Hi
Flybe have announced a new french route as promised last Year. They are to operate a once weekly sataurday departure from Leeds/Bradford to Bergerac and are also going twice daily on the LBA – Southampton Service. While the Belfast city service stays 3 times daily and the Exeter stays once daily.
TIMETABLES BELOW
LBA – BELFAST CITY
BE730 08:25 – 09:20 123456-
BE732 13:45 – 14:40 ——7
BE732 14:45 – 15:40 12345–
BE734 19:55 – 20:50 12345-7
BELFAST CITY – LBA
BE729 07:05 – 08:00 123456-
BE731 12:25 – 13:20 ——7
BE731 13:25 – 14:20 12345–
BE733 18:35 – 19:30 12345-7
LBA – BERGERAC
BE1402 14:30 – 17:45 —–6-
BERGERAC – LBA
BE1401 12:50 – 14:05 —–6-
LBA – EXETER
BE644 08:35 – 09:40 —–6-
BE644 12:35 – 13:40 1-3-5–
BE644 14:25 – 15:30 -2-4–7
EXETER – LBA
BE643 07:05 – 08:10 —–6-
BE643 11:00 – 12:05 1-3-5–
BE643 12:55 – 14:00 -2-4–7
LBA – SOUTHAMPTON
BE172 08:40 – 09:45 123456-
BE176 19:50 – 20:55 12345–
BE176 19:55 – 21:00 ——7
SOUTHAMPTON – LBA
BE171 07:10 – 08:15 123456-
BE175 18:20 – 19:25 12345-7
LBA Press Release as follows
The French Connection: Flybe Launches New Route To Bergerac
29 November 2005Flybe, one of Europe’s leading low-cost airlines, today announces the addition of its new route to the French destination of Bergerac from Leeds Bradford Airport to its summer programme for 2006.
The new schedule will also bring increased frequency to existing domestic destinations. The Leeds Bradford to Southampton will move to double daily services as Flybe delivers on its promise to grow existing routes as well as introducing new destinations from the base.
Flybe have now launched a total of five new routes from Leeds Bradford Airport since announcing the base in November 2004, offering routes to France, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and to the south of England.
With the additional new routes on sale from today, Flybe will now offer 186,000 seats over the next year at Leeds Bradford Airport, encouraging inbound tourism for the local business community and offering the region convenient, local travel to a range of UK and French destinations.
Flights from Leeds Bradford to Bergerac and Southampton for summer 2006 are available for booking at http://www.flybe.com:
Leeds Bradford to Bergerac
· Fares from £34.99 one way including taxes and charges
· Flight depart one a week from 27th May 2006
Leeds Bradford to Southampton
· Fares from £22.99 one way including taxes and charges
· Flights depart twice dailyThe new route to Bergerac provides the Yorkshire region with a direct link into the heart of the Dordogne region of France, a long-standing favourite with both British holiday-makers and second homes buyers.
Simon Lilley, Director of Marketing at Flybe comments: “Leeds Bradford continues to be an area of expansion for us. With the addition of Bergerac we now offer five destinations in France and across the UK.”
Lilley continued, “The Summer 2006 schedule continues to deliver on our promise to offer a first class, low fares service from convenient regional airports across UK.”
ENDS
Notes to editors:§ Flybe has been voted the most popular UK domestic and France-bound airline in the Holiday Which? airline survey (March 2005)
§ Flybe is one of the UK and Europe’s largest low fares airline and has launched a record number of new routes from the UK region
§ Flybe is the UK’s leading non-London-centric airline, offering 113 routes from 40 airports in seven countries
By: lbaspotter - 29th November 2005 at 17:19
Good news always comes with bad news they say.
Anyway here is some more good news for Jet2 and LBA.
Jet2 will be operating Leeds/Bradford to Belfast, Amsterdam, Paris and Tenerife for summer 2006 afterall. There have put seats on sale of all 4 routes today for summer.
Amsterdam – Twice Daily.
Belfast – Twice Daily weekdays and once daily Sataurdays & Sundays.
Paris Cdg – Once Daily.
Tenerife – Twice Weekly Tuesays & Fridays, The Sunday Flight is dropped.
By: LBARULES - 29th November 2005 at 16:57
Shame that Eastern are dropping IOM though 🙁
http://www.iomonline.co.im/ViewArticle2.aspx?
AIRLINE DROPS LEEDS/BRADFORD ROUTE
POOR passenger numbers have forced an airline to abandon flights to
Leeds/Bradford Airport.
Eastern Airways will cease to operate the route, which flies every
day except Saturday with an 18-seat aircraft, on January 9.
A spokesman for the airline, which took over the route from British
Airways CitiExpress in March 2003, said: ‘This decision has not been
taken lightly.
‘Traffic has declined over the last year and, in particular with the
growth in capacity on Manchester and Liverpool, has now reached a
point where it is no longer commercially viable to continue.
‘We constantly monitor all our services on our route network to
ensure they are commercially viable.’
Passenger figures on the Leeds/Bradford have fallen from 828 in June
to just 624 last month, when figures were 36.5 per cent down on
October 2004.
During the same period, passenger numbers for the airline as a whole
have fallen by more than 1,100 ? much more than the 200 fall in
figures on the Leeds/Bradford service.
However, a spokesman said while the viability of all routes operated
by Eastern from 17 airports around the British Isles is constantly
monitored, there are no plans to drop its other Isle of Man
services, to Newcastle, Bristol and Birmingham.
‘The other routes will continue as normal,’ he said. ‘There are no
current plans to withdraw those other services.’
Isle of Man Newspapers is running a competition with Eastern Airways
and last week offered three weekend breaks to Leeds.
The airline has confirmed the three winners drawn out today (Friday)
can still fly direct to Leeds from the Isle of Man until the January
9, 2006.
If the winners decide to travel to Leeds after that date they will
be flown to Newcastle and onward rail travel will be arranged to
Leeds.
Alternatively, the winners can choose to fly on one of Eastern
Airways’ other Isle of Man services to Birmingham, Bristol or
Newcastle and the airline will organise hotel accommodation at the
relevant city.
26 November 2005
Maybe one for Euromanx, Aer Arann or dare I say it Alpha One?
By: LBARULES - 29th November 2005 at 16:52
Great news, Bergerac is really unexpected, when I saw the title of the thread, I was hoping 2 x daily EDI/GLA! Even though its a route I will most likely never use and is only once weekly, still very nice to see.
Southampton going up to 2 x daily is cracking news, and great timings also, can see myself on a LBA-SOU-BHD-LBA round trip!
Nice to see FlyBe have actually done a bit of their promised expansion, I think we can hope for more, the good thing for FlyBe is they can expand into airports such as LBA and NCL, without basing a/c, and all the costs that come with it.
Just a quick note Ross, I think you have got some of the Exeter flights with the wrong timings! I think you meant 14:35 instead of 12:35, cant see LBA-EXT taking 3 hours!
By: Mark L - 29th November 2005 at 16:24
Eastern are definitly being encroached upon in their traditional market areas by FlyBe. Their latest traffic stats show most of their routes down on previous years. There are less and less routes that cannot be operated efficiently by a full Q400 at low fares in comparison to en emptyish Jetstream at very high fares.
Whilst Eastern have a good thing at the moment, the more FlyBe expand the worse it becomes for them.
By: RIPConcorde - 29th November 2005 at 16:01
Eastern will need to watch out. BE now have some attractive frequencies for business travellers
Eastern will also have to watch out for the fact that Flybe have increased EDI-NWI to 2x daily during the week from the 25th of May.
By: Humberside - 29th November 2005 at 14:46
Eastern will need to watch out. BE now have some attractive frequencies for business travellers
By: Mark L - 29th November 2005 at 14:03
LBA-SOU twice daily – Yay! Thats going to be useful!
By: GKirk - 29th November 2005 at 12:53
NCL-SOU goes up to 3 Daily, NCL-EXT up to 2 Daily, whilst NCL-BHD goes down to 1 Daily, FlyBe unable to compete with easyJet perhaps?
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November 29, 2005 at 12:26 pm