WOW Air

[Jerry]

Is it operating for WOW at the moment rather than just this service today? If the latter it would have meant flying to Iceland to position then to Bristol with passengers and back to Iceland with passengers then back to Cardiff to position, unless it did the rotation in reverse order - not a happy thought for the KEF-BRS passengers.

Looking at the BRS website perhaps it did just that. The 1200 outbound is shown as departed but the 1010 arrival is shown as arriving at 1922 hours, not the first time this summer that the flight has had such a long delay. This sort of thing (long delays) won't endear the airline to passengers.

Looking at FR 24, WOW is not shown at all on arrivals or departures today for BRS.

I saw that it departed CWL this morning on SWAG. It usually parks on stand 15 instead of St Athan because CWL is 24 hours and St Athan is not. In a way it was good for WOW that it was so close and available and for Cardiff Aviation as it could lead to more work from WOW.
The WOW service does seem to be erractic which will put people off from using it especially compared to KLM's service which is hardly ever delayed.

 

[Marko1]

The Cardiff aviation aircraft now on return to cwl from brs

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I saw that it departed CWL this morning on SWAG. It usually parks on stand 15 instead of St Athan because CWL is 24 hours and St Athan is not. In a way it was good for WOW that it was so close and available and for Cardiff Aviation as it could lead to more work from WOW.
The WOW service does seem to be erractic which will put people off from using it especially compared to KLM's service which is hardly ever delayed.

It had a few very long delays earlier in the summer. I can't remember any being cancelled but a long delay means that passengers will miss their transatlantic connection at Keflavik.

AMS seems more popular than ever with no doubt a large proportion of the KLM passengers flying on somewhere else, probably long haul in the main. Like CWL in July BRS had a very good month on AMS with over 36,500 travellers, up 8% on July 2015. With easyJet on the route with KLM it's not possible to ascertain the KLM numbers. I think this was probably a record month for BRS-AMS unless August has beaten it.

The Cardiff aviation aircraft now on return to cwl from brs

So presumably it did operate the service in reverse order today, ie BRS-KEF-BRS

 

[big g]

Is it operating for WOW at the moment rather than just this service today? If the latter it would have meant flying to Iceland to position then to Bristol with passengers and back to Iceland with passengers then back to Cardiff to position, unless it did the rotation in reverse order - not a happy thought for the KEF-BRS passengers.

Looking at the BRS website perhaps it did just that. The 1200 outbound is shown as departed but the 1010 arrival is shown as arriving at 1922 hours, not the first time this summer that the flight has had such a long delay. This sort of thing (long delays) won't endear the airline to passengers.

Looking at FR 24, WOW is not shown at all on arrivals or departures today for BRS.

Flight operated in reverse pos CWL-BRS, BRS-KEF-BRS then pos back BRS-CWL. It should have been on TF-SIS today.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thanks big g. At least the BRS-KEF sector seems to have been more or less on time meaning that transatlantic passengers should have caught their onward flights. Probably meant a long wait at KEF for some returning from North America to BRS which is certainly not as bad as missing your connecting flight to North America.

 

[superking]

Is it operating for WOW at the moment rather than just this service today? If the latter it would have meant flying to Iceland to position then to Bristol with passengers and back to Iceland with passengers then back to Cardiff to position, unless it did the rotation in reverse order - not a happy thought for the KEF-BRS passengers.

Looking at the BRS website perhaps it did just that. The 1200 outbound is shown as departed but the 1010 arrival is shown as arriving at 1922 hours, not the first time this summer that the flight has had such a long delay. This sort of thing (long delays) won't endear the airline to passengers.

Looking at FR 24, WOW is not shown at all on arrivals or departures today for BRS.

it positioned in from cdf empty.
it did the kef route from brs then kef back to brs.it then positioned back to cdf empty.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Marketing

Had an email from BRS today with amongst other things a PromoCode for 20% off WOW flights to Keflavik taken between 1 November and 10 December. They have to be booked by 13 October though. There is also to be a competition to win two tickets to Iceland with WOW.

Sometimes such promotions can indicate a route not performing as anticipated. I hope this is not the case with WOW.

I remember a few years ago taking advantage of a free parking offer at BRS for a Flybe flight to Isle of Man. By the end of the summer Flybe had pulled the route.

 

[Jerry]

I hope this is not the case with WOW.

The problem i see for WOW is that their up against stiff competition from KLM who don't just serve North American routes but essentially fly to the world, Aer Lingus who's flights are also boosted by Dublin only traffic and have codeshares with the like of United and you could include BMI with their FRA flights as well and also Easyjet takes direct Iceland pax off them as well.
I looked at their flights for when i fly to the US for xmas and they only fly 3 weekly and by the time you add on baggage and food they aren't that cheap and for me as they don't have a connection partner i have to book another flight from SFO-PDX. So with luggage just for BRS-KEF-SFO roundtrip there website quotes me £836 and you can get direct daily flights cheaper from LHR lowest i found was £666 Virgin Atlantic.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Still no booking availability beyond March next year - the same applies with the Edinburgh route.

The CAA has now published route stats for August which show that 4280 passengers used the BRS-KEF link (no way of telling how many flew on to North America) which gives an average load of 152.9 on the 174-seat WOW A320, load factor of 87.9%

 

[Jerry]

Still no booking availability beyond March next year - the same applies with the Edinburgh route.

It may be down to them not having aircraft yet to serve the route. They have new routes starting in April and so they could be waiting be waiting for the delivery of their new A320neo and more A321's before they load flights up. It would be a surprise if they dropped BRS and EDI.
Another possibility could be that there isn't room for 2 carriers on the BRS-KEF route. Could WOW move to CWL and sustain it say 2 weekly? Would be great for CWL if they did!

 

[alphagolf]

Still no booking availability beyond March next year - the same applies with the Edinburgh route.

The CAA has now published route stats for August which show that 4280 passengers used the BRS-KEF link (no way of telling how many flew on to North America) which gives an average load of 152.9 on the 174-seat WOW A320, load factor of 87.9%

Just checked the WOW Air booking engine, Edinburgh is now bookable for Summer '17, but still nothing for Bristol. If they don't release flights soon I would suggest WOW may not be returning after March '17 :-(

Sent WOW Air a tweet on twitter to see if they will give a definitive answer, we will wait and see.

 

[Aviador]

I really hope that's not the case. Fingers crossed (and toes)!

 

[superking]

If wow stops the route then I would think the take up of services from kef to the states transfer pax figures not so good. If that is the case then with easy back on the route then I would think that's the reason. The wow figures are not so bad,but as local said he cant work out how many were for onward connections.

 

[alphagolf]

Just checked the WOW Air booking engine, Edinburgh is now bookable for Summer '17, but still nothing for Bristol. If they don't release flights soon I would suggest WOW may not be returning after March '17 :-(

Sent WOW Air a tweet on twitter to see if they will give a definitive answer, we will wait and see.

Update.......
@Flight_Junkie Hi there! Our flight schedule for summer 2017 should be out very soon! Please stay tuned on our website! Thank you! BE

 

[Aviador]

Nice work alphagolf!

 

[Jerry]

If WOW do return to BRS then they have a new destination to fly to. From 16th June 2017 they will fly to Pittsburgh 4 times a week. Wish they'd fly to Portland as then they might tempt me over the bridge! And i say might!

 

[BRSregular]

From a very selfish perspective this is great news. I have friends in Pittsburgh and it is a hugely underrated place to visit. Pittsburgh is not well served from Europe and as Reykjavik is becoming hugely popular with Americans I think we can expect lots more US cities being served by WOW and assuming they continue at Bristol, a lot of North America will only be one transfer away. Here's hoping...

 

[Jerry]

From a very selfish perspective this is great news. I have friends in Pittsburgh and it is a hugely underrated place to visit. Pittsburgh is not well served from Europe and as Reykjavik is becoming hugely popular with Americans I think we can expect lots more US cities being served by WOW and assuming they continue at Bristol, a lot of North America will only be one transfer away. Here's hoping...

Yeah i think it's only European destination is CDG on a Delta 757. Wonder if they'll upgrade that!? May be a smart move by WOW as it is under served and could be worth putting an A330 on and considering Delta only use a 757.

 

[ethanegcc]

I think DL's PIT-CDG is a 752 daily but just summer seasonal as it resumes again in May.

 

[Jerry]

It is looking more than likely that WOW have dropped BRS because it's still not bookable beyond the end of March.