NEWCASTLE - 8

[LiamNCL]

I must say as im sitting now in Fuerteventura (Flew on sat) we had our booking ammended for a week earlier as to avoid flying home on Avion Express with TCX so it can be done with certain airlines.

[Kev 1]

New twice weekly (Tuesdays & Fridays) route to Warsaw (Modlin) announced by Ryanair with effect November:

RYR4532 NCL-WMI 08:55-12:25
RYR4531 WMI-NCL 07:00-08:30

[MATELO]

Code:

who can forget Gill's sheds.

.. & their short 330's, which I used all the time to/from Belfast 1989/1990



I remember one trip, we were downwind for 25, and over Dinnington we did a "wing over" to get down before a BA jet on a 5 mile final.

Never done that before or since in a civvy carrier.

[NCL-TRC]

Nice to see a new market opened by FR, will be interesting to see how it does.

[HH6702]

Wow a new route and not a one already well served!!!

Well done Ryanair and airport let's hope this route lasts and they add more routes

[DanAir89]

Originally Posted by LiamNCL

I must say as im sitting now in Fuerteventura (Flew on sat) we had our booking ammended for a week earlier as to avoid flying home on Avion Express with TCX so it can be done with certain airlines.

I'd have done the same -have avoided TC since 2008 as didn't fancy an old 757 or as smartlynx a320 after reading about their reliability (particularly on here!). Still wouldn't take the risk of a new A321 being changed for an Avion 320 after booking so it's usually a Thomson 738 for me!

[deltahotel9]

Having flown on the Avion 320 last year I can say it was a perfectly acceptable aircraft, clean and comfortable, the only issue was the other passengers, which unfortunately is the one thing you can't predict but I'd avoid TC for a while because of that.

As for Warsaw good to see a new route, not one I would have chosen but hopefully it does well and we get to some other new routes from FR.

[LiamNCL]

Well we usually book Thomas Cook for the holidays and we booked FUE with prebooked seats part of that was down to having flown on the new A321, I would of prefered to know upfront which is why we changed it

[EK77WNCL]

Very nice choice! I'm impressed with Ryanair, lets hope it works out, if Warsaw can work I'm pretty sure a good few more can

Sorry Wizzair... Might be missing your boat with this one

[GAXLN]

Poland's a great country to visit - excellent value, interesting history and vibrant and beautiful cities. Hope there's more to come. We had better start using these flights if we want to see more destinations on the departure board.

[HH6702]

3 new routes from Ryanair

Warsaw
Gdansk
Wroclaw

Can say we didn't see this coming

[HeartyMeatballs]

That's pretty impressive. I just wonder who is going to fill the seats? We really don't have that high a population of polish people living here (despite what the right wing media may have you believe) and certainly Gdansk and Wroclaw aren't on many people's radars, despite Gdansk (once you get away from the port anyway!) being a very beautiful place. Hopefully some low fares may stimulate the demand for locals here to visit.

Wroclaw however is a real wild card. I bet only a tiny proportion of locals can say it (tip - it sounds nothing like it looks). I can only imagine there's some start up indie time in that one.

I'm happy that we have the routes though. Let's hope they're used and are kept. And I'm actually surprised at FR actually creating a new route and not just cherry picking the bucket and spade routes.

[long_final]

Times for the new routes:


Gdansk - Mon/Fri, arr NCL 1815, dep NCL 1840
Warsaw - Tue/Fri, arr NCL 0830, dep NCL 0855
Wroclaw - Sun/Thu arr NCL 0750, dep NCL 0815

[HeartyMeatballs]

I don't think it's a matter of EZY or LS being too busy competing with TOM/TCX. The fact that both have tried and now have little or no city break destinations suggests that from NCL there is little or no money to be made from euro city breaks. However, BCN, GVA and NCE are popular weekend destinations.

FR couldn't make 'Milan' or 'Oslo' work neither.

Besides, by the time you faffed on going to the airport, checking in, security, shopping and boarding you might as well just sit on a plane for an extra 30-60 minutes and fly to Spain.

AGP is my go to place for a weekend away. The fact that this route (and ALC, FAO) is served so regularly and year round suggests to me that I'm not the only one!

[long_final]

Assuming everybody wants to fly to Spain that is. The city routes we still have do well, OK some have now gone, but there are still quite a few, and Jet2 holidays and easyJet holiday have taken priority at NCL, so can't see either of them expanding to anything other than beach destinations.


Worst case,the Polish routes don't work, so they pull them and try something else. I'd much rather see that, and I'm sure the airport would rather see a little more diversity too, good for publicity. Far better than playing it safe and announcing a double daily ALC/AGP/PMI. This will get folk talking, more flights to Spain would go largely unnoticed IMO.

[KNIEVEL77]

I notice a few inbounds holding at the minute, presumably its down to the heavy snow that is falling at the minute?
BA holding over the coast and Jet 2 and an Easyjet holding 25 miles to the south.

Edit: 6 aircraft now in the hold.

[nighthawk117]

Worst case,the Polish routes don't work, so they pull them and try something else.

All flights seem to be operated by Polish based aircraft. If they pull them, they won't be adding new Newcastle routes to replace them.

[Kev 1]

Stavanger returns as of 31st May, with BMI Regional - six times per week:

BMR1133/4 NCL 10:45 SVG 13:05 SVG 15:40 NCL 16:00 (Monday-Friday)
BMR1135/6 NCL 13:25 SVG 15:45 SVG 16:15 NCL 16:35 (Sunday)

[Jamesair]

This is good news and at a better frequency and timing.

[skyhawk1]

cant believe some people book holidays depending on aircraft type. would have thought destination was more important. never mind each to their own. its a free world.