Movements, Logs & Head Up

[TheLocalYokel]

Thursday 21 November 2019

BRS departures website shows Blue Islands SI576 to Brive at 1200 hours. I presume this was the team bus for Bristol Bears RFC's European Challenge Cup match against Brive in France tomorrow evening. Nothing on FR24 so unaware of aircraft type. Possibly the ATR42.

I wasn't aware that Brive had an airport but a check reveals it has two regular airlines, Ryanair and Hop!, but only two year-round routes (one from each airline) and one or two seasonal ones each. It has a slightly longer runway than BRS, which isn't difficult to achieve, and has an AMSL over 1,000 feet, over half as high again as BRS and that is no slouch in UK AMSL terms.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Friday 22 Noember 2019

BRS website departure pages showng Enter Air ENT3101 to Enontekio at 1000. Presumably a Santa flight. Do they usually begin this early?

 

[superking]

Friday 22 Noember 2019

BRS website departure pages showng Enter Air ENT3101 to Enontekio at 1000. Presumably a Santa flight. Do they usually begin this early?

Not normally no they don't. I wonder if it was a city flight rather than a santa one.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Friday 22 Noember 2019

BRS website departure pages showng Enter Air ENT3101 to Enontekio at 1000. Presumably a Santa flight. Do they usually begin this early?

Not normally no they don't. I wonder if it was a city flight rather than a santa one.

I've now found the winter 2019-2020 programme which is not easily locatable on the BRS website. In fact, yesterday's Enontekio flight was a Transun Santa flight. I've also found last winter's schedule and the first Santa flight of the season then was also a Transun one - on 23 November.

Comparing this year's and last year's Santa flights the programmes appear broadly similar with Enontekio, Ivalo and Kittila the Finnish airports mainly served. I don't know if easyJet is to operate to Kittila again this year. Last winter they operated 3 x weekly to Kittila from Christmastime through to early March. The length of the season suggests it was for ski holidays. The flights never appeared in the easyJet booking engine though, so presumably the flights were for a tour operator or operators which the CAA tends to confirm as the BRS Kittila passenger numbers in January, February and very early March this year are listed under charter flights. A few years ago easyJet did something similar with Ivalo.

There was a time when Rovaniemi was the most popular Santa destination from BRS but last year it was only operated twice - both times for Thomas Cook. This season Rovaniemi is shown as operating just once - for TUI.

The next Santa flight is due to leave on 1 December to Kittila - for TUI and Inghams, although that might either be separate flights or a combined one for the two companies.

 

[Severn]

Monday 25 November 19

Enter Air B738 (SP-ENG) arrived at 14:30 from Enontekiö (ENF), Finland - Overnights

 

[Severn]

Wednesday 27 November 2019

Enter Air B738 (SP-ENG) departed this morning to Rennes, France before continuing on to Glasgow.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Saturday 11 January 2020

BRS website departure page showing some unusual movements this evening.

2100 hours YW2172 to Brive. This appears to be Air Nostrum that operates ATR72-600s and CRJs from 200 to 1000 series.

2100 hours V33069 to Brive. This appears to be VallJet that operates a fleet of business jets.

Both departures no doubt in connection with the rugby European Challenge Cup match Bristol v Brive at Ashton Gate today. They would undoubtedly have been inbound probably yesterday but if they were shown on the BRS website then I missed it. Nothing on FR24.

2300 hours VLJ052 to Montpellier. This appears to be Carpatair that operates F100s and possibly E190s.

No doubt in connection with the rugby European Championship match Gloucester v Montpellier at Kingsholm today. The same comments apply about inbound and FR24.

 

[NOSIGWX]

Saturday 11 January 2020

BRS website departure page showing some unusual movements this evening.

2100 hours YW2172 to Brive. This appears to be Air Nostrum that operates ATR72-600s and CRJs from 200 to 1000 series.

2100 hours V33069 to Brive. This appears to be VallJet that operates a fleet of business jets.

Both departures no doubt in connection with the rugby European Challenge Cup match Bristol v Brive at Ashton Gate today. They would undoubtedly have been inbound probably yesterday but if they were shown on the BRS website then I missed it. Nothing on FR24.

2300 hours VLJ052 to Montpellier. This appears to be Carpatair that operates F100s and possibly E190s.

No doubt in connection with the rugby European Championship match Gloucester v Montpellier at Kingsholm today. The same comments apply about inbound and FR24.

Air Nostrum CRJ 900 parked on stand 33 currently & a E145 of Valljet (in Eastern Airlines colours) positions in later this evening. The Capatair F100 didn't operate in yesterday, so unlikely to appear later today.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I saw an AlbaStar B737-800 parked on one of the new stands near the soon-to-be-no-more old terminal building - where the Enter Air B737-800 usually parks when not being used (no Enter Air there today - presumably busy with sports charters).

Does anyone know why the AlbaStar was at BRS?

 

[Severn]

I saw an AlbaStar B737-800 parked on one of the new stands near the soon-to-be-no-more old terminal building - where the Enter Air B737-800 usually parks when not being used (no Enter Air there today - presumably busy with sports charters).

Does anyone know why the AlbaStar was at BRS?

AlbaStar B738 (EC-MUB) operated a flight from LYS to CWL under a LAV (AlbaStar) flight number this morning bringing Rugby fans to Cardiff for the France vs Wales game tomorrow. It then positioned under a TOM flight number to BRS, presumably to help operate the TUI ski-schedule tomorrow.
Another AlbaStar aircraft operating to CWL this morning also positioned out under TOM flight numbers to LGW.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

AlbaStar B738 (EC-MUB) operated a flight from LYS to CWL under a LAV (AlbaStar) flight number this morning bringing Rugby fans to Cardiff for the France vs Wales game tomorrow. It then positioned under a TOM flight number to BRS, presumably to help operate the TUI ski-schedule tomorrow.
Another AlbaStar aircraft operating to CWL this morning also positioned out under TOM flight numbers to LGW.

Many thanks, Severn.

 

[Jerry]

AlbaStar B738 (EC-MUB) operated a flight from LYS to CWL under a LAV (AlbaStar) flight number this morning bringing Rugby fans to Cardiff for the France vs Wales game tomorrow. It then positioned under a TOM flight number to BRS, presumably to help operate the TUI ski-schedule tomorrow.
Another AlbaStar aircraft operating to CWL this morning also positioned out under TOM flight numbers to LGW.

Was wondering why it did that! Thanks Severn!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Sunday 23 February 2020

Enter Air is operating a charter to Enontekio at 1000. According to the BRS winter timetable it is for Northern Lights, Husky Sled Adventure, Snowbobile Voyager and Simply Artic - 4-night duration holidays for all except Simply Artic which is a 7-night duration holiday. A further Enontekio departure is scheduled for Sunday week (1 March) for Aurota Hunter - a 7-night duration holiday.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Tuesday 25 February 2020

Loganair LM841 to Leeds-Bradford at 1000, returning as LM842 at 0030 Wednesday 26 February 2020. No doubt the Bristol City charabanc for their Championship match at Huddersfield Town this evening.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Tuesday 17 March 2020

(Covid-19)

Just 38 departures today with some being 'rescue' flights. It's about half the number to be expected on a normal Tuesday - along with Wednesday the quietest day of the week - at this time of the year. Obviously with more countries closing their borders and airlines scaling back or suspending services altogether the number of daily departures will reduce significantly still more very soon.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Was sitting in my garden a few minutes ago when I heard then saw an easyJet aircraft passing overhead having apparently taken off from runway 09 at BRS.

A check with FR24 shows easyJet A320 G-EZWZ departed BRS at 1323 for Gatwick where it's due at 1348. Moving the parked aircraft around, perhaps for engineering reasons?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Was sitting in my garden a few minutes ago when I heard then saw an easyJet aircraft passing overhead having apparently taken off from runway 09 at BRS.

A check with FR24 shows easyJet A320 G-EZWZ departed BRS at 1323 for Gatwick where it's due at 1348. Moving the parked aircraft around, perhaps for engineering reasons?

Two more easyJet A320s have just left BRS for LGW, passing over my house:

G-EZPD dep BRS 1336 hours, due LGW 1359 hours and G-EZUT twelve minutes behind.

Does this mean that the BRS apron is now becoming less crowded are have other easyJet aircraft been flown in to take the place of those going to Gatwick?

Ryanair is operating its 4 x weekly Dublin flight this evening.

 

[vickersviscount]

Two more easyJet A320s have just left BRS for LGW, passing over my house:

G-EZPD dep BRS 1336 hours, due LGW 1359 hours and G-EZUT twelve minutes behind.

Does this mean that the BRS apron is now becoming less crowded are have other easyJet aircraft been flown in to take the place of those going to Gatwick?

Also noticed on FR24.a Easy jet A319 on route from Liverpool to LGW.
All routine, or something going on ?

 

[kraktoa]

Is it anything to do with the requirement that an airline has to schedule a certain percentage of flights in order to maintain their slots? I would have presumed that that stipulation would have been relaxed especially during this time and when Gatwick is practically shut.

 

[Jerry]

Is it anything to do with the requirement that an airline has to schedule a certain percentage of flights in order to maintain their slots? I would have presumed that that stipulation would have been relaxed especially during this time and when Gatwick is practically shut.

Slot restrictions have been waived I believe. I'd imagine that the flights are for training or maintenance purposes.