Helvetic Airways has announced to base two aircraft in BSL as per July. Initial routes are to Santorin, Jerez, Larnaca and Pristina.
Interesting move-however it seems this is only the weekend schedule. I wonder what exactly is the plan for the rest of the week (flying for EW, LH, OS, SN or even LX?).
After gaining Iberia and TAP it is expected that the airport is talking to some other big European carriers as well. Finnair was named some time ago. And why not Scandinavian?
Jump to posteasyJet is basing a 12th aircraft in Basel as per end of March 2019. This comes just after stationing two additional aircraft in 2018. The new aircraft will be an A-320 and will mainly be used to increase frequencies on existing routes. It will temporarily operate between Christmas and beginning of ...
Jump to postTAP opens Lisbon-Basel twice daily with A-319 effective summer schedule 2019.
Departures from BSL TP953 at 11:05 and TP957 at 20:15.
This is excellent news since the flights allow connections to the US, South America and Africa.
Wizzair BSL-PRN (3/7) On the other hand BSL-WAW/SOF/WRO all get cut at the end of October. Remains to be seen if they come back. Basel-Sofia restarts in April with 2 weekly A321. New flights have started to Sibiu and Debrecen as well as Pristina will follow later this year. I doubt Warsaw will retu...
Jump to posteasyJet is adding two more aircraft to its Basel base effective summer 2018, bringing it to a total of 11 based aircraft (7 A-320 and 4 A-319). New destinations will be Vienna 6 weekly, Belgrade 3 weekly, Athens 2 weekly, Lamezia 2 weekly, Mahon 2 weekly and Pula 2 weekly. Stockholm (added for winte...
Jump to postWizzair announces a 12th (!) destination out of Basel:
Wroclaw 3x weekly starting in March 18.
W6 1829/ W6 1830 A-320
In addition, easyJet opens Basel-Stockholm 3 weekly. Finally!
Jump to postSkywork adds Basel-Vienna with 6 weekly flights effective September. They reduce LCY down to 1 flight per day. Not sure what strategy they are following at the moment. They are reducing more and more in Berne while launching some weird ski flights from SIR. And in Basel they try to compete with much...
Jump to postAfter a long time finally some news from Basel airport. Iberia goes up to daily with the new BSL-MAD route as per winter schedule. In addition they have launched a weekly cargo flight on the route operated by Cygnus Air. Qatar Cargo increases to 5 weekly on the pharma express flights. And Wizzair ju...
Jump to postNext wednesday Basel will be host of the Uefa Europa league final between Liverpool and Sevilla FC. EuroAirport expects more than 80 charter flights to bring in fans. Highlights among them are certainly 2 Wamos 747-400, Virgin Arlantic A330, 2 Privilege Style 777, Thomas Cook, Orbest and Air Europa ...
Jump to postNo BSL figures for March yet but +8% is expected for the full year. January and February were in the same range.
Jump to postThey will increase <acronym title="Bern - Belp (Belpmoos) (BRN / LSZB), Switzerland">BRN</acronym>-<acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym>-<acronym title="London - City (LCY / EGLC), United Kingdom">LCY</acronym> to 3 daily on certain days because of the dow...
Jump to postSkywork will open two new destinations from Basel in summer 16 in addition to the existing LCY flights:
Cologne 6 weekly
Heringsdorf 1 weekly
Flights will originate in Berne wirh a short stop in Basel.
Fog diversions into <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym> have a long history. It happens frequently, especially in autumn when there is a lot of fog in Switzerland. There was also a <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> Embraer diversion (<acronym...
Jump to postIt seems Basel airport becomes more and more a gateway for Balkan passengers. 05:05 PRISTINA EUROAIRPORT BELAIR 4T2479 05:10 PRISTINA EUROAIRPORT TUIFLY X38995 06:00 PRISTINA EUROAIRPORT AIR BUCHAR B1611 07:55 PRISTINA EUROAIRPORT EXPRESS <acronym title="Air Niger">AW</acronym> EPR617 13:30 PRISTINA...
Jump to postEasyJet adds two additional destinations from Basel:
Bristol 4 weekly with a Bristol based aircraft
Prague 3 weekly (the 52nd destination out of Basel)
As mentioned above, SkyWork Airlines will launch <acronym title="London - City (LCY / EGLC), United Kingdom">LCY</acronym> from Basel and Bern, 12 weekly with Saab2000: <acronym title="Bern - Belp (Belpmoos) (BRN / LSZB), Switzerland">BRN</acronym>-<acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH ...
Jump to postWizzAir adds Warsaw-Basel and Warsaw-Geneva twice weekly each as per winter schedule 15/16.
It is the 8th destination from Basel and the 4th from Geneva.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Wizzair to Sarajevo and Banja Luka very soon.
Jump to postIt seems Ryanair plans to expand from Basel. According to a spokesman Stockholm, Madrid and Rome are planned to be served in addition to Dublin and Stansted. My guess is this will only happen in 2016 due to aircraft shortage. KLM is increasing to 4 daily flights on <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse -...
Jump to postLX has only 280 000 Pax a year or so in Basel, while more than 6.5 mio. passengers used the Airport in 2014. Vueling will start daily flights to Barcelona, easyJet has increased Hamburg to up to 3 daily flights. 3 Airlines are interested tio start <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH /...
Jump to postAccording to Swiss there is no market to everywhere from <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym>. But the airport will manage to see 6.5 millions pax this year and around 7 millions next year. Basel-USA is difficult because there are a lot of flights to Zuri...
Jump to postNew day and new luck for Basel airport. Turkish Airlines increases flights to 14 weekly on <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym>-<acronym title="Istanbul - Ataturk (Yesilkoy) (IST / LTBA), Turkey">IST</acronym>. Wizzair opens flights to Nis in Serbia twice...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/runway23" class="quote" target="_blank">runway23</a> (<a href="#120" class="quote">Reply 120</a>):<br/><i>train to <acronym title="Zurich (- Klo...
Jump to postSo it is now confirmed that Swiss will stop flying from Basel as per end of May 2015! It is still unclear whether Eurowings will take over or not. Its the worst strategy you can have for this airport. The longer you wait the more competition arrives to Basel. Vueling announced flights to <acronym ti...
Jump to postNot sure about Eurowings and Basel. It was announced in summer. All <acronym title="OLD: Crossair (Switzerland), NEW: Swiss International Airlines (Switzerland)">LX</acronym> flights from <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym> are still loaded and bookable ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SQ1" class="quote" target="_blank">SQ1</a> (<a href="#82" class="quote">Reply 82</a>):<br/><i>LanCargo will introduce a once weekly 777F flight ...
Jump to postInterestingly, no news about the <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym> operation. I wonder if they have abandoned the Eurowings project. The <acronym title="OLD: Crossair (Switzerland), NEW: Swiss International Airlines (Switzerland)">LX</acronym> flights ...
Jump to postThe new cargo flights come in line with the opening of a new cargo terminal in Basel. The new terminal can handle sensitive goods such as pharma products.
More news will follow soon. Several airlines are interested to start cargo flights.
No news about the destinations but they say "more than today". My guess is London and Hamburg double daily plus daily Barcelona and some other popular destinations such as Rome, Palma. Im sure they will frontally attack easyJet. Not sure if it will work. Easyjet flies up to 3 daily Hamburg, 5 daily ...
Jump to postSwiss will leave BSL airport completely. The 2 Avros will be replaced with 2 to 4 eurowings A320.
Jump to postWizzAir adds a fifth destination from BSL as per autumn: two weekly flights to Bucarest.
It already serves Skopje, Belgrade, Tuzla and Cluj.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/konrad" class="quote" target="_blank">konrad</a> (<a href="#32" class="quote">Reply 32</a>):<br/><i>I was wondering how is EasyJet Switzerland d...
Jump to postWizzair opens a fourth route out of <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym> this summer. Two weekly flights to Cluj/Romania are now bookable. They are already serving Belgrade, Skopje and Tuzla. <acronym title="Turkish Airlines">TK</acronym> increases <acron...
Jump to postAccording to Swiss they will not renew the contract with Darwin on the <acronym title="Zurich (- Kloten) (ZRH / LSZH), Switzerland">ZRH</acronym>-<acronym title="Lugano (- Agno) (LUG / LSZA), Switzerland">LUG</acronym> route. Swiss looks for an alternative operator but maybe decides to drop the rout...
Jump to postInteresting news about Etihad. At the moment, I don't exactly understand how it could work. There's only one daily flight in <acronym title="Geneva - International (Cointrin) (GVA / LSGG), Switzerland">GVA</acronym> and <acronym title="Zurich (- Kloten) (ZRH / LSZH), Switzerland">ZRH</acronym> to fe...
Jump to postThats good news for Basel. Dublin was still missing on the route map.
It seems they will launch Basel-Stansted as well.
Aircraft number 9 for the Basel base is now confirmed by easyJet. New destinations will be Keflavik 2 weekly Bastia 2 weekly Montpellier 3 weekly Brindisi 2 weekly Sevilla will be continued in summer 2014. Düsseldorf and Istanbul will be stopped. In total, easyJet will perform 516 weekly flights fro...
Jump to postIt seems easyJet will base two additional A-320 aircraft in Basel in spring/summer 2014 (total 5 A-319 and 5 A-320). Among the new destinations there will be Montpellier, Bastia, Keflavik and Brindisi. More news will follow for sure. According to a facebook voting, Stockholm, Vienna and St. Petersbu...
Jump to posteasyJet will launch two new destinations from Basel as per winter schedule:
Hurghada twice weekly
and
Cracow three times weekly.
Some interesting route news from <acronym title="Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB), France">BSL</acronym>: KLM started a third daily flight to <acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym> in April with F-70. easyJet based ist 8th aircraft in <acronym title="...
Jump to postLong time rumoured, now official: easyJet ist basing an 8th aircraft in Basel as per April 2013. The new aircraft will be an A-320 and will be used to increase flights to France, Gatwick and Berlin (up to 5x daily). Antalya (seasonal) and Catania (year round) will be two new destinations. The Basel ...
Jump to postUnfortunately some more bad news for Berne airport...
SkyWork is dropping Belgrade and is reducing Zagreb to one weekly flight. Amsterdam and Vienna will see reduced frequency as well.
They will, however, launch a weekly Basel to Elba flight every Saturday for the summer season.
Yes, it is confirmed by AF in the local press.
Also TGV reduced trains from Berne to Paris from 2 daily to one daily and is thinking about dropping it.
And BSL 5'354'758 (+6%).
For 2013 a growth of 3% is expected.
It is even more complicated. For example many companies located at EuroAirport are registered in Basel (Swiss, Jet Aviation, AMAC etc.), where they pay taxes. But in fact they are on French territory. Their employees have Swiss labour contracts and Swiss salaries. It caused some problems recently as...
Jump to postWizzAir is finally arriving in Switzerland with 2 or 3 weekly flights Skopje-Basel: Skopje (<acronym title="Skopje - Alexander the Great (Petrovec) (SKP / LWSK), Macedonia">SKP</acronym>) Basel (MLH) W6 7731 Tue, Thu(?), Sat 14:00 16:15 A320 Basel (MLH) Skopje (<acronym title="Skopje - Alexander the...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/330lover" class="quote" target="_blank">330lover</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>Nothing new about <acronym title="OLD: Sab...
Jump to postWith the <acronym title="Niagara Falls - International (IAG / KIAG), USA - New York">IAG</acronym> take-over of <acronym title="Bloomington / Normal - Central Illinois Regional (BMI / KBMI), USA - Illinois">BMI</acronym> it seems <acronym title="OLD: Crossair (Switzerland), NEW: Swiss International ...
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