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Post #144 above suggested that Emerald Airlines operating for Aer Lingus Regional would begin routes from Cork to Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow this spring. That doesn't seem to be the case currently. Cork of course was a regular year-round daily route for many years from BRS with the Aer...

There is a press release on the BRS website about Emerald/Aer Lingus although much of it concerns the airline's overall programme from all the UK airports it will serve. The BRS CEO says a few words about his airport near the end of the press release...

Re #144 and #145 above, CM has posted in the Aer Lingus airline forum quoting SeanM on Twitter that Emerald Airlines will operate BRS-DUB 18 x weekly from 27 March 2022 on behalf of Aer Lingus ( a number of other UK-DUB routes also begin in March and April). No mention of a resumption on...

easyJet plans to base 79 aircraft at Gatwick in summer 2022, an increase on the pre-Covid complement that was 63. The airline CEO said they have leased a number of Gatwick slots from British Airways* for the 'medium term' (actual period not specified). easyJet will contemplate using some...

A further post in the other forum states that Emerald Airlines are denying that the information published earlier reflects their start-up plans.

You beat me to it by a few seconds, Severn. :)

A post on another forum says that Emerald Airlines will begin Aer Lingus franchise flights from 27 March 2022. BRS is shown as 18 x weekly from Dublin which is 3 x weekly less than was due to operate in 2020, and 5 x weekly from Cork down from the daily frequency of many years. Good to have...

Reinventing the wheel. Perhaps they will call it GoFly.

Aer Lingus A320 at BRS on Sunday last (first day).

Super memories - hopefully some new ones won't be far away. The last time my wife and I went abroad was in December 2019....to Lanzarote, not a million miles from the destination in your excellent video. :)

Thanks Severn. BRS departures page shows it is cancelled as does the BRS arrivals page. I then checked Dublin Airport arrivals page that also showed it as cancelled. If I'd checked FR24 I would have seen that the inbound was diverted. The return to DUB was probably cancelled as FR24...

Second day of operation and today's flight has been cancelled. Confirmed with Dublin airport flight movements as the BRS departures/arrivals website pages aren't completely reliable.

BRS Press Release. https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/news-and-media/news-and-media-centre/2021/7/aer-lingus-restarts-flights-from-bristol-to-dublin

Booking engine showing BRS-DUB 5 x weekly (morning flight) from 1 August with no Wednesday or Saturday flights - these days are shown as 'sold out' which might indicate that they could be reinstated at some point in the next few months. Nothing for winter shown yet - all dates are currently...

An Irish start-up airline, Emerald Airlines, was reported to be Aer Lingus's preferred option to operate their Regional arm when the Stobart contract ended at the end of next year. Whether that can be accelerated remains to be seen. BRS-DUB p2p is well catered for with Ryanair but loss of the...

They are not doing so from BHX with 50% more Aer Lingus North America-connecting passengers in 2019 than BRS and nearly twice the percentage rise between 2016 and 2019, so probably little likelihood of a BRS service. The other point is that the figures relate to all Aer Lingus North American...

Aer Lingus would know the origin of outbound traffic via DUB to the USA but not necessarily in the other direction in terms of final destination, whether in Wales or England.

Thanks to jfy1999 who posted this link in the BHX Aer Lingus thread. As far as BRS is concerned it shows the airport in third place for percentage growth (70.7%) re Aer Lingus's North American connectivity between 2016 and 2019. The link contains an embedded table setting out the performance...

Bristol and Bath and the huge South West region (in area terms) would be happy with 'ordinary' electric trains. We have to rely on diesel traction here with no promise of electrification whatsoever in the coming years. All this from a government that wants to ban new diesel cars within a decade...

This news report is a couple of weeks old but it shows how much the rundown at Gatwick Airport is affecting life in nearby towns such as Crawley, with stories of redundant pilots driving for supermarkets. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-54480892