easyJet

[Marko1]

Can you tell if the A 321 airbus aircraft based again.

brief look at the obvious destinations -cdg, ace and Dlm suggests no 321

 

[Jerry]

Can you tell if the A 321 airbus aircraft based again.

I'd be very surprised if BRS has the A321 next year. Most likely retreat them to Gatwick or maybe even park them up!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

brief look at the obvious destinations -cdg, ace and Dlm suggests no 321

Yet a look at CDG for example for the coming winter shows a 321 scheduled. I haven't looked at any other BRS easyJet route.

Some years ago I remember looking at the next summer season or such of it as easyJet publishes in the first release and the booking engine seat selector was showing every flight on a 319, although 320s had been introduced at the airport in previous years. In due course some of the flights were altered to a 320 that season.

When the first part of summer 2021 proper is published and if there are no 321s that might be a better indication of the airline's intentions, although referring to my previous paragraph things might still change.

The COVID-19 effects as far forward as 2021 are still an unknown quantity for every airline.

 

[Marko1]

I think you might be right LY. I think it’s early days and the plans will change. Incidentally I can’t see any flights on a 319 either. Also i randomly checked Lgw and Man and they show no 321 s either

 

[TheLocalYokel]

easyJet pulled all their flights for April a little while back but from May onwards the booking engine calendar is 'active'.

However, a check with a number of routes, not just from BRS, shows all flights in May up until Sunday 17th as 'sold out' which in such mass form means not operating. The airline booking engine appears to be taking bookings for flights scheduled from Monday 18 May onwards although the likelihood of flights in May actually operating must be extremely low.

 

[Marko1]

Significant increases in edi from autumn - 5 or 6 daily

 

[Marko1]

Also significant increases to Glasgow 4/5 daily . Both edi and gla twice on sats

 

[Marko1]

Paris cdg twice daily from autumn. Once daily to orly

 

[Marko1]

Belfast goes 5 daily on sundays

 

[Jerry]

Significant increases in edi from autumn - 5 or 6 daily

Belfast goes 5 daily on sundays

Also significant increases to Glasgow 4/5 daily . Both edi and gla twice on sats

Paris cdg twice daily from autumn. Once daily to orly

Well they are the only airline offering flights from the south west of the UK to those destinations as Loganair and Eastern haven't put any flights onsale so they may be hoping to mop up any advance bookings.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Interesting concept. BFS has never been 5 x daily before nor EDI 6 x daily. I remember GLA was 5 x daily on one day a week last year for part of the summer. I'm referring to easyJet. In the early days of easyJet at BRS EDI and GLA were up to 8 x daily with the BA franchisee operating up to 5 x daily along with easyJet's up to 3 x daily.

Given the uncertainly of aviation when flying starts again after the worst excesses of COVID-19 the frequencies seem ambitious. I wonder if these frequency increases were in the pipeline before COVID-19 and they've left them in to see how bookings go.

 

[Marko1]

There is also flights on Xmas day to edi, gla and cdg scheduled.

 

[Marko1]

The increases to domestic flying actually start early sept

 

[Marko1]

Amsterdam goes 3 daily from August 31

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Looking at the destinations showing significant increased frequency from September, I've summarised the details below showing the number of return flights per day from September through the winter, although there are some reductions from these frequencies for the month of January 2021:

Edinburgh

M 6
T 5
W 5
T 5
F 6
S 2
S 5
Total 34 Winter 2019-2020 Total 27 so an increase of 26%

Glasgow

M 5
T 4
W 4
T 5
F 5
S 2
S 4
Total 29 Winter 2019-2020 Total 22 so an increase of 32%

Belfast Int*

M 4
T 3
W 3
T 4
F 4
S 2
S 5
Total 25 Winter 2019-2020 Total 19 so an increase of 31.5%

* BFS is 26 x weekly in September and October with 5 return flights on Mon as well as Sun

Paris CDG

M-Su 2 x daily
Total 14 Winter 2019-2020 Total 13 so an increase of 7.7% but when combined with Orly shows a Paris increase of 61.5%

Paris Orly

M-Su Daily
Total 7 Winter 2019-2020 Total Nil

Amsterdam**

M-F and Su 3 x daily
Sa 2 x daily
Total 20 Winter 2019-2020 Total 12

** AMS returns to 12 weekly from November (double-daily except W and Sa that are daily) the same as in Winter 2019-2020 and in summer 2019. With KLM Cityhopper's 27 x weekly that would be 47 AMS weekly return flights in September and October.

I find it extremely difficult to fathom the rationale for such an increase at a time when the effects of COVID-19 will almost certainly be playing a significant part in everyday life with a consequent lowering of demand for air travel throughout this year.

 

[superking]

On dried plum today is chages to Easyjet flights from31st august.
CDG 7 to 14 weekly flights
AMS 12 to 20 weekly flights.
EDI 25 to 33 weekly flights
GLA 20 to 29 weekly flights.
BFS 19 to 26 weekly flights.

I have looked round and found nothing to agree or disagree with these extra flights.The only thing I can think of is a wish list.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

On dried plum today is chages to Easyjet flights from31st august.
CDG 7 to 14 weekly flights
AMS 12 to 20 weekly flights.
EDI 25 to 33 weekly flights
GLA 20 to 29 weekly flights.
BFS 19 to 26 weekly flights.

I have looked round and found nothing to agree or disagree with these extra flights.The only thing I can think of is a wish list.

I made it 34 EDI return flights a week when I checked last week (see previous post). I haven't checked to see which weekly rotation has been removed. The others were the same as the Dried Plum post. Mind you, I doubt very much that they will all operate as soon as the end of August.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Further to the above posts re extra flights to a number of destinations from BRS later this year, this press article suggests they are to fill the void left by Flybe.

easyJet announces 39 more flights a week from Bristol Airport

After the coroanvirus lockdown ends, of course

www.bristolpost.co.uk

 

[Marko1]

What I find strange is that those schedules are not carried through to next April/may at all . Also I wonder why the increased frequencies to Amsterdam also end at the end of October ? Anyone notice if extra a/craft are needed from 31/8 ? Can’t see reductions elsewhere .

 

[TheLocalYokel]

What I find strange is that those schedules are not carried through to next April/may at all . Also I wonder why the increased frequencies to Amsterdam also end at the end of October ?

I've long wondered about the seemngly arcane workings of airline scheduling. I have no doubt there is invariably a good reason but not being privy to the inner workings of an airline it's often not obvious to an outsider.

In terms of the market in these unprecedented times, it might reasonably be thought that the further away in time from the present the more likely it is that aviation will be in a better shape. If they think they can operate 33 return flights a week on the EDI in September for example, you'd think that next April ought to be even easier to fill.

It could of course be down to something such as aircraft availability across the network. Alternatively, they might really be considering blocking off seats in the immediate return to flying and will need more rotations to provide the same number of available seats on these routes, something that perhaps they think won't be necessary in nearly a year's time when social distancing might not be required.

I took the 'replacing Flybe' comment in the linked newspaper report above as a bit of spin.