LGW
 

I think it was 3x daily to LGW last winter also.
However thats a big drop in passengers. If I have done the sums correctly it must be about 50% load factor!!.

The NCL figure to LGW is still double that of LBA, which I thought was also 3 x Daily?, and slightly less than those of NQY.

That makes it even worse, not sure if there were any weather oriented cancellations, which might help explain it. Hopefully, with STN being dropped, traffic on the Gatwick route might pick up, after all STN carried 9,976 pax in February.

The new passenger taxes might start to put people off from flying on the UK internal flights.

FlyBE
 

And the new landing fees coming in at Gatwick from April, might make the NCL/LGW another route for the chop along with the LBA/LGW.

Virgin
 

Virgin A330-300 Training at NCL today according to DTV Movements

The Virgin A330-300 looks to be doing the rounds of the UK.

The aircraft is currently on the ground at Liverpool having flown in from Glasgow.

I read on the airport's twitter that Cimber have stopped the CPH altogether and they are looking for another carrier - i thought it was just a downgrade but guess not.

All mention of Newcastle, has now disappeared from the QI website....that was a sudden stop...:ouch:

Newcastle yesterday. The new virgin A330-343X. G-VSXY

Air-Britain : Airbus A330-343X

Ncl - dub
 

Ryanair have added 2 extra weekly flights.

Double daily on SUN, MON, WED, FRI
Daily TUE, THUR, SAT

From May 23

Good news about Dublin. Flybe could be interested in Copenhagen, Scandinavia appeared on their wish-list for expansion from NCL.

Easyjet winter 2011/2012
 

Now on sale. Looks about the same as this winter, ie 3 aircraft based.

Yes, but that wish-list is getting rather old...

Ay, about four years old I think. Every time Flybe launch or expand a route from NCL they tell the press they are also looking at launching routes all over Europe. It got them on the front page of the Chronicle when they launched the short-lived route to Aberdeen.

Jet 2.
 

I see that Jet 2 are doing Alicante throughout next winter (2011/12) in direct competition with Easyjet as per summer 2011.
Chambery seems to have gone.

Chambery is on the site now....weekly on Saturdays, the other ski flight to Geneva its says "check again soon".

Another thread mentions a route to GIBRALTAR being under discussion, possibly with Jet2

David Crosby(really???)
I'm not sure flying is a better experience. I'm flying from LHR in April and will get the train down and the coach back. Less chance of luggage going missing, you don't have to arrive 2 hours before the flight, the games they play at security etc...


I fly BA NCL-LHR at least once a week and have done for the last 3 years, once has my bag not arrived on the same flight as me, but it was delivered to my door by 8pm that night.

I check in online and turn up 45-60mins before departure, if I dont check anything in, I turn up at security at the minimun time, and with no bag I walk straight off.... (Even more swiftly now since NCL finally replaced the god awful revolving doors to exit baggage reclaim)

No games at security... if you know what you are doing. Can't understand why this is ever an issue, what they want you to do it written on posters all over the place.

I travel regularly on the Emirates to Dubai. More and more often there seems to be an issue with the airbridge on the stand that is allocated to Emirates. On last trip, aircraft was parked on remote stand on departure since tug was broken. On arriving back, we waited one and half hours to disembark as it was too windy to connect airbridge - after over an hour, ground staff decided to point a/c nose in to terminal next to Eastern lounge. On leaving the terminal, it was just a normal blustery day - not exactly gale force. Bearing in mind, many pax had been travelling for 24 hours, everyone was truly fed up and commonts included "shambolic. incompetent, lack of planning and above all, over rediculous health & safety". Not a very good advert for inbound pax. This is certainly not the first time I have experienced delays connecting the airbridge. Would be interested to hear response from anyone from Ops as this is not a good advert for our airport.

On the plus side, EK flights are almost always 95% full by my experience. Surely not long till we get 777? My bet is that Qatar Airways will start a service to Doha in next 3 years. Not sure what a/c type though.