Talk:Bournemouth Airport

Ryanair were using the airport before 2005, and must have been there at least as long ago as 1996. Joe D (t) 04:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

New Passenger terminal

Is Bournemouth every going to get a new passenger terminal espically with the rapid growth of the number of passengers flying from bmth and with only 4 gates, which are always used during busy periods.

Full details of the new terminal are contained in the airports 'master plan', which you can download from the airports website.

Easyjet Base

It is rumoured that Easyjet are planning on making Easyjet a base next april flying to Paris, Edinburgh, Nice and Geneva. they would base 2 A319's there.

Monarch Airlines

Monarch Airlines currently provide aircraft for charter services to Calgary and New York-JFK using A332 equipment. Scheduled Serviced flight numbers are "ZB" and charter serviced flight numbers begin with "MON". Flight MON9759 at 9:30 departed both 6th and 7th january destined for calgary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.63.104 (talk) 21:19, 7 January, 2008 (UTC)

Airport's history

The airport's runway's were actually built by the RAF and USAF during the second world war to act as a forward base to deploy aircraft leading up to D-Day. The airport was handed over to civil authorities after world war two and acted as the main airport for London for about eight months after the war until Heathrow was also handed over to civil use. Passengers have in fact been using the airport since 1945, numbers being fairly low through the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. Passenger numbers started to slowly increase in the 90's. Ryanair started operating from the airport in may 1996 when it launched a daily service to Dublin. In 1996 the local authorities , who had controlled the airport since end of world war two, sold it to National Express group (who also owned East Midlands airport). It was then that the main runway was extended to enable larger jets to operate. The airport was sold on to Manchester Airport Group in 2002( or possibly 2001) who still own it. Since then passenger flights have increased so that now approximately 1.1 million people use the airport annually. Most of these passengers use Thomsonfly, Ryanair, Easyjet and a few other charter and scheduled services. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaggedbanana (talk) 18:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Ryanair seasonal routes

I ahve re-added details of Ryanair's seasonal routes from Bournemouth; namely Carcassonne, Faro, Limoges, Marseille, Palma de Mallorca and Pisa. These routes are demonstratably seasonal from the Bournemouth Airport Winter Timetable and Summer Timetable, and analysis of the Ryanair Timetable. The Ryanair Route Map does not concur, and clearly uses a different definition of seasonal than Wikipedia, which states at WP:AIRPORTS that the term should be applied to flights that do not operate year round. These flights clearly and verifiably do not operate year round and therefore the seasonal tag is appropriate and has been re-added. SempreVolando (talk) 10:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Viking Airlines/Palmair

Since the loss of european aviation air charter, palmair has had their flights provided by jet2.com to provide the services, using a 737-300. It now seems that viking airlines now provides this service on behalf of palmair, but it is not known how long the aircraft is leased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.249.84 (talk) 09:32, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Article Appearance

The article generally looks uninviting and frankly boring in comparison to some other commercial airports in the aviation category. Could we have a satellite picture as well as the bournemouth airport logo at the beginning, with several pictures of for example the 747-400s on approach to the airport, which began landing at the airport as of June 19th 2009, and other images such as the construction of the terminal in the relevant areas of the article etc?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cm1989 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is a work in progress so you are welcome to edit the page to improve it. Although it does have a logo at the top of the article we wouldnt have more than one. You have to remember that it is sometimes better to have pictures of the airport itself, or aircraft on the ground showing airport features rather than aircraft in the air. A Boeing 747 is not really typical better would be a 737 on the main apron, you just have to find one in the public domain. MilborneOne (talk) 11:27, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Can anyone add to the Bournemouth Aviation Museum article? I vaguely remember seeing on the news that a museum closed (was it at the airport?) and I assume that most of the exhibits went to this other (new?) museum. Sorry to be vague! Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 15:12, 14 January 2010 (UTC)