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Just had an email from Flybe about my flight from Cardiff to Aberdeen and they have said that from the 10th February Eastern Airways will suspend their Cardiff to Newcastle flights, for passengers flying to Newcastle it looks like they will be offered alternative flights to Teeside and onward transport to Newcastle, for passengers like me who are flying to Aberdeen it just means the fuel stop will be at Teeside instead of Newcastle.
Are they going to be selling CWL-MME or is it simply a drop off and fuel ?
Eastern have served NCL since we lost Air Wales and such a shame to not see NCL on the departure boards. Would another carrier pick this route up like Loganair ? It was a popular destination back in the Air Wales days.
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So let me get this right, Eastern/Flybe are dropping NCL but will continue to operate daily to ABZ via MME instead ? I wonder what the logic is with this ?
Are they going to be selling CWL-MME or is it simply a drop off and fuel ?
Eastern have served NCL since we lost Air Wales and such a shame to not see NCL on the departure boards. Would another carrier pick this route up like Loganair ? It was a popular destination back in the Air Wales days.
Are they going to be selling CWL-MME or is it simply a drop off and fuel ?
Eastern have served NCL since we lost Air Wales and such a shame to not see NCL on the departure boards. Would another carrier pick this route up like Loganair ? It was a popular destination back in the Air Wales days.
I flew CWL-NCL-ABZ just last week and loads were awful for a Monday morning. 7 pax up to NCL, 2 stayed on board for ABZ and we had 1 join in NCL, so 3 up to ABZ.
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Wow that is a shocking load factor, I remember the Air Wales ATR having loads in excess of 30 per flight on most days.
I guess the Eastern reliability and the actual flight costs do not help to either NCL or ABZ.
Such a shame to loose this domestic link though, can’t see a demand for MME !!
But looks like they are still operating a Sunday only CWL - NCL sector.
On a different note how do we know Correndon are operating 2 Turkey flights for TUI ? I can’t see any official reference about this.
I guess the Eastern reliability and the actual flight costs do not help to either NCL or ABZ.
Such a shame to loose this domestic link though, can’t see a demand for MME !!
But looks like they are still operating a Sunday only CWL - NCL sector.
On a different note how do we know Correndon are operating 2 Turkey flights for TUI ? I can’t see any official reference about this.
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Wow that is a shocking load factor, I remember the Air Wales ATR having loads in excess of 30 per flight on most days.
I guess the Eastern reliability and the actual flight costs do not help to either NCL or ABZ.
Such a shame to loose this domestic link though, can’t see a demand for MME !!
But looks like they are still operating a Sunday only CWL - NCL sector.
On a different note how do we know Correndon are operating 2 Turkey flights for TUI ? I can’t see any official reference about this.
I guess the Eastern reliability and the actual flight costs do not help to either NCL or ABZ.
Such a shame to loose this domestic link though, can’t see a demand for MME !!
But looks like they are still operating a Sunday only CWL - NCL sector.
On a different note how do we know Correndon are operating 2 Turkey flights for TUI ? I can’t see any official reference about this.
Corendon is from a source in the travel industry. Nothing on TUI website yet. Just says other carrier.
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Yeah I agree that a NCL flight would fit in with Loganair as they do quite a few flights from there and CWL certainly can’t afford to loose another route that used to be quite profitable.
I wonder if CWL are already in discussion with Loganair ?
I wonder if CWL are already in discussion with Loganair ?
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I don’t see why CWL-MME couldn’t be put on sale but the return leg is more problematic. They would have to get check-in, security staffed for potentially just a handful of pax. The previous departure from MME is about three hours earlier, the next about four hours later.
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I've no doubt that they are but only time will tell if they take the route up.
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Big announcement up at MME regarding their new Eastern/Flybe network and lots of reference to CWL as a daily passenger flight (so not just a fuel stop).....they said they’ve “poached it from NCL”.
As usual though no comment from CWL on this announcement !!
As usual though no comment from CWL on this announcement !!
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Give them chance, it's only just been announced by MME! Given it's a huge announcement of a new network for them it's likely they would get priority. If anything I wouldnt be surprised if CWL play this down anyway as MME is probably a step back over losing NCL.
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To be honest I doubt they are that happy about it. Losing Newcastle in favour of Teesside I doubt they see as positive.
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Yeah I kind of agree there......guess we will have to wait and see and hope another airline snaps up the NCL sector with decent airfares too compared to some of the prices Eastern/Flybe charge
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I could understand disappointment at losing a Newcastle link but everyone on this thread seems very anti-Teesside? I think you'll find when the routes actually go on sale next week they'll be competitive
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I really hope so don’t get me wrong, MME is better than just a Sunday service to NCL and who knows it may work perfectly for Eastern. I like the Eastern experience on the CWL-VLY route and have always liked the J41 so hope the MME route is a success for them
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Hopefully they will be competitive but on the point 2 point Cardiff wise I just don't see the route having high demand. What it may do is make rotating the VLY aircraft cheaper and keeping the ABZ connection. Hopefully someone else will take on NCL so CWL has links to both!
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Unless they throw away seats at cheap fares for the CWL-MME portion then i really cant see much demand for the route. It's more a schedule filler to boost CWL-ABZ by combining it with MME-ABZ because of the competition from Loganair at NCL.