NEWCASTLE - 8

[CentreFix25]

EZY have had 2 x A319s based at NCL for weeks now.

[Sam Chipperfield]

EI

Cheers 4 the welcome. I noticed an A321 coming in on friday, can any1 confirm it was Aer Lingus ???

[Robert William]

Ei had a LMC on friday due tech probs with the sched A320

[Travel Agent]

Sam,

I would of thought they will be introduced by end of March when "summer" starts for lowco's

[_ShIfTy_]

Just to clarify, Newcastle has had 2 based A319's Since November, the other 3 Based aircraft being 737's. Newcastle will still be a Boeing/Airbus base during the summer. Easyjet are planning to remove the Boeing's at the end of this year, when the final Boeing crews leave for their type rating.

ShIfTy.

[Jamesair]

TUIfly winter timetable 09/10 just announced.

NCL - Hanover twice weekly Fri and Sun

[apaul]

A shame that the Hanover frequency has been reduced. But at least the Friday flight is now scheduled early enough to catch the train into the city centre. Dublin is another route where frequencies have been cut sharply. No Aer Lingus flights after April and only one Ryanair flight a day with the return leaving at 6.30am.

[transwede]

It was noted earlier on that FR was cutting frequencies ex DUB due another disagreement with airport authorities in DUB. This coming summer Ei will retain their existing DUB frequency, next summer nobody knows!! It is tough for all airlines at the moment, with severe cost cutting taking place. I'm guessing any routes not generating enough revenue will get chopped and quite often these originate in regional airports.

[apaul]

I doubt EI will be flying to NCL after 30 April 2009. That's the latest date you can book the journey on its website.

[GrahamK]

Yup, just noticed you can't book after April 30th.
FR will be operating NCL-DUB 9 x weekly, with a second flight on fridays and sundays

[skhwoody]

I doubt EI will be flying to NCL after 30 April 2009. That's the latest date you can book the journey on its website.

they have oversubscribed planes for routes and thats the reason they are removing the service, quite bad for NCL when you consider that FR are reducing from 14 to 9 flights around the same time

[Sam Chipperfield]

Flybe

I was wondering how many Aircraft will b based up here 4 the summer 09 and Will they base any of there Embraer 190's up here

[Sam Chipperfield]

BA

I also wonder if BA will use there A321's Again for the summer. Saw 1 this Afternoon come in G-EUXH

[Jamesair]

I notice that Ryanair's latest press statement says that if the Tourist Tax was removed they would re-instate all the flights to be cancelled at Dublin and Shannon.

[GrahamK]

The EI DUB flight is being cancelled in order to add extra frequencies to Gatwick from what I read elsewhere, dunno how true that is, or whether it's just very poor advanced bookings?

[globetrotter79]

GrahamK

Not so sure about the NCL-DUB being axed to enable extra frequencies on LGW-DUB. Since the initial "new" summer EI service LGW-DUB was announced, they appear to have quietly dropped one daily frequency: it is now five per day compared with the original planned six.

[Sam Chipperfield]

EK

would like to see Emirates do 2 flights a day to Dubai. Would be interseting if they did and used a 777 for on of the flights

[maxtoon]

The Emirates load factors are good but would not justify a 2nd daily flight at the moment and especially not if the second flight was a 777.

Hovever I think a single 777 on the daily flight may be the next step but given the current financial climate I don't think the demand would be there.

[Channex101]

At a recent EK meeting at NCL airport they confirmed that the B777-200 is being reviewed for NCL however a 2nd daily flight will not happen as the load factor in economy isnt enough to justify a 2nd daily rotation

[Sam Chipperfield]

Dubai

It would be better if EK used 777-200's like instead of the same A330's

Hope this happens