Another problem is that its often more expensive to fly from Newcastle than other airports, a colleague recently flew from EDI with EZY as the flights were almost half the price of the same flights from NCL. While many people, including me, will always chose to fly from their local airport for the convience others are much more willing to travel a couple of hours as far as Manchester or Glasgow to get cheaper fares.
We need more choice and fairer fares for NCL to really start growing again, and of course we need airlines that are committed to NCL, EZY seem to be wavering and LS holding back on further expansion, or there could of course be things going on behind the scenes we don't know about? Lets see how 2011 shapes up and we should have a good idea what everyone is planning longer term.