I guess TUI must know what they're doing. If there were planeloads of Geordies wanting to go to Naxos or La Palma, they would provide a plane for them! The public here in the North East are quite conservative (note the small 'c'!). I still reckon we do well for a relatively small city in a relatively poor (by UK standards of that word) region. Did I read somewhere we're the smallest city in Emirates' European network?