Bristol: TUI Airways Route News & Base Updates

[Jerry]

Perhaps they will use the 757 on Cape Verdi as can do it with ease. Anyone know how the 737 doing on the route as was mentioned would have to do a fuel stop.

Quick look on FR24 suggests the 738 does it non stop.

 

[ROC10]

757 G-BYAY now working from BRS after arriving from BHX this morning.

 

[superking]

Should have left the 757 at BRS till the last to get replaced.

 

[ROC10]

Am I correct in saying the CFU flight didn’t go this morning? G-TAWI has been idle at BRS for 10 hours.

The flight isn’t showing on TUI’s list of departures and shows a scheduled but no actual departure on FR24. FR24 indicates this was the first week of the flight but perhaps this is wrong and it’ll start later in the season?

 

[Jerry]

Am I correct in saying the CFU flight didn’t go this morning? G-TAWI has been idle at BRS for 10 hours.

The flight isn’t showing on TUI’s list of departures and shows a scheduled but no actual departure on FR24. FR24 indicates this was the first week of the flight but perhaps this is wrong and it’ll start later in the season?

I believe that the aircraft has been damaged and the passengers will be flying from Cardiff at 20.40 tonight.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I believe that the aircraft has been damaged and the passengers will be flying from Cardiff at 20.40 tonight.

Is that on a CWL-based aircraft? I'm presuming that G-TAWI only had this morning's Corfu route today. I can't see any other BRS TUI flights seriously delayed.

 

[Jerry]

Is that on a CWL-based aircraft? I'm presuming that G-TAWI only had this morning's Corfu route today. I can't see any other BRS TUI flights seriously delayed.

It must be. G-TAWX is currently on the ground at CWL and there is a Corfu departure scheduled at 20.40 on the CWL website.

 

[ROC10]

Is that on a CWL-based aircraft? I'm presuming that G-TAWI only had this morning's Corfu route today. I can't see any other BRS TUI flights seriously delayed.

G-TAWX (CWL) is doing the CFU. Thought they might have positioned it over to BRS but I guess they had many hours to bus the passengers up.

G-TAWI (BRS) is back on schedule operating this evening's BRS-LPA-BRS.

 

[Red Flyer]

As it seems to be the topic of a little bit of confusion on various forums I thought that you would like to know that the 752 is not restricted to 189 pax and most of its departures in the past few days have actually had 221 pax .

 

[TheLocalYokel]

As it seems to be the topic of a little bit of confusion on various forums I thought that you would like to know that the 752 is not restricted to 189 pax and most of its departures in the past few days have actually had 221 pax .

Many thanks for the clarification, Red Flyer.

A little bonus on seat availability then compared with what was believed to be the original TUI plans - 4 x B737-800s.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

TOM644 Cancun

Seems to have gone via East Midlands today.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-airport-emergency-divert-luton-2937523

A TUI B 757-200 travelling from Luton to Gran Canaria diverted into BRS today following illness to a passenger.

There was a bit more to it though. Initially the aircraft had reached the English Channel from Luton when the captain decided to return to the originating airport. According to the report the desecent into Luton was almost complete when the aircraft was pulled out and once more headed towards the coast. It had reached Brittany when the captain turned around again and this time headed for Bristol where the aircraft landed.

The 757 later left Bristol and flew to Gran Canaria where it landed nearly six and three-quarters of an hour after leaving Luton which the Bristol Post headline describes as a 'six-hour ordeal'. It would probably have taken around four hours had it gone non-stop.

TUI apologised for the delay and confirmed it was due to a passenger being taken ill.

 

[ROC10]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-airport-emergency-divert-luton-2937523

A TUI B 757-200 travelling from Luton to Gran Canaria diverted into BRS today following illness to a passenger.

There was a bit more to it though. Initially the aircraft had reached the English Channel from Luton when the captain decided to return to the originating airport. According to the report the desecent into Luton was almost complete when the aircraft was pulled out and once more headed towards the coast. It had reached Brittany when the captain turned around again and this time headed for Bristol where the aircraft landed.

The 757 later left Bristol and flew to Gran Canaria where it landed nearly six and three-quarters of an hour after leaving Luton which the Bristol Post headline describes as a 'six-hour ordeal'. It would probably have taken around four hours had it gone non-stop.

TUI apologised for the delay and confirmed it was due to a passenger being taken ill.

Interesting. Having had a look at FR24, it doesn’t appear to show the above – it shows that the flight left LTN, reached Brittany and then turned and diverted straight to BRS. Of course it’s posisble that FR24 is incorrect but it seems unlikely unless the aircraft returned to LTN before leaving again (no such flight recorded).

 

[ROC10]

BRS-CUN gone via GLA today and is significantly delayed.

 

[Jerry]

BRS-CUN gone via GLA today and is significantly delayed.

Was that for fuel or are they picking up passengers on the way as they don't usually refuel at GLA.

 

[ROC10]

Was that for fuel or are they picking up passengers on the way as they don't usually refuel at GLA.

Just for fuel I’d imagine (or possibly tech/medical but the routing suggests it was always going there), I don’t believe there was a TUI GLA-CUN scheduled today.

 

[superking]

FR was saying diverted to GLA. I would have thought if fuel it would not show diverted and if picking up pax then that would have been planned and not saying diverted.Looking at the flight path to GLA it did not go direct as it made many turns wit the most being over MAN so I would say it had a tech issue or a medical problem..

 

[Jerry]

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FR was saying diverted to GLA. I would have thought if fuel it would not show diverted and if picking up pax then that would have been planned and not saying diverted.Looking at the flight path to GLA it did not go direct as it made many turns wit the most being over MAN so I would say it had a tech issue or a medical problem..

Or the original plan was MAN but they didn't have room.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

Doesn't it normally route further west over Wales, or even along the southwest coast?
Was FR showing BRS-CUN or BRS-MAN/GLA. Usually if its preplanned FR shows the actual routing to the fuelling airport.

 

[ROC10]

FR was saying diverted to GLA. I would have thought if fuel it would not show diverted and if picking up pax then that would have been planned and not saying diverted.Looking at the flight path to GLA it did not go direct as it made many turns wit the most being over MAN so I would say it had a tech issue or a medical problem..

In my experience, FR generally doesn’t have the positioning flights for fuel scheduled in. So the aircraft would leave BRS as BRS-CUN even if TUI have planned to go via another airport. This will thus show diverted.