easyJet

[TheLocalYokel]

During the first full week in August (3rd-9th) easyJet operated 193 of the airport's overall 320 departures for the week.

easyJet's 193 departures amounted to just under 49% of the 396 weekly departures originally scheduled for August - thanks to Severn's post in February for the 396 figure. That's substantually up on the 40% of flights easyJet said they were going to operate across their network.

Unlike Ryanair that operated to all its originally timetable destinations bar one and had a 70% departure rate against the original timetable (see BRS Ryanair thread for details), easyJet suspended more of its much larger BRS portfolio of destinations in August. As with Ryanair, a number of routes that did operate saw decreased frequencies.

Nevertheless, I think that BRS can be pleased with the way its two main airlines responded.

 

[Jerry]

Highly unlikely this year but maybe one day Easyjet will be flying to Kiev from Bristol?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1293257605243121664

 

[Marko1]

Some expansion this winter ( corona pending ) - Tenerife goes 6 weekly and during December there is 3 flight to cdg and 1 orly on Fridays. Additionally I mentioned before easyJet will be flying on Xmas day to Scotland and Paris

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Highly unlikely this year but maybe one day Easyjet will be flying to Kiev from Bristol?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1293257605243121664

Highly unlikely at any time I would have thought.

Some expansion this winter ( corona pending ) - Tenerife goes 6 weekly and during December there is 3 flight to cdg and 1 orly on Fridays. Additionally I mentioned before easyJet will be flying on Xmas day to Scotland and Paris

Ryanair is still down to 1 x weekly on TFS this winter - with some extra flights around Christmas and New Year. With its returning to Treviso from Marco Polo in the near future it seems to be ceding some ground to easyJet, although Ryanair is back to 3 x weekly on TFS next summer.

 

[Marko1]

EasyJet are expanding frequencies to a host of destinations from gatwick next summer presumably to fend off wizz. However I wonder whether frequency increases could be in the offing at Bristol too. I should imagine that there’s a possibility so

 

[TheLocalYokel]

EasyJet are expanding frequencies to a host of destinations from gatwick next summer presumably to fend off wizz. However I wonder whether frequency increases could be in the offing at Bristol too. I should imagine that there’s a possibility so

I really could not hazard even an educated guess as to what easyJet or other airlines will finally end up doing next summer, whether at BRS or elsewhere.

The general consensus in the industry at its most optimistic seems to be that 2021 will see 75%-80% of 2019's passenger numbers. That obviously depends on how the pandemic plays out next year and in particular whether any sort of effective vaccine comes along.

I'm very surprised at the actions of Wizz in their announcing numerous new routes and some bases in the UK from this year let alone next year. They appear to be adopting a far more positive approach than most airlines. Let's hope that their boldness (others might view it as recklessness) pays off. If it does it would mean the industry is recovering along the right lines.

Returning specifically to easyJet, let's remember that it was only a few months ago when substantiallly increased frequencies on some domestic routes from BRS appeared in their booking engine to take effect from early September - up to 6 x daily to EDI for example. That's since been reduced to 2 x daily for September, and the other routes that should have seen significant frequency increases have been similarly pared right back. EDI is still shown as up to 6 x daily from November but I will be amazed if that happens.

The same could therefore occur at Gatwick with the increased frequencies currently ahown on a number of easyJet routes there next summer.

It really is a case of trial and error or even suck-it-and-see for airlines at the moment because the pandemic has brought, is bringing and no doubt will continue to bring so much uncertainty.

 

[Seasider]

They may well be advertising 6 flights to attract bookings and then combining flights at the last minute. I can see the advantage from their point of view, but not for the businessman whose time at destination is reduce from 8 down to 2 hours.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

They may well be advertising 6 flights to attract bookings and then combining flights at the last minute. I can see the advantage from their point of view, but not for the businessman whose time at destination is reduce from 8 down to 2 hours.

I think the assumption (or probably hope) when the extra flights were put into the system at the beginning of this summer was that virus-wise things would be getting back towards normality by September and that the additions would be justified.

EDI was already up to 5 x daily, GLA up to 4 x daily and BFS up to 4 x daily - frequencies that had been operating for a year or two - before the extra daily rotations were added to these routes. So up to 6 x daily (EDI) and up to 5 x daily (GLA and BFS) would not have added greatly to frequencies that could already be consolidated if required.

Part of the rationale too might have been that at the time CWL and EXT were without EDI, GLA and Belfast routes following the cessation of Flybe. CWL still is although the EXT routes have been partially replaced by other airlines.

 

[superking]

Easyjet flights from the UK airports got cancelled today to FNC. The flights are due to operate tuesday the 25t. The reason given was high winds in FNC. Other European airlines that run Airbus family aircraft operated normally into FNC with no problems.I wonder if there was another reason why Easyjet did not operate into Fnc like planes or crew out of place.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Easyjet flights from the UK airports got cancelled today to FNC. The flights are due to operate tuesday the 25t. The reason given was high winds in FNC. Other European airlines that run Airbus family aircraft operated normally into FNC with no problems.I wonder if there was another reason why Easyjet did not operate into Fnc like planes or crew out of place.

We've noticed before that easyJet does tend to go in for wide-ranging cancellations in adverse weather when other airlines operate. There are lots of examples of this at BRS in recent years.

 

[superking]

The cancelled FNC rotation that was due to operate monday the 24th has operated today tuesday the 25th. Take off time was 7.34 local time from BRS. the aircraft used was a A320 neo

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Paris

easyJet's Paris Orly begins today, departure time 1940 which is 55 minutes before the easyJet departure to Paris Cdg. Orly will also operate tomorrow then on 4th, 5th and 7th September before being withdrawn until 25 October (at the moment) when it will resume daily (again at the moment).

I'm not sure why easyJet has bothered to operate the Orly route for just a few days. With France experiencing a serious bout of virus infections leading to travellers being subjected to 14 days quarantine on their return to the UK the market has fallen off a cliff.

Today the seat selector for CDG is showing 79 occupied seats outbound and 39 inbound whilst Orly is respectively 36 seats and 22 seats (both routes on 186-seat A320s). Cancelling the Orly today and moving passengers to the CDG might have been something that easyJet could have considered but I suppose some travellers would not have accepted that and some fares might have had to be refunded. Might have been less expensive for the airline despite that.

 

[Severn]

Friday 4 September 2020

There are currently 16x based easyJet aircraft at BRS. 12x aircraft were operational today out of 14 aircraft that have been returned to service. 2x are "stored" and have not seen service since March.

14x "Active" - all have been operating commercial services over the past few days
A319 (2) - G-EZBB/DH
A320 (11)

- (5x CEO) G-EZGX/PB/TG/TH/WX​

- (6x NEO) G-UZHJ/HT/HW/LH/LK/LM​

A321 (1) - G-UZMD

2x "Stored" - have not yet seen commercial service since the shutdown
A319 (2) - G-EZAY/IY

 

[superking]

The 2 A319 are down to be sold on to United airlines. But there is talk that they have stalled a319 from Easyjet. I think they have had a fair number of these aircraft delivered already,but about another dozen or so put on hold for now.

 

[Marko1]

Big cuts this winter. Many routes dropped until the start of summer season next year whilst those that remain are on reduced frequencies.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Big cuts this winter. Many routes dropped until the start of summer season next year whilst those that remain are on reduced frequencies.

By coincidence I've been checking some of the loads today (easyJet and Ryanair) which ironically is I think the busiest day (54 departures across five airlines) since March before the virus interfered with everything.

I set out in some detail the seat selector results which, domestic and non-quarantine routes apart, don't make for good reading. I made the point that airlines and airports can't carry on like this. The details are in a post I submitted a few minutes ago in the BRS Movements, Logs and Head-up thread.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

A321

I think there is only one A321 based following the virus-led reductions. I saw it on approach this afternoon when I was walking near my house. A check with FR24 reveals it was G-UZMD and was returning from Rhodes.

I wondered what else it had been doing of late. According to FR24 this A321 has been at BRS for a while and its recent work is as follows:

Sunday 30 August Madrid
Monday 31 August Athens and Dalaman
Tuesday 1 September Naples and Bodrum
Wednesday 2 September Zakynthos and Dalaman
Thursday 3 September Faro and Dalaman
Friday 4 September Lisbon and Athens
Saturday 5 September Lanzarote and Dalaman
Sunday 6 September Rhodes
and tomorrow it's Athens and Dalaman again.

G-UZMD ought to know its way to Dalaman by now.

 

[Severn]

Winter 2020/21

As Marko1 has pointed out, huge cuts across the easyJet network, including Bristol with most routes going from daily to a few weekly, or even dropped. Of course this is in comparison to previous years and therefore seems worse than it is when comparing to having no flights at all!!

Looking at a Monday in December, 11x aircraft are needed (3x A319, 6x A320, 2x A321) which is not too bad given LPL has had its required based fleet halved (from 8 to 4) and MAN from 17 to 10.

Of course it is still early days, and the schedules are changing each week.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Winter 2020/21

As Marko1 has pointed out, huge cuts across the easyJet network, including Bristol with most routes going from daily to a few weekly, or even dropped. Of course this is in comparison to previous years and therefore seems worse than it is when comparing to having no flights at all!!

Looking at a Monday in December, 11x aircraft are needed (3x A319, 6x A320, 2x A321) which is not too bad given LPL has had its required based fleet halved (from 8 to 4) and MAN from 17 to 10.

Of course it is still early days, and the schedules are changing each week.

Thanks, Severn. I had a look through the current proposals for winter last night and they are not as bad as I thought they might be. As you say, the programme could and probably will change and change again.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Winter 2020/21

As Marko1 has pointed out, huge cuts across the easyJet network, including Bristol with most routes going from daily to a few weekly, or even dropped. Of course this is in comparison to previous years and therefore seems worse than it is when comparing to having no flights at all!!

Looking at a Monday in December, 11x aircraft are needed (3x A319, 6x A320, 2x A321) which is not too bad given LPL has had its required based fleet halved (from 8 to 4) and MAN from 17 to 10.

Of course it is still early days, and the schedules are changing each week.

So on a Monday Bristol need more aircraft than Manchester ?