easyJet

[Severn]

Red Flyer alluded to destination slots, but this doesn’t mean the airports in question are busy city airports like Munich and Zurich necessarily. Plenty of the holiday airports (Greek islands for example) during the summer will be slot controlled and easyJet will have applied for the times that suit their aircraft availability.

 

[Jerry]

Considering the launch of Easyjet holidays I'd have thought that beach holiday destinations would be the most likely or maybe one beach destination and a mountain and lakes destination?

 

[Marko1]

With the loss of tcx there has been a lot of backfill on the Greek routes by tui. However Corfu was not increased so there’s a net loss of 2 weekly flights there plus Zante has a net loss of 3 per week despite an extra weekly Tui flight. I have said many times before that I’m surprised the likes of Mykonos and Santorini do not appear on the easyJet schedules from Bristol.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Crossair did BRS---ZRH for a while a few years back. BRS was their first base out side of London. The service was pulled I think low pax numbers were quoted. Not long after BRS was pulled they started LCY. I cant remember the year or what type of aircraft was used out of BRS.

The last two operators on the BRS-ZRH route were BAConnect and then Helvetic.

The BACon service was either daily or 6 x weekly (probably the latter) but ceased with most of the BACon routes from BRS when Flybe bought BACon in 2007 and closed the 5-aircraft BRS base. Aircraft used was the E145.

In December 2011 Helvetic began a Zurich route. They had begun a ZRH-CWL-ZRH route in the spring of 2011 but loads were very poor. They added BRS so that the diagram was ZRH-BRS-CWL-BRS-ZRH. Almost from the beginning the ratio of passenger numbers was 2:1 in favour of BRS.

The CWL leg was dropped at the end of 2012 and the route became ZRH-BRS-ZRH. Although loads began to increase over the next two years with monthly average loads of 60-65 on the F100 not uncommon in summer it wasn't enough to save the route which ceased at the end of summer 2014. Frequency varied between 4 x weekly and 2 x weekly and from memory I'm fairly certain the route was just p2p with no connectivity into Swiss at ZRH.

easyJet does well on Geneva in terms of loads and Basel also seems to be good. There is little doubt that an easyJet BRS-ZRH route would carry many more passengers per flight than either BACon or Helvetic but whether it would provide a satisfactory yield for easyJet is something we can't judge.

 

[superking]

The Crossair flights were if I remember correct in the Les Wilson days.It was marketed as a big banking city rather than a tourist destination.I cant remember much more vas the mind is getting old lol.

 

[NOSIGWX]

The Crossair flights were if I remember correct in the Les Wilson days.It was marketed as a big banking city rather than a tourist destination.I cant remember much more vas the mind is getting old lol.

Crossair Operated a SF340 to ZRH for a short while, I believe it was 1991-92. The route didn't last long but I imagine the aircraft type used didn't help!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Passenger stops flight take off and demands he is allowed to get off plane

The easyJet flight to Rome was delayed by more than an hour, minutes before take off

www.bristolpost.co.uk

Lunchtime easyJet flight to Rome Fiumicino today delayed over an hour in order to offload a passenger. It returned to the stand having taxiied out towards the runway.

Bristol Airport says it was a passenger voluntarily requesting to leave the aircraft.

easyJet say the aircraft was required to return to stand and met by police because a passenger was behaving disruptively on board. The report also says the man was detained by police.

 

[Severn]

Saturday 21 December 2019
There are 16x departures between 06:00 and 08:00 this morning.
All 17x based aircraft will be operating today - it must be the last Saturday before Christmas!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Interesting trip report on Skytrax re a Prague-Bristol flight. The report was filed on 20 December but the date of the fight is merely shown as December 2019.

The report says that the captain tried to land at BRS but because of turbulence diverted to CWL instead. The passengers were held at CWL for a short stop before the aircraft took them to BRS. It is said that 22 passengers chose to get off at CWL which led to another security check of the aircraft.

I wasn't aware that airlines would permit people to disembark when the intention was to operate the aircraft and its passengers on to its original point of arrival.

 

[Jerry]

It is said that 22 passengers chose to get off at CWL which led to another security check of the aircraft.

So were the passengers disembarked then or did they stay on the aircraft?

 

[superking]

A few years ago was on a Continental flight to Newark from BRS. WE got diverted from Newark due thunder storm. We landed in Albany,and was sat to an American guy and he was not happy as where plane was parked he could see his car in car park.We all had to stay on board as no customs or immigration at Albany.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

So were the passengers disembarked then or did they stay on the aircraft?

It's not made clear in the report. If all the passengers were disembarked I suppose the 22 could have made their way through immigration at CWL and then gone on their way although if there was hold luggage involved easyJet presumably would have had to pay the handling company at CWL.

If they were all held on the aircraft easyJet must have permitted the 22 to leave which, if that was the case, surprises me although it might not be unusual - I don't know.

 

[Llandudno]

Having flown easy a few times and having the odd delay and 1 divert, easyJet do operate a policy that while not encouraged due to the extra work involved, you can get off if you really want to. Therefore when this diverted to CWL, a number of people clearly wanted to get off for their own reasons and were allowed to do so.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Woman's fury at easyJet after missing flight while having coffee

"My ex was a pilot so I know that the greater your load, the greater the cost"

www.bristolpost.co.uk

You have to wonder whether it's safe to let some people out on their own. The only ones to miss the flight and yet they obviously want some compensation.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Someone posted in another aviation website that more new routes will be announced by easyJet in the New Year with 'new destinations/year round amendments' for BRS, LGW, MAN and BHX together with more European bases. Someone else said the announcements will be next week.

 

[superking]

I was looking at departure boards yesterday. I counted 17 first departures,did we keep the extra aircraft from last summer. Also is there any talk that a extra aircraft will be based for next summer peak time.

 

[Marko1]

No18 is already in the schedule for next summer with extra flights to dalaman, Bodrum , Tenerife plus new summer routes to Las Palmas and hurghada. The route announcements next week I would hope to see no 19 and perhaps no20 given the number of tcx slots they purchased

 

[TheLocalYokel]

No18 is already in the schedule for next summer with extra flights to dalaman, Bodrum , Tenerife plus new summer routes to Las Palmas and hurghada. The route announcements next week I would hope to see no 19 and perhaps no20 given the number of tcx slots they purchased

Although easyJet might be using the acquired slots mainly to re-adjust their timings, ie move some departures into the 0600-0700 coordinated slot period from the 0700-0800 uncoordinated period in order to improve their overall operational flexibility. The same would apply to the post 2300 arrivals.

If there is to be a big expansion of services along the lines you mention they will surely have to get a move on in order to market them, although Red Flyer did say that negotiations were still ongoing at some destination airports re slots there.

 

[Marko1]

If I recall it was post Xmas that a rash of routes / increased frequencies were announced for summer 2019 plus after all tui is still messing with their schedules too

 

[TheLocalYokel]

If I recall it was post Xmas that a rash of routes / increased frequencies were announced for summer 2019 plus after all tui is still messing with their schedules too

There might have been increased frequencies announced post Christmas 2018 but no new routes announced at that time. The last pre-Christmas 2018 route announcement was Montpellier on 14 December to commence in summer 2019.

Then on 16 April 2019 Milan MXP, Brindisi and Biarritz were announced, all to commence in July 2019 with CDG going double-daily. At the same time a 17th based aircraft was announced.

All the above gleaned from BRS website press releases.

I wonder if Salzburg will be one of the new summer 2019 routes. easyJet operates it in the ski season from BRS and Thomson used to operate it for many years in their summer Lakes & Mountains programme. With easyJet Holidays coming on stream that might be a possibility. I read in another airport thread on another aviation website that TUI won't be using easyJet in summer 2020 for its Lakes & Mountains holidays, although if true it might be specific to that airport.