Congratulations, are you going to be based back up in Newcastle once you have your wings or will you be flying from elsewhere?
Regarding ground handling, unless Jet2 decide to self handle under the wing (not sure what the numbers required for that to happen are, but Newcastle is now the third smallest base for Jet2, only Belfast and Edinburgh are smaller) we have a monopoly of just Swissport handling. So, prices probably could rise as Swissport have no competition, airlines either then have to self handle, absorb the cost or just pull out the airport. Which isn’t ideal.