Eastern Airways

[aviatorconcorde]

I use the airbus shuttle often from Bristol and when it arrives from Broughton it is usually around or just over half full. There are 2 dedicatied toulouse to Bristol flights a week, one on Monday and one on Thursday. All the others operate Broughton-Bristol-Toulouse.

I remember speaking to someone who used to go on the Agusta Westland shuttles between Bristol and Italy. 3 course lunch onboard for everyone apparently, believe it or not. I’m sure it was operated by Eastern.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I remember speaking to someone who used to go on the Agusta Westland shuttles between Bristol and Italy. 3 course lunch onboard for everyone apparently, believe it or not. I’m sure it was operated by Eastern.

Eastern have never operated regular flights between Bristol and Milan. flybmi as bmi regional operated a reasonable public schedule between BRS and MXP at one time which has gradually been reduced. A few years ago bmi regional also operated a second flight on Mondays and Fridays BRS-MXP which was probably for AugustaWestland (now Leonardo) and that might have been the service to which you refer.

 

[Red Flyer]

TLY You are wrong T3 used to operate regular charter flights to MXP

 

[TheLocalYokel]

TLY You are wrong T3 used to operate regular charter flights to MXP

When was that? Before bmi regional began their service?

 

[Red Flyer]

It was S13

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It was S13

Many thanks for that, Red Flyer. Before replying to aviatorconcorde I checked CAA annual charter passenger numbers on BRS-MXP going back to the time that BA, then easyJet then bmi regional operated scheduled services on the route, and the only significant charter years were 2013 with 2363 passengers and 2014 with 2411 passengers.

I was aware that bmi regional sometimes operated twice on some days then and I took one of the flights to be the Westland/Leonardo charters. I got this information from Mayfly but it seems it was in 2014. In 2013 from what you say it was Eastern and not bmi regional doing the charter flights but they were not shown on Mayfly (at least in the copies I have - one for each month of the year) nor were they advertised on the airport's publicly available routes information sheet of which I have a copy - presumably because they were private charters.

Thank you for the information and my apologies to aviationconcorde for giving misleading information.

 

[Jerry]

Checked in for my flight to Anglesey tomorrow from Cardiff!
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[aviatorconcorde]

Many thanks for that, Red Flyer. Before replying to aviatorconcorde I checked CAA annual charter passenger numbers on BRS-MXP going back to the time that BA, then easyJet then bmi regional operated scheduled services on the route, and the only significant charter years were 2013 with 2363 passengers and 2014 with 2411 passengers.

I was aware that bmi regional sometimes operated twice on some days then and I took one of the flights to be the Westland/Leonardo charters. I got this information from Mayfly but it seems it was in 2014. In 2013 from what you say it was Eastern and not bmi regional doing the charter flights but they were not shown on Mayfly (at least in the copies I have - one for each month of the year) nor were they advertised on the airport's publicly available routes information sheet of which I have a copy - presumably because they were private charters.

Thank you for the information and my apologies to aviationconcorde for giving misleading information.

Oh no worries at all!

 

[Aviador]

Enjoy your flight Jerry!

 

[Jerry]

Enjoy your flight Jerry!

Thanks! I will!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Was Anglesey a late decision, Jerry? Enjoy your day.

 

[Jerry]

Was Anglesey a late decision, Jerry? Enjoy your day.

Kind of. Originally planned to go to the US but that fell through. So as i had the time off the opportunity to do the Anglesey route came up.

 

[aviatorconcorde]

Have a good one Jerry.

 

[Jerry]

Eastern Airways have been awarded the Anglesey service for the next 4 years.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1097423617200132096

 

[Cardiffbay]

They have defiantly improved the service. Just hope they don’t got he way of BMI

 

[Jerry]

I think this has been covered before but the Welsh government want the UK government to reclassify Anglesey to enable the full 29 seats to be used on the J41 with the increased capacity possibly seeing a reduction in the subsidy over the 4 years.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/busin...utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wales_politics

 

[AndrewCwl]

Now eastern airways struggling to survive don't look good things not going right for cwl lately

 

[Jerry]

Only time will tell but their parent group Bristow hasn't been doing to well.

 

[jfy1999]

Only time will tell but their parent group Bristow hasn't been doing to well.

Apparently Bristow have applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

There have been posters on the other forum blaming many of Eastern's problems on Bristow and suggesting the airline would be better going alone.

 

[Jerry]

Apparently Bristow have applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

There have been posters on the other forum blaming many of Eastern's problems on Bristow and suggesting the airline would be better going alone.

Someone said on the forum that there has been steps taken to separate Eastern from Bristow as much as possible I believe. Hopefully they'll survive.