Highwide - see post 2250 for a discussion of the Sept statistics. The reason for the apparent cessation in decline is that the Turkish holiday flights ended over 12 months ago so have dropped out of the stats when comparing Sep 2012 v Sep 2011 but haven't yet dropped out of the stats for comparing Oct11-Sep12 against Oct10-Sep11. After a year with no Turkish routes at MME, one assume the holiday trade has adjusted long term to an expectation that the Turkish holiday trade will in future likely be based solely at Newcastle.
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