Bristol: Airport Movements, Logs & Head Up

[juliet-fox-9]

Great video.

I think the Malta Air livery is all right, if a little dull - sky blue instead of grey might have been better.

With Ryanair group now using multiple different liveries, the fleet might start to look a bit of a mess as engine cowlings are swapped around.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Sunday 29 August 2021

There were 60 airline departures today. I've not been checking each day but I think this might be the first time that 60 has been reached since the pandemic effects kicked in early last year. 58 has been the figure on a number of days this month which is the previous highest I have noted since the pandemic began to spin its devastating web.

easyJet (33): Glasgow (x 3), Edinburgh (x 3), Belfast International (x 3), Newcastle (x 2), Palma (x 2), Gibraltar, Ibiza, Split, Preveza, Murcia, Malaga, Rhodes, Alicante, Tenerife South, Lisbon, Bilbao, Dubrovnik, Corfu, Inverness, Amsterdam, Athens, Madrid, Aberdeen, Barcelona, Faro

Ryanair (13): Alicante (x 2), Dublin (x 2), Wroclaw, Palma, Krakow, Malaga, Beziers, Milan Malpensa, Knock, Faro, Girona

Jet2 (4): Corfu, Skiathos, Arrecife, Preveza

TUI (4): Kefalonia, Heraklion, Arrecife, Larnaca

KLM (1): Amsterdam

Aer Lingus (1): Dublin

Lufthansa (1): Frankfurt

Loganair (1): Teesside

Blue Islands (1): Jersey

Aurigny (1): Guernsey

Total 60

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Friday 3 September 2021

61 airline departures today. 25 of them are between 0600 and 0900, then nothing util 1245.

It certainly illustrates the peaks and troughs of a regional airport, even in pandemic times.

 

[Red Flyer]

Some airports would love to have some peaks because they are only having troughs.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Some airports would love to have some peaks because they are only having troughs.

Indeed, but but the point I was making is that BRS, as it did with the 'noughties' recession, is making important strides in turning things around quicker than many airports but still has these noticeable peaks and troughs mainly I suppose because most of its services are operated by based aircraft. That's not meant to be a criticism, just a statement of how it is.

In the past nine days I've used BRS for the first time in nearly two years, our (my wife and me) first flights from anywhere in that time. We used easyJet to and from Glasgow and both of us were very impressed with how the airport is managing its approach to the pandemic, with the same applying to easyJet.

The experience through BRS was significantly better than that at GLA. I will post a review of the flights and airport performances in the appropriate section of F4A in due course.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Monday 13 September 2021

65 airline departures today.

easyJet (38): Belfast International (x 3), Edinburgh (x 3), Glasgow (x 3), Newcastle (x 2), Malaga, Catania, Split, Kos, Amsterdam, Santorini, Paphos, Paris Cdg, Funchal, Nice, Alicante, Murcia, Inverness, Palma, Berlin, Bordeaux, Malta, Paris Orly, Las Palmas, Isle of Man, Madrid, Aberdeen, Geneva, Corfu, Toulouse, Faro, Ibiza

Ryanair (13): Dublin (x 2), Alicante (x 2), Las Palmas, Valencia, Krakow, Beziers, Bergerac, Ibiza, Malaga, Palma, Faro

Jet2 (4): Palma, Faro, Funchal, Zakynthos

TUI (3): Las Palmas, Ibiza, Corfu

KLM (2): Amsterdam (x 2)

Aer Lingus (1): Dublin

Loganair (1): Teesside

Blue Islands (1): Jersey

Aurigny (1): Guernsey

Wizz Air (1): Katowice

Total 65

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Friday 17 September 2021

Still not reached 70 daily airline departures yet since the pandemic struck - as far as I'm aware. Today it was 68.

easyJet (37): Edinburgh (x 4), Glasgow (x 3), Belfast International (x 3), Newcastle (x 2), Palma (x 2), Malaga, Tenerife South, Kos, Alicante, Pisa, Lisbon, Paris Cdg, Malta, Nice, Prague, Inverness, Bordeaux, Isle of Man, Mykonos, Paris Orly, Amsterdam, Madrid, Corfu, Aberdeen, Geneva, Barcelona, Toulouse, Faro

Ryanair (15): Dublin (x 3), Alicante (x 2), Palma (x 2), Las Palmas, Valencia, Ibiza, Beziers, Bergerac, Malaga, Faro, Krakow

Jet2 (4): Faro, Tenerife South, Palma, Heraklion

TUI (5): Corfu, Skiathos, Ibiza, Palma, Zakynthos

KLM (2): Amsterdam (x 2)

Aer Lingus (1): Dublin

Loganair (1): Teesside

Blue Islands (1): Jersey

Aurigny (1): Guernsey

Wizz Air (1): Katowice

Total 68

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Friday 24 September 2021

71 airline departures today across eleven airlines - as far as I'm aware the highest daily total since the pandemic struck. It's about 65% of the usual number of daily departures this time of year in 'normal' times.

easyJet (37): Edinburgh (x 4), Glasgow (x 3), Belfast International (x 3), Newcastle (x 2), Palma (x 2), Malaga, Tenerife South, Kos, Alicante, Pisa, Lisbon, Paris Cdg, Malta, Nice, Prague, Inverness, Bordeaux, Isle of Man, Mykonos, Paris Orly, Amsterdam, Madrid, Corfu, Aberdeen, Geneva, Barcelona, Toulouse, Faro

Ryanair (15): Dublin (x 3), Alicante (x 2), Palma (x 2), Las Palmas, Valencia, Ibiza, Beziers, Bergerac, Malaga, Faro, Krakow

Jet2 (6): Faro, Tenerife South, Palma, Antalya, Heraklion, Dalaman

TUI (5): Corfu, Ibiza, Tenerife South, Palma, Zakynthos

KLM (2): Amsterdam (x 2)

Lufthansa (1): Frankfurt

Aer Lingus (1): Dublin

Loganair (1): Teesside

Blue Islands (1): Jersey

Aurigny (1): Guernsey

Wizz Air (1): Katowice

Total 71

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[TheLocalYokel]

Friday 22 October 2021

The summer season such as it was is coming to an end. Today there were 74 airline departures, and with the winter timetable kicking in very soon the number of daily departures is likely to be reduced. Today was around 70% of the number of daily departures at this time of year pre-pandemic.

easyJet (41): Edinburgh (x 4), Belfast International (x 4), Glasgow (x 3), Newcastle (x 2), Palma (x 2), Malaga (x 2), Alicante (x 2), Tenerife South, Kos, Pisa, Lisbon, Paphos, Paris Cdg, Malta, Nice, Prague, Inverness, Bordeaux, Isle of Man, Mykonos, Paris Orly, Amsterdam, Madrid, Corfu, Aberdeen, Geneva, Barcelona, Toulouse, Faro

Ryanair (15): Dublin (x 3), Alicante (x 2), Palma (x 2), Las Palmas, Valencia, Ibiza, Beziers, Bergerac, Malaga, Faro, Krakow

Jet2 (6): Faro, Tenerife South, Palma, Antalya, Heraklion, Dalaman

TUI (4): Corfu, Tenerife South, Palma, Zakynthos

KLM (2): Amsterdam (x 2)

Lufthansa (1): Frankfurt

Aer Lingus (1): Dublin

Loganair (1): Teesside

Blue Islands (1): Jersey

Aurigny (1): Guernsey

Wizz Air (1): Katowice

Total 74

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Sunday 31 October 2021

Eurowings EW4212 from Prague arrived BRS with 0730 arrival time (seems to have landed over half an hour early) and returned as EW4213 at 0805.

This is the first scheduled Eurowings operation at BRS since 2008-2009 when Eurowings operated from/to Frankfurt for Lufthansa. There are two Prague rotations today with easyJet's departure due at 1715. Seat selector on that currently showing 114 occupied seats (on a 156-seat A319). Two carriers to Prague in winter with the pandemic still flexing its muscles? Hmm.

At 1735 Ryanair FR2798 is due to operate to Riga with the return FR2799 due back at 2350. Ryanair last operated BRS-RIX in 2012.

 

[Severn]

Monday 08 November 2021

The second Monday of the winter season and today there were 58x airline departures across 12x different airlines! I'm impressed with the number of airlines operating - especially given it's a post-pandemic winter season.

I've highlighted in blue the domestic destinations and in orange the capital cities served (6x today).

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easyJet (28): Glasgow (4), Edinburgh (4), Belfast (BFS) (3), Newcastle (2), Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Faro, Funchal, Inverness, Isle of Man, Krakow, Madrid, Malaga, Paris (CDG), Paris (ORY), Tenerife (TFS), Toulouse

Ryanair (15): Dublin (3), Alicante, Barcelona, Cologne, Gdansk, Kaunas, Krakow, Lanzarote, Malaga, Milan (BGY) Rzeszów, Seville, Valencia

Jet2 (4): Dalaman, Faro, Funchal, Las Palmas (B738)

TUI (2): Hurghada, Las Palmas (B38M)

KLM (2): Amsterdam (E175/E190)

Aer Lingus (1): Dublin (A320)

Aurigny (1): Guernsey (AT76)

Blue Islands (1): Jersey (AT75)

Eurowings (1): Prague (A319)

Lufthansa (1): Frankfurt (E190)

Loganair (1): Aberdeen (E145)

Wizz Air (1): Katowice (A321)

Thanks to @TheLocalYokel for the easy to use template above!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Today is good in terms of departures given the month and the state of the pandemic, although not every day of the week is as strong as that this month. On Saturday there were just 34 departures, albeit November Saturdays were invariably not strong pre-pandemic. I looked at a Mayfly for November 2017 for example and there were only 43 departures then on the mid-November Saturday.

When the ski season began at BRS pre-pandemic the 90+ departures a week to the snow saw winter Saturdays take a decided turn for the better from mid-December. I'm not sure how this season's ski offering is shaping up.

The important figure of course is the yield that is being generated, something about which we can have no idea. I sometimes do sample seat selector checks with easyJet and Ryanair and, although never definitive, they can give a broad guide. There seems little doubt that routes that weren't faring too well in terms of loads in the earlier part of the summer - sun routes for example - have improved markedly over the past two months or so.

Domestic routes have really rebounded this year. Comparing August 2021 with August 2109 (BRS is one of the few airports where September 2021 CAA figures are still awaited) gives these numbers with August 2019 shown first.

Belfast International: 25,809 - 25,218. It's as good as recovered completely.

Edinburgh: 32,378 - 24,092 which is 75% of 2019 but from fewer flights in 2021

Glasgow: 27,766 - 19,894 which is 70% of 2019 but from fewer flights in 2021

Newcastle: 17,124 - 8,495 which is 50% of 2019 but from fewer flights in 2021

Inverness: 9,459 - 8,059 which is 85% of 2019

Aberdeen: 1,468 - 5,286 which is 350% up on 2019 but easyJet operated the route alongside Loganair in 2021. In fact, Aberdeen carried more passengers in August 2021 than any other Aberdeen route to an English airport outside London.

Isle of Man: 2,955 - 1,872 which is 63% of 2019

Guernsey: 2,608 - 1,603 which is 61% of 2019

Jersey: 3,766 - 5,815 which is 155% up on 2019 but easyJet operated the route alongside Blue Islands in 2021.

All figures courtesy of CAA

 

[NOSIGWX]

Helvetic E190-E2 is currently sat on stand 28, the first visit of this type into BRS. It's due out at 1030 on Wednesday morning. Operating a sports team charter I believe.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Helvetic E190-E2 is currently sat on stand 28, the first visit of this type into BRS. It's due out at 1030 on Wednesday morning. Operating a sports team charter I believe.

Arrived from Bern at teatime today?

 

[Red Flyer]

It brought the Switzerland U21 team who are playing at Rodney Parade tomorrow.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I live about one mile to the north of the airport's seven-mile finals to 27. This morning the fog and then mist persisted for much of the morning in my area.

I was surprised to note that all commercial traffic seems to have landed this morning. I take it the ILS is back to full operation after the work performed on it in early autumn.

Nevertheless, the wind direction was shown as north-easterly in the general area for much of the morning. Were aircraft using 09 or 27 this morning? If the former presumably the visibility was nothing like as bad as where I live.

 

[Kingshat]

I live about one mile to the north of the airport's seven-mile finals to 27. This morning the fog and then mist persisted for much of the morning in my area.

I was surprised to note that all commercial traffic seems to have landed this morning. I take it the ILS is back to full operation after the work performed on it in early autumn.

Nevertheless, the wind direction was shown as north-easterly in the general area for much of the morning. Were aircraft using 09 or 27 this morning? If the former presumably the visibility was nothing like as bad as where I live.

Whilst low cloud and mist persisted for much of the morning, conditions were generally at or above ILS Cat 1 minima, 750m visibility and 200ft cloud ceiling, with surface wind barely above 3kts. The Runway 27 ILS has been replaced and is available for Cat 3B approaches.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Whilst low cloud and mist persisted for much of the morning, conditions were generally at or above ILS Cat 1 minima, 750m visibility and 200ft cloud ceiling, with surface wind barely above 3kts. The Runway 27 ILS has been replaced and is available for Cat 3B approaches.

Many thanks for the information.

 

[Severn]

Enter Air

Enter Air are back in BRS!
B738 (SP-ENQ) positioned in from Enontekio, Finland (ENF) on Monday 22nd Nov and has been parked all week on the new far-Eastern stands. It departs today for ENF at 10:00 before operating to LGW and then BFS.

Will be interesting to see whether Enter Air will have an aircraft parked in BRS over the winter months like we've seen in previous years where it operates ski-flights and has also offered extra capacity to the likes of TUI.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Tuesday 30 November 2021

BRS web departures page showing Titan ZT8167 departed at 0740 today for Ivalo, Nothing on FR24 so I don't know the aircraft type.