors in the next few days although Sat, Mon and Thur seem to have been reduced to single daily next week but back to 2 x daily the week after. Strange that M and Th have been reduced next week whilst Tue and Wed remain 2 x daily.