Bristol: Aer Lingus Route News & Schedule Updates

[BRSregular]

It’s a shame they don’t try a direct route given the demand, like they have just launched from Manchester this week

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It’s a shame they don’t try a direct route given the demand, like they have just launched from Manchester this week

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 destinations, not just a single one such as New York.

 

[Kernow Bravo]

Hopefully very few people have booked to fly from BRS to ORK & DUB any time soon. Article doesn't explicitly name BRS, but I can't imagine it will be unaffected.

Regional Carrier Stobart Air Ceases Operations

Irish regional airline Stobart Air has ceased its operations as of this morning. The carrier was known for…

simpleflying.com

 

[Marko1]

Flights are still on sale however which I would have thought they would have been suspended at least

 

[TheLocalYokel]

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 transatlantic connectivity, recently reported to be very healthy via BRS pre-pandemic, would be a blow, as would losing the Cork route albeit neither have featured much in the past year because of the pandemic, in fact Cork not at all.

 

[Marko1]

Anyone know what is happening now with aer lingus ?

 

[Jerry]

Looks like nothing onsale. Maybe they've suspended it until Emerald can resume?

Anyone know what is happening now with aer lingus ?

 

[Red Flyer]

Maybe now is a good time to have a look at the EI Website.

 

[Marko1]

Thank you Redflyer. Yes mainline aer lingus is back with an A320

 

[tpm]

Hah, I thought you were hinting at the "Direct flights to the US from Manchester" announcement - guess that'd be a bit too ambitious 😆

 

[CM.]

Here is the days and times for the Dublin flights

https://twitter.com/x/status/1408422077149978631

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thank you Redflyer. Yes mainline aer lingus is back with an A320

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 shown as 'sold out'.

Nothing shown for BRS-ORK yet in summer or winter in the booking engine.

I looked at the timetables but there is a note saying that schedules are changing frequently at the moment and timetables might not be up to date.

It's really a case of regular checking going forward from here to see if things change.

 

[Marko1]

November’s flights starting to be released

 

[TheLocalYokel]

BRS Press Release.

Aer Lingus Restarts Flights From Bristol To Dublin

Aer Lingus flights from Bristol to Dublin back from Sunday 1st August

www.bristolairport.co.uk

 

[TheLocalYokel]

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.

 

[Severn]

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.

Looks like the flight diverted into CWL due to fog and the ILS out of service on RW27 (being replaced I think?)

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Looks like the flight diverted into CWL due to fog and the ILS out of service on RW27 (being replaced I think?)

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 aircraft recent operational history shows it returning to Ireland from CWL in pretty short under, so unless the diversion was anticipated there would not have been time to take the passengers by road to CWL.

At the moment FR24 shows aircraft landing on runway 09 which of course unlike 27 doesn't have Cat3b ILS.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

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

 

[Severn]

Passenger loads - Friday 24th September.

My good friend was crew onboard todays Aer Lingus A320 operating Dublin - Bristol - Dublin.

Apparently loads weren't bad for the current times - 116 inbound and 97 outbound. Thats without the US being open and therefore lots of transfer passengers as well as there also being 3x Ryanair flights today between Bristol and Dublin.

 

[8mileshigh]

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 aircraft recent operational history shows it returning to Ireland from CWL in pretty short under, so unless the diversion was anticipated there would not have been time to take the passengers by road to CWL.

At the moment FR24 shows aircraft landing on runway 09 which of course unlike 27 doesn't have Cat3b ILS.