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[TheLocalYokel]

Appears to be a lot of reductions for the month of august only. Minorca ,palma , Lisbon , edi and gla are just some.

Taking Lisbon as an example, the booking engine shows it resuming at the end of May with June and July both 5 x weekly but dropping to 3 x weekly in August, September and October, before returning to 5 x weekly from November and continuing at that frequency throughout 2022 until the end of September which is as far as the booking engine goes at present.

Why would it operate at 5 x weekly in June and July but not August and September? One might assume that forward bookings are lower for those months but if they are why would they be all right for June and July? August is always the busiest month of the year in overall passenger numbers (August 2019 was the first calendar month in which the airport handled over one million passengers). It's not as if Jet2 has come onto the route and no other airline operates Lisbon.

I've long given up trying to work out the ways of airlines.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

At the minute though Toulouse , Basel and most of the nice schedule is not on sale either for 2022. They all appeared later so I guess Mykonos will as well.

Appears to be a lot of reductions for the month of august only. Minorca ,palma , Lisbon , edi and gla are just some.

Five new easyJet sun routes announced today for BHX giving ten routes in total at that airport, up to 63 return fights per week.

All are operated by aircraft based elsewhere and of the W-patterns none are yet shown as BRS-based aircraft (my thanks to Severn's post for the operational breakdown in the BHX easyJet thread).

Given what appears to be a reduction in some BRS routes together with new ones for BHX it will be worthwhile keeping an eye on easyJet's manoeuvrings in the coming months. A future BHX base looks increasingly likely.

 

[Marko1]

Yes I’m getting a bit concerned. Reductions across the board this summer. Loss of routes and erratic scheduling in June. Together with Ryanair it’s concerning

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Yes I’m getting a bit concerned. Reductions across the board this summer. Loss of routes and erratic scheduling in June. Together with Ryanair it’s concerning

easyJet had a five-year deal with BRS at one point that ensured continuing growth but I think that lapsed probably around 2018 and I've read nothing since to suggest that another term deal has been agreed.

It is all very strange given that anna.aero reported BRS as being very important to easyJet in terms of profit.

Bristol stands out. Of all of easyJet’s airports, it is its ninth-largest – but its third most profitable, with almost €69 million.

Bristol had the highest profit margin, with the LCC responsible for nearly 60% of the airport’s seats in this time period. Its network of routes there is similar to Gatwick: a wide mixture of domestic, leisure, sun, and business destinations.

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[Marko1]

Yes LY which is even more concerning. I’m looking at flights at the moment but am reluctant to commit because the schedule keeps changing. The domestic routes in particular have drastic reductions

 

[Land23R]

Five new easyJet sun routes announced today for BHX giving ten routes in total at that airport, up to 63 return fights per week.

All are operated by aircraft based elsewhere and of the W-patterns none are yet shown as BRS-based aircraft (my thanks to Severn's post for the operational breakdown in the BHX easyJet thread).

Given what appears to be a reduction in some BRS routes together with new ones for BHX it will be worthwhile keeping an eye on easyJet's manoeuvrings in the coming months. A future BHX base looks increasingly likely.

Definitely agree it's something to keep an eye on. MAN could be in a similar position to BRS as there appear to be some cutbacks in frequencies if not routes. Provisional schedules for 2022 indicate 18 based a/c I'm told. It was 17 in 2019 but was planned to go to at least 20 in 2020 pre covid.

Personally I was thinking/hoping easyjet would concentrate on their core bases like BRS and MAN rather than looking to expand elsewhere, but airlines are not always predictable.

 

[Nethercote2019]

Don’t forget Jet2.com have turned up at BRS which may have something to do with easyJet expansion at BHX

 

[Jerry]

They may not feel full demand for travel willl return this year and there maybe concerns over Jet2 arrival?

 

[Land23R]

Good points about Jet2 at BRS. I see as well as easyjet, Jet2 have announced 8 new routes from BHX.

I wonder what the size of easyjet's fleet is as we hopefully come out of the pandemic. At one stage it seemed as if there was going to be a significant reduction, but is that still the case? If so, the Revenue Managers will have been hard at work assessing where best to place those lower numbers of aircraft for best returns, but which will allow for efficient W patterns where appropriate.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I actually posted to the BHX Jet2 thread before I submitted my post in this thread ( #1,964) in which I made the point about Jet2 opening a BRS base that might take some BRS easyJet customers and that easyJet might be looking to take some Jet2 customers at BHX.

In many ways though Jet2 is a replacement for Thomas Cook that had three aircraft (usually A321s) based at BRS in summer - fewer in winter.

Another point I made in that BHX post is that if BRS loses its expansion planning application appeal it will be capped at 10 mppa permanently, or for the foreseeable future anyway. Had the pandemic not come along the 10 mppa limit was expected to be reached by the end of this year. Although that has obviously been put back several years it might play a part in airlines' thinking as they plan their way out of the pandemic in the next few years.

If the airport is successful with its appeal and avoids possible (probable?) subsequent legal challenges the future will take on a different and more certain aspect.

 

[Marko1]

Maybe this is just EasyJet testing the waters in Birmingham and perhaps it has nothing to do with Bristol at all. After all it has the same competitors at Birmingham as it does at Bristol and at least with Bristol it is the dominant carrier. It could just be that the route network has reached maturity whereby there not be many more viable routes to come and the expansion settles down. It could also be an attempt to stop wizz uk setting up at birmingham. After all it’s only a summer network so far

 

[BRSregular]

To me, it just feels like EasyJet trying to add some capacity to the most popular sun destinations in what will be a desperate summer for airlines. It seems very similar to what BA tried from Bristol a few summers ago... Holiday routes to utilise aircraft.

Birmingham almost being equidistant between Manchester, Luton and Bristol is possibly why it will never be a big base for EasyJet... but then again, who knows?!

 

[Ray Finkle]

To me, it just feels like EasyJet trying to add some capacity to the most popular sun destinations in what will be a desperate summer for airlines. It seems very similar to what BA tried from Bristol a few summers ago... Holiday routes to utilise aircraft.

I think this too.

With reductions across the board and large parts of Europe looking like being out of action for the foreseeable future airlines seem to be scrambling around to grab hold of what little market there will be this summer. Three of the BHX routes are from bases in Spain with the other two operating from BFS and AMS, a great way to use the aircraft in the short term but is it sustainable beyond a season or two? With such a fine schedule any type of delays could cause a real headache.

If the shoe was on the other foot then I think I would probably be as concerned but to me this feels like easyjet making the most of a short term opportunity. Summer 2022 has been on sale for a few weeks now yet the new BHX routes all end in October, whether that is significant or not only time will tell.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

To me, it just feels like EasyJet trying to add some capacity to the most popular sun destinations in what will be a desperate summer for airlines. It seems very similar to what BA tried from Bristol a few summers ago... Holiday routes to utilise aircraft.

And yet Marko posted this a couple of weeks ago.

Appears to be a lot of reductions for the month of august only. Minorca ,palma , Lisbon , edi and gla are just some.

I've just looked at Alicante for the coming summer. It's showing six return journeys in May before becoming single daily in June. At the end of June through July and August it's double daily except Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays when it's single daily, before dropping back to single daily in early September.

In pre-pandemic years in summer it was at least double daily every day with some days of the week 3 x daily.

 

[planedrive]

The schedules seem to be changing on a weekly basis - for understandable reason. I feel this year will see many last minute changes as countries open up and close down depending on government rules and case rates. I wouldn't use anything that happens this summer as an indication on how a particular base is fairing for any particular airline. Bristol is and always has been very important to easyJet and I'm sure we'll see them return to growth when things are a bit more stable

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thank you for your first post to Forums4Airports, planedrive. We look forward to reading more from you in the future.

 

[superking]

I see the first flight to INV operated today. That only leaves the IOM now as english internal flights from Easyjet.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Local rag carrying story regarding passenger complaints about easyJet cancelling flights from BRS after 17 May, including at the end of the month.

Holidaymakers frustrated as EasyJet cancels Bristol flights

Some customers had their May flights cancelled despite government guidance suggesting that the travel ban will lift in May

www.bristolpost.co.uk

 

[Marko1]

The schedule looks awful till July. Put me off looking

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The schedule looks awful till July. Put me off looking

I do have a lot of sympathy for airlines in this. No-one, probably not even the government, knows at the moment which routes will be possible or when they will be able to commence.

The easyJet CEO said this week that he is against some of the government's traffic light proposals as it could add 'cost and complexities'.

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