Newcastle-9
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Northumberland
Posts: 5,638
Military, business flights, emergency cover, general aviation, diversions etc. I always thought connectivity and providing a service to the local area was a rather important facet of local airports?

It's not nice out there - need to balance cost saved against income foregone.

Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Northumberland
Posts: 5,638
Iberia Express, a low-cost airline owned by Iberia, will operate multiple flights to and from Newcastle between the 26th December 2020 and the 3rd January 2021.

Join Date: May 2002
Location: SW Scotland
Age: 37
Posts: 311
I can understand short term closure of the terminal for a month when no flights. Similar to other airports.
I can’t understand however closing an airfield for 4 hours in the middle of the day.
Military,business flights,emergency cover,general aviation,diversions etc. I always thought connectivity and providing a service to the local area was a rather important facet of local airports?
Oh well🤔
I can’t understand however closing an airfield for 4 hours in the middle of the day.
Military,business flights,emergency cover,general aviation,diversions etc. I always thought connectivity and providing a service to the local area was a rather important facet of local airports?
Oh well🤔
Not worth staying open on the off chance a military flight wants to come in, and on the off chance they do, they can always arrange cover with a days notice. GA can continue with the airport closed, they just need to treat it as an uncontrolled airfield.

Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Northumberland
Posts: 5,638
Presumably just new for Jet2 at NCL rather than new to NCL - TUI do Kefalonia and Skiathios, did TCX do Santorini from NCL?

Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Narfalk
Posts: 122
Hope the Vacinnce effects are quick and effective. Newcastle is a winner if Covid disappears for Logan. I do have a vested interest in any plans. However until people wish to jump on aeroplanes and are allowed to, that is the issue.

Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Ferrara
Posts: 2,323
"Hope the Vaccine effects are quick and effective"
It's going to take quite a while - you probably need 60% of the population immunised before the virus transmission goes into serious decline - that's circa 40 million people in the UK - at 1 million a week it'll be September . People may start traveling earlier but you have to have a results at both ends. I'd expect little change in the rules until Easter, when we should start to see infection in the vulnerable start to fall - after that a gradual easing until the feel they can swamp any local flareups - probably around June once the universities disperse
It's going to take quite a while - you probably need 60% of the population immunised before the virus transmission goes into serious decline - that's circa 40 million people in the UK - at 1 million a week it'll be September . People may start traveling earlier but you have to have a results at both ends. I'd expect little change in the rules until Easter, when we should start to see infection in the vulnerable start to fall - after that a gradual easing until the feel they can swamp any local flareups - probably around June once the universities disperse
