Comments on: BTA: Airline Seat Capacity Increased 22% In Q1

By: wondering

wondering — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:18:03 +0000

Everybody is a genius but if you judge a chicken by how far it can fly it will always think it is stupid.

By: serengeti

serengeti — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:58:44 +0000

An idiot can ask more questions than a genius can answer, as you have proved.

By: serengeti

serengeti — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:57:45 +0000

March was the month when you lot took a week off to show how racist you are. I don’t know if that will have done much to help the March tourism numbers.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:46:12 +0000

So does this mean Hanbury gets another $80,000 bonus?

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:43:56 +0000

Tourist or PRC potentials.

By: Spilt milk

Spilt milk — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:10:08 +0000

Is that 22% up from the numbers that wer down the year before?

By: Eve

Eve — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:47:33 +0000

What website are you reading???? Air Vacation & Leisure Visitor Arrivals in January was neg. 552 and February was pos. 524 that is a decrease of 28 over 2015. That is a long long way from filling 19,000 seats. There better be a big increase for March or the hotels that participated in the 50% off sale will not be happy with the BTA.

By: smh

smh — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:50:06 +0000

Coffee, don’t you just hate it when Bermuda gets good news?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0000

WHERE ARE THE DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM MAINLAND EUROPE? YES, I am yelling!

By: Make a new plan Stan

Make a new plan Stan — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:52:47 +0000

I work in the industry and noticed that it wasn’t as quiet as it normally is. There has been a pretty steady stream of people from all over the world over the last few months.I’ve noticed alot of young Asian visitors that may be in college in North American, a few people from Germany and Sweden and of course the U.S. as far as Texas and even further Arizona.

Here’s something to consider: I met a man from Mumbai, last month, who stopped here on his way to New York. This is not the first time something like this has happened…..I also met a couple a few years ago from Italy who stopped here on the way to New York…..that might be another angle to use to sell our product.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 02:52:37 +0000

Drinking too much coffee, that is a rather unusual number. Are you suggesting sixty thousand dollars?
Have to agree with you, it’s all nonsense. Playing around with the numbers, you can make them suggest anything you wish.
However, a new airport is required, the current airport is not a positive gateway to this island. It’s the PPP that needs to go, given there is only ever one winner and that is the private not the public in the partnership.

By: Coffee

Coffee — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:52:55 +0000

Didn’t Jamaica just get 60,000.00 more seats . Stop the nonsense BTA /Hanbury / Jones /Lacy … Stop it !
Where is the Tourism Minister when you need him ? OBA , playing silly games with low numbers , for a new airport with no numbers !

By: wondering

wondering — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:19:59 +0000

The numbers don’t reflect the amount of $ paid in subsidies year over year AND the 5 or 10 year trend.

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:54:25 +0000

By the way, in reference to Mr. Dale Butlers interview on Z.B.M TV last evening,(Tuesday)it had been well presented and should be viewed with”open eyes”by the vast majority of Bermudians and yes, politician as well. What he’d said is 100% true.

Thanks Mr. Dale Bulter

By: Tourism Advocate

Tourism Advocate — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:03:11 +0000

Confirmed. American’s second flight not subsidised.

By: watching

watching — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:49:33 +0000

Capacity is one thing, but the real information is how many visitors came? I am hoping that the numbers are up significantly in like with the capacity increase.

By: perspective

perspective — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:24:56 +0000

The additional American Airlines is not subsidized

By: Lois Frederick

Lois Frederick — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:20:30 +0000

Check their website. Jan and Feb are both there. You might be surprised at what you see.

By: Lois Frederick

Lois Frederick — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:19:24 +0000

Jan and Feb both had very encouraging increases, it’s on their website under research. I see no reason why March would be any different.

By: Jus' Wonderin'

Jus' Wonderin' — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:16:29 +0000

Same with me….and it was mostly all tourists!

By: wondering

wondering — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:59:34 +0000

What is the use of a press release regarding useless information. The public wants to know REAL numbers:

How many visitors arrived

How much did they spend

How much does Bermuda have to subsidize to offset the empty seats (eg 40 passengers on a 150 capacity flight).

!! Having 20 000 seats is useless unless you capitalize on the supply of what appears to be an unnecessarily inflated projected demand!!

Stats like those reported p1$$ people off to the “enth” degree when the bottom line is of what benefit to our economy was the effort?

Public relations is an art and you have to know how to tell the public the truth and make less commotion over nothing and give credit where it’s due when appropriate.

By: Onion

Onion — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:43:52 +0000

For what it’s worth I was on one of the AA JFK flights last week and it was full of tourists.

By: wahoo

wahoo — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:21:57 +0000

Nice!

By: archy

archy — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:47:36 +0000

“Visitor arrival numbers for the first quarter of 2016 will be released next week.”
It will be interesting to see if the visitor arrival numbers mirror the increased capacity. I hope so.

By: reddamtibi

reddamtibi — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:44:36 +0000

Not being at all negative just want to see the difference between the true seat capacity required and the manufactured one.

By: reddamtibi

reddamtibi — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:40:42 +0000

Is the additional American flight made to JFK not a result of a direct government subsidy as reported months ago versus a real demand increase by visitors?

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:04:45 +0000

Excellent news indeed!