Movements, Logs & Head Up

[superking]

TY for info LY

 

[Jerry]

Bristol Airport will see a few French rugby flights over the weekend. The info is from the Bristol Airport Mayfly.
16th March
12.20 TDR230 Trade Air from Paris CDG A320
14.15 HAT4892 Air Horizont from Lyon 737 400
18th March
12.00 HAT4801 Air Horizont to Lyon 737 400
12.00 TDR231 Trade Air to Paris CDG A320

 

[superking]

Any one any idea what AV201 to Faro is all about Departure is today Thursday the 12th. It positioned in Wednesday the 11th.The aircraft is a FK100. Wondered if this a regular charter or a one off charter.

 

[Jerry]

Any one any idea what AV201 to Faro is all about Departure is today Thursday the 12th. It positioned in Wednesday the 11th.The aircraft is a FK100. Wondered if this a regular charter or a one off charter.

Maybe a sports team charter? Warm weather training?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Meant to post this earlier.

Mayfly shows a BE ATR 42-500 (presumably Blue Islands' aircraft) departing for Durham Tees Valley at 1430 on Friday 13 April and returning to BRS from MME at 2030 the next day. This was the team bus for Bristol City FC in their Championship match at Middlesbrough. For all the good it did them they might as well have gone by charabanc.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Sunday 6 May 2018

I was glancing through next week's Mayfly and noticed a departure at 1820 hours to KRP (IATA code) on an A320 of an airline with ICAO code SDR, which I discovered is a small German airline called Sundair that appears to possess two A320 aircraft. It seems that the destination is Midtjyllands Airport in Denmark (Jutland), formerly Karup Airport (hence the IATA code). It's shared with the military and boasts two 3,000-metre runways, despite 2016 (the last year's figures I could find) handling only 154,000 passengers in total.

It does seem a busy military facility which no doubt justifies its existence.

The Sundair A320 is due to position in from Berlin Tegel at 1730 on the same day. I wonder if this will be the first appearance of a Sundair aircraft at BRS. Highly likely I would imagine as the airline has only been operating for ten months. The mind boggles as to the reason for the flight.

 

[superking]

A good bit of airport and airline imformation.Like yr self LY I have no idea what or who its comeing in for, or who they are bringing in. Nice to see a different tail on the apron thou.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Wednesday 9 May 2018

There is a mention in the BRS TUI thread that Wednesday's Sal (Cape Verde) flight is due to be operated by a B787-9, G-TUIJ, Pixie Dust, instead of the B787-8. This will be the first flight from BRS of a 9 series.

 

[Marko1]

This must be close to the biggest aircraft ever handled at Bristol isn't it ? I know brs has handled the a330 in the past but not sure of the variants used.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

This must be close to the biggest aircraft ever handled at Bristol isn't it ? I know brs has handled the a330 in the past but not sure of the variants used.

So far as I'm aware it's been the A330-200 series.

A quick web search (if the information is wrong in the sites I checked, I apologise) the B787-9 is 62.81 metres long with a wing span of 60.12 metres.

The A330-200 is 58.82 metres long wih a wing span of 60.3 metres.

I have a vague recollection of a DC10 at BRS, probably in the 1980s. All versions of this appear to be 51.97 metres long with a wing span of 47.44 metres or 50.4 metres, depending on the series.

So it does seem that the 787-9 is the largest aircraft to have visted BRS, albeit the 330-200's wing span seems to be a fraction wider.

 

[Marko1]

Is there a reason behind the 787-9 coming today ?

 

[superking]

I can confirm it is G TUIJ inbound from MAN B789.Flight no 244. I wonder if its a split load between the 2 airports.

 

[Jerry]

I can confirm it is G TUIJ inbound from MAN B789.Flight no 244. I wonder if its a split load between the 2 airports.

Probably not i'd imagine the loads to SAL for both BRS and MAN are generally quite healthy. It's probably been upgraded to a 9 because they have less 8s available now as 1 was transfered to TUI Belgium.

 

[alphagolf]

On Twitter

Pic of G-TUIJ

https://twitter.com/dave_weatherill/status/994152875260596224?s=21

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I can confirm it is G TUIJ inbound from MAN B789.Flight no 244. I wonder if its a split load between the 2 airports.

MAN-SID has scheduled departure time of 1355 today. BRS-SID is 1230.

Would a 787-9 be able to reach Punta Cana non-stop which is the next 787 duty from BRS (1130 tomorrow)? Or Orlando, Sanford for that matter on Friday. Cancun on Saturday seems too far for the 787-9 without a fuel stop.

Probably the most likely outcome is a 787-8 being positioned into BRS for the Punta Cana flight, or it might be the 787-9 will be exchanged at Sal although this might not be straightforward. The Sal airport website shows only two TUI flights operating there today (ignoring TUI Belgium, Netherlands flights), those from BRS and MAN. The BRS flight departs for the UK at 1745 and the MAN at 1905 so there would be a delay for the BRS flight, and the MAN might be a 787-9 anyway. We shall know by tomorrow.

 

[Jerry]

MAN-SID has scheduled departure time of 1355 today. BRS-SID is 1230.

Would a 787-9 be able to reach Punta Cana non-stop which is the next 787 duty from BRS (1130 tomorrow)? Or Orlando, Sanford for that matter on Friday. Cancun on Saturday seems too far for the 787-9 without a fuel stop.

Probably the most likely outcome is a 787-8 being positioned into BRS for the Punta Cana flight, or it might be the 787-9 will be exchanged at Sal although this might not be straightforward. The Sal airport website shows only two TUI flights operating there today (ignoring TUI Belgium, Netherlands flights), those from BRS and MAN. The BRS flight departs for the UK at 1745 and the MAN at 1905 so there would be a delay for the BRS flight, and the MAN might be a 787-9 anyway. We shall know by tomorrow.

Well they seem happy to do a fuel stop for the Cancun route so i don't see why they wouldn't be happy to do it with the Punta Cana route plus the load will only be for a 787 8 as that was what was originally planned.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Well they seem happy to do a fuel stop for the Cancun route so i don't see why they wouldn't be happy to do it with the Punta Cana route plus the load will only be for a 787 8 as that was what was originally planned.

When First Choice began tranatlantic charter flights from BRS with 767-300s they initally had outbound fuel stops on the routes which didn't all operate during the same period: Sanford, Puerto Plata, Varadero, Cancun. First Choice's 763s had fewer seats (270) than Thomson's and this type continued to be used from BRS after First Choice became part of TUI. Sanford later became non-stop with the 763s in all but the most adverse weather conditions.

So yes, it's possible I suppose that they might fuel stop on Punta Cana etc.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a sizing up exercise to see if the 787-900 can work operationally from BRS. Rather than swap things around and position flights in and out empty, use it on a revenue flight. If be surprised if they opted to use it on the long haul with a planned tech stop. The aim is to avoid tech stops unless absolutely necessary.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a sizing up exercise to see if the 787-900 can work operationally from BRS. Rather than swap things around and position flights in and out empty, use it on a revenue flight. If be surprised if they opted to use it on the long haul with a planned tech stop. The aim is to avoid tech stops unless absolutely necessary.

Last week I believe that the 787-8 that operated to Sal, Punta Cana and Sanford was not the same 787-8 that did the Cancun on the Saturday so presumably it was swapped at Sanford, whereas the previous week the same aircraft operated all the flights.

On a general point about TUI and tech stops at BRS, it's worth pointing out that they have increased Cancun to 2 x weekly in summer 2019, which is the route where outbound fuel stops are sometimes required, at the expense of Punta Cana whch ought to be capable of being reached non-stop each week.

 

[NOSIGWX]

G-TUIJ is due back into BRS this evening before positioning to LGW at 0815 tomorrow morning. A B788 positions in from MAN tomorrow to operate the PUJ.