2011 Charleroi Airport (CRL) latest news

[danieln]

Thesalonika,
Volos,
Santiago de compostella
Kos
Lamezia
Athens
Belgrade

Santiago de Compostela was indeed rumoured, but as far as I know, it will not be on the map for the coming months or years. Ryanair and the local authorities did not come to an agreement.

[Boeing767copilot]

According to Travel Magazine there will be a Ryanair press conference tomorrow in Charleroi about new FR routes and extra frequenties on existing routes. Who knows more?

[theeuropean]

I haven't heard anything, but I am not really surprised with all those new routes they are recently adding I was expecting some sort of conference/press release about Charleroi. Maybe a new aircraft being based - I can't see all those summer routes being flown without some additional capacity. Hopefully some seasonal routes will become year-round

[guuuuuust]

According to Travel Magazine there will be a Ryanair press conference tomorrow in Charleroi about new FR routes and extra frequenties on existing routes. Who knows more?

MORE new routes ? My god There is no end of the expansion from FR, although i like it

[VEX802]

Only in dutch:

(source luchtvaartnieuws.nl)

Ryanair schrapt achttien routes vanaf Girona
BARCELONA - Ryanair heeft aangekondigd fors te gaan snijden in het aantal vluchten vanaf de Spaanse luchthaven Girona. De reden is dat de nieuwe regionale regering van Catalonië een overeenkomst die Ryanair in december met de vorige regering sloot niet erkent. Als 'wraak' reduceert Ryanair het aantal op Girona gestationeerde vliegtuigen van elf naar zes.

Ryanair zegt dat al vanaf eind deze maand 18 van de 64 routes worden gestaakt, waaronder de route naar Airport Weeze. Ook wordt naar 17 andere bestemmingen, waaronder Eindhoven, de frequentie verlaagd. De maatregelen kosten de luchthaven van Girona per jaar 1,7 miljoen passagiers, zo heeft Ryanair berekend.

Met de vorige Catalaanse regering sloot Ryanair in december nog een overeenkomst waardoor het bedrijf ook de komende vijf jaar op grote schaal vanaf Girona zou blijven vliegen. Volgens dat akkoord zou Ryanair met elf gestationeerde toestellen op 64 routes vliegen, die jaarlijks 4 miljoen passagiers opleveren. De nieuwe regering weigert volgens de Ierse maatschappij het destijds gesloten akkoord te erkennen. De voorwaarden van het akkoord zijn niet bekend.

De aangekondigde reducties in Girona hebben geen invloed op de vluchtuitvoering van Ryanair vanaf de nabijgelegen luchthavens van Barcelona en Reus. Ryanair zegt dat de vijf toestellen die vrijkomen worden gestationeerd op “goedkopere” luchthavens elders in Europa, waaronder België, Italië en Oost-Europa.

In short: Due to a dispute between Ryanair and the Catalonian government, the airline will cancell 18 of of its 64 routes at Girona airport. In this context, Ryanair will reduce its aircrafts based at Girona from 11 to 6. The five freed aircrafts will be based in Eastern Europe, Italy and Belgium (read Charleroi). Could this decision have something in common with the planned press release of tomorrow of O'Leary at CRL?

[sn26567]

This was already mentioned (in English!) in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44204

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

OR LGG-OST , this is also belgium...

CX-B

[azingrew]

"Can anyone say which cities are connected by bus out of charleroi airport? (public or private transportation)."


Megaman, just landed a few hours ago from MRS. I saw that, besides Brussels midi, there are regular busses to Luxemburg.

With all these new flights coming, where the hell are they gonna put the passengers ? It's near saturation already now! Flew out on friday to TLN and there were no parking space available in long term and had to turn around for ages to find a space in short term. Delighted with the success of the airport but they better think of a new phase of expansion work quick. I mean, we're in february what is it going to be in July ?!

[Megaman]

Does anybody know when the press conference by Ryaniair is scheduled today?

[Boeing767copilot]

New destinations:
- Rhodos (Greece)
- Almeria (Spain)

[theeuropean]

Where did that news conference that was supposedly to happen today disappear to?

[kleineboy]

Ryanair

14 april 2011

Charleroi-Biarritz 3/7

And no restart of Charleroi - Pau

Source http://www.goedkoopvliegenclub.nl/nieuws.html

[sn26567]

Ryanair

no restart of Charleroi - Pau

No indeed. Pau has said it would not pay subsidies anymore. Ryanair retaliated by leaving Pau altogether. And CityJet stepped in with three routes from Pau: Dublin, London City and Amsterdam.

[Charlie Roy]

New Ryanair route:

Genoa / Genova GOA

[crlhub]

1.202.625 pax for T1 at CRL +22 pct !!

Article only in French for the moment.

http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualit ... leroi.html

[crlhub]

New ryanair destination as of june: PULA (croatia)

[crlhub]

In french only (for the moment):

Forte hausse des voyageurs en avril à Charleroi


L’aéroport de Charleroi (Brussels South Charleroi Airport, BSCA) a enregistré 506.177 passagers[/b] au cours du mois d’avril, ce qui représente une hausse de 41 % par rapport au mois d’avril 2010, a annoncé l’aéroport. « Cette forte augmentation s’explique par les 659 annulations de vols causées par l’éruption du volcan islandais l’année dernière, affectant près de 100.000 passagers. Sans ces annulations, quelque 455.000 voyageurs auraient pu prendre leur vol en avril 2010. Dans ce cas, l’augmentation de passagers aurait été de 11,3 %, un chiffre qui correspond à la stratégie de croissance maîtrisée actuellement adoptée par l’aéroport », souligne dans un communiqué l’aéroport qui rappelle par ailleurs que 13 nouvelles lignes ont été lancées pour la saison d’été 2011.

[crlhub]

Brand new gates will be opened in June at the Friendly Airport in order to enhance the airport's performances especially during the summer season.

4 new gates and 4 add parkings at CRL

[Acid-drop]

sweet !
I didn't think the upgrade would come so quickly.
So what's the official capacity now ?

[crlhub]

The capacity of CRL should reach 6.5/7 millions pax.
Another major upgrade should follow with the so called 'master plan'
to be published soon.
Second terminal? Some cargo? Runway extension?Train or tram station?
A combi of the above possibilities probably.