easyJet

[superking]

Just a little windy down there?

Weathwe people say Friday would be the worse for wind. But they do say a lot of rain at times over week end.

 

[kraktoa]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/stranded-easyjet-flight-bristol-airport-2263656.amp

The Funchal stranding season has begun allright.

 

[Marko1]

Any news of easyJet's plans for summer 2019? It's usually about now that new routes are announced isn't it ? At the mo we kind of relying on easyJet for next years growth

 

[superking]

Any news of easyJet's plans for summer 2019? It's usually about now that new routes are announced isn't it ? At the mo we kind of relying on easyJet for next years growth

Yes do agree about expansion and with TUI going to replace B757 with B738 aircrafts.
I notice that the Easyjet A319 fleet size dropping and replaced with A320 aircrafts.When the based A319 have been replaced ith A320 aircrafts the next step would be the A321 aircrafts.There was talk back along that BRS would be 1 of the first base after Gatwick to get A321 aircrafts.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Any news of easyJet's plans for summer 2019? It's usually about now that new routes are announced isn't it ? At the mo we kind of relying on easyJet for next years growth

Looking back over BRS press releases, new route announcements made in the winter in recent years were as follows:

2017: Genoa and Seville announced on 14 December
2016: Kefalonia and Pula announced on 13 December
2015: Dubrovnik and Nantes announced on 3 November
2014: Lanzarote, Catania, Porto and Gibraltar announced on 14 November

So based on the past two years any new route announcement (if there are to be any) might come next week.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/easyjet-flight-forced-land-bristol-2297259

An easyJet aircraft from Liverpool to Alicante diverted to BRS yesterday following a smell of smoke in the cabin. Passegers disembarked and were flown to Alicante on a replacement aircraft.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/...ights-delay-cancellation-compensation-2303247

A group of seven passengers stranded in Prague when easyJet cancelled their flight to Bristol have won their claim for compensation. The incident occurred last March during the so-called 'Beast from the East' weather episode. The airline refused to pay citing 'extraordinary circumstances' brought about by the extreme weather but the aviation adjudication scheme ruled in the passengers' favour .

The group argued that Bristol Airport was open and easyJet had pre-emptively cancelled 30 flights from the airport when other airlines operated.

easyJet has accepted the ruling and the passengers have now been paid compensation. However, an easyJet spokesperson stated that the adjudication did not base its ruling on the question of extraordinary circumstances. easyJet lost the day because they had not provided sufficient information for the matter to be decided in their favour.

 

[Marko1]

Anyone know how well the new service to are Ostersund is selling. It’s launching tomorrow and according to the seat map only 7 seats have been taken !

 

[Jerry]

Anyone know how well the new service to are Ostersund is selling. It’s launching tomorrow and according to the seat map only 7 seats have been taken !

Only 7? That can't be right! Maybe a lot of it is booked by tour parties and they will check in at the airport?

 

[Marko1]

Only 7? That can't be right! Maybe a lot of it is booked by tour parties and they will check in at the airport?

Let’s hope so Jerry

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Anyone know how well the new service to are Ostersund is selling. It’s launching tomorrow and according to the seat map only 7 seats have been taken !

Only 7? That can't be right! Maybe a lot of it is booked by tour parties and they will check in at the airport?

As the flight is departing tomorrow the seat map should be fairly accurate as regards seat availability.

Looking at some of the other easyJet flights to ski destinations from BRS a lot more seats are taken.

Currently 12 seats are taken to Ostersund tomorrow and 17 on the flight on Sunday week. The apparent Ostersund take-up seems incredibly low for a ski route from BRS, even a brand new one never flown before. Fares too look low to Ostersund as the Holiday Season is almost upon us.

easyJet only flies to Ostersund from Bristol, Gatwick and Copenhagen. Tomorrow's Gatwick flight shows only 52 seats taken. That's better than 12 but still extremely low for easyJet.

 

[superking]

As the flight is departing tomorrow the seat map should be fairly accurate as regards seat availability.

Looking at some of the other easyJet flights to ski destinations from BRS a lot more seats are taken.

Currently 12 seats are taken to Ostersund tomorrow and 17 on the flight on Sunday week. The apparent Ostersund take-up seems incredibly low for a ski route from BRS, even a brand new one never flown before. Fares too look low to Ostersund as the Holiday Season is almost upon us.

easyJet only flies to Ostersund from Bristol, Gatwick and Copenhagen. Tomorrow's Gatwick flight shows only 52 seats taken. That's better than 12 but still extremely low for easyJet.

Lets hope Easy jet give it a fair run to see how it does do.

 

[Jerry]

Have Easyjet ever had a route that hasn't worked out and dropped it mid season?
Looking at the prices and the outbounds are as low as £25 but many of the return fares are as low as £15 apart from thr 24th February which is £147.

 

[Marko1]

I don’t recall any sudden cuts in routes from easyJet unlike Ryanair that often does

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Have Easyjet ever had a route that hasn't worked out and dropped it mid season?
Looking at the prices and the outbounds are as low as £25 but many of the return fares are as low as £15 apart from thr 24th February which is £147.

No they haven't so far as I can remember and I am pretty confident on that because I would have noted it. Ryanair did it twice: Bydgoszcz was axed in summer 2010 after only two months (May and June). It was a new route and loads weren't that dire either. Ryanair also axed Riga midway through winter 2011-2012 after the route had been operating for over four years.

What I would say about Ostersund is that the Gatwick route is also showing a lot of outbounds at £27 through the next three months and a lot of £17 fares on the inbound leg. The route operated from Gatwick at least for the past two winters (I haven't checked beyond that) and loads seemed very ordinary by easyJet standards judging from CAA stats. Gatwick is 2 x weekly this winter compared with BRS's 1 x weekly.

That said, barely double figures for the inaugural flight (if that is the case) must be a record low for easyJet at BRS by a huge margin.

Interesting that easyJet picked BRS in the first place. With their other routes being only Gatwick and Copenhagen from Ostersund easyJet must have thought there was the likelihood of a market at BRS, even though Gatwick hadn't performed spectacularly in previous years when the CAA stats are looked at.

Ostersund seems very much a seasonal airport with four summer sun routes as well as seasonal routes to Malmo and Gothenberg, plus the three easyJet winter ski routes. The only year round routes seem to be to Stockholm with two airlines.

 

[Jerry]

Ostersund seems very much a seasonal airport with four summer sun routes as well as seasonal routes to Malmo and Gothenberg, plus the three easyJet winter ski routes. The only year round routes seem to be to Stockholm with two airlines.

It is definitely in the Swedish hinterland! Ski routes do seem to do well from BRS so that could explain why they choose BRS. I also wonder if there is some sort of connectivity fund from the local government or maybe no version of the Swedish APD on the route which may help with the yeild of the route and why they've kept it going at Gatwick despite average loads.

 

[Severn]

Todays Åre Östersund flight seems to have diverted to Stockholm! The easyJet LGW flight also has diverted to Stockholm by the looks of it. Snow has been falling, so may have something to do with it.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Ostersund

Bookings looking better after next week where so far 19 seats are taken on the outbound on 16 December.

So far 75 seats taken on the 23 December flight and 88 on the 30 December flight. Those totals should build significantly prior to the flights if normal easyJet seat filling parameters obtain.

 

[tpm]

Was in Sweden last week and asked someone about Ostersund and why EasyJet might fly there from the UK. Asked if it may be for skiing I got a half-hearted "yeah, I guess you might be able to ski somewhere around there" - didn't sound like it's a well-known location (I certainly hadn't heard of it before).

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Was in Sweden last week and asked someone about Ostersund and why EasyJet might fly there from the UK. Asked if it may be for skiing I got a half-hearted "yeah, I guess you might be able to ski somewhere around there" - didn't sound like it's a well-known location (I certainly hadn't heard of it before).

I'd only heard of Ostersund because I knew it was a Gatwick route. Other than that I knew nothing about the place.

Doing a bit of digging reveals that Ostersund does have some winter sports credentials. It has applied several times, so far unsuccessfully, to be the the host of the Winter Olympics. The Nordic Games have been held there in the past though.