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[forest1979]

I think you are right and they are definitely trying to capitalise on the uk market. Newquay has 4 easy jet routes this year.. not complaining as NQY feels as well connected now as it did with Flybe… will be interesting to see if jersey and Aberdeen live on beyond the summer

 

[Marko1]

Given the long term success of Inverness I’m very surprised Aberdeen hasn’t appeared earlier tbh. Jersey would do well as a peak summer destination as well.

 

[Marko1]

Malta now reappearing on the app

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Malta now reappearing on the app

easyJet launches a new route to Green List destination Malta from Bristol

A new route from Bristol to Malta will launch from 9 July and operate twice weekly on Mondays and Fridays throughout the summer. There are also thousands of additional seats available from the UK to the Balearic Islands this summer season including from Bristol to Palma, Mahon and Ibiza.

www.bristolairport.co.uk

Press release on BRS website, confirms your post and the booking engine for the past few days.

easyJet launches a new route to Green List destination Malta from Bristol​

Created: 25th Jun 2021

A new route from Bristol to Malta will launch from 9 July and operate twice weekly on Mondays and Fridays throughout the summer. There are also thousands of additional seats available from the UK to the Balearic Islands this summer season including from Bristol to Palma, Mahon and Ibiza.

• easyJet has put over 50,000 extra seats on sale from the UK to new Green list destinations in response to customer demand for international travel this summer including from Bristol to Palma, Mahon and Ibiza
• A new route to Malta from Bristol will launch from 9 July with flights now available from just £27.99*
• easyJet is one of the leading UK carriers to European Green list destinations, with around one million seats operating this summer
• easyJet has demonstrated through its study with Yale School of Public Health that travel is safe to much of Europe and European governments are enabling restriction free international travel also showing that a safe reopening is possible
• The airline and easyJet holidays are providing more flexibility for flights and holidays than ever before through its Protection Promise, including fee free flight changes to any date or destination up to 2 hours before departure.

Following confirmation from the UK government that Malta and the Balearics Islands will join the Green list for international travel, easyJet has put over 50,000 extra seats on sale to the new Green list destinations this summer to serve demand and provide more choice for customers to be reunited with loved ones or take a well-deserved break.

A new route from Bristol to Malta will launch from 9 July and operate twice weekly on Mondays and Fridays throughout the summer. There are also thousands of additional seats available from the UK to the Balearic Islands this summer season including from Bristol to Palma, Mahon and Ibiza Flights and holidays are now available to book online at easyJet.com.

easyJet is one of the leading UK carriers to European Green list destinations with around one million seats operating this summer from the UK.

Johan Lundgren, easyJet CEO commented:

“We really want to get back to what we do best and connect people across Europe so we welcome these additions to the Green list and in response we have put over fifty thousand more seats on sale to new and existing routes to Green destinations. This includes a brand new route from Bristol to Malta, meaning we now have around one million seats operating to current European Green list destinations this summer.

“And with two thirds of UK adults expected to be double jabbed by 19 July, now is the time to let British citizens take advantage of the success of the vaccination programme so we urge the Government to move quickly to remove quarantine and testing for fully vaccinated people travelling from Amber and Green countries. This is overdue and unless testing is also removed flying could become the preserve of the rich again.

“easyJet is ready and able to ramp up and we look forward playing our part in reuniting people with their loved ones or take them on a well-deserved break.”

Through a recent study, by leading epidemiologists Dr Jeffrey Townsend and Dr Alison Galvani who are faculty at the Yale School of Public Health, the airline has shown that much more of Europe should be classed as Green on the government’s framework. easyJet has worked with leading scientists at Yale on research which has shown that travel from several countries would not affect the UK case rate but most importantly that travel to Europe would have very little impact on hospitalisations in the UK. This is because the success of the UK vaccine roll-out has broken the link between cases and hospitalisation. It is the same success that allows for the domestic reopening.

With European governments progressively opening up using frameworks in place which enable travel and much of it restriction free, Europe is also demonstrating that a safe reopening of travel is possible.

Malta

New flights to Malta take off from Bristol from 9 July 2021 operating twice weekly on Mondays and Fridays this summer.

Flights are now on sale at easyJet.com with fares are available for this summer from just £27.99*.

Holidays are now on sale at easyJet.com/en/holidays with packages available for this summer from just £380 per person – need hols update

 

[Marko1]

EasyJet have now brought forward the launch of Malta to this Friday (2/7).

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Airport press release confirming previously-announced news:

easyJet launches first flights on new domestic summer routes from Bristol to Aberdeen and Jersey

New flights from Bristol Airport to Aberdeen International Airport launch today

www.bristolairport.co.uk

easyJet launches first flights on new domestic summer routes from Bristol to Aberdeen and Jersey​

Created: 9th Jul 2021

New flights from Bristol Airport to Aberdeen International Airport launch today

• Flights from Bristol Airport to Jersey Airport will also take off for the first time on Saturday 10 July
• Seats are available to book for this summer with great value fares from £14.99*
• The airline is providing more flexibility for flights than ever before through its Protection Promise, including fee free flight changes to any date or destination up to 2 hours before departure

easyJet is celebrating launching the first flights on two new domestic summer routes from Bristol, providing customers in the south west of England with key connectivity across the UK and more opportunity to reconnect with friends and family across the country or book a long-awaited break to explore more of the UK this summer.

The first flight from Bristol to Aberdeen takes off today at 17:00 and is now operating up to four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays with fares starting from £24.99*. Customers in the region can now enjoy a convenient direct connection to the beautiful coastlines, idyllic seaside towns, rugged cliffs and sandy bays that north east Scotland has to offer.

Flights from Bristol Airport to Jersey will also be taking off for the first time on Saturday 10 July at 07:00, operating three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with fares starting from £14.99*. Known for its beaches, cliffside walking trails, inland valleys and historic castles, customers can now enjoy a direct connection to the sunny domestic destination.

All customers booking flights with easyJet benefit from some of the most flexible policies under its ‘Protection Promise’ which means that customers can book now for later this year with the confidence that if their plans change, so can their booking.

Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK Country Manager, said:

“We are delighted to be celebrating the launch of our first flights from Bristol Airport to Aberdeen and Jersey for the first time. These routes further strengthen our network from Bristol and provide more connectivity for our customers whether they are reuniting with loved ones, connecting for business, or want to explore more of the UK this summer.

“We are proud to be the largest airline in Bristol and remain committed to offering customers great value fares and more choice when they fly with us."

Dave Lees, CEO, Bristol Airport said:

“We are delighted to welcome customers to easyJet’s services to Jersey and Aberdeen this weekend. Connectivity with the rest of the UK is extremely important and easyJet being our largest based airline has been integral to unlocking these key air links. We will continue to work with easyJet, enhancing and developing the route network for the future.

“The routes offer improved choice and flexibility to customers wishing to travel within the UK and provides surety and confidence to customers when arranging the long-awaited family visit, a well-deserved holiday or business trip.

“Safety and security of our customers and colleagues remains our key priority and is at the forefront of all planning and preparations we have in place for customers. We will continue to work closely with airlines, the government, Department for Transport and Public Health England on the latest information as it becomes available.”

All customers booking flights with easyJet benefit from industry leading flexible booking policies under its ‘Protection Promise’ which means that customers can book now with confidence that if their plans change, so can their booking.

All easyJet customers will now be able to change their flights this summer without a change fee at any time up to two hours before departure, providing even more last-minute flexibility. Unlike other airlines, there are no restrictions on dates or destination; customers can transfer to any flights currently on sale up to the end of September 2022, and to any other destination on the airline’s network which spans 35 countries across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. This means that if some travel restrictions are impacting their destination country, such as self-isolation in destination or on return to the UK, customers can easily change their trip to another country on easyJet’s network. Plus, should a mandatory hotel quarantine impact a customer’s travel destination this summer, customers can now request a refund for their flight within four weeks before departure if the restriction is still in place, even if their flights are still operating.

The safety and wellbeing of all customers and crew remains easyJet’s highest priority and the airline continues to have a number of biological safety measures in place onboard in line with guidance from the relevant authorities. This includes daily enhanced cabin disinfection effective in protecting against coronavirus for at least 24 hours and mandatory mask wearing for customers and crew. All easyJet aircraft are already fitted with HEPA filters, similar to those used in hospitals, which filter 99.97% of airborne contaminants in the cabin, including viruses and bacteria.

To book and for more information on easyJet’s Bristol network visit easyjet.com

 

[CM.]

Easyjet have got a new seasonal route to Sharm El Sheikh starting from November 3rd 2021.

2x weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

EZY6277 BRS-SSH D-08:00 A-15:35
EZY6278 SSH-BRS D-16:20 A-20:15

Thanks to SeanM1997 on Twitter.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Easyjet have got a new seasonal route to Sharm El Sheikh starting from November 3rd 2021.

2x weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

EZY6277 BRS-SSH D-08:00 A-15:35
EZY6278 SSH-BRS D-16:20 A-20:15

Thanks to SeanM1997 on Twitter.

BRS press release.

easyJet announces new winter route from Bristol to Egypt

easyJet and easyJet holidays have confirmed today that a new route and package holidays to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from Bristol will launch from 3 November 2021.

www.bristolairport.co.uk

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I've put a link in the easyJet airline thread to a report saying that easyJet is shifting its emphasis to Europe and away from the UK. It's partly to do with the uncertainty of government actions re routes. How or if this will affect BRS remains to be seen.

 

[kraktoa]

Returned from a holiday in Balearics this week. Both journeys were about half full. Menorca Airport was practically empty with less than 20 % of retail units open in departures.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The last week or so has seen roughly between 35% and 47% of BRS pre-pandemic airline movements at this time of year, although the seat selectors (never definitive but a useful broad indicator) show loads are far lower than in normal times. easyJet's flights to Scotland and Belfast aren't badly filled for the most part and more than once there have been over 600 in a day going northbound to EDI for example, with high loads on BFS with A321s on some days (probably the same A321 shuttling back and forth).

The sun routes loadings appear broadly as you experienced although with the school holidays now with us there are suggestions that loads are growing a bit.

Not easyJet, but Ryanair's eastern and central European routes have been seeing high loads, albeit lead-in fares are often not high although as flights fill some fares have been well in excess of £100 per sector for the lowest fare option. The seat selectors suggest that 90%-plus load factor is not uncommon on these Ryanair routes and one earlier in the week was sold out (one of the Polish routes - I forget which). I don't check every day and when I do I just do a sample.

 

[kraktoa]

I positioned myself at the Menorca airport gates so I could count the number of disembarking passengers coming from Bristol, this Tue. 76 pax and maybe a few wheelchair. As schools broke around thu last week for all areas in the SW that was a very low number of pax.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I positioned myself at the Menorca airport gates so I could count the number of disembarking passengers coming from Bristol, this Tue. 76 pax and maybe a few wheelchair. As schools broke around thu last week for all areas in the SW that was a very low number of pax.

That's how it is at the moment, especially with the government tinkering regularly with the green, amber red routes.

The next easyJet flight to Mahon from BRS is tomorrow with the seat selector showing 81 of the 156 seats on the A319 occupied - current standard fare for tomorrow £49.99. Out of interest I checked easyJet Manchester to Mahon with the next flight being on Sunday. Currently 84 of the 186 seats on the A320 are shown as occupied - current standard fare for Sunday £55.99.

Looking to the next couple of weeks the standard fares on BRS-MAH with easyJet are mostly in the ranger £26.99 to £36.99.Those fares alone tell a story for flights to the sun in the August school holidays.

Jet2 have been doubling up some routes to the sun from a number of their airports including some flights from BRS in order to get one decent combined load from two airports instead of poor loads from separate airports to the same destination.

 

[kraktoa]

Those numbers you quote means the routes are loss making for the airlines. The media love to whip up a storm and create headlines all the time. This is not good for the industry.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Press release re a collaboration between easyJet and BRS on sustainability issues.

Bristol Airport joins forces with easyJet to trial a range of initiatives with a long-term ambition to achieve net-zero operations at the airport

Bristol Airport and easyJet have today announced a new collaboration to align on their important strategic goals around sustainability.

www.bristolairport.co.uk

Bristol Airport joins forces with easyJet to trial a range of initiatives with a long-term ambition to achieve net-zero operations at the airport​

Created: 11th Aug 2021

Bristol Airport and easyJet have today announced a new collaboration to align on their important strategic goals around sustainability.

The partnership will involve a series of trials all geared towards the overall ambition to achieve a -zero emissions turnaround at Bristol alongside taking steps to contribute positively towards reducing easyJet’s overall carbon footprint.

The joint partnership will study a wide range of cutting-edge developments and operational efficiencies, with easyJet using Bristol Airport as a test-bed to trial and implement the latest technological and innovative solutions for decarbonising its operations and reducing waste. It’s hoped that any successful results from the trials will have the potential to be rolled out across easyJet’s network which spans 150 airports across 35 countries.

The partnership will work with various expert associates and partners throughout the aviation industry to help reduce and eliminate emissions from aircraft ground operations, challenging industry along the way to work together to develop affordable and achievable technological solutions toward mutual end goals that have far reaching benefits.

Projects and trials will include work in the following areas:

• electric Ground Power Units
• sustainable aviation fuels
• electric passenger coach transportation
• recycling and waste management
• employee carbon-saving initiatives
• supply chain carbon reductions
• aircraft continuous descent approaches
• zero carbon emission aircraft turnarounds
• Neo Aircraft deployment and Fleet Optimisation

Jane Ashton, Director of Sustainability at easyJet, said:

easyJet takes sustainability seriously, already offsetting the carbon emissions from the fuel used on all our flights as an interim measure while we continue to champion the development of new technology. We will continue to optimise our operational fuel and carbon-efficiency and review what further measures we can take to reduce emissions across our operations. This partnership with Bristol Airport is a good example of how we can look at every aspect of our operations, really challenging how we do things by implementing the newest technological solutions across a series of decarbonisation and waste reduction trials over the coming months.

Simon Earles, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs Director, Bristol Airport said:

“We are delighted to be partnering with easyJet to see how we can continue to work together towards our ambition to achieve net-zero emissions at the airport. As an airport we are taking our commitments to address climate change seriously and we have made great progress already. By the end of 2021 we will be a carbon neutral airport for emissions under our direct control, exceeding our own target, four years ahead of schedule.

“The easyJet commitment follows on from the work we have already started in announcing an Aviation Carbon Transition (ACT) Programme with a starting fund of £250k. The (ACT) Programme will support initiatives and projects reducing direct and indirect emissions from airport infrastructure to enable lower/zero emissions; research and development of decarbonisation or alternative fuels for use by airlines; design and develop processes and procedures to eliminate emissions and demonstrating our commitment to working with others to support innovation in relation to decarbonising transport and flight emissions outside of our direct control.

“Working in partnership with easyJet will enable us to develop joint initiatives and projects to contribute towards decarbonising aviation and the creation of green jobs.”

 

[Jerry]

Does anyone know how early you can drop your luggage at bag drop with Easyjet? I know i'm not flying from Bristol but too BRS but thought it might be a similar time for Inverness.
Looking at the seat map looks like about 130 seats taken on an A320 so far for the flight tomorrow afternoon.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It seems to vary in practice. At Bristol we've bag dropped 2-3 hours before the flight departure time on occasions. Two of our more recent easyJet return flights pre pandemic when we had hold luggage were Geneva and Glasgow. At both they didn't begin accepting hold baggage until about two hours before departure time.

130 seats probably isn't bad on this type of route in these difficult times - 70% load factor.

 

[Jerry]

It seems to vary in practice. At Bristol we've bag dropped 2-3 hours before the flight departure time on occasions. Two of our more recent easyJet return flights pre pandemic when we had hold luggage were Geneva and Glasgow. At both they didn't begin accepting hold baggage until about two hours before departure time.

130 seats probably isn't bad on this type of route in these difficult times - 70% load factor.

I'll give it a try, they may take it early if not i'll see if i can leave it at the hotel for a few hours as i might look to do a bit of planespotting.

 

[Jerry]

I'll give it a try, they may take it early if not i'll see if i can leave it at the hotel for a few hours as i might look to do a bit of planespotting.

It was 2 hours before departure in the end. Though now my departure is delayed by 30 minutes

 

[Jerry]

My ride to Bristol has arrived!
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