Does anybody know if the rumours are true - that Ryan air are cancelling all flights from Liverpool to Nimes and Leeds Bradford to Nimes and that Garons airport will be closing? It is not possible to book any flight from the North of England to Nimes after mid October 2008. Any information gratefully received!(it is still possible at present to book flights from Luton and Charleroi in November)
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This is my local airport.
Rumours of its closure have been pretty well continuous for the last 7 or 8 years.
It is a military airport with a civilian terminal. So, Air Traffic Control, safety, fire engines, etc are shared.
Until 2001, the airport had regular Air France services to Paris with Air Littoral competing on the same route. The Paris route vanished when the TGV reduced the Paris - Nimes time to under 3 hrs. Air Littoral was acquired by Swiss Air and finally ceased operations in 2003.
This left just one daily Ryanair flight, and a %26quot;save Nimes airport%26quot; campaign was launched. Funding was found from local government organisations despite the regional ambition to further develop Montpellier airport.
Nimes then acquired Ryanair flights to Stansted, Luton, East Midlands, Liverpool and Charleroi at various times. Winter flights to EMA %26amp; Liverpool have been reduced or suspended in the past.
An airline proposed basing aircraft at Nimes serving 12 destinations for 2008, but the plans were abandoned.
As part of military cuts, the military aircraft will no longer be based at Nimes, but Nimes-Garons will be kept open as a reserve airfield.
You can follow the local discussion here :
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Nimes airport is at risk. It is under 1 hour from Montpellier, Avignon and Marseille airports. Perpignan, Carcassonne, Girona and Toulon airports are within easy reach. All offer low cost flights. Montpellier will run the service to Gatwick this winter (the first time for many years). Marseille has opened a dedicated low cost flight terminal which is expanding services rapidly. During 2008 Beziers airport has launched low cost flights to UK.
As far as I am aware, current rumours are just that.
Low cost flights from the closest competing airports in 2008 :
To From Carrier
Avignon - Edinburgh Jet2
Avignon - Exeter Flybe
Avignon - Leeds Bradford Jet2
Avignon - Southampton Flybe
Beziers - Bristol Ryanair
Beziers - Odense Cimber Air
Beziers - Stansted Ryanair
Marseille - Agadir Ryanair
Marseille - Beauvais Ryanair
Marseille - Birmingham BMI baby
Marseille - Birmingham Ryanair
Marseille - Bournemouth Ryanair
Marseille - Brest Ryanair
Marseille - Bristol Easyjet
Marseille - Brussels Brussels Airlines
Marseille - Casablanca Jet4you
Marseille - Charleroi Ryanair
Marseille - Dublin Aer Lingus
Marseille - Dublin Ryanair
Marseille - Edinburgh Ryanair
Marseille - Eindhoven Ryanair
Marseille - Fes Atlas Blue
Marseille - Fez Ryanair
Marseille - Gatwick BA
Marseille - Gatwick Easyjet
Marseille - Gothenborg Ryanair
Marseille - Lille Ryanair
Marseille - Madrid Ryanair
Marseille - Malaga Ryanair
Marseille - Manchester Ryanair
Marseille - Marakesh Atlas Blue
Marseille - Marakesh Ryanair
Marseille - Nador Ryanair
Marseille - Oslo Ryanair
Marseille - Oujda Atlas Blue
Marseille - Porto Ryanair
Marseille - Prestwick Ryanair
Marseille - Riga Air Baltic
Marseille - Stansted Ryanair
Marseille - Stockholm Ryanair
Marseille - Tangier Ryanair
Marseille - Venice MyAir
Marseille - Vilnius Air Baltic
Montpellier - Amsterdam Transavia
Montpellier - Copenhagen Sterling
Montpellier - Frankfurt Hahn Ryanair
Montpellier - Gatwick Easyjet
Montpellier - Stansted Ryanair
Nimes - Charleroi Ryanair
Nimes - Liverpool Ryanair
Nimes - Luton Ryanair
Nimes - Nottingham Ryanair
Peter
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You can also fly Beziers to Luton ( or LondonLuton as the bureaucrats call it ) Perhaps we could have a Ryanair flight from LondonLiverpool airport to Bez!
Is an?yone lobbying the powers that be to have a small station built by the rail line that runs directly in front of Bez airport since it is the main line between Montpellier and Bez and the TGV uses the line?
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Hi,
The rumours are always there. On the difficulty booking a flight, I think there was an issue with Ryanair site. I travel regularly from Liverpool to Nimes and could not get a booking for next easter. I tried from Liverpool to Nimes and I tried from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Marseille without luck. Then just today, I tried again and could get flights from all 3 uk airports for next april.
Try again and you might be in luck, but you might find the cheap flight offers take up all the seats.
Cheers,
Jim
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