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[SWBKCB]

New owners?

AMP Capital Set To Be New Owner of Newcastle Airport - Source | 4-Traders


Investment Management | Managed Funds | Asset Management | Property | Infrastructure | AMP Capital Australia

[SWBKCB]

Bit more detail in today's Journal. Only previous airport experience seems to be with Melbourne and Launceston - Australia's 13th busiest airport...


Newcastle Airport debt slashed as partner revealed - Today's News - News - JournalLive

[N707ZS]

The bad news

But taxpayers will still have to shoulder a £68m burden facing six of the seven local authorities – South Tyneside, Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Northumberland and Durham – who are collectively known as LA7 and own 51% of the operation.

Not good news for the locals when budgets are being cut.

[10 DME ARC]

But taxpayers will still have to shoulder a £68m burden facing six of the seven local authorities – South Tyneside, Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Northumberland and Durham – who are collectively known as LA7 and own 51% of the operation.

Shame - But these same councils/taxpayers were only too happy to take money from the sale of 49%, the dividends paid just about every year since the shares were given to them and the eventual full payment taken from the airport refinancing!! Councillors from these councils were on the renumeration committee who gave JP over £7M!!
The money boom years were just that a 'boom' and have gone - taxpayers/councils from all these area's have taken much much more from the airport over the years!!

[Sam Chipperfield]

Emirates

Looks Like Now The Wednesday Flight Is A 200 And The Rest Is 300 Series 777, Noticed Another Jet Air Fly 737 In This Morning, Anybody Know Why?

[COBHC]

Saw on flightradar yesterday A6-MMM a B744 from Dubai Air Wing come into Newcastle. Does anyone know why its in, and if its still in?

Ill be travelling up to Newcastle for a few days tomorrow so I'd like to see it if its still in.

Cheers, Max

[Jamesair]

Normally to do with the shooting season on the moors

[johnnychips]

Normally to do with the shooting season on the moors

This is an aviation thread, and the word comes from Latin ave 'bird', so I feel justified in asking what they are shooting. Hasn't the 'Glorious Twelfth' for grouse well gone?

[SWBKCB]

Grouse season ends on 10 December.

[N707ZS]

Plenty of pesants up there to shoot think that season lasts until February.

[Jamesair]

I'm hoping you mean pheasants

[N707ZS]

Of course taking the Phiss!

[macuser]

pesants

See post 2584, it's an annual event!

[Jamesair]

Top 10 scheduled destinations ....sept. 2012

LONDON HEATHROW.....42,655 (1)
AMSTERDAM...............25,001 (2)
PALMA.......................20,364 (4)
ALICANTE...................19,399 (3)
PARIS........................16,698 (7)
DUBAI........................16,581 (10)
MALAGA.....................16,576 (5)
BELFAST (INTL)...........15,211 (6)
FARO.........................13,453 (8)
DUBLIN.......................13,165 (9)

Quite a number of changes, mainly Dubai up to 6 from 10. Interestingly, Amsterdam and Paris are still showing healthy increases in pax numbers.

stats CAA

[EKCH2730]

SAS returns to NCL

SAS returns to NCL from the 4th of February next year. There will be one daily flight (evening rotation) operated by CRJ200 (from Cimber A/S).

Good news to see a direct link between CPH and NCL again.

[Jamesair]

Thats the best news I've heard for a long time.

[magicninja]

Where did you hear this from. On the SAS website you can not book a flight yet?

[GAXLN]

Copenhagen

Reservations for the Newcastle-Copenhagen route will be available from 15 November on SAS website.

[Travel Agent]

Monarch have pulled NCL-SFB & CWL-SFB for next summer due to lack of sales

[MARKEYD]

Are Air Transat operating to Toronto again for next summer via Exeter , they always seem to leave it till late in the day before announcing anything , nothing bookable on the web site at the moment