BristolAirport Guide

Attention all Bristol food lovers! M&S is in the process of opening a new store within Bristol Airport. The outlet, which will provide high quality food and beverages, is expected to have longer opening hours compared to its equivalent high street stores.

Even better still, both departures and arrivals will have access to it, too.

Bristol Airport have exciting news; April will see the full launch of their new hidden disabilities assistance care,a programme put in place in an attempt to increase ease of travel for passengers with specific extra needs at the airport.

With planned implementation around the end of March 2017, qualifying passengers will be issued with a pass which is expected to be a similar size to a credit card.

New work has begun at Bristol Airport as part of its £2.3 million redevelopment project. Highlights of the new work include major improvements made to the immigration hall and a new hotel.

The 201-room accommodation, owned by Hilton Bristol Airport, is the first of its kind on the site which will be situated just a few minutes walk from the terminal building itself.

Noticeable facilities such as free wifi, hot breakfast for all guests, business and fitness centres and meeting spaces for up to 20 people mean that the new hotel will be accommodating for everyone! If you would like to reserve a room here, there hotel are taking reservations as of March 1st.

Take the chance to catch the sun this winter with the new flights launched by easyJet from Bristol Airport! The budget airline has started running a flight route to the sun soaked shores of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria which has been known to reach 25 degrees in mid-December, while Britain are reaching for their coats! .

Known for its white sandy beaches and black lava, Gran Canaria, one of the Spanish Canary Islands, will have easyJet flights running twice a week from Bristol throughout autumn and winter from £26.99 per person each way.

UK Commercial Manager for easyJet, Ali Gayward, said: "We're really pleased to launch yet another great route from Bristol Airport which is already proving extremely popular with our passengers.

"Gran Canaria has a something for everyone – from enduring beaches to the sand dunes in Maspalomas, the shopping in Las Palmas to the night time entertainment in Playa del Ingles.

"We're absolutely committed to making travel easy and affordable for our passengers in the South-West and Wales - we now fly to 60 destinations from Bristol Airport and it's one of the biggest bases in our network."

Since the beginning of operations 14 years ago, Bristol Airport marked a milestone at the beginning of the year of carrying over 40 million passengers. Passengers travelling from Bristol Airport can also grab some winter sun through destinations such as Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Funchal in Madeira.

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Back in 1957, the first commercial flight from Bristol Airport took to the sky. At this time, it was used to welcome just 33,000 passengers per year. Back to the present day and things have certainly stepped up a gear for the West-Country airport. It has recently been announced that, 49 years later, a staggering 7 million passengers travelled through Bristol Airport within the last year.

Not only have the staff achieved major success this year, but the airport has been consistently growing since 2010. All of the hard work has now paid off as they were recently named the 9th busiest airport in the UK.

This is all down to the chartered airlines who operate at Bristol Airport increasing their number of destinations to 116, 16 of which are capital cities. New routes include; Bristol to Katowice in Poland, Kosice in Slovakia and Orlando in the United States.

Robert Sinclair, who is the CEO of Bristol Airport, has told Bristol 24/7: “Increased demand for air travel is a positive sign that our region’s economy continues to thrive”. It would seem this isn’t only good news for the airport, but for the city itself. They are well and truly ready for the increase of passenger numbers, with a new £24 million west terminal expansion already in place. We are looking forward to watching this airport grow even more in the near future!

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