The flight is full as well, although you can fly next week for £250 return. The airport seems to be coping better with the weather than most of its neighbours. It has been open this afternoon and evening when other the airports in the North East, Yorkshire and Eastern Scotland are closed.

I noticed that...has it taken any diversions?

Diversions
 

Think they`ve taken a few. Snow teams have apparently done an amazing job, kept the airport open nearly all day and still going in terrible conditions.
A credit to the airport, well done.

Thomsons/First Choice will offer Barbados as a destination from Newcastle for Winter 2011. It will also carry passengers to join Thomson cruise ship "Thomson Dream ex Barbados

Yeah the Barbados departures are on 15Jan12 / 12Feb12 / 04 Mar 12 / 01 Apr 12. Mainly used for cruises but Thomson and First Choice mainstream are offering holidays on it.

Yes the staff at NCL have done an excellent job keeping the place open during very bad weather.

Must be very annoying to see BA cancel 50% of flights from/to LHR today and I think yesterday also. I appreciate LHR has had some problems down there but the proportion of LHR-NCL flights cancelled far exceeds the few cancelled today from LHR to EDI, ABZ, MAN and GLA.
I understand NCL has remained open all day today so why such a high proportion of LHR cancellations.

Have they had any diversions into NCL?.

KLM Summer 11
 

Don't recall this being mentioned, but AMS increases to 5 x Daily next summer, albeit all operated by KL Cityhopper.

KL
 

And 4 Daily for winter 2011/12 (at the moment and subject to change) 3 Main and one City.

moving forward again at last.
I notice that of the 5 rotations, the early and late flights are with E190 a/c and the middle 3 are F70 a/c.

Eastern, according to the timetable is increasing NCL - ABZ to 5 daily Mon-Fri

Jet 2 has announced additional flights to Cork in December 2011 on:
10th,12th,17th,19th,23rd,27th and 30th.
and to Prague in Dec. 2011 on 12th,16th,19th,23rd,27th and 30th

Air Berlin and Stansted
 

With the recent suspension of the easyJet services from Stansted to Newcastle would there be a slight possibility that airBerlin could possibly take over the route and use it also for onward connections through Stansted into Germany?

Just a thought.

Very unlikely IMO. Air Berlin gave up similar STN-MAN/GLA/BHD routes some time ago, and plan to move some STN-Germany flights to Gatwick soon

FR
 

Oslo gone from the booking system for next summer. Still no sign of Girona.

Any update on the Airport hotel and when it might open and any news if anything is going to be built on the old Wings site?

November seen the DXB route get 75% figs based on 30 daily 332HDs...still up by 9% on Nov 09. Were any EK flights cancelled during the snow?

GrahamK!

Every EK flight during the snow made it in and back out again!

I don't believe Newcastle has ever lost an EK arrival since the route started due to weather. Has the flight even ever been cancelled since it started?

Ops Guy,

Yes, during the Ash cloud crisis :ouch:

Any update on how SN is doing since they've introduced the regional jets of bmi regional and added a 3rd flight to BRU? It seems from the GDS the flights may come back to ARJ next year?

SN146, NCL-BRU seen a rise of 114% in November to 3390, which equates to an average load of 72% (or just over 35 passengers per flight).