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[CM.]

It appears on the LBA website, but is showing operated by Sun Air of Scandinavian .

I’d ignore that but it happens commonly. It happens a lot when there is charters. but this flight is being operated by an easyjet plane so hopefully they will change that soon.

Anyone know what the loads are like for the new easyjet flights and what advertising has been done to promote these flights as not seen anything about?

There’s lots of News-articles that have advertised it such as Leeds live and Yorkshire post among others but can’t remember off the top of my head and if they have got it right or are misleading I don’t know. Leeds/Bradfords social media have advertised it to on Twitter and I’m guessing it will be on their other platforms such as Facebook if they use other platforms. Loads wise I’m unsure but hopefully are decent.

 

[LBA4EVER]

I’d ignore that but it happens commonly. It happens a lot when there is charters. but this flight is being operated by an easyjet plane so hopefully they will change that soon.

There’s lots of News-articles that have advertised it such as Leeds live and Yorkshire post among others but can’t remember off the top of my head and if they have got it right or are misleading I don’t know. Leeds/Bradfords social media have advertised it to on Twitter and I’m guessing it will be on their other platforms such as Facebook if they use other platforms. Loads wise I’m unsure but hopefully are decent.

I guess atm with all the travel restrictions for flying abroad an easyjet trip across to belfast would be a nice break away, belfast has quite a nice cc from what i remember

 

[twevsmiff]

It appears on the LBA website, but is showing operated by Sun Air of Scandinavian .

I will try to explain. The LBA website operates on the ICAO(two digit code for the airline), which for Easyjet should be U2.. Someone has entered the IATA(3 letter code) for Easyjet onto the system, which is EZY. The ICAO 2 letter code for SunAir is EZ so the software has just picked up those two letters and assumed it is Sun Air operating the flight. Complicated but I hope it makes sense.

 

[KARFA]

Well this is disappointing. I was hoping to be on one of there lovely little Dornier jets!

 

[Llandudno]

The BFS-LBA flight is currently down to be G-EZDJ. 126 pax currently booked inbound, 87 booked outbound.

 

[752]

Sounds a decent load considering the times / short time to sell.. keep it up and hope it gets better!

further to this, it would be interesting to see what EMA loads are like on this - as that starts tomorrow, admittedly better timings I would personally say

 

[CM.]

I will try to explain. The LBA website operates on the ICAO(two digit code for the airline), which for Easyjet should be U2.. Someone has entered the IATA(3 letter code) for Easyjet onto the system, which is EZY. The ICAO 2 letter code for SunAir is EZ so the software has just picked up those two letters and assumed it is Sun Air operating the flight. Complicated but I hope it makes sense.

Thanks for your explanation it makes sense to me.

it appears they have changed it to easyJet having just looked on the arrivals board on website.

it now says “easyjet airline company limited”

 

[LBA4EVER]

The BFS-LBA flight is currently down to be G-EZDJ. 126 pax currently booked inbound, 87 booked outbound.

There very good loads esp as it was only announced a couple of weeks back!

 

[Easy 189]

Welcome back to LBA, easyJet!!!!!!

 

[CM.]

I think @KARFA is on it. So hopefully some pictures.

 

[Finger66]

Wonder if a success on BFS will tempt them back on to GVA? And then.............

 

[CM.]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413556268426534914

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

So exciting to see a new positive future beginning. A regular much needed service by a carrier that dominates the UK-NI market.

 

[KARFA]

Yes, sorry home now and just uploading photos.

I went over to BHD earlier on the BACF flight and then back on the inaugural EasyJet flight. Got the airport bus in to the Europa bus centre (£2.60), frequency is only every 30 mins atm, and then airport bus from Europa to BFS (£8) again only every 30 mins currently. I have never been to BFS before, it is miles out of Belfast in contrast to city airport. The bus took around 50 minutes to get there. I have to say I prefer city airport.

Sadly absolutely no mention on the flight that it was an inaugural one. As noted the flight was pretty full which is impressive for the first day. Inevitably I was sat next to a hen party

Nothing on arrival at LBA so no water salute. I assume the little video above was after everyone had got off and before boarding the return.

We parked on stand 9 or 10 I think. Walk in to the terminal and exited out of the smaller domestic baggage hall.

Takeoff at BFS

Landing at LBA

 

[Easy 189]

What was the pax load on the BACF sector, Karfa?

 

[KARFA]

What was the pax load on the BACF sector, Karfa?

maybe around 2/3rds full I think

 

[Finger66]

You can see by how much busier we are at work that travel is returning, including more and more flight bookings

 

[CM.]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413783493939707907

 

[White Heather]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413783493939707907

Every time I think the YEP couldn't get any worse, they surprise me!

 

[Easy 189]

They really are abysmal.