Birmingham: EasyJet Flights, New Routes & Base Updates

[Karl C]

I wonder at what point three based may turn to five 🤔

 

[laviation]

Outside of the Canaries, one looks at Agadir and Funchal w/ similar block times

 

[Ray Finkle]

Agadir would definitely do for me, we need more than a twice weekly TUi. I wouldn't say no to Marrakesh either.

Great to see FUE added, if not Morocco then LPA would be more than welcome 👍

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Morocco is where easyJet want to double presence ...

 

[Ray Finkle]

Morocco is where easyJet want to double presence ...

Between them Ryanair and easyjet have flights from LGW, LTN, STN, MAN, BRS, GLA and EDI to Agadir and/or Marrakesh.

With a new easyjet base and a supposed deal with Ryanair it's now time for Birmingham to get a piece of the pie.

We also still have the Jet2 rumour lurking in the background.

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

Been at Liverpool for a couple of weeks

Hopefully comes to Birmingham at some point

 

[juliet-fox-9]

I’m hoping that we will see Gibraltar return. Morocco etc would be very welcome but i believe none of our other based airlines have aircraft with the capability of flying into GIB.

 

[Brum X]

I’m hoping that we will see Gibraltar return. Morocco etc would be very welcome but i believe none of our other based airlines have aircraft with the capability of flying into GIB.

Oh year Gibraltar, I think we have all forgotten about this little rock in the sea.

Must be a future destination ??

 

[Ray Finkle]

I've been looking at a potential break next Easter with easyjet holidays but am struggling a little.

Initially I fancied Barcelona but when I select Mon April 1st as the departure date, Fri April 5th seems to blank itself out. I've looked at Jersey, Costa Blanca, Tenerife and Berlin with all showing exactly the same thing? Every other week seems fine.

With it being the second week of the Easter school holidays coming back the following Monday is not an option, so it's Mon-Fri or nothing.

I'm now looking at the Canary Islands in Feb with Jet2 instead.

Very odd? 🤷‍♂️

 

[Ray Finkle]

Interesting article about what easyjet holidays will hopefully bring to Birmingham. It looks as though BHX will be casting their net into some of the neighbouring counties to try and claw back some business.

This paragraph in particular stood out to me, it's clear that there is much more that needs to be done.

Analysis showed Birmingham was losing passengers within its core one-hour drive catchment to competitor airports, including 2.5 million a year to Spain and the Canaries. Birmingham, Screen said, received only 48% of its catchment’s traffic to Alicante, 49% to Palma and 54% to Malaga.

Full article: https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/the-b...yjets-expansion-turn-the-airport-orange-42130

 

[Nethercote2019]

Interesting article about what easyjet holidays will hopefully bring to Birmingham. It looks as though BHX will be casting their net into some of the neighbouring counties to try and claw back some business.

This paragraph in particular stood out to me, it's clear that there is much more that needs to be done.

Analysis showed Birmingham was losing passengers within its core one-hour drive catchment to competitor airports, including 2.5 million a year to Spain and the Canaries. Birmingham, Screen said, received only 48% of its catchment’s traffic to Alicante, 49% to Palma and 54% to Malaga.

Full article: https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/the-b...yjets-expansion-turn-the-airport-orange-42130

I think there is a lot of lost pax that are willing to travel to other not so local airports to fly to destinations that are served by BHX…. It’s often a lot cheaper unfortunately & I know of a couple of friends recently fly from CPH SYD CTA all at massively different price

 

[route66]

A simple question. Why is it so much cheaper to fly from other airports?

 

[nwoody2001]

A simple question. Why is it so much cheaper to fly from other airports?

The epitome of Supply and Demand

An example of what we are dealing with….. Flights to Budapest in Mid December

Proof that in this regard, BHX is not the most expensive, in fact it’s the 2nd cheapest (£104), but second by being TWICE as expensive as LTN in 1st Place at £49 with an airline that floods the market with 3x daily flights between LTN and Budapest vs BHX’s 5x weekly flights. In terms of size vs frequeny, BHX/BRS/MAN all seem pretty well matched, but LTN, and airport thats not even twice the size of BHX has over 3x the number of flights. Alas, if you are located anywhere near the M1, you can imagine which airport is going to win….

BHX-BUD

• £27 - £197 (av £104)
• 5x weekly flights, 2 operators (Jet2 and Wizz), non-op on Thu/Sun

LTN-BUD

• £24 - £130 (av £49)
• 21x weekly flights, 1 operators (Wizz)

MAN-BUD

• £73 - £287 (av £154)
• 12x weekly flights, 2 operators (Jet2 and Ryanair)

BRS-BUD

• £45 - £262 (av £127)
• 4x weekly flights, 1 operators (Ryanair), non-op on Tue-Thu

Another example, same week but this time flying to Gran Canaria where BHX is the most expensive.

This time whilst we have decent frequency, only 1 flight of our 9x weekly is a lowcost airline (Ryanair), the remaining 8x flights are holiday operator (TUI and Jet2). In this case, Ryanair charge nearly whatever they like as it will almost certain to be below the Jet2 and TUI fair. In the other examples below, they compete with Easyjet where they bring the cost lower. At LTN where its only Easyjet and Ryanair, you can see how the average price plummets. They wont make money at this price but they cant go higher as they will lose out to the other.

BHX-LPA

• £39-£284 (Av Price £110)
• 9x weekly, 3 operators (Jet2, Ryanair, TUI), Non-op Wed

LTN-LPA

• £26-£68 (Av Price £45)
• 4x weekly, 2 operators (EasyJet, Ryanair), Non-op Mon/Wed/Thu

MAN-LPA

• £33-£197 (Av Price £90)
• 14x weekly, 4 operators (Easyjet, Jet2, Ryanair, TUI)

BRS- LPA

• £24-£123 (Av Price £60)
• 8x weekly, 4 operators (Easyjet, Jet2, Ryanair, TUI), Non-op Wed/Fri

 

[BhxJack]

 

[Nethercote2019]

Birmingham based aircraft ? ??

 

[Karl C]

From the app it looks like it runs for seven weeks until 24th February. Not starting before Xmas and not running until the end of the ski season. Strange old add to the route network, but at least an add 👍

 

[HPsauce]

Birmingham based aircraft ? ??

Probably utilising a Belfast inbound aircraft, as i think they did last winter for another route ( possibly Geneva).

 

[IanFarquharson]

Probably utilising a Belfast inbound aircraft, as i think they did last winter for another route ( possibly Geneva).

Its easyjet europe so wont be Belfast but from a European base

 

[Ray Finkle]

Looks as if the four new Greek routes have been pushed back a month until May, which is understandable. Annoyingly it now seems like Jersey and Berlin have been pushed back until September.

 

[Karl C]

...and if things keep escalating in the middle east Sharm will probably take a hit too!