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Don't know if the mix of aircraft is changing or they are just swapping around aircraft within the base, but the Thursday Jet2 to Reus was a 733 and is now a 738. Reduction in 733 operations maybe?
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Ryanair
Today and over the next week will see 4 new Ryanair routes starting up, daily PMI, 4 weekly FAO (M,W,F,Sun), 2 weekly MAD (M & F) and 2 weekly GRO (Tue & Sat).
In addition of the Winter routes being kept on with an increase of TFS to 3 weekly (Tue, Fri, Sun) and increases from last summer of ALC to daily (up from 5 weekly) and AGP is 5 weekly (Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun) (up from 4 weekly).
Expect a bit of noise being made tomorrow about the new MAD route! ... seeing they did so at the Boro v Man U match
12 routes in total with 52 weekly departures.
In addition of the Winter routes being kept on with an increase of TFS to 3 weekly (Tue, Fri, Sun) and increases from last summer of ALC to daily (up from 5 weekly) and AGP is 5 weekly (Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun) (up from 4 weekly).
Expect a bit of noise being made tomorrow about the new MAD route! ... seeing they did so at the Boro v Man U match
12 routes in total with 52 weekly departures.
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28 pax on the return from PMI maybe. Quite normal at this time of year as it's the first week of operation for the summer season and the inbound loads will be low. It went out to PMI with a lot more than 28 on.
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Only around 40 - 50 pax on the first inbound MAD flight... hopefully inbound traffic grows and not just the outbound traffic.
Loads looking quite good for tomorrow's inbound and outbound Madrid.
Shows potential for growth in new markets by having these direct routes which are already proving popular.
Loads looking quite good for tomorrow's inbound and outbound Madrid.
Shows potential for growth in new markets by having these direct routes which are already proving popular.
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Does anyone break the figures down into demographics to see if the routes are actually leading to any growth in inbound traffic and tourism?
I can't envisage much from TFS, ACE, PMI, FAO but perhaps AGP, MAD and certainly WAW, GDN, WRO should have brought in at least some people?
Despite North Easterners being rather shy and unwilling when it comes to trying somewhere new, maybe more wealthy foreign tourists might fancy a weekend break in the North East?
Another hope I have with MAD is that football fans will use it, a lot use BCN.
I can't envisage much from TFS, ACE, PMI, FAO but perhaps AGP, MAD and certainly WAW, GDN, WRO should have brought in at least some people?
Despite North Easterners being rather shy and unwilling when it comes to trying somewhere new, maybe more wealthy foreign tourists might fancy a weekend break in the North East?
Another hope I have with MAD is that football fans will use it, a lot use BCN.
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Well get yourselves promoted! Apparently there is a lot of weekend traffic from Scandinavia and Ireland to watch Liverpool and Manchester U***** (sorry, City fan) and I can imagine your St James' Park's atmosphere is good, as well as the nightlife. Perhaps some entrepreneur can sell some football tours to Newcastle.
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Speaking of Easyjet A320 i believe the current based A320 is the newest member of the fleet G-EZRA. Back on topic it was the return leg PMI-NCL that had 28 PAX which is normal.
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I am pleasantly surprised that there were 70 folks on the first inbound from Madrid. I've said on here before that, contrary to what the Newcastle Gateshead (those are still two separate words in my book) Initiative will tell you, inbound tourists to our neck of the woods are pitifully small in numbers. A listen to the voices in the departure lounge will tell you that the vast majority of folks using the airport are from within about 50 miles of Woolsington. It may be that that will improve with Ryanair and with general trends in tourism in general. I hope so - within reason anyway, we don't want the Northumbrian beaches getting too crowded!
For the last few years NUFC were in the Premier League, there was often a large block of seats around me that were taken up by visiting fans from the Netherlands. I spoke to a few of them and most of them seemed to come in on the ferry, though. Not sure if they are still coming now that we are in the Second Division, as I ditched my season ticket - for financial reasons rather than because they were crap, honest
For the last few years NUFC were in the Premier League, there was often a large block of seats around me that were taken up by visiting fans from the Netherlands. I spoke to a few of them and most of them seemed to come in on the ferry, though. Not sure if they are still coming now that we are in the Second Division, as I ditched my season ticket - for financial reasons rather than because they were crap, honest
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That's more like it! I was only passing on what I had been told re the 40-50 figure.
Today's (31/03) FR flights to MAD, FAO, TFS, and GDN seem to be quite full with all of them having a 90% + load factor.
I can say that Alicante, Mallorca and Warsaw are similar loads as well.
Does anyone break the figures down into demographics to see if the routes are actually leading to any growth in inbound traffic and tourism?
