NEWCASTLE - 8

[EK77WNCL]

Good job it was a leap year or EK would have gone down! That, and the fact that Glasgow lost about 1,500 passengers vs 2015, really really does not fill me with any kind of hope or confidence regarding EY and QR at EDI, and that's before EY go daily again in the summer

People say Emirates is bad but some of the fares EY and QR have been offering are quite frankly ridiculous and extremely anti-competitive

EDIT: Anyway, booked up for a weekend in Malaga, 7-10 April flying with Ryanair, should be nice, and it just shows "build it and they will come" especially when it's £180 cheaper than the nearest option... Although for anyone after a good deal, £109 NCL-FAO, LS, 01/04-04/04 is not to be sniffed at

[ash666]

I see NCL gets no better.
Flew in yesterday and the task of getting some steps to the rear door of the EZY plane proved too much of a challenge.

Then into a baggage hall in darkness until the carousel started moving. Is the airport so penny pinching that they have to save on lighting in between baggage deliveries? Is certainly gives a very bad impression.

And how long was the wait for the skis to be delivered? Some one asked about the delay only to be told they only had a couple of carts(?) available due to outgoing flights.

It all seems like they are trying to run an operation with far too few staff.

[10 DME ARC]

Ash
Lights well not sure but every thing else would be handling agent and so Easyjet!
The airport cannot directly control every thing and its years since it was involved with ground handling!!

[ash666]

All the passengers really think about is their experience, not who is to blame.

It just doesn't leave a good impression when there is only one arrival which lands at 3pm and you don't leave the baggage hall until 4pm.

[Heathrow Harry]

agreed - they really need to do better

[Jamesair]

JET 2

New Winter route to GRENOBLE , 1 weekly, starts December .

[EK77WNCL]

Grenoble is a nice addition, glad we still have skiing from Jet2 after Chambery's going

Anyone know if we still get the Bulgaria Air A319 in on Saturday afternoons?

[Travel Agent]

Looks like the Bulgaria flights to Sofia are to be operated by Jet2 next year (possible charter) currently down as SAT NCL-SOF LS2143 1515/2040 return LS2144 2125/2325

[Matt4]

Sas have flown in one of their a319 tonight this must be because of all the cancellations recently

[GrahamK]

Some changes for the summer, Air Europa and Evelop both operating Palma flights for TOM, and Smartwings operating an extra peak season Las Palmas for TOM.

S17 for TCX see's the return of Paphos, Palma increased to daily, Antalya reduced to weekly and Dalaman reduced to 4 x weekly. Bodrum appears to be dropped.

[LiamNCL]

Thomas Cook REU X2 Weekly from May

[EK77WNCL]

Do we still have Alba star operating Verona for Thomson? If we do that's 5 weekly flights operated by outsourced carriers, surely A/C 4 must be somewhere in the back of their mind, even if that was leased in ala TCX

[skyhawk1]

[QUOTE=EK77WNCL;9322755]Do we still have Alba star operating Verona for Thomson? If we do that's 5 weekly flights operated by outsourced carriers, surely A/C 4 must be somewhere in the back of their mind, even if that was leased in ala TCX[/QUOTE
Verona flights Ops on TOM aircraft this summer

[HH6702]

Is TCX on sale now ?

[sunshine79]

S17 is on sale in a week or two but some holidays are already loaded to book

[HH6702]

On the TCX tread someone has posted the operating days for each route per airport

[LiamNCL]

TCX S17

Mon- ACE/MAH/DLM/PMI/SSH/CFU
Tue- IBZ/MAH/HER/PMI/TFS/PFO
Wed- AYT/LCA/FUR/PMI/REU/RHO
Thu- ACE/LCA/DLM/PMI/KGS/ZTH
Fri- BOJ/MAH/DLM/PMI/TFS/CFU
Sat- IBZ/LCA/DLM/PMI/TFS/JTR
Sun-EFL/LPA/DLM/PMI/TFS/ZTH/REU

[LiamNCL]

TUI Netherlands 737 PH-TFF operating this mornings TOM1628 to PMI

[pallan]

On the subject of TCX, I got bored the other day (and wanted to see where my a/c would be coming in from before AYT) and did this spreadsheet of their flights this summer

Pretty sure I must have missed a couple of A321 flights off the list but the A320 is certainly looking busy.

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[HH6702]

Good spreadsheet...
A321's are a little quieter as they should have been doing SSH/HRG/NBE all have been dropped but not all have been covered with something else