Aer Lingus

[TheLocalYokel]

I've now checked the EI booking system and on the random dates I put in there appear to be one ATR 72 rotation and two ATR 42 rotations each weekday in November but by February this had altered to 2 x 72 and 1 x 42.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Winter 2013-2014 BRS-DUB

Ryanair has increased BRS-DUB to 20 x weekly (3 x daily except Sat which is 2 x daily), apparently in response to Aer Lingus Regional increasing its BRS-DUB to 19 x weekly this winter (3 x daily M-F, 2 x daily Sat-Sun).

This sort of thing has been happening quite regularly over the past two or three years at BRS. EIR will increase frequencies then FR responds by increasing its own, only to reduce after a year or so which then encourages EIR to increase frequencies again for FR to respond again with increases of its own.

39 weekly flights will be a complete overkill in winter.

EIR has so far shown the DUB route at 14 x weekly ( 2 x daily) for next summer, a reduction on its winter schedule and on this summer. This was in place before the Ryanair move to increase its own winter offering.

What's the betting that if EIR stays at 14 x weekly next summer FR will drop back to the 16 x weekly of this summer?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol-Shannon

Aer Lingus Regional will restore the Bristol-Shannon link from 3 April next year. Flights will operate daily on an ATR 42 leaving SNN at 1010 and arriving BRS at 1140. The return will leave BRS at 1205, arriving back at SNN at 1335.

The airline previously operated this route but it ceased at the end of summer 2012. Between 2005 and 2010 BRS-SNN was operated by Ryanair.

Previously Aer Lingus Regional operated the route 5/6 x weekly with ATR 72 aircraft. Now it is to be daily with ATR 42s which is probably sensible as the loads last time were lower than the well patronised Bristol-Cork route that uses a daily ATR 72 and could sustain an increased schedule in the eyes of some.

When Ryanair operated the route they had monthly average loads of well into three figures which shows their power in attracting punters. They dropped it along with many others from Shannon when they fell out with the Irish airport.

Today's announcement is very good news though.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol-Cork

It was announced today that the current daily BRS-ORK will be 2 x daily from next summer.

This forms part of a number of route frequency enhancements and a new route to NCL that featured in the announcement.

It's been a good couple of weeks for BRS with EIR also announcing recently the return of BRS-SNN from next summer.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It was announced today that the current daily BRS-ORK will be 2 x daily from next summer.

Actually it won't be double daily at all for most of the time, only on Mondays and Saturdays.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Summer 2014

BRS-DUB will now be 21 x weekly (3 every day). It seems that a daily flight has effectively been moved from CWL-DUB which has seen a reduction of 6 weekly flights to 13 x weekly timetabled this week compared with the original intention for summer 2014.

It's a mix of ATR 72s and 42s although the larger aircraft seems to be more in evidence.

Last summer EIR operated BRS-DUB at 17 x weekly. However, Ryanair is reducing to 14 x weekly or 2 x daily (from 16 last summer). FR's reduction has been in its timetable for some time.

I've mentioned in the past in this thread that the two airlines seem to eye each other up each season on this route to try to gain some sort of advantage. Maybe FR will respond again although it seems to be axing a lot of routes around the UK and Europe this summer.

Incidentally, on some days of the week - Friday for example - there will be three EIR aircraft on the ground at the same time at lunchtime with the DUB, ORK and SNN routes all due to land within a few minutes of each other.

 

[Aviador]

As per a post in the Leeds forum earlier today, it beggars belief why Ryanair change their schedules so much because it must be really off-putting to any would-be passenger (sorry, I mean customer) . The period around Christmas and the new year is supposed to be the busiest time of the year for people booking holidays and the way Ryanair chop and change flights is enough to put you off booking with them forever. I certainly don't like the thought of booking accommodation and flights only to find I'd have to alter my flights potentially right at the start of the summer season.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Shannon

After a break of two years Aer Lingus Regional re-introduced the SNN route and it commenced operations yesterday.

http://www.bristolairport.co.uk/media-c ... annon.aspx

 

[TheLocalYokel]

USA via DUB

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... id=9490108

I found this piece on a US news website relating to Aer Lingus trying to sell DUB as a better means of accessing Europe for American travellers.

An Aer Lingus spokesman is quoted: "We have very similar pricing to bring you to places like Bristol in the United Kingdom, London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam. So all of these are very viable connections through Dublin and it is a much easier airport to navigate than connecting through one of the bigger hubs."

It's more useful publicity for the airport at BRS as it attempts to attract more inbound travellers, even if there was a need to explain exactly in which country Bristol is situated, although as there are 30-plus Bristols in the USA (take this remark how you will) perhaps it's understandable.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Friday 23 May 2014

There was an additional rotation today from Dublin (making four in total), from Shannon (making two in total) and from Cork (also making two in total). It seems this was in connection with the Heneken Cup Final tomorrow at the Millennium Stadium. Although the finalists are from England (Saracens) and France (Toulon) lots of Irish people bought tickets in the hope (expectation on past records) that an Irish team would feature.

Perhaps surprisingly Ryanair did not add to its three regular rotations from Dublin and one from Knock today.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Cork

For some reason the lunchtime ORK rotation is not operating today or next Monday, leaving just the teatime one. Aer Lingus website shows the lunchtime Monday returning on 25 August. This coming winter the route drops back to its previous daily (the second rotations on Mon and Sat introduced this summer have been dropped).

Shannon

The daily SNN, re-started at the beginning of this summer, reduces to 6 x weekly this coming winter (no Wed flights apart from holiday times).


Dublin

Winter 2013-2014 BRS-DUB

Ryanair has increased BRS-DUB to 20 x weekly (3 x daily except Sat which is 2 x daily), apparently in response to Aer Lingus Regional increasing its BRS-DUB to 19 x weekly this winter (3 x daily M-F, 2 x daily Sat-Sun).

This sort of thing has been happening quite regularly over the past two or three years at BRS. EIR will increase frequencies then FR responds by increasing its own, only to reduce after a year or so which then encourages EIR to increase frequencies again for FR to respond again with increases of its own.

It seems that this coming winter Aer Lingus BRS-DUB will be 12 x weekly - double daily M-F and daily on Sat and Sun. Ryanair seems to be 3 x daily for the winter, except for some days over the Christmas/New year period when it drops to 2 x daily. This means there will be 33 weekly rotations (FR and EIR in total) compared with 39 last winter.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

After a record June on BRS-DUB the airline's BRS services in July were up 55% on last year, although that does include a new Shannon route, and 'there was a 35% increase in connecting traffic from the UK regions to the United States and Canada with Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol and Birmingham routes all reported strong year-on-year increases' – see below link.

http://aviationtribune.com/airlines/eur ... s-regional

 

[superking]

stobart air
mutterings on dried plum about stobart shutting shannon base.
nothing offical announced as yet,
talk is about shannon routes doing w patterns from dubiln and cork. if these are true will have to see how they work out.lets hope no chop of route to brs, as numbers are building nicely.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

When BRS had the SNN route with Aer Lingus Regional the last time (ie until it was removed for a year or so) was it not operated by aircraft working ORK-BRS-SNN-BRS-ORK at one point? Or it may have been DUB-BRS-SNN-BRS-DUB.

 

[superking]

on the driede plum forum, they are saying all EIR flts out of snn are ending on the 5th of january.
has anyone heard anything. there is no link on the other forum to verify this is happening.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

on the driede plum forum, they are saying all EIR flts out of snn are ending on the 5th of january.
has anyone heard anything. there is no link on the other forum to verify this is happening.

It looks as though this is true. I've just checked the Aer Lingus booking engine and 5 January is the last date on which there are flights bookable for BRS-SNN.

All dates after this are shown as sold out which is palpably nonsensical for the second week in January. So it looks though the return of SNN has been short lived - less than a year.

 

[superking]

i dont know if stobart air are short of aircraft.
the EI3287 was a danish air transport atr72 reg no oy rug.
certinly a different tail with this one.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

i dont know if stobart air are short of aircraft.
the EI3287 was a danish air transport atr72 reg no oy rug.
certinly a different tail with this one.

Well, they appear to have at least one aircraft to use as ACMI for CityJet from next month, albeit it's a 42.

I think I read earlier this week that a subbed aircraft operated into LBA for EIR (Stobart).

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Summer 2015

There will be a considerable reduction in Aer Lingus Regional (Stobart Air) flights this summer compared with last.

Dublin

2 x daily whereas it was 3 x daily on Mon Thur and Fri last summer. Ryanair appears as last summer: ie, 3 x daily (2 on Sundays) until the end of May then double daily until the beginning of September when 3 x daily is resumed.

Cork

Daily but second rotations added on Mondays and Saturdays last summer not operating this year.

Shannon

The daily flight operated last summer has been withdrawn completely following the closure of Stobart's Shannon base.

 

[superking]

it looks like stobart basing in snn again. what does any one think about if we get that route back. i think the loads were ok. just pulled last time as they pulled the based unit out of there.