Bristol: TUI Airways Route News & Base Updates

[Jerry]

Dropping Canary Islands routes is a bit of a surprise.

 

[Marko1]

Strange that Las Palmas stays though year round - I reckon they will add on later - Tui certainly retrenching across the board - several airports only will have seasonal canaries now

 

[Jerry]

Strange that Las Palmas stays though year round - I reckon they will add on later - Tui certainly retrenching across the board - several airports only will have seasonal canaries now

Do other airlines operate it at Bristol?

 

[Marko1]

All 4 Canary Islands have 4 airlines operating from Bristol. However it seems strange to keep Las Palmas but not the other 3. Does this mean a reduction in aircraft or will new routes be forthcoming instead ?

 

[Jerry]

9TUI Summer 2027 61 weekly departures -13, 25 destinations -3
Palma de Mallorca 7 weekly -1
Paphos 4 weekly
Corfu 4 weekly
Kos 3 weekly -1
Rhodes 3 weekly
Zante 3 weekly
Ibiza 3 weekly
Marrakech 2 weekly
Verona 2 weekly
Skiathos 2 weekly
Heraklion 2 weekly -1
Kefalonia 2 weekly
Bourgas 2 weekly
Sal 2 weekly
Larnaca 2 weekly -1
Hurghgada 2 weekly
Sharm el Shiekh 2 weekly
Gran Canaria 2 weekly
Malaga 2 weekly
Menorca 2 weekly
Reus 2 weekly
Antalya 2 weekly -1
Dalaman 2 weekly -2
Dubrovnik 1 weekly -1
Thessaloniki 1 weekly

Tenerife 2 weekly (in October)
Lanzarote 2 weekly (in October)
Fuerteventura 1 weekly (in October)

All 4 Canary Islands have 4 airlines operating from Bristol. However it seems strange to keep Las Palmas but not the other 3. Does this mean a reduction in aircraft or will new routes be forthcoming instead ?

Looking at the schedule and Bristol is down 13 weekly flights by the looks of it compared to S26 so that potentially suggests a cut aircraft. Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote resume in October possibly filling gaps made by reductions in other routes?

 

[Foxlimayankee]

Do some of the cruises start and end in Gran Canaria?

 

[Jerry]

Do some of the cruises start and end in Gran Canaria?

No.

 

[Marko1]

Tui has dropped its own flights to Tenerife , fueteventura and Lanzarote for summer 26 now. It appears to using Ryanair and easyjet instead . Gaps in the schedule to fill or more cuts to come …

 

[Jerry]

Based aircraft wise that'll mean TUI at Bristol will be down to 4 aircraft then.

 

[Severn]

Based aircraft wise that'll mean TUI at Bristol will be down to 4 aircraft then.

I can see 7x flights have been removed from the schedule:
ACE (2)
TFS (2)
FUE (1)
AGP (1)
DLM (1)

- Mondays schedule remains unchanged and still requires 5x aircraft morning and afternoon. However there are now gaps in the schedule on
- Tuesday afternoon,
- Wednesday afternoon,
- Thursday afternoon,
- Friday morning,
- Saturday afternoon
- Sunday morning and afternoon.

 

[Jerry]

I can see 7x flights have been removed from the schedule:
ACE (2)
TFS (2)
FUE (1)
AGP (1)
DLM (1)

- Mondays schedule remains unchanged and still requires 5x aircraft morning and afternoon. However there are now gaps in the schedule on
- Tuesday afternoon,
- Wednesday afternoon,
- Thursday afternoon,
- Friday morning,
- Saturday afternoon
- Sunday morning and afternoon.

So not a complete cut of an aircraft then?

 

[Foxlimayankee]

Could either be left as a spare for disruption or some schedules change so it operates W patterns with other airports.

 

[Red Flyer]

I’ve been reliably informed that TUi will base 5 aircraft as planned for S26 with changes still being worked on including additional flights to other destinations and potential new services!

 

[Marko1]

Changes to the schedules going on - doesn’t appear that new routes are being added and Palma appear to be departing early am and returning late pm on several more days per week - no increases to other destinations either

 

[Marko1]

Corfu increases to 5 weekly and Ssh to 3 weekly next summer

 

[CWL94]

New route to NBE added on Sundays

Weekly

 

[Severn]

New route to NBE added on Sundays

Weekly

NBE was last served by TUI in 2023. This means the schedule for all five 737 MAX 8s is now complete. I make 65 weekly flights, 64 of which are bookable and a weekly Thursday flight to MLA, which isn’t. This flight appears to operate annually, likely as a cruise flight. This is only one fewer flight per week than in summer 2025, with four of the eight weekly flights to PMI operating W-patterns to other UK airports.

 

[Marko1]

Some nice extra frequencies being added for summer 27

 

[Willo3D]

Some nice extra frequencies being added for summer 27

Nice. Presumably staying at 5 based then?

 

[Marko1]

Nice. Presumably staying at 5 based then?

At the moment it looks that way though there are 11 departures on a Monday…