Meant to ask you how you got on that day ?

Ren,

Sorry, meant to give you an update, but have had a sudden family bereavement in the interim. We had a wonderful day which was all we could have expected. Good variety of movements, great sunny weather (just one shower which caught us out), lunch in the pub in Monkton, and calm waters for the Seacat. Guess we’ll be back if the fares are right, as the car was a godsend for us, and it’s usually extremely expensive just to do a day trip, and extortionate for anything longer.

My digital camera is a Nikon 880 compact (which basically means no zoom worth talking about), so I used my Canon 35mm gear which has a 300mm f4 lens and got Jessop’s to process, print and also put the images onto CDs for me. Truth is that the prints were fine, but the CD images weren’t that good, so I’ve not actually posted any. Because of my family problems I’ve not yet had a chance to see my brother-in-law’s photos taken on his Fuji digital camera. When we get a chance we’ll probably submit some (albeit they’re going to be well out of date).

Fred’s company and photo advice was appreciated, and the other local spotters there were excellent. As we would say this side of the Irish Sea, the craic was mighty all day.

Looking forward to the next time already. 🙂

Welcome Fred. Good to have you on board. Cast your mind back to 7th of this month at PIK, and the three guys from Belfast over for a day’s spotting and photography. Glad to have had your company briefly that day, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves that day and appreciated your on-site advice.

Just keep those photos coming ………

Myself and Mrs Dee747 outside the Louvre in Paris in 2003

This is my standard wallpaper, showing a XV squadron Tornado flying over my home town of Donaghadee in County Down, Northern Ireland, with the Ards Peninsula, Strangford Lough and the Mourne Mountains in the background. My home is just visible beyond the nose of the aircraft. The shot is taken from a second Tornado, and I caught both on the radio a few days before on their arrival into RAF Aldergrove (aka Belfast International), and saw them scream in low overhead the house.

It’s had many admirers since it was installed last year.

I phoned twice for the two set of dates to make sure it wasnt a disgruntelled call centre person who quotes me sky high out of badness!

And just why would they be doing that? Their purpose is to drum up business, not push it away for goodness sake. :confused:

I would, at this stage, take this report with a certain reticence. Emirates may well have approached the BFS management recently, and it would be unrealistic therefore for the management to be “shy” about publicising such a high profile approach from one of the world’s most respected carriers.

I think it should be put into perspective however, with any flight from/to Ireland as a whole, being operated from/to Dublin, which is more likely to be able to generate enough “all Ireland” traffic to sustain it. Don’t get me wrong – it would be fantastic to have this possibility turned into a reality. The idea of an Emirates A330 for example operating into BFS on a regular basis is truly mouth watering. I’ll not be holding my breath though just yet.

I would call anything around £299 or under locost and that was a view shared by alot of people i spoke to today

Which is exactly the point I was making before. The existing routing (via LGW or BHX, using Flybe as a feeder) can be had for around £280-£300. Why would CO offer a fare of £650 on a direct BFS-EWR service? They wouldn’t get the takers, when it’s possible to drive to DUB from Belfast and get an Aer Lingus flight into JFK for a similar price as now (or even less), or to route via BHX, MAN or LGW for pretty much the same money?

CO are confirmed to put a 757 on the route as expected but are charging £650 return for the pleasure of the flight.

Andrewm,

Not sure just where you got this fare from, as the CO website doesn’t appear to be issuing fares on this route yet. Nevertheless, if you enter travel dates of 1-8th March 2005 from BHD to EWR for a comparison with the existing fare structure, you’ll get a price of £279.30 for the complete trip, and that is using Flybe from BHD to LGW at the beginning and end of the trip. Can’t see why they’d be suddenly jumping to £650. :confused: