Aegean Airlines

[Marko1]

Aegean has released winter 22/23 flights for sale including Bristol - twice weekly Monday and Fridays

 

[Severn]

Today saw Aegean Airlines’ inaugural flight from BRS to ATH. It will operate 2x weekly (Mo & Fr) year-round using A320 series aircraft. Loads were over 90% on the the outbound flight today - an excellent start.

Great to have another Star Alliance carrier at BRS alongside Lufthansa and Swiss. Maybe we’ll see another Star Alliance carrier at BRS in the future - Austrian, Brussels, SAS, TAP, Turkish?

 

[MrFenner]

Last flight I can see on this route is on sale for 5th January 2023.

Normally a quieter time of the year, indeed - but nothing on sale for S24 as yet...

 

[Jerry]

Last flight I can see on this route is on sale for 5th January 2023.

Normally a quieter time of the year, indeed - but nothing on sale for S24 as yet...

Surely that's 2024?

 

[Marko1]

Same for Bhx too

 

[MrFenner]

Same for Bhx too

Interesting.

One would think they might wait to put all of S24 on sale together - until then maybe a short hiatus whilst it’s quiet season…

(And yes Jerry, 2024! Oops. Ha!)

 

[MrFenner]

ATH to operate twice weekly for S24

(Source: SeanM1997 on X)

Not yet on sale it seems.

 

[Marko1]

The timings are awful tho. Gone midnight departure tues and sat. Given also that Ryanair has some very late departures planned for summer 24 I thought there was a night time quota now in place ?

 

[MrFenner]

The timings are awful tho. Gone midnight departure tues and sat. Given also that Ryanair has some very late departures planned for summer 24 I thought there was a night time quota now in place ?

If I’ve ever seen a timetable that spells out nail in coffin on a route, this has to be a prime contender!

ATH 21:50 - 23:45 BRS (Mo & Fr)
BRS 00:35 - ATH 06:20 (Tu & Sa)

 

[Jerry]

A proper redeye! I wonder how it connects into Aegean onward connections in Athens?

 

[MrFenner]

ATH to operate twice weekly for S24

(Source: SeanM1997 on X)

Not yet on sale it seems.

Seems to now be a very sporadic timetable for S24 with their website stating the ATH route will operate between 26/04/2024 > 06/05/2024, 24/05/2024 > 31/05/2024 and 23/08/2024 > 02/09/2024

I was looking to get to ATH to catch a cruise but those times and dates just don't work

 

[Marko1]

That schedule makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Pointless operating for 3 weeks or so is it. Surely a mistake

 

[mullion]

They used to do MAN for years like that to connect with the island ferries but have now changed to a mid morning flight

 

[gulftraveller]

In a bygone era, airlines such as Britannia, Dan Air etc, mainly operated from UK to Athens with departure times after 2100. When I lived in Athens, the BA and OA late night flights were always the fullest.

 

[Sierra3]

They used to do MAN for years like that to connect with the island ferries but have now changed to a mid morning flight

Back in the early 70s BEA used to do a 03.00 departure (on a Comet) to ATH, again I think to link with ferries

 

[mullion]

Yes I remember those early departures OUCH!