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Old 20th Jul 2016, 10:31
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There's not an awful lot of free parking stands available at NCL overnight, so if getting new airlines to base a/c, or existing airlines to increase number of a/c, I'm sure NCL would need to consider a few more stands, as an extra LS airframe next year, combined with for example a 3 a/c FR base wouldn't leave much room nightstopper-wise.
NCL I'm sure are happy with the news, and would much prefer this than more business oriented flights where pax tend to spend less £ in the terminal. What's better than a plane load of stags arriving at the airport 5 hours early, having a few pints in the check-in hall till the desk opens, then heading through security and into the Bigg Market...sorry, the departure lounge, for a pub crawl around the self service pumps. Its a haven for hoodlums, and completely unnecessary to have so many bars. A shame for people who don't want to participate as there's nowhere to sit, hence why the area around WHSmith at the bottom of the escalator is always rammed with folk preferring to sit on the floor over being in the lounge.
Unfortunately this is up to the airlines to deal with, whilst the airport faces no backlash, as mentioned by HMB earlier. Its clear that the target is as many ALC/PMI/IBZ as possible as that's where the money is, and since the airport as good as closes down over winter, it has to be double money between May-Sept.
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