[textarea]Sun Wings set to take off for Bodrum next summer

Turkey specialist adds flight from Bristol Airport

Turkish holiday specialist, SunWings, has announced it will fly weekly from Bristol Airport to Bodrum in summer 2011.

From May through to October, holiday-makers from the South West and Wales will be able to fly direct to the sun-drenched beaches of the Mediterranean with the all-inclusive operator.

Turkey has become increasingly popular with the region’s travellers in recent years, driven in part by the availability of bargains as a result of being outside the Eurozone. Bodrum is ideally located for access to the beach resorts of Gumbet and Bitez, as well as boasting its own vibrant night life. A little further along the coast, the resort of Altinkum is ideal for families or anyone seeking a great value holiday resort.

The weekly flight from Bristol Airport has a mid-morning departure time every Monday throughout the summer months, convenient for passengers travelling from across the South West and Wales.

SunWings offers a range of quality accommodation, including four and five star, all inclusive hotels and holiday villages, all available at competitive prices. The company is an ABTA member, and all holidays are ATOL protected.[/textarea]

http://www.bristolairport.co.uk/news-an ... wings.aspx

A useful addition to the BRS Turkey market which is already very healthy - over 20 weekly rotations with charter and scheduled last summer.
 
I didn't realise BRS had so many flights to Turkey.

[textarea]On another note, Turkey flights are often refered to as the 'chav express' flights.

[simg]http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/chavs.jpg[/simg][/textarea]
 
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can tell me which airline and which equipment is used for the Saturday kos flight in summer?
 
alphagolf said:
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can tell me which airline and which equipment is used for the Saturday kos flight in summer?

BigMac

I think it will be Thomas Cook and an A320 Airbus.

alphagolf

Thanks alphagolf
 
Winter 2010-2011 Ski Charters

I've written elsewhere in this forum how the winter passenger figures at BRS seem to be on a long term overall slide - mainly due to the reduction in winter services of the low cost airlines.

Fortunately for the airport it is a major ski holiday departure point each winter and this season the number of flights has once again held up. It is to be hoped that punters are still off to the slopes in the numbers of previous years.

The ski charter programme is as follows (16 rotations per week).

Saturdays
Thomas Cook A320 Salzburg
Thomson B 757 Salzburg
Balkan Holidays A320 Sofia
Titan Boeing 733 Chambery
Thomson Boeing 757 Geneva
Thomson Boeing 757 Chambery
Thomas Cook A320 Grenoble
Thomson Boeing 757 Verona
Thomson Boeing 757 Sofia

Sundays
Thomas Cook A320 Turin
Thomson Boeing 757 Turin
Thomson Boeing 757 Toulouse
Small Planet Boeing 733 Chambery
Flybe Embraer 195 Toulouse
Flybe Embraer 195 Geneva
Thomas Cook A320 Kittila

Total: 3 Chambery, 2 Salzburg, 2 Sofia, 2 Turin, 2 Toulouse, 2 Geneva and 1 each to Grenoble, Verona and Kittila.

In addition there is a total 31 weekly rotations by easyJet to Geneva, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Lyon, Grenoble and Toulouse, with Ryanair also serving Girona at 3 x weekly that also gives access to some ski destinations.
 
TOM to Luxor

Looks as though the weekly TOM flight to Luxor will cease after today because of the major public demonstrations in Egypt.

The aircraft was shown as departing for Egypt this morning (presumably with no passengers) and is shown returning at 0220 tomorrow, about four hours late.

The Sharm el Sheikh flights will continue from BRS and other UK airports so far as I know. That was the advice earlier today anyway.
 
How many charters flights does BRS have to Egypt?

I think it's four weekly this winter (three to Sharm and one to Luxor, albeit the latter is kooking decidedly doubtful for the rest of the winter).

All the flights are now TOM aircraft - 757s. Last winter it was five weekly to Sharm with Koral Blue operating an A 319 for one of the travel companies that went bust last summer - forget which). XL used to fly there as well when they were a going concern.
 
So far it's looking like the SSH flights are going to be okay but I'm not hopeful the tour operators will be able to sustain them at the same frequency. I think many people will have been put off flying to Egypt. They haven't had a good couple of months, firstly the shark attacks and now riots.
 
Aircraft Utilisation

BRS has two Thomson B 757s and two Thomas Cook A 320s based during the summer.

It seemed to me that there didn't seem to be an awful lot of flights in May having regard to the number of aircraft based.

I did a check and next week the two TOM 757s will fly in total just 30 rotations (there are also two weekly rotations with non-based B 738s and two weekly rotations with non-based B 767s).

The two TCX A 320s will fly in total just 29 rotations in the week.

This means each aircraft flies just over two rotations per 24 hours. There is spare capacity, especially for night flights, although on two occasions TCX aircraft fly a W route to other airports between leaving and returning to BRS.

BRS has fewer night flights now than, say, ten years ago when the charter fleets were the mainstay of leisure routes from the airport. Then the charter aircraft often flew three rotations per 24 hours.

I suppose it's mainly due to easyJet and Ryanair moving into many of the markets once the sole preserve of the charter airlines. I was very surprised to discover, for instance, that there is no charter service at all to Gran Canaria this summer - Ryanair is the only route to LPA.

I also find that last summer was barely busier than this with the TOM and TCX fleets out of BRS, something I didn't pick up on then.
 
Times are hard and the IT companies are going for profit not volume. A lot of regional IT is being consolidated on Gatwick and Manchester and, to a lesser extent, Birmingham.
 
I note that today one of BRS's Lapland flights (this one to Enontekio) was operated by an airline with the flight code STU.

The only airline I can find with this code is a Brazilian one that went out of business several years ago.

Mayfly shows the aircraft positioning in from Gatwick in the early hours but BBC Ceefax this morning showed it arriving from Stansted. Mayfly also shows the aircraft as an Airbus A320.

Ayone have any idea which airline is STU?
 
Hi there LocalYokel.

STU is infact Strategic Airlines. They have operated a few Lapland flights from LBA and a few other airports as well. You might be able to remember, but it was one of their A320's that Jet2 had based at MAN this summer in-case of delays. I believe they have around 3 A320's in their fleet.

Hope this helps
 
Many thanks tom. Much appreciated.
 
STU are doing the Lapland runs over Christmas, they had a Titan 757 operating for them on Sunday as well as the A320, not sure if they will be around to do ski flights.
 
bmibaby

Two bmibaby Boeing 737-300s visited the airport today with ski charters from/to Chambery and Geneva.

This is the first time to my knowledge that bmibaby has operated planned flights to the airport - they've been seen from time to time in the past when diverted from CWL because of weather.
 
With a far from certain future for Bmibaby it might be the last year you see them too sadly.
 
I think it will depend on how their "divorce" from BMI, after takeover by BA, turns out.
 
A lauda 737-800 operating for Austrian poped In today.

It's nice to see different carriers coming in to BRS.
 

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