Route Development & Rumours

[Karl C]

I’m going to add some more coal to fire, which is probably completely different to what antmc03 is saying but I’m going say anything but from summer 24 we could be seeing (2) Ryanair UK Aircraft based.

Did you mean two additional to summer 23, so eight in total?

 

[BHX492]

Yeah that’s the plan 6 Ryanair DAC and 2 Ryanair UK the UK aircraft will be used to complete with Easyjet on domestic and International routes.

 

[thunderchild]

Wouldn’t be at all surprised to see them start Berlin, Belfast and Beauvais

 

[BHX492]

I would 100% agree I would also say Chania will return to complete with easyjet's Heraklion route but for every destination BHX gains it seems to be taken from EMA because most of the above destinations operate from East Midlands

 

[nwoody2001]

Yeah that’s the plan 6 Ryanair DAC and 2 Ryanair UK the UK aircraft will be used to complete with Easyjet on domestic and International routes.

Well if that’s the case, I’m even more surprised that (so far at least) W23/24 is pretty stagnant compared to W22/23 from Ryanair. 4 routes lost and replaced with 4 new routes and pretty much the same number of flights.

Hopefully still some time for Ryanair to ass new routes and capacity from
BHX prior to the winter season.

 

[Matt995]

Did you mean two additional to summer 23, so eight in total?

Be good if that happens, but do we have enough room (parking stands) for all these possible based aircraft in 2024? 2 extra FR, 1 extra TOM, 3, extra EZY, and extra Jet2 as well??

FR 6
TOM 12
EZY 3
LS 16+

thats at least 37 aircraft minumum based, and add it the night stoping aircraft, KL, LHx2, AF, SN possibly? 42+ night stopping aircraft? How many stands do we have?

 

[mullion]

Picked up a snippet today EK41/2 flight numbers are being transfered to Heathrow for the winter as they are doing a slot swap with Cathay. Thanks to Sean

 

[Kevin Farnell]

EK41/42 are the flight numbers assigned to the early morning 3rd daily EK rotation, which only operated for a short time. This doesn't affect the current twice daily BHX operation.

 

[mullion]

Kevin was saying anything other than I recognised the flight number

 

[laviation]

As for new services, obviously the ACL summer reports go public around the second week of November so should have most news at that point.

 

[Westland Wessex HC2]

Has anyone heard of any new flights planned for next summer to Nice (July) besides the current Jet2 flights?

 

[Matt995]

Monarch Airlines to start Birmingham operations again????

https://airwaysmag.com/monarch-details-about-relaunch/

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Monarch Airlines to start Birmingham operations again????

https://airwaysmag.com/monarch-details-about-relaunch/

Knew someone couldn’t hold it in about this.Anyway like I’m really curious about this restarting.The questions will be.Will they be a Flybe where they fall bust and will they take over ex Flybe routes

 

[Bhx_fifteen]

Monarch Airlines to start Birmingham operations again????

https://airwaysmag.com/monarch-details-about-relaunch/

I didn’t see that coming!

Looking at their “X” (Twitter) account, they’re following 4 airports: BHX, MAN, EMA & LTN

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Discussion taking place on the Airline Forum > Monarch Airlines thread - https://forums4airports.com/threads/600/page-9

 

[BHX492]

Yeah that’s the plan 6 Ryanair DAC and 2 Ryanair UK the UK aircraft will be used to complete with Easyjet on domestic and International routes.

It appears that Ryanair are getting serious with the 2 UK reg A/C definitely coming in S24 with Recruitment for pilots apparently already starting and the other roles of recruitment starting in a few months.

 

[Coathanger16]

If we're getting Ryanair UK aircraft, could we see them launch flights to Morocco?

 

[BHX492]

That’s the only logical reason unless they plan on flying to Turkey etc because 2 aircraft requires a fair amount of flights considering Ryanair fly mostly 2-3 weekly flights to most destinations all under 3 hours part from the canaries

 

[Karl C]

From looking at flightradar the G-RUK* registered aircraft fly all over. A fair bit of internal UK stuff mixed in with a fair bit of Morocco and everywhere else within Europe and the EU. No Turkey flights that I can see

 

[laviation]

One presumes they’ll be G-RUKH and G-RUKI