NEWQUAY

[cornishsimon]

FS01,
im fairly new to this site and not aware of rumours regarding WOW and NQY-IOM
any info hapily received!

i use WOW fairly often from NQY as well as BA from NQY for connecting flights.

apart from WOW's new Glasgow and Newcastle and restarting Cork does anyone know of any other new routes for any airlines in the pipeline? and does anyone have a list of routes they think might work from NQY?

i know that the airport has announces that they want spain, france and germany, what do we all think? personally i would of thought that LCY might be there or there abouts either with WOW or BA

[cornishsimon]

Been away on holiday and missed this, Newquay airport's website and by all accounts local press have been reporting the following

Newquay – Birmingham
Flights operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 1st April 2008
Fares from £21.99 one way including taxes and charges
Newquay - Glasgow
Flights operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 1st April 2008
Fares from £29.99 one way including taxes and charges
Newquay – Southampton
Flights operate daily from 30th March 2008
Fares from £21.99 one way including taxes and charges
Newquay/Isle of Man and Newquay – Reus
Schedule and fares to be announced shortly

Seems as if this is in addition to:
EDI, year round
BHD restarts 21st May08
GVA ends april 08

[oldpax]

Brymon was a great little airline I started using it in 1978 while working in Algeria.Then it used to fly into Gatwick with the twin Otters ,when they got Dash 7s they flew into Heathrow which was even better,however after a job in Cuba I returned and found the dash in BA colours ,they had taken over and a couple of weeks later flights into Heathrow were changed to Gatwick"better for the business people they said!!I think they did all this just to get the slot at Heathrow!Mind you I still didnt like flying Plymouth-Newquay -gatwick and paying extra for the privilage!!

[putneyuk]

Skybus to St Brieuc

I notice on the new Newquay Airport website, that Skybus are operating a flight today to St Brieuc in Brittany returning tomorrow and a Skybus spokesman says they are always looking at new routes from Newquay.

[FS01]

The rumours of WOW to IOM were going around IOM not NQY should have made that clearer. It was when the WOW crew were opereating IOM-MAN for BE. They knew that WOW had evaluated the route this year but obviously it was not felt viable

[cornishsimon]

FS01
The rumours of WOW to IOM were going around IOM not NQY should have made that clearer. It was when the WOW crew were opereating IOM-MAN for BE. They knew that WOW had evaluated the route this year but obviously it was not felt viable

seems as if flymaybe are going to have a pop at IOM-NQY, might well of been that the route wasnt as high on the list as Glasgow and Newcastle for WOW. i think from the discussion i had with a member of Cabin crew on a WOW flight on Thursday that there are plans to increase fleet and routes in the pipeline so that we might well see more routes and increases in popular routes when this is in place.

ChristianLee
Flying NQY-STN-BRE next weekend with Ryanair. I'll be interesting to experience my first trip from Newquay Airport, and indeed with a LCC.

i dont know about flying with ryanair as this should be fairly busy, but my recent 2 flights in and out of NQY have been very, very good from the airport point of view.

used WOW on 20th, arrived late at airport, gone 20past 12 for 1pm flight, checked in, straight through security and into departures by half 12. G-WOWE sat on stand waiting along with G-JEDM (BE674). boarded early, after BE flight, took off early and before BE, arrived in DUB early.

On return on Thursday arrived early, bags were out and i was out of terminal within 5mins of landing which was actually before scheduled arrival time of flight!

big, big improvement, very smooth

[GW76]

I expect WOW will pull off GLA-NQY before too long, perhaps even before it starts. There has been little advertising and they are unheard of north of the border. Unlike Flybe. Although I would much prefer to fly WOW than BE.

[marlowe]

Cornishsimon no chance of a NQY LCY route, LCY is bursting at the seams and slots are at a premium there and if you get a slot you need to use it on a more lucrative market. BA have pulled out of the regions and they have have other ideas for its LCY operation .

[cornishsimon]

marlowe

tend to agree looking at it further, still i rekon the route would work! iv got a funny feeling that we might well see another London route added from NQY at some stage soon, perhaps Luton?? know that it was done for a little bit last year as a last minute thing by Aer Arann, perhaps just to use a spare aircraft or something? i have no idea what the loads were like but i would guess that with the right advertising that there is plenty of room for expansion into London from NQY

does anyone know why Aer Arann pulled out of the 2 NQY routes that they operated ? any chance of seeing them back ??

GW76
I expect WOW will pull off GLA-NQY before too long, perhaps even before it starts. There has been little advertising and they are unheard of north of the border. Unlike Flybe. Although I would much prefer to fly WOW than BE.

in my opinion i dont think they will, they are daily for GLA-NQY, flybe arent (3weekly) and competition on a route hasnt done WOW too much damage so far on the LGW & MAN routes.

[cornishsimon]

agreed ChristianLee the airport does have a huge amount of potention.

just look at the route expansion over the past 12/18months.
BA back
FLYBE
Lufthansa

i think that there is loads of potention for more UK domestic/Irish routes as well as European routes. Obviously this will depend on the loads for Dusseldorf but i wudnt be at all surprised to see Amsterdam & Paris added in the very near future.

As for the handing over from MOD whenever that actually happens!......
means Cornwall airport Ltd (replaced Serco) taking on fire cover, ATC maintenance etc but when the MOD are gone it will leave the airport operator with loads and i do mean loads of hangar space to play with and to make use of as well as hell of a lot of land for expansion, lots of aircraft parking space etc etc etc!

iv got a feeling that in time you might well see something like a DHL/Fedex/freight base/hub on the site, making use of land/aircraft parking/hangers for sorting etc

and lets not forget the runway, which is hell of an asset:
RunwaysDirectionLengthSurfaceftm12/309,0062,745Asphalt
i think if things are in place you will start to see this as remain as an emergency diversion airfield for both MOD and commercial aircraft.

just my thoughts, i dont work in the industry but do live locally and really want to see it all work.

out of interest has anyone got any ideas of routes/airlines that could work at NQY ???

[Dash-7 lover]

Flybe's schedule is just token 'space filling' on their part. Rather than do nothing with the aircraft for a few hours after the morning rush they're trying to have a half-hearted pop at ASW. Can't see it being an issue for ASW at all. What would be more ironic is if they leased an ASW DH3 for a few months and they ended up flying some of the routes!!

[GW76]

I'm holding in for some KLM action.
You'll do yourself an injury, as you'll be holding for a while.

[Rubber Duck]

There seems to be a few regular fliers out of NQY, what do people think of the Airport since the new company took over from Serco?

[ADC2604]

Dash-7 lover

It is very disappointing to learn of your 'thoughts'.......I am confident that if this was the case there are other markets that would be at the top of their list as opposed to NQY but alas, they chose NQY and this was probably because as an airline they do their research and they know the market.

The aviation industry is dog eat dog world so, I am afraid its tough luck for ASW - if they are the preferred airline for passengers there will be no problem.......it all boils down to what the passengers want so until it all starts I see no point in making premature assumptions on the success of the operations for either carrier.

Look on the bright sight its another movement and tail on the apron for NQY airport.

[FlyingBoi]

Here here!

[cornishsimon]

just reading through what everyone is saying on the thread
dont think flybe have a hope in hell of doing any damage to air southwest on the GLA route to be honest with you.

does anyone have any idea what a/c flybe are going to be using on the routes into NQY next year ?

GLA
EDI
SOU
BHD
BHX

[ADC2604]

Most D8-400s but the SOU will be a E145.....not sure exactly on all but am pretty sure the others are all Q400s Reus will prob be a E195 but personally cannot see how it would work. E195 not based at NQY and no other REU flights so can't do a W pattern.

[FS01]

I am told that the flybe system shows a Q400 as it will be an IOM based a/c operating REU

[San Expiry]

'And I can't really see why this part of the world can't sustain multiple international flights with the correct advertising'.

Unfortunatley, I can. Cornwall is one of the most economically 'depressed' areas of the UK and will never reach population critical mass to sustain such services. Newquay seems to be in vogue at present; it saviour might be its accessiblity for the Plymouth population.

Is BA still flying to LGW and has it affected Air Southwest greatly?

[cornishsimon]

San Expiry
Is BA still flying to LGW and has it affected Air Southwest greatly?

yes BA are still flying NQY-LGW on a reduced winter schedule, but back to 7per week for summer 08.
doesnt seem to of had much impact on WOW as they are still operating as before
dont know about loads on both tho