NEWCASTLE
 

I hope this is in accordance with the new rules.

Rumour has it that the No.7 aircraft for Easyjet will be announced in November together with 2 new routes. Route no 3 has already been announced (FARO)

Newcastle needs to be in capitals. ;)

sorry, it was in capitals on my posting but seemed to lose it when posted.....just edited it....worked this time round

Odd - that hapenned to me on the Humberside thread too

EASYJET A/C No 7
 

Venice and Madrid could possibly be the 2 new routes in addition to already announced Faro for a/c No 7?.
Would not be surprised if Ryanair announce a NCL base soon with 1 x738 doing NCL- DUBLIN-NCL-OSLO-NCL-STOCKHOLM-NCL-DUBLIN-NCL keeping the Milan as it is now.

Venice and Madrid would make excellent route additions for Newcastle. I hope you are correct.

I am still hoping for more routes to France. (Flybe/Ryanair)

November is the Flybe Summer 06 timetable finalisation month

Would NCL - AMS not be a good route for A/C number 7!.

Nice to see the airport had its busiest month ever in July with 576022 pax's! How long before 6 million pax's a year then?
:)

I noticed Excel had a flight from Naples and a flight to Mykonos today? Cruise charters?

CaptainBen

Ben contributed to the NCL threads quite often. My condolences to Ben's family.

RIP Captain! :(

http://www.pprune.org/forums/member....o&userid=87972

So sorry to hear this news, my condolences to his family.

It seems that Newcastle has lost more than its fair share of aviation minded young men!
:(

Hope the mods don't mind this. Ben posted on another forum a few months ago saying he was famous :p lol

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/912848/L/ - He's the pilot.

Very sad news indeed.

My deepest condolences to Ben's family. He was a great guy who was clearly full of life and will be a loss to all the forums he contributed to - including my own. Goodbye Ben - we'll all see you in the great airport in the sky one day.

On the palmair/astraeus thread (sorry dont know how to post a link) it says European were planning to open a NCL base, aswell as EDI and BFS, only seasonally. Is this still the case, could this aircraft be XLA's usual subbed aircraft for the summer 06 season?

Regarding XLA I think it will be highly unlikely that a 757 is based here, as did XLA not remove 757 a/c from regional bases due to engineering issues? So will XLA's NCL Summer 06 base be just 3 x 737-800 a/c or god forbid will the TF 737-400's be back?

My sincere condolences to Captain Bens family, God Bless!

Excel S06
 

Well i have heard this over the last few days

2 X B757
1 X B738

The above based all week.

Certain days they will need 4 aircraft but some flights may be changing to W..?

EAF to base at NCL?

That like was for summer 2004 but the flying programme for newcastle then turned into HH.

TF-ELJ

The above aircraft will leave the group at the end of next week.
THe aircraft is going to the US.

Well that seems like a change of strategy for XLA, 757's at regional bases. Lets hope XLA make a good shot at making NCL a permanent base.

S06 = Very interesting at NCL, Lots of based charters.

1 x MYT
2 x TCX
2 x TOM 757 charter
1 x TOM 737 sched (-300 or -800?)
3 x XLA
...not to mention 7 easy's, jet2 and all the usual nightstopping/based aircraft.

Can I point out that the guy that died was Ben Wallace, not Ben Hewitt who took the photo. I have confused a few people and thought I better point this out before confusing more people, sorry.

ABTN is indicating that Eastern are set to start LCY

This confirms what I heard from somebody at LCY but where does this leave VLM, whose flights keep appearing on the NCL arr/dep board?