Looking at the arrival/departure boards for today. There is 12 flights expected and 14 to depart. I have not counted the Easyjet that landed at 12.30 ish local time.Either 2 aircraft not returning to BRS or the boards not complete with the information. It can sure tell winter season just around the corner as a lack of flights,but the covid 19 dont help matters.
Daily departure numbers are down to the low 20s most days at the moment with Tuesdays and Wednesdays lower than that.

In normal times the last two thirds of November and the first part of December can see as few as 45-50 departures on Saturdays before the ski season kicks in. This winter will be lucky to see half that total on any day of the week.

If we look back to early summer easyJet had increased both EDI and GLA to up to 6 x daily and 5 x daily departures respectively. November is now showing no flights at all to either EDI or GLA on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays (with EDI it's for the last half of November). On a number of other days during the week in this period both routes are still showing double daily.......at the moment.

All this goes to show how impossible it is for airlines to make any sort of remotely accurate projection when it comes to routes (and even frequencies) whilst the pandemic is doing its worst. Clearly back in early summer easyJet had calculated that the pandemic effects would have no bearing in early winter, at least on some domestic routes, and would even lead to increased passenger traffic on them over previous winters.

With potential passengers also unsure which flights would actually operate when they looked to book perhaps a month or two or even longer beforehand, it's no surprise that many won't book at the moment.

We have a holiday tour that commences in Glasgow next May (it should have been last May but did not operate so we elected to carry over the deposit to next year). We have to get to Scotland to join the tour and normally would probably have already booked our easyJet flights. Not this time as we can't be sure whether the holiday will go ahead or if it does whether any easyJet flight we have booked will still operate.

We've decided to wait until almost the last minute before we make up our minds how to get to Scotland (assuming that Ms Sturgeon is allowing such trips to her country next May and Mr Johnson isn't stopping people leaving England). If we have to we will drive to Scotland but it's not something that would be our favoured travel option. I expect there are a lot of hesitant bookers like us which won't help the airline industry recovery one bit.
 
Looking at the arrival/departure boards for today. There is 12 flights expected and 14 to depart. I have not counted the Easyjet that landed at 12.30 ish local time.Either 2 aircraft not returning to BRS or the boards not complete with the information. It can sure tell winter season just around the corner as a lack of flights,but the covid 19 dont help matters.

Daily departure numbers are down to the low 20s most days at the moment with Tuesdays and Wednesdays lower than that.

In normal times the last two thirds of November and the first part of December can see as few as 45-50 departures on Saturdays before the ski season kicks in. This winter will be lucky to see half that total on any day of the week.

If we look back to early summer easyJet had increased both EDI and GLA to up to 6 x daily and 5 x daily departures respectively. November is now showing no flights at all to either EDI or GLA on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays (with EDI it's for the last half of November). On a number of other days during the week in this period both routes are still showing double daily.......at the moment.

All this goes to show how impossible it is for airlines to make any sort of remotely accurate projection when it comes to routes (and even frequencies) whilst the pandemic is doing its worst. Clearly back in early summer easyJet had calculated that the pandemic effects would have no bearing in early winter, at least on some domestic routes, and would even lead to increased passenger traffic on them over previous winters.

With potential passengers also unsure which flights would actually operate when they looked to book perhaps a month or two or even longer beforehand, it's no surprise that many won't book at the moment.

We have a holiday tour that commences in Glasgow next May (it should have been last May but did not operate so we elected to carry over the deposit to next year). We have to get to Scotland to join the tour and normally would probably have already booked our easyJet flights. Not this time as we can't be sure whether the holiday will go ahead or if it does whether any easyJet flight we have booked will still operate.

We've decided to wait until almost the last minute before we make up our minds how to get to Scotland (assuming that Ms Sturgeon is allowing such trips to her country next May and Mr Johnson isn't stopping people leaving England). If we have to we will drive to Scotland but it's not something that would be our favoured travel option. I expect there are a lot of hesitant bookers like us which won't help the airline industry recovery one bit.

Further to the above, 23 departures today and 31 departures tomorrow.
 
DEP/ARR boards looking sick for today. 11departures and 1 tom due out to KOS to pick up passengers back to BRS.Signs of the time with the winter season starting to kick in. There is 8 Easyjet,2Ryanair and 1 KLM plus the tom. 1way or another this covid19 has a lot to awnswer and there seems like no end in sight for it.
 
DEP/ARR boards looking sick for today. 11departures and 1 tom due out to KOS to pick up passengers back to BRS.Signs of the time with the winter season starting to kick in. There is 8 Easyjet,2Ryanair and 1 KLM plus the tom. 1way or another this covid19 has a lot to awnswer and there seems like no end in sight for it.
As you say, a sign of the times. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are particularly low (as they are in normal winters compared with other days) but last week there were still 30/31 departures on some days.

Given that BRS relies on easyJet for over 50% of its passenger flights and passenger traffic their actions have the biggest impact. easyJet in October at BRS had looked sparse several weeks before the month began and so it has proved. However, a lot of the missing flights in October were in the November booking engine.

Not any longer. Many of the previously-shown November flights have now been taken out, with December and in a number of cases the second part of December shown as the return date. If, as seems certain, little progress is made in dealing with the virus it can be expected that some of the December flights will be removed in due course.

In fact, some already have been. A couple of moths ago our son and daughter-in-law booked a short break in Berlin for the third week in December. Some Berlin flights have since been taken out including their outbound on a Thursday. Their return on a Sunday evening is still shown in the booking engine - at the moment - as is the outbound on the Friday, but to switch from the Thursday to the Friday would give them little time in Berlin and would not be worth their while. In any case there is no guarantee that the Friday and/or the Sunday flights won't be removed in the coming days or weeks.
 
Airport was closed to traffic for a few hours yesterday evening due to ATC issues (lightening strike?) and some flight diverted I believe.
 
The last thing it wants in this climate aircraft diverted away as weather was good. Shame the thunder and lightening came about,but no control over that as can hit any where at any time.
 
Airport was closed to traffic for a few hours yesterday evening due to ATC issues (lightening strike?) and some flight diverted I believe.
The last thing it wants in this climate aircraft diverted away as weather was good. Shame the thunder and lightening came about,but no control over that as can hit any where at any time.
Just one easyJet flight affected according to the local paper. Then again there weren't many flights yesterday at all.

 
Friday 30 October 2020

Today's BRS website arrivals page shows Loganair LM834 due in from Norwich at 1850. No doubt it's the Norwich City party in connection with the Championship match against Bristol City at Ashton Gate tomorrow lunchtime.
 
The first three days of the lockdown still sees a number of flights operating

Thursday 5 November

easyJet:
(4) Arrecife, Edinburgh, Belfast International, Glasgow
Ryanair: (1) Warsaw Modlin
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 6

Friday 6 November

easyJet:
(4) Alicante, Faro, Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (9) Alicante, Krakow, Rzeszow, Kaunas, Las Palmas, Gdansk, Malaga, Dublin, Bergamo
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 15

Saturday 7 November

easyJet:
(5) Malaga, Arrecife, Paphos, Tenerife South, Las Palmas
Ryanair: (7) Tenerife South, Dublin, Arrecife, Poznan, Wroclaw, Alicante, Budapest
Total 12
 
The first three days of the lockdown still sees a number of flights operating

Thursday 5 November

easyJet:
(4) Arrecife, Edinburgh, Belfast International, Glasgow
Ryanair: (1) Warsaw Modlin
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 6

Friday 6 November

easyJet:
(4) Alicante, Faro, Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (9) Alicante, Krakow, Rzeszow, Kaunas, Las Palmas, Gdansk, Malaga, Dublin, Bergamo
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 15

Saturday 7 November

easyJet:
(5) Malaga, Arrecife, Paphos, Tenerife South, Las Palmas
Ryanair: (7) Tenerife South, Dublin, Arrecife, Poznan, Wroclaw, Alicante, Budapest
Total 12
The next two days of the lockdown (days 4 and 5) are shown below.

Sunday 8 November

easyJet:
(3) Alicante, Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (9) Krakow, Arrecife, Malta, Warsaw Modlin, Bucharest, Dublin, Malaga, Faro, Alicante
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 14

Monday 9 November

easyJet:
(3) Belfast International, Funchal, Edinburgh
Ryanair: (10) Rzeszow, Bergamo, Poznan, Dublin, Malaga, Krakow, Alicante, Arrecife, Kaunas, Gdansk
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 15

From now on the number of flights in November will drop significantly.

Tomorrow sees only two departures:

Ryanair to Budapest and KLM Cityhopper to Amsterdam. Not every day will be as low as this but with Ryanair (the main carrier since the lockdown) cutting back the airport will be even quieter than it's been in recent weeks.
 
Wednesday will see the halfway stage of the 2-week lockdown with the below flights when read with the previous post bringing things up to date.
In total there have been 109 departures (marginally more arrival as TUI brought some passenger back who had departed pre-lockdown), an average of just under eight departures per day: Ryanair 65, easyJet 27, KLM 13, Blue Islands 4.

The second two weeks will see fewer departures.

Wednesday 11 November

Ryanair:
(5) Krakow, Wroclaw, Alicante, Faro, Bucharest
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 7

Thursday 12 November

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (1) Warsaw Modlin,
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 4

Friday 13 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (9) Alicante, Krakow, Rzeszow, Kaunas, Las Palmas, Gdansk, Malaga, Dublin, Bergamo
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 13

Saturday 14 November

Ryanair:
(3) Tenerife South, Arrecife, Alicante
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 4

Sunday 15 November

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (5) Krakow, Warsaw Modlin, Dublin, Malaga, Faro
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 8

Monday 16 November

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (4) Dublin, Alicante, Srrecife, Gdansk
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 7

Tuesday 17 November

No flights

Wednesday 18 November

Ryanair:
(1): Krakow
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 2
 
Tomorrow 19 Nov there will be no international flight movement. Very rare occurrence, perhaps the only time it has happened in the past has been on Christmas Day.
 
Tomorrow 19 Nov there will be no international flight movement. Very rare occurrence, perhaps the only time it has happened in the past has been on Christmas Day.
According to the BRS website departures/arrivals pages there were no airline flights at all yesterday (17 November).
 
Oh yes I missed that one.
The first two weeks of lockdown saw an average of just under eight departures a day. The second two weeks might see an average of three or four - if that. I haven't checked the booking engines to see what is still available over the next two weeks.

It might be that we have to wait until well into the first quarter of 2021 when hopefully by then a vaccine will have begun to make a mark (literally and figuratively) before the industry sees some reasonable movement across all or at least most airports.

I remember towards the end of March this year in the first lockdown my wife and I celebrated another wedding anniversary with a meal at home for just the two of us. Rather naively, as it's turning out, we said that we would make up for that low key evening at next year's anniversary (ie 2021). I fear we might have spoken too prematurely.
 
If it works out ,you have to have another meal at home,just think you have 1 another and that is very important.Nothing can top that.
 
Mon 23 Nov 2020

Air Côte d'Ivoire
A319 (TU-TST) landed in Bristol at 10:30 today from ABJ (Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, serving Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast) as VRE9000.

It is currently parked on the Southside with Centreline and is due out at 12:30 to KEF. It looks like it's way to the USA for storage, retirement, or possibly onto another operator.
 
Wednesday will see the halfway stage of the 2-week lockdown with the below flights when read with the previous post bringing things up to date.
In total there have been 109 departures (marginally more arrival as TUI brought some passenger back who had departed pre-lockdown), an average of just under eight departures per day: Ryanair 65, easyJet 27, KLM 13, Blue Islands 4.

The second two weeks will see fewer departures.

Wednesday 11 November

Ryanair:
(5) Krakow, Wroclaw, Alicante, Faro, Bucharest
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 7

Thursday 12 November

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (1) Warsaw Modlin,
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 4

Friday 13 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (9) Alicante, Krakow, Rzeszow, Kaunas, Las Palmas, Gdansk, Malaga, Dublin, Bergamo
Blue Islands: (1) Jersey
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 13

Saturday 14 November

Ryanair:
(3) Tenerife South, Arrecife, Alicante
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 4

Sunday 15 November

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (5) Krakow, Warsaw Modlin, Dublin, Malaga, Faro
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 8

Monday 16 November

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International
Ryanair: (4) Dublin, Alicante, Srrecife, Gdansk
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 7

Tuesday 17 November

No flights

Wednesday 18 November

Ryanair:
(1): Krakow
KLM: (1) Amsterdam
Total 2
The four-week lockdown in England ends at midnight tonight. The linked post reported on the first two weeks when BRS saw an average of just under eight departures per day (and the same number of arrivals)

I suggested that the second part of the lockdown would see fewer flights than the first part and so it has proved.

There were 36 departures (and 36 arrivals), an average of 2.77 per day in each direction: easyJet 14, Ryanair 13, KLM 9.

Thursday 19 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International

Total 2

Friday 20 November 2020

easyJet:
(1) Belfast International

Ryanair: (1) Dublin

KLM: (1) Amsterdam

Total 3

Saturday 21 November 2020

Ryanair:
(3) Tenerife South, Arrecife, Alicante

Total 3

Sunday 22 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International

Ryanair: (2) Krakow, Dublin

KLM: (1) Amsterdam

Total 5

Monday 23 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Belfast International, Edinburgh

KLM: (1) Amsterdam

Total 3

Tuesday 24 November 2020

KLM:
(1) Amsterdam

Total 1

Wednesday 25 November 2020

Ryanair:
(1) Krakow

Total 1

Thursday 26 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International

KLM: (1) Amsterdam

Total 3

Friday 27 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Edinburgh, Belfast International

Ryanair: (1) Dublin

KLM: (1) Amsterdam

Total 4

Saturday 28 November 2020

Ryanair:
(3) Tenerife South, Arrecife, Alica

Total 3

Sunday 29 November 2020

easyJet:
(1) Edinburgh

Ryanair: (2) Krakow, Dublin

KLM: (1) Amsterdam

Total 4

Monday 30 November 2020

easyJet:
(2) Belfast International, Edinburgh

KLM: (1) Amsterdam

Total 3

Tuesday 1 December 2020

KLM:
(1) Amsterdam

Total 1
 

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