Bristol: EasyJet Route News & Base Updates

[Marko1]

Naples now on sale for winter 26/27 starting mid Feb 27

Naples now on sale for winter 26/27

 

[t.ash.27]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2070083774998515908

 

[MJW1992]

Naples now on sale for winter 26/27 starting mid Feb 27

Naples now on sale for winter 26/27

This is a very very late start date for a winter route nearly spring. Had been hoping it was going be a full year round route

https://twitter.com/x/status/2070083774998515908

I truly do not know what easyJet is smoking here that is going be 3 flights on Saturdays between easyJet and Ryanair for November and December that’s to much capacity on the route. I just can’t see the planes going out very full at all.

 

[Severn]

This is a very very late start date for a winter route nearly spring. Had been hoping it was going be a full year round route


I truly do not know what easyJet is smoking here that is going be 3 flights on Saturdays between easyJet and Ryanair for November and December that’s to much capacity on the route. I just can’t see the planes going out very full at all.

Given Ryanair’s increase to this route over the last few years and this winter are planning to operate it 8x weekly (daily, with 2x daily on Saturdays), clearly easyJet sees that the demand is there to get in on the action!

 

[MJW1992]

Given Ryanair’s increase to this route over the last few years and this winter are planning to operate it 8x weekly (daily, with 2x daily on Saturdays), clearly easyJet sees that the demand is there to get in on the action!

Yes I get that if easyJet had launched this previously it could have worked but I think they are too late now. Looking at the times unless the flights are very cheap people are going pick Ryanair flights anytime the flight times are far better for people on Saturdays.

 

[Marko1]

Lots of expansion elsewhere but reductions so far for Bristol ( jan -feb) looking very sparse . Surely there’s more than a Xmas special to come ?

 

[gulftraveller]

Yes I get that if easyJet had launched this previously it could have worked but I think they are too late now. Looking at the times unless the flights are very cheap people are going pick Ryanair flights anytime the flight times are far better for people on Saturdays.

This is a short season EasyJet Holiday route for the Christmas market, not an attempt to take on Ryanair on seat only.

 

[DJNEO]

Looks like Sal has been cut down from 3x a week this winter to just 1x a week and now on a Thursday, Flights from MAN have also been cut from 3x to 2x, not surprised as the loads have been really poor this summer. I wonder how TUI doing on the route?

 

[gulftraveller]

I imagine that high profile stories about hygiene and food poisoning in Cape Verde are having an effect on bookings.

 

[Willo3D]

Looks like the 20th a/c is in operation with 20 arrivals tonight and 20 based deps tomorrow morning.

Also noticed they used a NCL based frame today and yesterday to operate a W in and out. Yesterday was NCL-BRS-FAO-BRS-NCL and today was the same with FCO in place of FAO.

 

[Marko1]

Given the possible takeover of easyJet I wonder how that will affect the Bristol operation . Could it affect the expansion plans , could we see routes/ aircraft reductions etc ? Or will it be business as usual.

 

[BRSregular]

I suspect given that BRS is so heavily reliant on EasyJet, that when the PE company start stripping assets, a lot of the marginal routes (Bilbao, Pisa etc) will be first to go. I fear it will hit Bristol hard and can only hope other airlines will see the opportunity and step in. Of course, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Geneva etc will be safe. Hopefully I’m completely wrong but I can’t think of any other occasion where a PE firm has come in and made a positive difference

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

It would depend on profitability of those routes and yield.

One would imagine a full of all the network will take place.

 

[Marko1]

I’m guessing that as Bristol is the 4 th largest base in the uk that may be an advantage. Smaller bases may be the ones affected first. I have to say that I have flown with EasyJet for over two decades from Bristol and not once has the plane been not been full or near full even in winter ( obviously that doesn’t count for profit )

 

[Willo3D]

I suspect given that BRS is so heavily reliant on EasyJet, that when the PE company start stripping assets, a lot of the marginal routes (Bilbao, Pisa etc) will be first to go. I fear it will hit Bristol hard and can only hope other airlines will see the opportunity and step in. Of course, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Geneva etc will be safe. Hopefully I’m completely wrong but I can’t think of any other occasion where a PE firm has come in and made a positive difference

What evidence is there that Pisa is a marginal route? The route sees the A321 a bit these days so can’t be that marginal. I can think of others that might be a lot more marginal than those examples.

Given EZY have put a 20th a/c in this year you’d like to think the base is doing pretty well on the whole and would be reasonably safe!

 

[Severn]

Summary of easyJet routes from BRS in peak-summer 2026
Latest schedule changes on 17-Jul-26:
DLM: -1 per week
KRK: +1 per week
NAP: +1 per week (op by EJU)
1 of BER flights switches from BER based EJU to BRS based EZY
1 of BCN flights switches from BCN based EJU to BRS based EZY

I've compared the easyJet schedule from BRS for the first week of August 2026 with the same week in 2025.
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Number of destinations operating per week:
2025: 73
2026: 80 [+7]
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Number of flights per week:
2025: 424
2026: 442 [+18 / +4%]
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Number of based aircraft:
2025: 19 [17x A320s, 2x A321s]
2026: 20 [17x A320s, 3x A321s] [+1]
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Flights operated by non-BRS based aircraft:
Out of these 442x departures a week:
- 381x departures are operated by BRS based aircraft [+15 from 2025]
- 61x departures are operated by aircraft from other bases [+3 from 2025]
comprised of:

10 of 17 Amsterdam​

8 of 18 Malaga​

7 of 21 Majorca​

7 of 17 Faro​

7 of 17 Alicante​

5 of 14 Barcelona​

4 of 23 Edinburgh​

3 of 16 Paris CDG​

2 of 20 Glasgow​

2 of 9 Lisbon​

2 of 6 Milan MXP​

1 of 18 Belfast BFS​

1 of 11 Newcastle​

1 of 6 Berlin​

1 of 5 Naples​

AGP based aircraft operate AGP-BRS-AMS-BRS-AGP x5 weekly
AGP based aircraft operate AGP-BRS-CDG-BRS-AGP x2 weekly
ALC based aircraft operate ALC-BRS-AMS-BRS-ALC x5 weekly
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Weekly Departures by Country (vs 2025)

Spain (110) [+4]

18x Malaga (AGP)​

17x Alicante (ALC)​

14x Barcelona (BCN)​

5x Madrid (MAD) [+1]​

4x Murcia (RMU) [-1]​

3x Bilbao (BIO)​

2x Almeria (LEI)​

2x Seville (SVQ) [+2] NEW​

2x Reus (REU) [+2] NEW​

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21x Majorca Palma (PMI)​

4x Ibiza (IBZ)​

3x Menorca Mahon (MAH)​

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6x Tenerife South (TFS)​

4x Lanzarote (ACE)​

3x Gran Canaria (LPA)​

2x Fuerteventura (FUE)​

United Kingdom (83) [-2]

11x Newcastle (NCL) [-1]​

---​

23x Edinburgh (EDI) [-1]​

20x Glasgow (GLA)​

7x Inverness (INV)​

---​

18x Belfast Intl (BFS)​

2x Belfast City (BHD)​

---​

2x Isle of Man (IOM)​

France (38) [-1]

16x Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) [-1]​

9x Nice (NCE)​

5x Bordeaux (BOD)​

3x Toulouse (TLS)​

3x Marseille Provence (MRS)​

2x La Rochelle (LRH)​

Italy (38) [+6]

7x Rome Fiumicino (FCO)​

6x Milan Malpensa (MXP) [+2]​

5x Pisa (Tuscany) (PSA)​

5x Naples (NAP) [+1]​

3x Venice Marco Polo (VCE)​

2x Bari (BRI) [+2] NEW​

2x Verona (VRN) [+2] NEW​

---​

2x Sicily Catania (CTA) [-1]​

2x Sicily Palermo (PMO)​

---​

4x Sardinia Olbia (OLB)​

Portugal (33)

17x Faro (FAO)​

9x Lisbon (LIS)​

4x Porto (OPO)​

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3x Madeira Funchal (FNC)​

Greece (30) [+3]

3x Athens (ATH)​

2x Thessaloniki (SKG) [+2] NEW​

2x Preveza (PVK) [+1]​

---​

7x Rhodes (RHO)​

---​

4x Corfu (CFU)​

---​

2x Crete Chania (CHQ)​

2x Crete Heraklion (HER)​

---​

3x Kos (KGS)​

---​

2x Skiathos (JSI)​

---​

2x Zante Zakynthos (ZTH)​

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1x Santorini (JTR)​

Netherlands (17) [-1]

17x Amsterdam (AMS) [-1]​

Croatia (15)

7x Split (SPU)​

5x Dubrovnik (DBV)​

3x Pula (PUY)​

Switzerland (14) [+2]

10x Geneva (GVA)​

2x Basel (BSL)​

2x Zurich (ZRH) [+2] NEW​

Turkey (12) [-3]

6x Dalaman (DLM) [-1]​

4x Antalya (AYT)​

2x Bodrum (BJV)​

Istanbul (IST) [-2] Cancelled​

Germany (10) [+5]

6x Berlin (BER) [+1]​

4x Munich (MUC) [+4] NEW​

Cyprus (6)

3x Cyprus Larnaca (LCA)​

3x Cyprus Paphos (PFO)​

Denmark (5)

5x Copenhagen (CPH)​

Tunisia (5)

5x Enfidha - Hammamet (NBE)​

Morocco (4)

2x Agadir​

2x Marrakech​

Egypt (4) [+2]

2x Hurghada (HRG) [+1]​

2x Sharm El Sheikh (SSH) [+1]​

Czechia (4)

4x Prague (PRG)​

Poland (4)

4x Krakow (KRK)​

Malta (3) [+1]

3x Malta (MLA) [+1]​

Cape Verde (3) [+3] NEW

3x Sal (SID) [+3] NEW​

Gibraltar (2) [-1]

2x Gibraltar (GIB) [-1]​

Montenegro (2)

2x Tivat (TIV)​

 

[tpm]

Really pleased to see a boost to the two German locations (BER + MUC), didn't expect a frequency increase for MUC.

Now we just need something going to the Frankfurt/Dusseldorf/Cologne area (or Hamburg, but we used to have that and it was discontinued, and I guess it's somewhat covered by the Berlin route once the ICE line re-opens with full line speed and goes back to 1.5h).

 

[Marko1]

What’s concerning is that there is an apparent reduction in frequencies for this coming winter. Apart from Budapest there is a glaring lack of new routes for this winter ( are we the only major base that hasn’t had anything announced yet ( apart from the short Xmas Budapest).

 

[MJW1992]

What’s concerning is that there is an apparent reduction in frequencies for this coming winter. Apart from Budapest there is a glaring lack of new routes for this winter ( are we the only major base that hasn’t had anything announced yet ( apart from the short Xmas Budapest).

I was thinking the same plus Verona and Zurich aren’t full winter like they were last year

Plus wasn’t AYT full winter season last year

We have Seville and Cape Verde full winter we didn’t have last year well. But it does feel like less.

Not sure how the frequencies for last winter compare would love someone do a table.

I did hear a rumour Strasbourg was going happen from Bristol but that appears to have vanished

 

[Marko1]

With zero growth elsewhere too its a bit concerning tbh