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Freight; Unfortunately the airport is covered by Article 1(4) of Council Directive 96/67/EC which means ground handling has to be done by agents. So around 15 years ago the airport had to sell/transfer all the freight handling equipment to the then two handling agents. The most important piece of equipment was the high scissor lift was then sold on! So now unless the handling agents 'want' the business it goes to the likes of DSA, who are not big enough to be covered by the above directive and own our old high scissor lift I believe??
I guess when we leave the EU we could go back to the old way of ground handling??
GA?? Too busy?? Well when I moved to DXB we had a flying club with two twins and six singles and around 750 movements per day! Yes two runways but...... They only moved out when movements went through the 1000 per day!!
I guess when we leave the EU we could go back to the old way of ground handling??
GA?? Too busy?? Well when I moved to DXB we had a flying club with two twins and six singles and around 750 movements per day! Yes two runways but...... They only moved out when movements went through the 1000 per day!!
I guess when we leave the EU we could go back to the old way of ground handling??
GA comments were tongue in cheek, but the North is well behind the rest of the country generally, not just a Newcastle issue - could be a bit chicken and egg (i.e. lack of facilities leading to a lack of activity) but the state of the economy probably has more of an impact.
Regarding cargo, DHL which supplied the likes of Emirates and BA with all the businesses cargo on a nightly basis had to shut shop last year and moved all there ops down to Leeds way, that was a real blow to the amount we now handle.
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Won't happen. As much as I'd like to see it happen, it won't. Realistically United are the only one who'd ever try it, Newcastle is far down the plucking list. Belfast also lost a service and their EWR service did much better than NCL's service. Maybe Norwegian, but we don't know how their venture will turn out.
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Yes, I fail to see how a publically bankrolled route could be described as 'superior' to one operating at commercial risk. As soon as the free money dried up, so did the BFS route.
It didn't get any government support.
Still did much better than NCL.
Don't mind people expressing opinions, but lets not dress them up as fact.