Bristol: Ryanair Routes News & Base Updates

[BRSregular]

Any news on this Italian destination yet?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Any news on this Italian destination yet?

Not that I'm aware. Nothing yet in the Ryanair booking engine or web site press releases.

 

[Marko1]

I was wondering the same. Nothing yet

 

[Red Flyer]

On sale now starting 26th May

 

[Jerry]

On sale now starting 26th May

What is?

 

[CWL94]

I believe it’s MXP at 2x weekly complimenting the exsisting 3x weekly BGY

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I believe it’s MXP at 2x weekly complimenting the exsisting 3x weekly BGY

That was the one Italian route I didn't think it would be, taking into account Ryanair's existing BRS-BGY route.

I've been expecting easyJet to return to operating MXP. I'm intrigued as to why they haven't, given some of the new routes they've started in recent years at BRS.

easyJet pulled out of BRS-MXP having operated it from 2007 until 2010 at a daily frequency. Ryanair were also operating BRS-BGY at a daily frequency and the two together amounted to overkill, especially as the effects of the recession were still around at that time. Shortly after easyJet pulled out of BRS-MXP Ryanair reduced BRS-BGY to 3 x weekly and it has remained thus ever since.

flybmi have recently abandoned their own MXP route but it was small scale I can't see that it would have been an impediment to easyJet or Ryanair had either wanted to operate it earlier. flybmi's MXP route was helped by the Augusta Westland (now Leonardo) helicopters connection between Yeovil, Somerset and Milan where staff would travel between the two. I don't know what they do now that flybmi doesn't operate the route.

New routes are always welcome but I'd love to know why easyJet didn't return to MXP.

 

[Severn]

Yep, the new route to MXP will depart mid-afternoon Wed and Sun, operated by a MXP based aircraft.
The first flight is on Sun 26th May, and it operates 2x weekly through till the end of October (we will have to wait for the winter schedule to be released to see if this will be a year-round route.)

This new MXP route will compliment the year-round 3x weekly BGY route which operates Tue, Thu & Sat.

 

[Jerry]

Why operate to both? Seems a bit odd to me.

 

[Severn]

Why operate to both? Seems a bit odd to me.

Demand most likely.

MXP - 31 miles north-west of Milan - takes 50 minutes by train or taxi/car
(Just) closer to the centre of Milan, but considered the main airport for business travellers. Also serves the areas to the west of Milan, and Southern Switzerland. Easy access to the Alps.

BGY - 32 miles north-east of Milan - takes 1 hour by train or taxi/car
It is situated next to the city of Bergamo and close to Brescia. Given the enormous Ryanair base there, connections to other destinations are available (Athens, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Lamezia, Palermo are all available from BRS)

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Demand most likely.

MXP - 31 miles north-west of Milan - takes 50 minutes by train or taxi/car
(Just) closer to the centre of Milan, but considered the main airport for business travellers. Also serves the areas to the west of Milan, and Southern Switzerland. Easy access to the Alps.

BGY - 32 miles north-east of Milan - takes 1 hour by train or taxi/car
It is situated next to the city of Bergamo and close to Brescia. Given the enormous Ryanair base there, connections to other destinations are available (Athens, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Lamezia, Palermo are all available from BRS)

Thank you for that digest, Severn.

Have you any views on why easyJet never returned to the BRS-MXP route? It seems such an obvious route.They fly from MXP to Gatwick, Luton, Manchester and Edinburgh, as well as to numerous mainland European destinations.

 

[Jerry]

I wonder if now FR are on the route then maybe Easyjet will follow them?
Definitely an interesting strategy from FR for the whole South West of the UK for Summer 2019.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Press release re BRS-MXP now on Ryanair website.

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-new-bristol-route-to-milan/

Part of the press release states: Ryanair’s Bristol Summer schedule now includes 32 routes in total with 3 new routes to Seville, Shannon, and now Milan Malpensa.

Shannon operated last summer but because it was taken off for the winter, in true Ryanair fashion it comes back as a new route.

Last summer there were 32 routes. Reus does not appear to be operating in summer 19 (it only operated a brief peak summer single-weekly frequency in 2018) but with Seville and Milan Malpensa added that makes 33 for the coming summer, viz:

Alicante, Girona, Malaga, Seville, Valencia, Palma, Ibiza, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Faro, Bergerac, Beziers, Limoges, Chania, Budapest, Bologna, Bergamo, Milan MXP, Venice MP, Cologne, Malta, Kaunas, Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Rzeszow, Warsaw Modlin, Wroclaw,
Bucharest, Dublin, Shannon, Knock.

They all seem to be bookable still.

 

[Marko1]

There is still gaps on Friday am peak summer and Thursday am and 5 aircraft needed on Friday evenings. If I recollect Reus was introduced very late last year so I’m not giving up hope yet.

Milan malpensa is a surprise. I would have gone for Rome first to be honest and I would have expected mxp to be given to Cardiff should Flybe drop it. However it does give a 5 weekly to Milan area option so good news. I’m surprised by easyJet though too although something clearly put them off linking 2 of easyJet’s busiest bases. I would love to know Ryanair’s ideas about Bristol moving forward

 

[Jerry]

Milan malpensa is a surprise. I would have gone for Rome first to be honest and I would have expected mxp to be given to Cardiff should Flybe drop it.

It may be that because it's a more pure city route that it'll work better at BRS and with Easyjet already operate it then maybe they may look at Rome for CWL in the future!

 

[louis_walton]

I like that Ryanair keep trying to compete with Easyjet at BRS it really helps to stop a Easyjet Monopoly but Ryanair has so many over routes it could have served rather than another one of Milans airport...

 

[Marko1]

I like that Ryanair keep trying to compete with Easyjet at BRS it really helps to stop a Easyjet Monopoly but Ryanair has so many over routes it could have served rather than another one of Milans airport...

I totally agree. They are happy to compete on say Seville but not on Rome , Madrid or Barcelona. There must be a reason but I cannot think what it might be. Interestingly apart from Venice, easyJet doesn’t compete on an established Ryanair route .

 

[louis_walton]

There’s only so much in Milan I visited for one day and felt like it was enough time. Then again I didn’t fancy spending a couple thousand in the designer shops!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I like that Ryanair keep trying to compete with Easyjet at BRS it really helps to stop a Easyjet Monopoly but Ryanair has so many over routes it could have served rather than another one of Milans airport...

easyJet are still responsible for over half of BRS's annual passenger numbers

I totally agree. They are happy to compete on say Seville but not on Rome , Madrid or Barcelona. There must be a reason but I cannot think what it might be. Interestingly apart from Venice, easyJet doesn’t compete on an established Ryanair route .

You are right. In recent years it's been Ryanair coming on to compete on an existing easyJet route with Krakow, Venice MP, Seville and Sofia being the most recent, albeit the last-named is ski season-only for both airlines and Ryanair announced their route a few weeks after easyJet announced theirs and before it had commenced operating.

At the moment these are the routes on which the two airlines compete with 'up to' weekly rotations shown:

Alicante
Winter easyJet 8 Ryanair 6
Summer easyJet 14 Ryanair 11

Malaga
Winter easyJet 8 Ryanair 6
Summer easyJet 16 Ryanair 8

Seville
Winter easyJet 3 Ryanair 2
Summer easyJet 3 Ryanair 2

Palma
Winter easyJet 5 Ryanair nil
Summer easyJet 19 Ryanair 10

Ibiza
Summer easyJet 4 Ryanair 3

Tenerife
Winter easyJet 4 Ryanair 3
Summer easyJet 4 Ryanair 3

Arrecife
Winter easyJet 2 Ryanair 3
Summer easyJet 2 Ryanair 3

Gran Canaria
Winter easyJet 2 Ryanair 1
Summer easyJet nil Ryanair 2

Faro
Winter easyJet 8 Ryanair 3
Summer easyJet 16 Ryanair 7

Venice MP
Winter easyJet daily Ryanair 5
Summer easyJet daily Ryanair 5

Krakow
Winter easyJet 5 Ryanair 4
Summer easyJet 4 Ryanair 3

Sofia
Winter easyJet 2 Ryanair 1 (both just ski-season routes)

There is a sort of competition to Barcelona too with easyJet operating 10 weekly rotations to El Prat in winter and 14 weekly in summer, with Ryanair operating 5 weekly in summer (no winter service).

There’s only so much in Milan I visited for one day and felt like it was enough time. Then again I didn’t fancy spending a couple thousand in the designer shops!

Milan is Italy's financial hub and one of its main business centres. BRS has air links with 17 European capitals (19 if Edinburgh and Belfast are included) and with a number of other key European cities, so the resumption of MXP, albeit only twice a week, is another step along that road.

 

[superking]

Ryanair aircraft in tonight the reg no was SP- RSG. Is FR started to re reg aircraft,or is it a aircraft that they obtained. It was in full harp markings.


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