Credit indeed, to the new management at Newcastle. They have seen the introduction of several new charter routes and based aircraft, in addition to te newish easyjet base and complete redevelopment of the passenger terminal.
They have not finished there however. The airport have a 'wish list' of new routes they would like to attract, including new long haul holiday destinations, as well as new scheduled services to various points in europe.
Indeed various rumours are floating around, with ryanair on the brink of setting up some kind of operation, not to mention new easy routes in the pipeline, amongst others.
HLX are starting off on the right foot, by just offering 3x weekly services.
CentreFix25 there will be no based AV8 767 this summer, their short haul work having been taken over by Excel. They will still operate the 2 flights to South Africa. Shame though.
European will not base aircraft either, as they will not get 737-300 in time, so Scandic will return for weekend only work!