easyJet

[Marko1]

As someone who’s desperate for a holiday it be a good deal me thinks. After all if we don’t start flying soon there be no one to fly with

 

[kraktoa]

If they gave guarantees of full refund, without application, I would be tempted. But without that refund promise, I and many others will give it a miss.

 

[Marko1]

Frequencies on a number of routes have been reduced when they start in July

 

[superking]

The airlines are not helping their self by not promise a refund if flight does not operate.

 

[Marko1]

So far I can see Isle of Man , preveza , La Rochelle , Nantes , Montpellier , brindisi and Seville not operating during July and August. Severe reductions to Barcelona and Nice - i would have thought that those flights at the reduced frequency be rather full - wouldn’t it be better to fly half full but at slightly higher fares to gain passenger safety confidence ?

 

[BRSregular]

Where do you find which flights are operating? I have flights booked to Milan 9-16 August and am wondering where I should change them to... Pula or Amsterdam? Or just scrap thenidea for August and move them to next year

 

[Marko1]

Where do you find which flights are operating? I have flights booked to Milan 9-16 August and am wondering where I should change them to... Pula or Amsterdam? Or just scrap thenidea for August and move them to next year

the only way I can find out is looking through each schedule sorry. Milan is still operating tho if u still want to go.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Frequencies on a number of routes have been reduced when they start in July

EasyJet has cancelled seven out of 10 of its planned flights this summer

Airline must offer affected travellers choice between a full cash refund and a suitable alternative departure

www.independent.co.uk

 

[TheLocalYokel]

easyJet flight to Bristol diverted due to 'shoulder-height' smoke

The main pilot exposed himself to “potentially hazardous fumes” and felt “wobbly” before an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport

www.bristolpost.co.uk

Interesting AAIB report into an incident in May of last year when an early morning easyJet flight from Newcastle to Bristol experienced smoke on the flight deck and diverted safely to Birmingham.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Budget Airlines Put Squeeze on Airports in Coronavirus Cost Drive

European low-cost airlines are pressuring airports to slash charges in return for resuming flights, as the COVID-19 shutdown intensifies their race with traditional carriers to lower costs and win post-pandemic business.

www.nytimes.com

It looks as though easyJet is inviting airports to make bids for their services. I presume they will take into account the likely market as it's no good having no airport charges and other inducements if the catchment isn't big enough to fill more than half an aircraft.

 

[Jerry]

. I presume they will take into account the likely market as it's no good having no airport charges and other inducements if the catchment isn't big enough to fill more than half an aircraft.

Or areas that help fill up the aircraft in other bases. I'd be surprised if they considered any bids from Exeter or Cardiff because that could divert passengers away from Bristol. Newquay might be different because of the inbound market there.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Budget Airlines Put Squeeze on Airports in Coronavirus Cost Drive

European low-cost airlines are pressuring airports to slash charges in return for resuming flights, as the COVID-19 shutdown intensifies their race with traditional carriers to lower costs and win post-pandemic business.

www.nytimes.com

It looks as though easyJet is inviting airports to make bids for their services. I presume they will take into account the likely market as it's no good having no airport charges and other inducements if the catchment isn't big enough to fill more than half an aircraft.

I would like to think BHX is up there making a deal with easyjet, a lot of space to fill the void left by FlyBe

 

[kraktoa]

Budget Airlines Put Squeeze on Airports in Coronavirus Cost Drive

European low-cost airlines are pressuring airports to slash charges in return for resuming flights, as the COVID-19 shutdown intensifies their race with traditional carriers to lower costs and win post-pandemic business.

www.nytimes.com

It looks as though easyJet is inviting airports to make bids for their services. I presume they will take into account the likely market as it's no good having no airport charges and other inducements if the catchment isn't big enough to fill more than half an aircraft.

EZY even want marketing funds for EZY online media........

They are ruthless. They have the airports over a barrel as the car parks are empty.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

EZY even want marketing funds for EZY online media........

They are ruthless. They have the airports over a barrel as the car parks are empty.

The 2018 accounts (I don't think the 2019 figures have yet been published) showed that aeronautical income amounted to just over a third of the airport's revenue, with car parking and retail being the other two major revenue streams.

Depending how OTPP views owning airports post-COVID, they might have to take a hit next year with aeronautical income, and possibly the year after (assuming that this year is already down the pan), and shelling out some largesse to its major customer airlines might have to be a price to be paid.

If the BRS ownership wants to retain its airport's undoubted outperforming of the past 25 years it will know that it can't just sit back and wait for it to continue. It will have to be worked for.

There is a proven strong core market with access to adjacent markets which the airlines might not want to give up in a hurry, even for a short-term gain elsewhere. The Bristol region has one of the strongest economies in the UK with a long history of overcoming recessions better and quicker than most areas of the country - look at BRS's performance compared with most regional airports re the 'noughties' recession a decade or so ago. COVID-19 might turn out to be the biggest economic challenge the UK has faced since the 1930s.

 

[Marko1]

Schedule up to the end of may has been released. Basic carbon copy of early 2020 with no extra flights. Also no sign of the A321 being based next summer either. Some strange schedules so far - athens once a week but three weekly during winter ? Given that Luton has had a big increase in frequencies today I wonder whether Brs will see anything in due course?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Schedule up to the end of may has been released. Basic carbon copy of early 2020 with no extra flights. Also no sign of the A321 being based next summer either. Some strange schedules so far - athens once a week but three weekly during winter ? Given that Luton has had a big increase in frequencies today I wonder whether Brs will see anything in due course?

Given that the consensus amongst most airlines seems to be that things won't get back to 2019 levels post-coronavirus for two or three years it might be too optimistic to think that easyJet will be operating its 2019 programme at BRS in 2021, let alone the 2020 programme that should have operated. At the beginning of the crisis airlines were talking of 2021 seeing 75%-80% of 2019 passenger traffic numbers but those projections seem to have been reduced.

I don't know how serious are the reports that easyJet is offering itself to airports that come up with the best bids for its services. There might be an element of that, although it doesn't seem feasible for a non-easyJet airport to suddenly be awarded a huge presence next summer on the basis of a favourable offer to the airline, given that crew bases and all that goes with that would have to be set up at such an uncertain time and they would have to move aircraft and crews from existing bases.

Furthermore, easyJet doesn't seem to be increasing its planned fleet size over the next couple of years and in fact the fleet will reportedly reduce in numbers for a while.

EasyJet to axe up to 30% of jobs as it cuts fleet - FlightGlobal

EasyJet is to begin consultations on proposals to cut staff levels by up to 30% as it expects to reduce its fleet by 51 through a mix of deferrals and returning leased aircraft by the end of 2021. In a trading update released today the UK budget carrier says it expects its fleet to be

www.flightglobal.com

Relevant bits from the linked article that was published at the end of last month.

In a trading update released today the UK budget carrier says it expects its fleet to be at the bottom end of its range at around 302 aircraft by the end of 2021. This is 51 less aircraft than its pre-crisis projections for its anticipated fleet size at year-end 2021. EasyJet’s fleet stood at 337 when it released its half-year results in mid-April.

”This fleet number will include c.3-4% of un-crewed standby aircraft during peak. The reduction in fleet size will be achieved through the measures previously announced, including the deferral of new aircraft deliveries and the re-delivery of leased aircraft,” the airline says.

 

[Marko1]

anna.aero | Temporarily Unavailable

Interesting article showing the Uk to Greece and turkey are very profitable - may explain Luton’s increases yesterday

 

[TheLocalYokel]

anna.aero | Temporarily Unavailable

Interesting article showing the Uk to Greece and turkey are very profitable - may explain Luton’s increases yesterday

easyJet operates eight Greek routes from BRS, all summer-only except the year-round Athens (as you will know of course).

Oddly, if Greece is so profitable for easyJet, Ryanair's only Greek route from BRS is the summer-only Chania. As for Turkey easyJet has three summer-only routes but Ryanair has nothing at all to Turkey from BRS, although Ryanair only operates from Dalaman and Bodrum and then only to Dublin (plus Bratislava from DLM), with Lauda due to begin Vienna from Dalaman, Bodrum and Antalya in August.

Ryanair doesn't usually step back from competing on routes with easyJet at BRS if they think there is money to be made.

The two airlines compete on 16 BRS routes, although some are seasonal.

 

[Marko1]

It’s been reported that 4 aircraft will be needed to resume ops on July 1st

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It’s been reported that 4 aircraft will be needed to resume ops on July 1st

Back to the early days of Go. They either had two or three based aircraft when they began in 2001.