Bristol: TUI Airways Route News & Base Updates

[BRSflyer]

Hopefully once the B787 is based all week the atrocious punctuality will improve.

Fingers crossed for dry runways and the reduction in positioning flights!

 

[forest1979]

Are TUI due to fly the max 10 and do we think we will see from BRS? I did wonder if that was due to replace the 757’s although I know they now have more aircraft and capacity overall based out if BRS.

 

[Jerry]

I would expect that BRS will see them eventually.

 

[Marko1]

Tui are reducing Melbourne and Cancun next summer to a weekly service each only

 

[Jerry]

I wonder if sales on both routes in general aren't good because they've cancelled their programme for Edinburgh.

 

[CWL94]

Some winter cuts for TUI at BRS to TFS, ACE, LPA FUE and HRG!

Jet2 affect giving a little overcapacity maybe?

 

[alphagolf]

Tui are reducing Melbourne and Cancun next summer to a weekly service each only

Having looked at Cancun, the timetable is showing twice weekly all through winter 2022, but says sold out when you chose dates.

It maybe a glitch or work in progress on the timetable for both winter’22 and Summer’23

 

[Jerry]

Some winter cuts for TUI at BRS to TFS, ACE, LPA FUE and HRG!

Jet2 affect giving a little overcapacity maybe?

Could be and add in the cost of living crisis which means that people have less money to spend in the first place.

 

[Seasider]

Definitely! A great deal of holidays taken this year were paid for in late 2020/early2021. I think there will be a consolidation in 2023 and,hopefully, steady growth from then.

 

[Marko1]

The winter cuts are principally dec to feb , resume mostly in March. Don’t forget easyjet has increased its Tenerife to daily , hurghada to three per week and lanzarote to 4/5 per week and fue to up to 3 per week. Tui of course book seats on easyjet

 

[MrFenner]

Tui are reducing Melbourne and Cancun next summer to a weekly service each only

Not at all surprised with MLB given that some of the early S22 rotations barely had enough to fill an A321

Generally, it was a very bold move by TUI to move from SFB in order to serve their own cruise market - which has clearly not worked as most pax to the Orlando area want Disney/Universal and MLB is just that little bit too far.

Nonetheless the route continues! 👍

 

[Marko1]

Tbh the Covid testing requirements earlier in the summer to enter the USA together with the vaccination requirements ( particularly for kids) might have put many off going to Florida . The rules have changed and taken a lot of stress off families wanting to go the USA.

 

[Marko1]

The twice weekly bodrum service has been dropped for next summer ( mon and thurs ) together with one rotation mentioned before each to Melbourne (fl) and cancun. I cannot see any replacements so is Tui going to reduce based aircraft next summer maybe ?

 

[Marko1]

Have Tui dropped Orlando and Cancun for next summer - disappeared off the website

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Also appears to be big reductions on other routes too include Minorca disappearing. Perhaps they are resetting the schedule ?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Looks like some sort of work being done on the website as there is nothing showing from BHX to Greece, Croatia and all but 5 Spanish destinations.

 

[Marko1]

If it stays like it is there is big cuts

 

[Jerry]

This what Summer 2023 looks like at the moment
68 weekly departures, 29 destinations, 5? based aircraft,
Looks like no long haul
Bourgas 2 weekly
Sal 1 weekly
Dubrovnik 1 weekly
Larnaca 3 weekly
Paphos 3 weekly
Hurghada 2 weekly
Sharm el Sheikh 2 weekly
Corfu 3 weekly
Kefalonia 2 weekly
Heraklion 3 weekly
Skiathos 2 weekly
Santorini 1 weekly
Kos 3 weekly
Rhodes 3 weekly
Thessaloniki 1 weekly
Zante 4 weekly
Naples 2 weekly
Verona 1 weekly
Marrakech 1 weekly
Lanzarote 2 weekly
Malaga 2 weekly
Fuerteventura 2 weekly
Ibiza 3 weekly
Gran Canaria 2 weekly
Palma de Mallorca 4 weekly
Reus 2 weekly
Tenerife South 2 weekly
Antalya 3 weekly
Dalaman 2 weekly
Cancun 1 weekly
Menorca 2 weekly

 

[Marko1]

The loss of the two long haul routes is a big blow to the airports prestige and its status as the fourth largest Tui base. Without those two I can’t see a Dreamliner next year which will mean big reductions in seats available to the likes of Cyprus and Turkey . Looking at the schedule its pessimistically a 4 with a possible 5th but given the dropping of the like of Minorca and Bodrum there could easily be some dropping of frequencies to the likes of kos and Rhodes to come. I hope it’s just a rescheduling tho - seem to remember it happening at Edinburgh a month or two ago - surprised Bristol live not on it yet tho

 

[Severn]

Fingers crossed it's just a schedule update. We've seen similar before where more or less based aircraft suddenly appear on the schedule only for it to rectify itself a few weeks later. We're still a long way off S23, so there's plenty of time between now and then for these routes to reappear. Obviously the pound vs dollar and expensive fuel might mean less longhaul flights for TUI, but it doesn't mean the 787 is to disappear from BRS, it might be based shorthaul only?
Bottom line is that the current schedule requires 4-5 based aircraft in the mornings, and up to 7 some afternoons. Nowhere near a complete schedule yet.

 

[Jerry]

With the long haul flights it's quite possible that demand is less for holidays to the USA and Mexico due to the economic downturn. Personally I'd be very surprised if TUI didn't base at least 5 737s at BRS for Summer 2023.