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Old 2nd Jan 2007, 18:54
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With only one flight per week from NCL there is a shortage of seats on this route. Some dates I understand are already sold out. Travel city have tried this route from NCL before with a 742 but the seats came on sale late and at that time there was 2x weekly and 1x fortnightly already opperating from NCL. The flights were cancelled due to poor sales before the short series started. I think they also intended to do a 767 flight last summer but again that never happened.
So with two bad experiences from NCL it would not surprise me if they gave Durham a go with a 747 or another aircraft type. The management at Peel will no doubt be working very hard to gain new routes, after all there supposedly spending millions on the place. Orlando would be a prime target with the lack of seats from the Nort East. Of course the NCL team will be working hard to, but I think the competition from Durham will make there job increasingly very hard and we may probably see a couple of surprises this year.
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