NORWICH

[Phileas Fogg]

The NWI departure and arrival times should prove really popular with the punters ... not. For the majority of these there will be no public transport available to get to/from the airport so either drive or taxi's and/or airport hotels or Stansted or Luton or Southend.

ABZ punters get all the sociable flight schedules whilst NWI punters get the cr@p!

[Expressflight]

Certainly not the most convenient timings, but I think relatively few people use public transport when flying from NWI whatever the time of day. There isn't even a local bus which actually goes into the airport.

[SWBKCB]

At least it will be a cr@p time from somewhere nearby, rather than a cr@p time miles away...

Also, after the the lack of public transport whinge how long before drop off charges are mentioned ("you only get 10 minutes for free and then its a pound for 30 minutes!")

[Expressflight]

That's better than at some places I could mention.

[LXGB]

The drop off parking charges at Norwich are quite reasonable...
0 to 10 mins - free.
Up to 30 mins - £1.
Up to 60 mins - £3

Compared to say Stansted...
0 to 10 mins - £2
Up to 15 mins - £3
Over 15 mins - £50 penalty!

[Phileas Fogg]

Doesn't Stansted have a railway 6 days per week and National Express 24/7?

[LXGB]

Rail and buses are not much use for an 05:30 check-in. In my experience at least.

[Phileas Fogg]

National Express are not "buses"?

0530 Check-In? ... There was a clue in my post ... "24/7"

[LXGB]

Fair enough, if you don't mind a 3 hour coach trip starting a little after midnight Anyways, sorry for dragging the thread off topic, moving on...

[NickBarnes]

Does anybody know when Thomson assign aircraft for 2014 season as they haven't yet and was wanting to book a flight from NWI - PMI next year, but if the timing changes because they can't find a plane to base their that would be no good. Any help would be great thankyou

[stuart hammond]

easyjet at nwi

Their is news at the airport that next year Easyjet will be based with flights to many destinations, not sure on the number to be based but more than 2 would require more concrete.regardsStuart

[adfly]

Seems unlikely with their presence at STN and SEN, plus their recent commitment to expand at the former.

[Ye Olde Pilot]

I see KLM are now charging £12.00 per bag for hold luggage to AMS.
Yet another reason to use Stansted.

[NickBarnes]

I have complied a list of load factors for norwich's domestic and international routes for may 2013, most routes seem fairly well supported with loads heading towards 70% the 2 stand out ones are Tenerife which seems to be nearly full which is why this operates all year now, also the poor loads on the Isle of Man is a surprise hope it picks up during the summer.

Manchester

21 pax average per flight
Load factor 66%

Guernsey

20 pax average per flight
Load factor 66%

Jersey

46 pax average per flight
Load factor 64%

Isle of Man

15 pax average per flight
Load factor 41%

Tenerife

172 pax average per flight
Load factor 95%

Amsterdam

56 pax average per flight
Load factor 70%

Edinburgh (April 2013)

40 pax average per flight
Load factor 56%

i have not been able to include Aberdeen as 2 airlines operate the route but pax figures are over 5500 for that route, also I have not included alot of charter flights as they only start part way through may

[NickBarnes]

Norwich's routes for summer 2014

Loganair
Manchester 3x daily weekdays plus Sunday service too
Guernsey every Sunday

Flybe
Edinburgh 123457
Newquay - Saturday
Jersey - Saturday

KLM
Amsterdam 4x daily

Thomson (Norwich based aircraft)
Dalaman - Mon
Palma Mallorca - 3x weekly Tues, Thur, Sat
Ibiza - Wed
Enfidha - Thur
Corfu - Fri
Tenerife - Sun
Malta - Tue (Air Malta)

Thomas cook
Palma Mallorca - Tue
Enfidha - Fri
Dalaman - Fri

Balkan Holidays
Bulgaria - Sun

Eastern Airways + BMI regional
28 departures a week to Aberdeen

Plus Madeira 5 departures through the summer

[NickBarnes]

So the apart from the loss of Isle of Man and the first time for Thomson to base an aircraft for the summer at the airport (operater still unknown) its business as usuall, no new routes which is a real shame, but until something changes with the ADF etc it will probably stay like this as I doubt new operators will risk it at the moment

[MARKEYD]

Looks like Thomson Holidays will be using Germania as a based aircraft for next summer , using an A319 or 737 700 aircraft both hold around 148 pax and it will be doing a W pattern up to Aberdeen on some days

Flight schedule has already been posted previously

[NickBarnes]

Having a look at the caa stats for October and all routes see little change in terms of pax from last year which is good altough Edinburgh is down to averaging 42 pax a flight, but the stand out route is the weekly Tenerife service, with average loads of 172 pax per flight on a 180 seat aircraft means load factors of 95.5%! Which is brilliant so no wonder thomson now operate it year round. but makes me wonder if any other sunshine routes could operate year round as with Stansted having TFS doesn't seem to affect Norwich what so ever

[NickBarnes]

Norwich has lost it's summer service to Newquay due to the flybe cuts, altough loads were always quite good.

Hopefully Loganair might step in, but who knows in these current times

[FRatSTN]

Don't know if this has already been mentioned but it seems Germania will be operating Thomson's services at Norwich for S14. The aircraft will be based at the airport. I wonder if by 2015 Thomson could base one of their own planes at Norwich??