just checked brussels for a random week in April and its showing up as two rotations by bmi on e145 - i thought this flight was being upgraded?

Same with Bristol.. it was shown as RJ-85 for a few months but the schedules were readjusted to E145s.

yeh because word was they were getting upgraded to avro but then I read somewhere that the brussels avros were getting withdrawn. but just doing two runs a day leaves a big gap for the 145 to be sitting in newcastle doesnt it

During periods of national holidays in BRU the dinner time flight does not operate, so the week you looked at may be easter week?
Over the christmas period this year there where more flights operated due to the whole fact that it was BMI operating and not SN

This is sad indeed, heard the same in CPH today.

Does anybody know for sure if EZY are pulling away from NCL-STN-NCL Route???

Sorry if it's already been covered, but internet is hopeless in Denmark where I am...

Bergkamp10 ;)

Does anybody know why the Copenhagen flight (QI3661) was diverted today (14th Feb)

Yes it seems Easyjet are pulling STN from end of March.

Brussels Airlines. Its 3x Daily in the summer except during certain periods same as last year.
Note for winter 2011/12 its showing an RJ85. They did this for this summer then changed it to BMI. Must be something to do with sorting contracts with BMI ??.

Still no sign of AF to CDG for next winter yet, a bit worrying!.

The first inbound ftom CDG today had a full load, dont know if that is representative of the route. Just happened to be on a rare visit to NCL today and noticed this.

I hear KLM are having a big push on the NCL - AMS route and of course onward connections. Probably linked to the increased frequency from March and also next winter.

The frequency of 4 per day to Amsterdam is not as much as it has been in the past, but KLM is using B737-700s and 800s on three of the four rotations so there are certainly more seats available.

Jan 2011 Provisional stats:

Brussels: 2812 +68%
Copenhagen: 1183 -16%
Paris CDG: 13424 +17%
Dusseldorf: 2585 +40%
Dublin: 9925 +13%
Amsterdam: 18592 +1%
Dubai: 13762 +2%
Gatwick: 6027 -9%
Heathrow: 35398 +33%


So for the 12 months to Jan, NCL processed 4.3m pax, a drop of 4.1%. Not too shabby considering the last year has seen the airport closed with the ash cloud crisis and all the snow. And for the month of January, pax figures are actually up by 4.4% despite the number of flights being down by 5.1%, which suggests that flights are getting fuller and fuller (or becoming less empty, whichever way you want to look at it :ok: ).

From 27th March, there will be five flights every weekday. The first and fourth outbounds will be E190s and the rest will be Fokker 70s. If the traffic grows, there will be more rotations and/or larger aircraft.

PM

But for winter 2011-12 it goes back to 4 flights a day, as I stated earlier, using larger aircraft - 1 flight E190 the other 3 either 2 B737-700s and a 737-800 or 2 B737-800 and one B737-700.

Shame about the NCL-STN service. I often use it to commute to work and the loadings have usually been healthy. Just booked my last one for 26/03 for the princely sum of £15.99, hand baggage only and not bothered where I sit. Compared to £60 for BA and £36 for BE and £48 on the train, the route will be missed.

Local radio is broadcasting that an ATC Computer problem at Newcastle International is delaying inbound and outbound flights?

Does anyone have any more info on this?

From NIA website - Widerøe to change from Dash 8 300 to Dash 8 Q400 from 31/03 and to add an additional service on Thursdays - number of weekly seats rises from 150 in either direction to 312, journey time falls from one hour 50 minutes to one hour 25 minutes.

BBC website says "Delays possible to flights to and from Newcastle Airport due to technical problem with Air Traffic Control systems." Same message for LBA and MAN.

Air France Schedule ex NCL
 

Just an update for you guys, the AF winter schedule from NCL has been available for sale for a few days now. Same schedule and with Canadair RJ700,s. Its quite normal for this to come on stream later than other routes as its operated by an AF partner, in our case Britair. The same thing occurs with Aberdeen and some French regional routes.

Its the AF mainline or Cityjet routes which show up much further in advance, so dont worry unduly! Have some faith eh?? :ok: When I travel on the route, it always has very healthy loads. Mind you, I will probs be only using it point to point in the future to and from Paris. I wont be transfering at CDG any more as they lost my bag before Christmas, and they have only just found it after 8 weeks!!! :=

AF CDG
 

Montreal-Dubai

Thanks for that info, Good to hear.

Just to confirm the NCL-AMS increases from 4 to 5 daily during the summer, and goes from 3 to 4 daily next winter (at the moment).

I cant remember clearly but I dont think it has ever been more than 5 daily. Some years ago it was timetabled for 6 daily but only 5 ever operated.

So are things starting to look up at last?.

Loads of cuts at the Ryanair Girona base, fortunately it doesn't include Newcastle.

EasyJet adding new routes at Edinburgh and basing an A320 there and at Glasgow just underlines how much the airline has stagnated at NCL.

I was thinking the same thing. Down to 3 a/c with no new routes, in fact, less routes than last summer.