Scheduled increases in July 2019
There are several increases to a number of routes from the beginning of July. June had 129x weekly departures, July will have 132x weekly departures.
- MXP (new route this year) increases from 2x to 3x per week

- EGC restarts for the summer - 2x per week

- GRO increases from 5x to 6x per week

- ALC increases from 11x to 12x per week

- VCE decreases from 5x to 4x weekly, and CGN 4x to 3x weekly.

Mid-June saw 129x weekly departures from BRS which was 8x flights and 2x routes (SVQ and MXP) more than the same period in 2018.

July will see 132x weekly departures from BRS which is 10x flights and 2x routes (SVQ and MXP) more than the same period in 2018.

REU operated during this period in 2018, but has been dropped in 2019.

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Looking ahead to the rest of the summer season, August 2019 has 7x more departures per week than August 2018. September has 5x more departures per week and October 3x more. There are huge increases over October half term this year, with 37x more departures over the two weeks (28-Oct to 10-Nov) than the same period last year!

Currently the winter schedule up to Christmas has no growth each week over last year, with the exception of the couple of weeks around Christmas.
 
Milan Malpensa continues twice weekly during the winter cancelling out the loss of Limoges whilst we do have an extra weekly Budapest. I can’t see any other reductions so maybe a net gain of one weekly winter flight so far
 
New route for winter ski season - weekly Grenoble every Saturday. Joining easyJet on the route.
Ryanair operated Bristol-Grenoble in the ski season in 2008-2009.
 

Press release
 

Press release
It's not much of an 'extended winter schedule' thus far. Then again, I suppose after recent winters' significant gains there has to be time for a pause.

In winter 15-16 there were 55 weekly rotations on 15 routes which had risen by increments in succeeding winters to 90 weekly rotations on 25 routes last winter. That's a 63.6% increase in weekly rotations and a 66.6% increase in the number of routes in four winters.
 

BRS has issued a press release re the new Ryanair ski-season Grenoble route. They've included a Ryanair statement that mentions a seat sale that is available for booking until midnight on Saturday 6 July. Hmm! Perhaps someone should have read the BRS press release that was issued today (12 July) before releasing it.

Ryanair Launches New Bristol Ski Route to Grenoble
Created: 12th Jul 2019

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (4 July) announced a new weekly Bristol ski route to/from Grenoble commencing in January 2020, as part of Ryanair’s extended Bristol Winter 19 schedule.

Grenoble, France

Bristol consumers and visitors can now book their ski holidays to Grenoble as far out as March 2020, enjoying even lower fares and Ryanair’s customer care improvements, including:

  • Lowest Fares – find a cheaper fare within 3 hours, get paid the difference plus €/£ 5 MyRyanair credit
  • Punctuality – deliver 90% target (excl. ATC) or 5% off following month’s air fares
  • Customer Care Charter – EU261 claims processed in 10 days, new 24/7 support, connect in 2 mins
  • Care Improvements – 48-hour free of charge grace period for changes to bookings
  • Environmental Improvements – carbon offset programme, environmental partnerships & plastic free in 5 years
  • New Ryanair Choice – €199 annual fee for free seats, fast-track & priority boarding for freq. guests
  • Digital Improvements – new fare finder, sports tickets, bespoke travel guides & faster mobile
To celebrate its new Bristol route, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares starting from £19.99 for travel in October, which must be booked by midnight Saturday (6 Jul), only on the www.ryanair.com website.

Ryanair’s Eimear Ryan said:
“Ryanair is pleased to announce a new Bristol route to Grenoble commencing in January 2020, which will operate weekly as part of our extended Bristol Winter 2019 schedule. Customers can now book their trip to Grenoble as far out as March 2020, getting to the slopes on the lowest fares this winter.

To celebrate, we are releasing seats for sale from Bristol from just £19.99 for travel until October 2019 which are available for booking until midnight Saturday (6 July). These seats are sure to sell quickly so customers should log on to Ryanair.com today to avoid missing out.”
 
RyanAir have stated today that some bases may close next year due to a 3% reduction in seats next year. All due to the aircraft issues. Wonder if any bases in UK are affected.
 
It's almost as if Ryanair, easyJet and the holiday airlines are firming up BRS so that, if, Jet2 wanted to launch a base in BRS they would struggle or be very much put off.
 
It's almost as if Ryanair, easyJet and the holiday airlines are firming up BRS so that, if, Jet2 wanted to launch a base in BRS they would struggle or be very much put off.
If you look at the Southwest UK in general all of the main airlines have expanded in one way or the other over the last couple of years. The area obviously makes money for them and that has led to the expansion.
Would Ryanair stop that expansion if Jet2 turned up at BRS? I don't really know they could go either way fight or flight but unlike Easyjet do have the option of expanding into the other airports as a way to combat them. Personally I think out of all their airlines BRS would be more worried about TUI and Thomas Cook especially TUI as they operate the long haul.
 
Where has jet2 come into this thread ?
I think it is a 'what if?' scenario. I've not heard or read anything in recent days to suggest that Jet2 is back on the agenda.
 
Kind of on an impulse booking but I've just booked my first Ryanair from Bristol. Booked a flight to Dublin in September the 08.05 departure. £27.99 one way! Just got to figure out where else I'm going to from Dublin now!
 
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Kind of on an impulse booking but I've just booked my first Ryanair from Bristol. Booked a flight to Dublin in September the 08.05 departure. £27.99 one way! Just got to figure out where else I'm going to from Dublin now!

You must be getting a taste for Ryanair, Jerry.:)

Have you done EDI yet? Ryanair to EDI then Flybe to CWL. Timings would give you a few hours at EDI for video etc as well as DUB. Unless your transport is left at BRS of course.
 
You must be getting a taste for Ryanair, Jerry.:)

Have you done EDI yet? Ryanair to EDI then Flybe to CWL. Timings would give you a few hours at EDI for video etc as well as DUB. Unless your transport is left at BRS of course.
That's an option! The idea I have at the moment is Aer Lingus to Amsterdam BA to Heathrow overnight then maybe some planespotting in the morning and then return home either via EDI or BHD. Haven't finalised anything yet though!
The ironic thing is that I was looking at Ryanair flights from Cardiff but with the exception of malaga are all pretty expensive and agp gets there at 23.30.
 
That's an option! The idea I have at the moment is Aer Lingus to Amsterdam BA to Heathrow overnight then maybe some planespotting in the morning and then return home either via EDI or BHD. Haven't finalised anything yet though!
The ironic thing is that I was looking at Ryanair flights from Cardiff but with the exception of malaga are all pretty expensive and agp gets there at 23.30.
That would certainly be an interesting 'Cook's Tour'.
 
Summary of RYR Routes from BRS in Summer 2019

I've compared Ryanair's schedule from BRS during the second week in August 2019 compared to the same week in 2018. Here are the number of departures each week with the changes highlighted.
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Number of destinations operating per week:
2018: 32
2019: 33 (+1 (+2 new/-1 dropped))
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Number of flights per week:
2018: 125
2019: 132 (+7/+5%)
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Number of based aircraft:
2018: 4 (4x B738s)
2019: 4 (4x B738s)
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Weekly Frequencies: (a '[+]' or '[-]' represents change from August 2018)

20x Weekly
Dublin (DUB)

12x Weekly
Alicante (ALC) [+2]

10x Weekly

Majorca Palma (PMI)

8x Weekly
Malaga (AGP)

7x Weekly
Faro (FAO)

6x Weekly
Barcelona Girona (GRO) [+1]

4x Weekly

Venice Marco Polo (VCE) [+1]
Warsaw Modlin (WMI) [+1]

3x Weekly

Milan Malpensa (MXP) [NEW] [+3]
Beziers (BZR)
Budapest (BUD)
Cologne (CGN)
Ibiza (IBZ)
Knock (NOC)
Krakow (KRK)
Lanzarote (ACE)
Milan Bergamo (BGY)
Malta (MLA)
Tenerife (TFS)

2x Weekly

Seville (SVQ) [NEW] [+2]
Bergerac (EGC)
Bologna (BLQ)
Bucharest (OTP)
Crete Chania (CHQ)
Gran Canaria (LPA)
Limoges (LIG)
Poznan (POZ)
Rzeszow (RZE)
Shannon (SNN)
Valencia (VLC)
Wroclaw (WRO)
Gdansk (GDN) [-1]
Kanuas (KUN) [-1]

Dropped

Barcelona Reus (REU) [-1]

Summary

Out of these 132x departures a week, 73x will be using BRS based aircraft and 59x will use aircraft operating from other RYR bases (meaning only 55% of the departures each week use BRS based aircraft, showing how much bigger the BRS base would be if all flights were operated from BRS).
- All flights from DUB (20), KRK (3), BUD (3), MLA (3), MXP (3), WRO (2) are operated from their respective bases
- The following routes are operated by a mixture of BRS and away based aircraft - AGP (6 of 12 flights operated by away based), GRO (3 of 6), WMI (2 of 4) FAO (1 of 7), BGY (1 of 3), CGN (1 of 3) , KUN (1 of 2), OTP (1 of 2), SVQ (1 of 2) and VLC (1 of 2).
 
Summary of RYR Routes from BRS in Summer 2019

I've compared Ryanair's schedule from BRS during the second week in August 2019 compared to the same week in 2018. Here are the number of departures each week with the changes highlighted.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of destinations operating per week:
2018: 32
2019: 33 (+1 (+2 new/-1 dropped))
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of flights per week:
2018: 125
2019: 132 (+7/+5%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of based aircraft:
2018: 4 (4x B738s)
2019: 4 (4x B738s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Weekly Frequencies: (a '[+]' or '[-]' represents change from August 2018)

20x Weekly
Dublin (DUB)

12x Weekly
Alicante (ALC) [+2]

10x Weekly

Majorca Palma (PMI)

8x Weekly
Malaga (AGP)

7x Weekly
Faro (FAO)

6x Weekly
Barcelona Girona (GRO) [+1]

4x Weekly

Venice Marco Polo (VCE) [+1]
Warsaw Modlin (WMI) [+1]

3x Weekly

Milan Malpensa (MXP) [NEW] [+3]
Beziers (BZR)
Budapest (BUD)
Cologne (CGN)
Ibiza (IBZ)
Knock (NOC)
Krakow (KRK)
Lanzarote (ACE)
Milan Bergamo (BGY)
Malta (MLA)
Tenerife (TFS)

2x Weekly
Seville (SVQ) [NEW] [+2]
Bergerac (EGC)
Bologna (BLQ)
Bucharest (OTP)
Crete Chania (CHQ)
Gran Canaria (LPA)
Limoges (LIG)
Poznan (POZ)
Rzeszow (RZE)
Shannon (SNN)
Valencia (VLC)
Wroclaw (WRO)
Gdansk (GDN) [-1]
Kanuas (KUN) [-1]

Dropped

Barcelona Reus (REU) [-1]

Summary

Out of these 132x departures a week, 73x will be using BRS based aircraft and 59x will use aircraft operating from other RYR bases (meaning only 55% of the departures each week use BRS based aircraft, showing how much bigger the BRS base would be if all flights were operated from BRS).
- All flights from DUB (20), KRK (3), BUD (3), MLA (3), MXP (3), WRO (2) are operated from their respective bases
- The following routes are operated by a mixture of BRS and away based aircraft - AGP (6 of 12 flights operated by away based), GRO (3 of 6), WMI (2 of 4) FAO (1 of 7), BGY (1 of 3), CGN (1 of 3) , KUN (1 of 2), OTP (1 of 2), SVQ (1 of 2) and VLC (1 of 2).
Many thanks again, Severn, for yet more detailed and fascinating flight information. Your hard work is appreciated.

The BRS programme approximates to a seven-aircraft base. The good thing about so many flights operating from other bases is that they do not add to the intensely busy first batch of morning flights from the airport each day; do not tie up more overnight stands; they help to iron out the daily peaks and troughs at the airport.
 

Looks like Ryanair will be launching a new winter route to Turin. Nothing on sale yet but Bristol is on the drop down menu on the desktop site. ( my Italian not good sadly )
 

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