NEWCASTLE - 7

[757 Speedbrakes]

Yep, Bergen's going from Jet2.

[HH6702]

Easyjet bring ROME back for summer 2008?

[HH6702]

Easyjet summer 2008

trying looking at flights in august think you will find more flights than at the start of the season.

ALC 2x daily on Wed, Fri, Sat and Sundays
FAO daily flights
CIA 4 flights a week sun, mon, wed, fri
PMI daily + 2 daily on sat, tue and thursdays
IBZ tue and sat flights
Mahon saturday flight
BCN daily
KRK 4 x weekly
APG daily + 2x on sat,sun,mon and thursdays
NCE daily flights
PRG daily flights

will try and work it out could be 8 aircraft?

[HH6702]

Easyjet S08 needs 6 aircraft

Wednesday 6th august 2008

06.10 ALC
06.15 AGP
06.30 FAO
07.00 STN
07.05 BRS
07.10 BFS

Hopefully some truth in 3 new routes which would bring the 7th aircraft back to ncl!!.

[Ph1l1pncl]

Hi just wondering?

So, now with Easyjet releasing their summer 08 timetable or most of it, will the remainder of Jet2's summer timetable be released. Or are Jet2 just doing the routes which are currently available for summer 08.

[fl dutchman]

Easyjet summer 2008

Think up to now its 6 aircraft July, Aug, Sept, with 5 at other times??.

[Ph1l1pncl]

Though i heard ages ago that Easyjet were going to base A319's at Newcastle from 08 so does that mean they would just take away a 737 and use the a319 to cover the routes that plane does or add new routes for the new plane? Or are we not getting and A319's

[OltonPete]

Easy Summer 2008

Correct, I forgot to point out that I checked various dates in May and early June.

I have not looked at the July - September schedule but certainly the
5 aircraft in May are very active, even the latish start of the ALC/FAO at 0825 the operating aircraft still manages 6 sectors in the day.

Pete

[HH6702]

Some easyjet cabin crew are working out of milan during the winter. So they are being trained up on the A319 so im hoping that this is the start of the changeover at ncl from 737 to the a319?

[lineup25]

Basically Easy Jet are over staffed having recruited so many cabin crew for the summer season- all on permanent contracts. Since Ncl has lost 2 A/C, obviously there are more crew than are needed. The lack of flying is reflecting in their pay. All crew have been asked whether they'd be prepared to fly from Milan, Belfast etc to get their hours back up. Therefore not convinced they've gone purely to train on the A319

[ash666]

£6 for 1 hold bag per return flight

[skyman771]

ash666

£6 for 1 hold bag per return flight

I really do not see where you are coming from. Best thing that Loco's did to reduce cost was to charge for those that only have hand baggage. For your observation to have any relevance at all, then you need to state the aggregate cost of the whole journey. Then again I doubt anyone is really interested
What is much more relevant that there is a lot of competition from airports out there, particularly when one takes into account developments in France, for loco operators / routes, and in the real world EZY and others will only invest where they can obtain the best returns. If you are not prepared to pay for the services then don't use them, but don't moan when similar attitudes eventually lead to a decline routes.

[HH6702]

Eastern S2000

looks like 2 of these to be based at NCL looking at there timetable

1 to aberdeen and 1 to southampton in the mornings mon-fri

[ncleflights]

Summer 08

Quite dissapointed if this is all we are going to get from either LS or EZY for S08 from NCL. Overall quite a reduction in routes/rotations over what we had in S07.

Whilst I accept that LS plans have been thrown out by their ability or rather lack of ability to source those 767s. On what we have left from LS I would think the once weekly service to Pisa will spell the death sentance for this route, the stats seem to suggest this was a popular short break destination so the dropping to one roatation a week kills off this market. Also suprised that Krakow has gone as they achieved, I believe, good yields on the 757s on this one.

On the EZY front I always thought that getting both the aircraft Newcastle lost to Belfast back was a long shot and it would seem on the evidence to be the case. Overall from EZY we have, over SO7 a drop in daily rotations to STN, PMI, GDG and BFS. Clearly EZY have made the decision that they can make more money at airports other than NCL.

Whilst LS have scalled back at both NCL and MAN, so were not alone in the LS reductions, I can see no similar reductions from any of the other UK EZY base on the scale we are seeing at NCL. This is worrying as its more than consolodation by them this is clearly a service reduction and expansion still appears to be going ahead at every other EZY UK base - should we worry?

Not sure where NCL go from here perhaps DLs first job should be to start courting MOLs lot and get Ryanair to set up a base at NCL - before I get shot down in flames this is a bit tongue in cheek as I am aware that this is is not going to happen.

Thanks

[fl dutchman]

Summer 2008

Dont forget the reduction in charter aircraft in addition to Easyjet and Jet2.

The price of fuel and the overcapacity during Summer 2007 has a bit to do with the cutbacks we seem to be seeing now.

[ncleflights]

fldutchman - thanks yes forgot to add the charter cutbacks into the 'pot' at least next year the complaints about overcrowding at the airport should be less

[AviationNE]

Ls@ NCL

I know its a long time to wait but i think that we will see the expansion of LS at newcastle in S09. It looks to me that they are expanding leeds and need their airframes there this summer. I believe that LS were planning a 767 and big things for newcastle but have had to put this on Hold due to the lack of suitable planes. The reduction from 2 757s to 1 is most likely because other expansions were already planned with 1 757 and 1 767 at newcastle and the 2nd NCl 757 off S07 at another base.

[Flightrider]

Or perhaps the fact that oil has hit almost $100/barrel might be putting them off?

[skyman771]

I believe that LS were planning a 767 and big things for newcastle but have had to put this on Hold due to the lack of suitable planes.

.........and I believe that irrespective of the availability of suitable 767's they have put on hold their plans due to the weakness of the company and the risk such a long haul expansion would place on it's finances, whilst at the same time taking note of the GS debacle.

[757 Speedbrakes]

No, they definately tried to aqquire 2 x Gulf Air 767-300 ER's.

The main problem was;

1) Paperwork - missing and incomplete on one etc etc.

2) Price!!