Bristol Airport - General Thread

[TheLocalYokel]

That is definitely true which probably means that the main operator plans big expansion in the near future or someone new is preparing to start services ?

With even more uncertainty over Brexit in terms of the form it will take, or even an ouside chance that it might not happen at all, I suspect that all airlines are being more cautious within the UK scene than they otherwise might have been had the UK not voted to leave the EU.

Someone who posts occasionally to this forum but who seems to know a bit about BRS matters posted a month or two ago that 2019 would be a consolidation year so far as increased passenger numbers are concerned with the infrastructure being given a bit of time to catch up. The airport still says that 9 mppa will be reached so there will be some growth although, as we have mused in recent days, where it's coming from isn't clear.

Assuming Brexit is not disastrous for the UK - that might be a big assumption - 2020 might be the year when more spectacular growth returns.

Who will be the main suppliers of that growth is the big question.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

BRS Press release:

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/news-and-media/news-and-media-centre/2019/1/jobs-fairs

Created: 16th Jan 2019

Following the success of similar events, Bristol Airport will be hosting two jobs Fairs to showcase the range of job opportunities on offer.
The Airport will be teaming up with business partners based across its site at the two events – one in February and one in March, giving prospective candidates the chance to find out more about the different roles available and the skills and experience required.

Around 4,000 people are employed at the Airport, which handled over 8.7 million passengers in 2018. But, with approval to develop facilities to handle up to 10 million passengers per annum in the future, the workforce is forecast to grow.
The Jobs Fairs will provide a ‘one stop shop’ for anyone interested in working at the Airport, with many of the different employers on site represented, including security provider, ICTS, food travel experts - SSP and The Restaurant Group (TRG), ground-handling specialists, DHL and Swissport and duty-free shopping operator, World Duty Free.
Jobs on offer range across customer service, security, catering and retail, many of which are shift work roles on a permanent and fixed term seasonal basis.
The Jobs Fairs will be held on the following dates:

• Tuesday 26 February, from 1000 until 1300 at Weston College, Knightstone Campus, Knightstone Rd, Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AL
• Thursday 7 March, from 1000 until 1300 at South Bristol Skills Academy, Hengrove Park, The Blvd, Bristol BS14 0DB

To find out more about these events, please register your interest.

 

[kraktoa]

RAF Tornado fly past the airport at 14:20 today. Will not land.

 

[NOSIGWX]

RAF Tornado fly past the airport at 14:20 today. Will not land.

Now estimated to be in the area around 1350. It will be a GR4.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-airport-extinction-rebellion-protest-2442341

Climate change protestors planning 'die-in' at BRS today.

 

[superking]

It wonders about the climate change. Millions of years ago we had the ice age where every thing in Europe and the UK covered in ice. Now what made that ice retreat to where it is now. There was no engines run on oil based products,and the coal was not around as much as it is now. It had to be a change in planet earth that made ice retreat.It would be nice to have a look at planet earth in millions of years time if earth is still around as we know it now.With all the change in climates it has to be earth changing and the global conditions change with it.
Sorry if I have put this in wrong forum then please change if you think it does.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-airport-extinction-rebellion-protest-2442341

Climate change protestors planning 'die-in' at BRS today.

Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for the South West who was at the airport this afternoon, was reported as saying the die-in was 'great fun'. Just about sums up these people: too much time on their hands.

Their antics will have no effect on the expansion planning application. That will be decided on other, sensible criteria including an evaluation of the likely effect of increased emissions and not from a stunt that could inconvenience people going about their lawful business, although it doesn't seemed to have done so on this occasion.

I wonder too how the protestors reached the airport. I can't imagine they all walked or cyclied there and there were no reports of horse riders descending on the terminal. Some at least, probably most, would have arrived by road.

Scott Cato also said she never flies anywhere. I hope she is never in need of an air ambulance.

 

[superking]

Did it warrant any air time on local news. They been going on all day about pax numbers record and expecting even more next year.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-airport-planes-laser-weston-2441769

More laser problems for aircraft using Bristol Airport this week.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

BRS press release and local paper report..

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/news-and-media/news-and-media-centre/2019/1/trip-finder

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/business/bristol-airport-arrivals-departures-flights-2451327

Bristol Airport launches Trip Finder
Created: 21st Jan 2019

Bristol Airport has become the first airport to launch a Trip Finder feature on their website.

The innovative feature allows passengers to search for flights using the month or day they want to fly and to filter results by types of holidays – including winter sports and city breaks. This gives passengers the flexibility to plan a holiday around their busy schedule and is ideal for those searching for a weekend getaway.

Isabelle Whiteman, Head of Marketing at Bristol Airport, said:

‘By launching the Trip Finder feature on our website, we have taken the hassle out of searching for a holiday – all your options are now available in one place.

Trip Finder also gives you a whole range of inspiration and you may find yourself booking a holiday to a destination you hadn’t thought of before.’

 

[vickersviscount]

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 wasn't.It was a photo of a die in or something similar at Cabot Circus.The photo clearly shows House of Fraser Department store in the background.I dare say the job of finding a photo to go with the piece is probably given to some lower minion,but even so you would of thought they might have done some checking of the source material.It's sad to see the steady decline of the regional Newspapers.
Anyone who drives past the Bristol Post building would have noticed that the Print Building has long gone to be replaced with more student flats.The offices next door are still occupied but I believe the Bristol Post now only occupies one floor,the rest is let out to other tenants.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

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 wasn't.It was a photo of a die in or something similar at Cabot Circus.The photo clearly shows House of Fraser Department store in the background.I dare say the job of finding a photo to go with the piece is probably given to some lower minion,but even so you would of thought they might have done some checking of the source material.It's sad to see the steady decline of the regional Newspapers.
Anyone who drives past the Bristol Post building would have noticed that the Print Building has long gone to be replaced with more student flats.The offices next door are still occupied but I believe the Bristol Post now only occupies one floor,the rest is let out to other tenants.

The Bristol Post is now part of Reach Plc, formerly Trinity Mirror Group. Reach has well over 200 regional titles and the ones I read are equally dire, especially the digital versions which in Bristol is called Bristol Live. Many of the reporters seem little more than work experience youngsters and their grasp of sentence construction, spelling and grammar in general is dreadful. There seem to be no sub-editors these days to knock their offerings into some readable shape.

The Bristol Post has published several articles concerning the airport in the past week and I've posted links to most in the various BRS threads.

Bristol Post's picture library is ancient. They often use a picture of the BRS apron that includes a Continental Boeing 757, a service that ceased to operate in November 2010. They must have had a spare photographer around at that time because another favourite is of a traffic jam at Temple Way (when they want to illustrate an article about Bristol's awful traffic problems) in which an Airport Flyer is clearly visible. It bore the route number 330 and was a Scania coach. Coaches came off the route in 2011 to be replaced by liveried buses.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

A couple more recent airport press releases.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/news-and-media/news-and-media-centre/2019/1/ramble-tag

Re a guidance link called a Ramble Tag for visually impaired people.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/ab...news-and-media-centre/2019/1/multi-faith-area

Re a new Multi-Faith Quiet Area in the departure lounge.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/business/jobs-in-bristol-city-airport-2509204

Article re jobs on offer at BRS.

 

[superking]

2 points to make from the link . the plans were submitted to North Somerset council and not Gloucestershire council as stated. The other point is the link stated Bristol international airport.The international bit from the name of airport was dropped a few years back.This is sure a bad article written with no research done.

 

[Jerry]

The international bit from the name of airport was dropped a few years back.This is sure a bad article written with no research

Do people though consider Bristol an international airport?
As for the journalistic standard being poor isn't that the norm now?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

2 points to make from the link . the plans were submitted to North Somerset council and not Gloucestershire council as stated. The other point is the link stated Bristol international airport.The international bit from the name of airport was dropped a few years back.This is sure a bad article written with no research done.

Absolutely right. Bristol Airport was rebranded as Bristol International Airport in 1997 but rebranded again back to plain Bristol Airport in 2010. The local news media, not just the regularly abysmal Reach Plc's Bristol Post, still often refer to it as Bristol International Airport, but what do they know? Not much about the local area unfortunately, which was not the case when its predecessor, the Bristol Evening Post, was locally published and printed, but that was many years ago.

Do people though consider Bristol an international airport?
As for the journalistic standard being poor isn't that the norm now?

If you mean local people around Bristol, I doubt that many outside the world of aviation enthusiasts give it much thought. To most it's Bristol Airport or (especially to older people) Lulsgate Airport. In comments to the local news media some people refer to it as Trumpton Airport or simply as an airstrip in a field. The snag is that it is easy to assume these are the majority when in fact people are more likely to whinge or moan about anything than praise. The airport's recent poll found that 71% of people questioned are in favour of airport expansion. This is almost the same percentage determined by straw polls held by the local news media in past years when previous expansion plans have been submitted.

As to the quality of journalism in the Bristol Post (and as fas as I can determine in all the Reach Plc regional titles), both research into articles and sentence construction are too often lacking in good practice.

This little gem appeared in a Bristol Post headline today.

First Bus branded 'disgraceful' after pensioner left bus stop in tears

The main boggles as to what this pensioner said or did that caused a bus stop to cry.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Another lost airline

Today's news about the cessation of flybmi adds to the long list of scheduled airlines that have served BRS in the past decade or so but no longer do. flybmi joins

BAConnect
BACityFlyer
Air France through various subsidiaries, the last being Air Hop!
Flybe (still operates for tour company charter flights from BRS at times)
Eastern
SAS
Lufthansa through its subsidiary Eurowings
Continental
Air Southwest
OLT
Scilly Skybus
Helvetic
WOW

BAConnect had broadly the same sort of network as flybmi with similar aircraft (the same aircraft in some cases) and a 5-aircraft BRS base, much like flybmi.

None were major players at BRS in terms of passenger numbers. Nevertheless, with BRS's apparent continuing policy of concentrating on existing airline partners for most of its growth, it would be in considerable difficulty if one of its major partners pulled out or scaled back substantially for whatever reason.

With the current uncertain airline environment - I've lost count of the number of airlines that have ceased operating in the past year - who is to say that BRS might not suffer a 'Monarch effect' at some point?

 

[Marko1]

Would this loss effect the chances of reaching 9 million this year ?

 

[kraktoa]

So how many overnight parking stands does ths release at BRS?