NEWCASTLE - 2

[INTHEOUTBACK]

The finnair that is replacing the FJE will be handled by swissport as the flights will be XLA flight numbers and they have the contract for XL. They will indeed be very busy and i suspect they are strugling all ready. Someone I know came back from FAO over the Weekend and waited over 2 hours for there bags from one of swissports flights and the excuse given was a shortage of staff. I hope swissport hav'nt gone down the road the circus did a few years back and taken on to much work and been a bit tight with reasources, or they could find themselves starting to loose contracts which would not be good for them, especially if its the bigger ones or the contracts that pay the big money.

[crewboi83]

Transwede
Not fully true about all new airlines going to swissport
Flyjet went to lackof-servisair.

[Jamesair]

Returning to the question of Easyjet reducing to 5 a/c from Newcastle for the Winter Timetable and bearing in mind that each aircraft generally services three routes. Has anyone heard which routes are likely to be affected?

Alternatively could the 5 a/c service all existing routes if frequencies on some of the more tentative destinations were to be reduced.



FLYBE

Is Newcastle likely to feature in any of the Winter new route announcements?

[nclairportfan]

easyJet

They have released some winter flights but looks like BUD and SXF and NCE are either going to be loaded into the booking system later or will not operate over the winter. Would be a shame to loose either route really but looking at the CAA stats BUD pax numbers seem to be very down on last year.

flybe

I would love to see more from Flybe and am certainly surprised that they don't further expand at NCL. They could certainly offer real competition to T3 on routes to ABZ, BHX and CWL and commence new domestic routes to places such as NWI. I believe there are european opportunities for an airline like them out of NCL. For example, TLS and BOD would be popular as would other European destinations.

[MerchantVenturer]

It is possible to book a lot of easyJet winter flights via their web booking engine already but it seems some destinations are not available yet.

I'm currently doing a trawl for my local airport at BRS and have discovered that NCL-BRS goes to four daily M to F this winter plus 3 daily on Sundays and double daily Saturdays.

As before, all flights will be operated by NCL-based aircraft.

[nclairportfan]

Just checked and seen the BRS rotations - much better times for business travellers.

Looks like:

NCL - BFS will also be going 4 x daily Mon-Fri, 2 x daily Sat and 3 x daily Sunday.

NCL - STN going 5 x daily Mon-Fri, 3 x daily Sat and 4 x daily Sun.

[Capt's Little Helper]

Hi Folks,
Are there any private jets based at NCL and if so who owns/operates them?
Thanks.
CLH

[SWBKCB]

Private Jets

If you exclude the Jet Provost, there are none based.

[simonwa]

Easyjet Winter 2006

Here are the flights loaded into the system so far for Winter 2006 from NCL:

ALC - 1 x daily M-F&Su, 2 x Sa
BCN - 1 x daily
BFS - 4 x daily M-F, 2 x Sa, 3 x Su
BRS - 4 x daily M-F, 2 x Sa, 3 x Su
FAO - 1 x Tu, We, Sa, Su
GVA - 1 x daily M-F, 2 x Sa, 2 x Su
STN - 5 x daily M-F, 3 x Sa, 4 x Su
AGP - 1 x daily
PMI - 1 x Mo, We, Fr, Sa, Su
CDG - 2 x daily M-F, 1 x Sa, 1 x Su
PRG - 1 x daily
CIA - 1 x daily

SXF, BUD, NCE have not been loaded into the system yet.

From looking at the above, many routes have extra rotations compared to the current timetable. Good to see CDG going twice daily. Doesn't appear to be a reduction in capacity to me yet.

[CentreFix25]

How and where can you tell the CDG has gone double daily, i'm just looking for the flight times and cant find them.

[10 DME ARC]

25 c/f - Just look in the booking engine!


Edited
Cf25 – Sorry I thought with this being a professional aviation web site stating when the winter schedule season began was a little obvious!

[mmeteesside]

The winter season starts around 28th October Therefore it will only be 2x daily (safely say) from November

mmeteesside

[CentreFix25]

Cheers MME. I need to go just before the Winter starts thats why i only got one choice. Thanks to 10 DME for stating the obvious

[DIRECTTANGODELTA]

It seems the XLA operation ran into problems yesterday, my parents were delayed 8 hours in Verona last night and flew back with Air Class on a 733. This is not a first I have to admit but the last 20 people who checked in at Verona couldnt fit on the plane!! They were bussed to Milan, flew to LGW and are being bussed up to NCL. There was a mutiny in the terminal when that was announced!! What I cant understand is with the size of XLA why they could only find the Air Class 733 available to sub-charter? Whenever I go to LGW or MCR they always have 738/757/767 lying around doing nothing.
Perhaps it was the price!!

[fl dutchman]

EASYJET WINTER 2006/2007

Looks like 6 based A/C after all. CDG 2x daily from 1 DEC. Cant see there being room in the schedules for Berlin Budapest and Nice with the extra frequencys to Stanstead Belfast Bristol and Paris. Unless an extra A/C is brought in !!!???

[nclairportfan]

Would be great if we were to get extra aircraft for winter as that would also increase the capacity for summer 07.

I assume SXF could be operated by an SXF based aircraft if there is any capacity at that end?

Any news on the rumoured NCL - LGW? Would this be operated by an NCL or LGW based aircraft?

[HH6702]

Looks like a lot of hard work has been done by the airport and easyjet for this coming winter.

looks like it may need 7 aircraft i will try and put a timetable together and post it on here

[simonwa]

Possible easyJet winter timetable from NCL:

Mon-Fri Aircraft #1
BFS 07:10 - 09:20, BRS 09:45 - 12:15, BFS 12:50 - 15:00, CIA 15:50 - 22:20

Aircraft #2
BRS 07:00 - 09:30, BCN 09:55 - 15:50, STN 16:40 - 19:20, STN 19:45 - 22:25

A/c #3
STN 06:40 - 09:20, STN 09:45 - 12:25, PRG 13:00 - 17:50, CDG 18:15 - 22:00

A/c #4
AGP 06:50 - 13:45, STN 14:30 - 17:10, BFS 17:35 - 19:45, BFS 20:10 - 22:20

A/c #5
CDG 07:15 - 11:00, GVA 11:25 - 16:05, BRS 16:55 - 19:30, BRS 19:55 - 22:30

A/c #6
FAO 07:25 - 14:10 (Tu, Th), PMI 07:55 - 14:10 (Mo, We, Fr), ALC 14:55 - 21:25

Saturday A/c #1
BRS 07:00 - 09:35, BCN 10:00 - 15:55, ALC 16:55 - 23:25

A/c #2
BFS 07:10 - 09:20, ALC 09:45 - 16:15, BRS 17:00 - 19:30, STN 19:55 - 22:30

A/c #3
STN 06:40 - 09:20, STN 09:45 - 12:25, CIA 13:15 - 19:45

A/c #4
CDG 07:50 - 11:40, GVA 12:05 - 16:50, GVA 17:35 - 22:15

A/c #5
AGP 06:30 - 13:25, FAO 14:10 - 20:55

A/c #6
PMI 06:25 - 12:40, PRG 13:30 - 18:20, BFS 18:45 - 20:55

Sunday A/c #1
STN 07:50 - 10:30, PMI 10:55 - 17:10, GVA 17:50 - 22:30

A/c #2
AGP 06:30 - 13:25, BFS 14:20 - 16:30, ALC 16:55 - 23:25

A/c #3
BFS 07:45 - 09:55, BCN 10:20 - 16:15, STN 17:00 - 19:40

A/c #4
FAO 07:25 - 14:10, PRG 15:05 - 19:55, BFS 20:20 - 22:30

A/c #5
GVA 07:30 - 12:10, BRS 13:25 - 16:00, CIA 16:25 - 22:55

A/c #6
BRS 09:15 - 11:50, STN 12:15 - 14:55, CDG 15:40 - 19:30, BRS 19:55 - 22:25


Don't know how NCE, SXF and BUD will fit into the schedule if they are included in the winter timetable? Possibly, as someone suggested, using flights from other bases?

[simonwa]

Or we could see a 7th a/c added to operate the routes not loaded into the system yet?

[transwede]

Could Swissport be in with a chance of loosing one of their biggest contracts - Thomsonfly? Rumour has it around NCL that they are less than happy about the service they are receiving Swissport, even more so since on sunday a handling vehicle had a minor collision with one of the carriers 737 a/c, causing a substantial delay! Maybe things will be looking up for Servisair. I do think Swissport have bitten off more than they can chew and this is fairly evident for anyone who walks through NCL airport and looks at the ques for TOM, XLA etc. Or is it the airports fault, as numerous times all you hear is announcements apologising for the failure in the baggage belts?!

easyjet

I was under the impression that it was highly unlikely that eay would base anymore a/c at NCL until they have solved their crewing issues, which is a networkwide problem. Maybe if routes to BUD and SXF were not making the right profit, they will be dumped but NCE was performing well, wasn't it?

Also is the problems with XLA beginning to resurface at NCL? Numerous delays over past few days, all affecting one a/c - yes the TF reg 737-400. This is not including the number of times it has had to tech stop on flights already this season. On the plus side, with both the Finnair a/c and FJE (soon to also be AY a/c) operating onbehalf of XLA the majority of their operation seems to have improved. But once again the 734 seems to be not the right a/c for what it is doing and is it true that XLA have leased the a/c for another a couple of years!