I now have fewer opportunities to do that since they have cut back so dramatically on their routes - I don't want to fly JQ to SIN or EK from DXB, even if I can land in such exotic places such as Newcastle, UK. (Sorry to any Scousers - I'm actually from not that far north of there myself and it is a much improved city in more recent times)
Pardon my pedantry, it is an affliction. Scousers hail from Liverpool, a fine city in NorthWest England famous as the home of the first British Boy Band.
Residents of Newcastle, UK, a city in North East England (actually, practically in South East Scotland) usually refer to themselves, somewhat unintelligibly, as Geordies. Like the Scots, you have to read the subtitles.