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Join Date: May 2013
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Yet we pay some of the highest fares across the board for the privilege of using our local airport... Maybe the airlines are trying to think of ways to get out of serving what the region actually wants... Because we all know what we actually want, and that is point to point EU city routes and more variation, that's always one of the top requests
Look at EZY at NCL and at BRS for comparison... I know January is extremely low demand and prices are very low from everywhere, anyway. But I randomly happened to search BRS-OPO last night... £8.49 for the return flight on 2 days, the rest were £10-£15. Granted outbound was £30-50 but that's still mental cheap... I didn't think EZY ever went under £20
EDIT: Damn, beat me by 1 minute Liam!
Look at EZY at NCL and at BRS for comparison... I know January is extremely low demand and prices are very low from everywhere, anyway. But I randomly happened to search BRS-OPO last night... £8.49 for the return flight on 2 days, the rest were £10-£15. Granted outbound was £30-50 but that's still mental cheap... I didn't think EZY ever went under £20
EDIT: Damn, beat me by 1 minute Liam!
I'm with HH - should have paid more attention in the economics lessons, guys. You're not paying for the privilege, your paying to fly from a small, remote, not particularly wealthy market.
What people say in surveys and how many of them part with the cash to back up their comments is a different matter - if there was money to be made, somebody would be having a go. Spite tends not be a major motivation in airline route selection, despite what I read in this thread
Because we all know what we actually want, and that is point to point EU city routes and more variation, that's always one of the top requests
Join Date: Aug 2013
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IMO we are only maybe 5/6 routes short of having a good diverse selection for our size but are we really saying the North East of England is remote ? We know the airlines who serve us make good money in doing so its hardly a good will gesture.
are we really saying the North East of England is remote ?
Look at a map, where's Newcastle's catchment area?? Nothing to the North, Carlisle(!) to the West, Teesside to the South (even poorer than Tyne/Wear) and the North Sea to the East.
Join Date: Aug 2013
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I agree im just saying in general the N.E is very much accessible just as much as everwhere else that people from the N.E travel to e.g EDI GLA MAN LPL LBA . The point im making is that if prices were better from here we would get people outside our catchment area using NCL aswell, Its very much catch 22 though
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SWBKCB was making the point that NCL is a long way from any reasonably sized UK additional population - 100 miles to Leeds, about 120 to Edinburgh (and that on farily grim roads)
NCL is stuck pretty much with the population of the NE - say 2.6 million people. and the socio-economics means it's not a major source/destination for business or first class passengers to a large range of destinations
on the other hand that 2.6 mm is pretty much a captive market for NCL so you can be pretty certain that your prices won't get hammered by someone undercutting (as happens bewteen Luton/Stansted; Man, Liverpool/Leeds. GLA/EDI etc)
NCL is stuck pretty much with the population of the NE - say 2.6 million people. and the socio-economics means it's not a major source/destination for business or first class passengers to a large range of destinations
on the other hand that 2.6 mm is pretty much a captive market for NCL so you can be pretty certain that your prices won't get hammered by someone undercutting (as happens bewteen Luton/Stansted; Man, Liverpool/Leeds. GLA/EDI etc)
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What's the protocol if you're booked with a credible English airline and you're switched to some two Bob Turkish mob that you've never heard of? Can you get a refund or are you stuck with them?
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Freebird are well established Turkish airline operating for many years with identical service to TOM often on aircraft younger than TOM. They get reasonable reviews and have an excellent safety record.
If there is a change, you are entitled to full refund.
If there is a change, you are entitled to full refund.
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Nope, we tried to amend a booking for a customer and Thomson Airways wouldn't allow us to amend or cancel as they are within their rights to amend the flight and airline
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You tend to see the negative side of experiences at NCL on here! To balance out I was on EK35 today on stand at 1152(L), I had my bags, picked up my hire car and was driving out of the airport at 1225(L)!!
Great stuff.....
Great stuff.....
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"I thought TOM were a British/German airline rather than English? 
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THOMSON AIRWAYS LIMITED NO: 00444359
Registered in ENGLAND and WALES, head office is in ENGLAND.
So it is an English/Welsh company and not a British Company!!
"THOMSON AIRWAYS LIMITED NO: 00444359
Registered in ENGLAND and WALES, head office is in ENGLAND.
So it is an English/Welsh company and not a British Company!!
Compare and contrast the German situation where the carrier you flew on was an integral part of the holiday choice. so much so that when Thomas Cook tried to rebrand Condor, they realised they had made monumental error, and had to backtrack and reinstate the original Condor branding.
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Unfortunately I'm not too young to remember the list of airlines in the back of the brochures, Thomson even listed what aircraft type you would be travelling on. Thomas Cook don't even put flight times in their brochures nowadays.
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I remember the brochures vaguely. Airtours D10, Air Transat and Nordic L10-11s, Balkan TU154s, Sunways and Onur's MD83s. Braathens, BA 1-11s and who can forget Gill's sheds. Air UK (my I'm showing my age!).
As much as I love the Airbus magic, I miss the olden days of obscure types, airlines and carriers from weird and wonderful places I'd never heard of. The noise and the smell. Waving relatives off from the observation deck. I even remember when the metro only went to Bank Foot and you had to get the bus! I still remember concorde's visit. Taking a look up to the airport with friends after school.
Now it's a shopping mall/huge pub with a handful of beige types and a couple of homogenous airlines. It's safer, cheaper and more reliable, but the excitement has certainly gone.
Them were day.
As much as I love the Airbus magic, I miss the olden days of obscure types, airlines and carriers from weird and wonderful places I'd never heard of. The noise and the smell. Waving relatives off from the observation deck. I even remember when the metro only went to Bank Foot and you had to get the bus! I still remember concorde's visit. Taking a look up to the airport with friends after school.
Now it's a shopping mall/huge pub with a handful of beige types and a couple of homogenous airlines. It's safer, cheaper and more reliable, but the excitement has certainly gone.
Them were day.