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Many happy memories of as a lad during the summer school holidays cycling from Weston-Super-Mare to the old terminal at Bristol Airport. In those days,late 60s there probably wasn't more than a dozen flights a day.Standing on the open viewing terrace, the highlight of the day would have been the...

I have a friend who works in retail,for a while he worked as a manager in one of the stores that opened when the new eastern airside extension was completed.By the time he left, that one store was turning over more than a million pounds per year. I believe that like a lot of airports Bristol...

Prior to the launch of the route and for the last year there has been an advertising campaign in the Bristol area. There are two large Electronic digital billboards located by the Avonmeads flyover and by the Lawrence hill roundabout.Both of those were displaying adverts promoting destinations...

Driving past the new admin building late this afternoon,noticed that most of the windows are now fitted indicating that construction is progressing steadily.Which is just as well because I received an e-mail from Bristol airport spotters website the other week to say that the proposed spotters...

I was driving down Hyatts wood road from Backwell late this afternoon when I saw in the distance what looked like an Embraer jet In B.M.I regional livery taxiing east towards the 27 runway threshold.I drove to the back of the airport in Winters lane,but by the time I got there could see no sign...

I see the Bristol Post has managed to excel its self again.In yesterdays Post it carried a report in to the, Mass 'die in' demonstration at the airport.The half page report on page six was accompanied by a photo captioned.Protesters lie down on the terminal floor at Bristol Airport,except it...

I was travelling behind one of the new A2 services today making its way from the centre to the airport via bedminster. The bus had air connect on the rear and side panels and was a single decker.Couldn't be certain but did seem to be a different type of bus from the previous single...

Just read on the Bristol Airport Twitter Forum that the Multi-storey car park will close on the 29th of this month to allow the second phase of the multi-storey car park to be built .The car park will re- open Spring 2019.

Good piece on the Ian King live program sky news tonight at 18.30.The opening trailer for the program had the Qatar Airbus taxiing past the Cardiff Teminal building to its stand.Later Ian King interviewed Debra Barber and she gave a good account of her self and the Airport.I believe the program...

Post script to the disruption caused by the bad weather over the 1st,2nd,3rd of March.I flew back to Bristol from Arrecife on Saturday the 10th on a Easy Jet A320.Over sixty seats were unoccupied on the return flight .I know that the scheduled outbound flight was pretty full as I had checked on...

Believe that the works you are referring too,are to install new high speed rising bollards.Apparently the previous bollards were to slow rising and lowering causing bottle necks of traffic trying to exit and had on more than one occasion started to rise whilst a vehicle was overhead.Did hear...

I was due to fly out today on the 7.00 am flight from Bristol to Lanzarote.Had an E-Mail at 7.00pm last night from Easy Jet cancelling the flight.Have no complaints about the cancellation, I can appreciate that the severe weather conditions are still causing havoc.It must be costing Easy Jet a...

Did see an a half double page advert in thursdays Bristol Evening Post, promoting the new Qatar service from Cardiff. I believe the audited readership figures for the paper is now down to around seventeen thousand,never the less the type of people who tend to read the Post tend to be older and...

My wife is a frequent user of the Flyer bus,she uses it to get from Bedminster Down in to Bedminster and Town.She has been told by one of the drivers that these buses are indeed temporary.The new buses are available but for what ever reason will not be used until the Metro is officially opened .

reference the 60 year anniversary of Lulsgate airport. Todays Evening Post has a eight page spread in the Bristol Times section with some photos of the AirportI haven't seen before.B.B.C Radio Bristol are broadcasting their Breakfast program from the Airport tomorrow and I believe B.B.C Points...

I listened to the interview with Elfa ap Rees on Radio Bristol the other morning,he was saying that Bristol airport was the only major airport without a dual Carriageway road or rail connection.When the interviewer mentioned that the spiralling cost of the Portishead line would preclude the...

Saw this post via the Bristol Airport Twitter site. Insider Media Ltd reporting that turnover in the period ending 31st December 2016 has risen to 89.9 million.With profits of 35.9 million.Should ease the disappointment of the Qatar news

Think this might be the obituary you were referring to T.L.Y. Printed in the Independent. Les Wilson lived and breathed airports, airliners and air travel. One of civil aviation's most colourful and popular characters, he died in a car accident just two weeks before being invested as OBE in...

Or,how about this for a conspiracy theory.On the routes thread of this forum there has been much speculation about the comments by conns 757 about new scheduled airlines for 2017. What if WOW were enticed into starting services from Bristol Airport by various financial inducements,but now they...

Some of you may have noticed that the airport Hotel which was originally due to open for winter 2016,is now scheduled to open february 2017.I've been told the reason for this is that one of the contractors drilled a hole in the roof and for what ever reason it wasn't sealed properly.Not...