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[kraktoa]

Extra Zakinthos?

 

[Marko1]

Extra Zakinthos?[/QUOTE

So there is. Is this replacing something or is another aircraft coming our way ?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-airport-arrivals-departures-flights-2724177

Today's Bristol Post article mentions the extra easyJet flights to Belfast and Zakynthos, and also Glasgow which in total they say will provide an additional 18,000 seats.

Re Glasgow, the article mentions an additional GLA flight on Thursdays from 6 July, which will give up to 23 weekly flights (return flights that is) on that route. I can only find 23 weekly flights in September when GLA goes to 5 x daily on Thursdays.

A easyJet spokeswoman said, “We’re committed to expansion at Bristol Airport and the addition of these additional flights will help us to deliver long term, sustainable growth, providing passengers with a greater range of convenient flights across our network, all with low fares and great service.”

Nigel Scott, business development director at BRS said: “We are delighted with easyJet’s announcement adding additional frequency to key routes on Bristol’s network. This further demonstrates the strong demand in the region for both business and leisure travel.
This is the tenth year of successive growth at Bristol and we are continuing to work with easyJet looking at future route opportunities.”

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I see that the BRS arrivals/departures pages are using the ICAO flight code for easyJet again (EZY) having switched to the IATA code (U2) for a while.

Furthermore, those flights operated by easyJet Europe are shown as EJU (ICAO code) - the IATA code is EC. Today two rotations are EJU - the Venice and the second Barcelona of the day, operated by aircraft from non-BRS bases. The first Barcelona is a BRS aircraft EZY rotation.

easyJet Europe's call sign is 'Alpine'.

 

[Jerry]

With Cardiff potentially seeing the loss of it's Scottish routes or at least a big reduction in flights i'm wondering if EZY will try and capitalize on that and add frequenices to EDI and GLA especially morning ones for EDI when the winter comes?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

With Cardiff potentially seeing the loss of it's Scottish routes or at least a big reduction in flights i'm wondering if EZY will try and capitalize on that and add frequenices to EDI and GLA especially morning ones for EDI when the winter comes?

The winter schedule is yet to be published but the last week of 'summer', ie tha last week in October, shows 26 return flights with Monday and Friday having 5 each; Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 4 each; Wednesday 3; Saturday 1.

The busiest days are usually Monday and Friday with Sunday also very popular. Next Monday the first three of the five northbounds are sold out as is the first one next Friday with the first southbound next Friday also sold out, and this is at a time of the school holidays in the South West where business trips are probably reduced in number.

Winter is not likely to see reductions on the October frequency but whether a lack of CWL flights - if that happens - will have an influence might be thought to be less likely rather than more likely. It's by no means certain that CWL won't have flights and is probably not something that easyJet would gamble on even if they believed that such a circumstance would tip the balance into providing additional BRS flights.

The northbound departure times on Modays, for example, are spread throughout the day at 0705, 1200, 1545, 1915 and 2045.

GLA typically has slightly fewer weekly flights than EDI and I can't remember a day with five easyJet rotations operating before. GLA is typically a 3/4 a day operation with a single one on Saturdays.

My wife and I have used both BRS-EDI and BRS-GLA with Go/easyJet on numerous occasions and only yesterday we booked another BRS-GLA-BRS for mid-May.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/easyjet-flight-bristol-delayed-nearly-2730035

BRS-NCL flight 'delayed for nearly 24 hours' yesterday into today.

 

[superking]

It looks like all Brs based aircraft are G reg with OE reg aircraft are from bases in Europe. I just wonder if that will stay like this in the future.

 

[Jerry]

It looks like all Brs based aircraft are G reg with OE reg aircraft are from bases in Europe. I just wonder if that will stay like this in the future.

Depends on Brexit

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Extra flights to Belfast, Glasgow and Zakynthos.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/ab...syjet-launches-even-more-flights-from-bristol

BRS has now issued a press release on its website - no doubt the one upon which the Bristol Post story (above) was based.

The press release contains this sentence, as did the Bristol Post report:

An additional weekly flight to Glasgow on Thursdays will mean that easyJet will now operate this route up to 23 times a week from the 6th July and throughout the summer.

If they are, the booking engine does not reflect that. The only time that 23 weekly flights are shown is in September when the fifth Glasgow flight appears on Thursdays.

An amusing minor point is within the penultimate sentence of the press release where the airport is referred to as Bristol International Airport. This name was ditched a number of years ago. Perhaps the press release author is not aware of the corporate decision.


easyJet launches even more flights from Bristol to Belfast, Glasgow and Zakynthos for Summer
Created: 5th Apr 2019

easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has announced even more frequent flights from Bristol Airport to Belfast, Glasgow and Zakynthos, with seats on sale from today.

The airline has added two more weekly flights to Belfast on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, meaning the airline will now operate the route up to 20 times a week throughout the summer. Flights launch from 4th July.

An additional weekly flight to Glasgow on Thursdays will mean that easyJet will now operate this route up to 23 times a week from the 6th July and throughout the summer. Glasgow continues to prove to be one of easyJet’s most popular domestic routes from Bristol and over 50 easyJet flights every week connect Bristol with Scotland.

The airline will also offer an additional flight to popular holiday destination, the Greek Island Zakynthos throughout the summer, with the first flight taking off from 8th July.

Tickets are now on sale at www.easyJet.com with prices starting from as little as:

• Bristol to Belfast from £22.66*
• Bristol to Glasgow from £22.66*
• Bristol to Zakynthos from £34.78*

Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK Country Manager commented:

“We’re really pleased to be adding even more frequent flights to our Bristol network and to be putting flights on sale today, allowing our customers to book early and take advantage of our lowest fares to some of our most popular business and leisure destinations.

“easyJet is the largest airline at Bristol and we have been committed to providing excellent connectivity to the South West for over 18 years. We are proud to have carried more than over 53 million passengers in that time.

“We’re committed to expansion at Bristol Airport and the addition of these additional flights will help us to deliver long term, sustainable growth, providing passengers with a greater range of convenient flights across our network, all with low fares and great service.”

Nigel Scott, Business Development Director, Bristol Airport, said:

“We are delighted with easyJet’s announcement adding additional frequency to key routes on Bristol’s network. This further demonstrates the strong demand in the region for both business and leisure travel. This is the tenth year of successive growth at Bristol and we are continuing to work with easyJet looking at future route opportunities.”

easyJet has flown over 53m passengers across 69 routes in 12 countries since it launched operations from Bristol over 18 years ago and expects to fly over 5.2m passengers this year alone. The airline’s operation continues to grow, having seen an increase of more than 7% in capacity of seats offered from Bristol compared to the previous financial year.

Bristol is currently easyJet’s largest base in UK outside London and the airline continues to be the largest carrier serving Bristol, operating over 55% of flights from Bristol International Airport.

For more information and to book visit easyJet.com.

 

[Marko1]

Winter flights go on sale this Thursday.

 

[Marko1]

Some nice increases appearing from winter - Athens , Lyon and Madeira all increase as does Basel. However no increases on key business domestic/ European routes and Stockholm and are /Östersund not on sale for the winter at all.

 

[superking]

Some nice increases appearing from winter - Athens , Lyon and Madeira all increase as does Basel. However no increases on key business domestic/ European routes and Stockholm and are /Östersund not on sale for the winter at all.

Perhaps more to come route wise.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Some nice increases appearing from winter - Athens , Lyon and Madeira all increase as does Basel. However no increases on key business domestic/ European routes and Stockholm and are /Östersund not on sale for the winter at all.

Stockholm would be a shame to lose. Let's hope that if it's gone for the winter it returns next summer.

With the usual caveat that loads don't tell the whole story, CAA November 2018 stats show 2349 passengers, average load 130.5, up 6% on November 2017.

December 2018 was 2582 average load 143.4, up 19% on December 2017.

January 2019 shows 513 passengers, down 74% on January 2018 which seems to be another of those glitches that affect BRS figures from time to time as I can't find any cancellations on the route that month. It would amount to an average load of 28.5, less than Ostersund which has been a disaster.

Because neither BRS nor the CAA has published any February 2019 passenger figures for BRS yet we don't know how the route fared that month.

The route began in winter 2017-2018 so summer 2018 was the first summer with no comparision possible on the previous year.

Summer 2018 saw these monthly passenger figures (assuming that all flights operated).

April 2897 average load 160.9
May 2473 137.4
June 2276 142.3
July 2650 147.2
August 2659 147.7
September 2549 141.6
October 2150 134.4

If all the flights were on the 156-seat A 319 the load factors would have been ok for the most part (in the 90s% for the main summer months) but I think that one rotation each week was a 320 and the other a 319 - April's figures suggest that a 320 must have been used on some of the flights.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Some nice increases appearing from winter - Athens , Lyon and Madeira all increase as does Basel. However no increases on key business domestic/ European routes and Stockholm and are /Östersund not on sale for the winter at all.

IOM also increased next winter from 2 to 3 x weekly with a Sunday flight added.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/easyjet-passengers-detained-bristol-alicante-2749891

Another lot of people with too much alcohol it seems. easyJet BRS-ALC on 6 April arrived with what is reported as a 'disruptive and drunk' football team who were 'detained' by Spanish police on arrival, although from the press report it doesn't appear for very long.

 

[Jerry]

All checked in for my flight to Madrid next week with Easyjet. Also i was able to order my food in advance on their website which i didn't know Easyjet did! Bought a Ham and Cheese toastie, a diet coke and pack of pringles for £7.

 

[Marko1]

New route to biarritz

 

[Marko1]

And brindisi

 

[Marko1]

And Milan malpensa