The base closures take effect at the same time the LGW routes cease so time wise it will only be the EXT, BHD, SOU, JER and LIG routes affected.

All of which are achievable. For those not operating from such core bases such as BHD and SOU, a possible pattern could be:

EXT-NCL-JER-NCL-EXT
SOU-LIG-NCL-LIG-SOU-NCL-SOU

Just because the base is closing does not mean the routes will neccesarily stop. However alot depends on whether they actually make any money

Tonight's 21.35 BE LGW rotation cancelled. Tech or lack of pax?

It's gone quiet??
 

Last month or so gone quiet

Westjet -
After launching YYZ to Dublin they are now looking to add other UK routes to EDI, MAN!

Could the airport tempt Westjet to NCL for a weekly summer service?

From the BEEB today. Nothing we didn't already know:

Easyjet has claimed it will create 200 jobs when it launches new routes from Gatwick Airport.

Flights to Brussels and Strasbourg will start on 30 March after the firm bought slots at the airport from Flybe.

Routes to Jersey, Paris and Newcastle will also be launched, as well as increased services to other destinations in the UK and Europe.

The airline said it would be employing an extra 200 pilots and cabin crew who will be based at Gatwick. Easyjet has claimed it will create 200 jobs when it launches new routes from Gatwick Airport.

I think APD has cut off any hope of YYZ returning in the forseeable future.

I see Qatar have announced EDI now, it'll be interesting to see if that impacts on EK loads at NCL and GLA.

What have the loads on the Aer lingus Dublin flights been like?

I don't think QR will effect NCL too much, I just hope EK doesn't go into EDI all guns blazing with a daily 777 starting before QR, EK like to do that...

Instead I hope that they compete away from EDI by increasing at GLA and hopefully NCL in a few years. Someone on a.net suggested an A380 to GLA. With the EK lounge being built there and all, is it a possibility?

Thanks
Martin

P.S would a fully loaded 737 700/800 get off the runway at NCL en route to St Johns?

EDIT: St Johns is closer than SSH, should be ok, still doubtful though.

Don't go through if it's a cold day!

Passengers at nine further airports are to face full body security scanners, the government has announced.

The machines scan through clothing, producing a naked image of passengers so officials can check whether they are concealing anything.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin also announced that those who object to being scanned would be able to request an alternative, private search.

Currently, anyone refusing to go through the machine is not allowed to fly.

The nine additional airports where the scanners will now be in use are Belfast City, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow Prestwick, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, Luton and NEWCASTLE.

BBC News - Full body scanners announced for nine more UK airports

No they do not, the photo on the website is grossly misleading. That rather creepy image was from the V1 version. I understand the current machines have a computer rendered Simpsons type cartoon image that displays as a little yellow flashing spot on the CARTOON body, any areas of interest.
They are not looking at your private parts!

It's a media led story which ought not to stand up to a moments scrutiny.

I'd be all in favour of technology if it meant they could relax some of the rules and ditch the silly belts off, laptops out, shoes off, show your liquids etc etc.

Ash666
 

I am 100% with you.

Me too, and having recently had a bad experience with a very obnoxious young lady at NCL who was insistent ALL electrical equipment needed to be removed from hand luggage including phones, mp3 players, games, kindles etc. not just laptops, when I asked when the rules had changed I was told in no uncertain terms to comply with her request or not fly!

And yet some airports don't ask you to take laptops out of your bag at all.

I genuinely forgot a few years ago, twice, to take the fluids out of my hand luggage and the scanners didn't spot them so what is the point???

DH9 - It seems to be a NCL thing all electronic items?? Don't ask me why all other airports I use only ask for laptop!! Could it be equipment related??

they're not quicker - in the current system you walk through a doorway and,if you are lucky, that is that and you keep walking to collect your carry on stuff from the xray scanner belt

The new scanners mean EVERYONE has to walk in, stand with their hands in the air for about 10 seconds and then exit - it doesn't sound like much but it really slows the flow

Looks like TOM1659 from LIS has been diverted to us and isn't going to MAN. Anyone know why? No problems at MAN and not exactly local.

It's not a MAN flight. The TOM flights within the EU to/from MAN are TOM2xxx. NCL flights are TOM1xxx, BHX & EMA are TOM7xxx, etc.

Yes, it is a MAN flight. It left MAN this morning to do MAN-LIS.

No LIS flight from NCL so it's came from somewhere... And I'm pretty sure it's MAN!

then can you say why this flight does not appear on the MAN arrivals board but on the NCL arrivals board?

These are the TOM flights that arrived at MAN from Lisbon.

TOM2679 14:25 Lisbon Arrived 15:35
TOM2697 14:45 Lisbon Arrived 16:07

Just because it may have left MAN this morning does not mean it will return to MAN.

I'm not saying it's just MAN, I know it could have been scheduled to return to a different airport instead of MAN. I was only making the assumption of it being diverted from MAN, which I probably shouldn't have, because it departed from there this morning. I understand your point and I should have perhaps worded my post better.

I am, however, almost certain TOM do not fly to LIS from NCL. So if anybody could shed any light of why it's came to us, please do. :)

Thomson don't (normally) fly to Manchester either, so perhaps the Lisbon-UK routes are cruise charters?

The LIS flight was on the NCL arrival board last night so it is 100% scheduled to NCL

Lisbon.
 

They were one off cruise flights for a Thomson ship, pax both ways.
1 x GLA
1x BHX
2 x LGW
3x MAN

Mostly 757 s , that's it.

So where was the NCL arrival scheduled to go?

Was it maybe just positioning back into NCL?

It was always scheduled into NCL. Brought pax back from presumably the same cruise!

Out of curiosty, what's the flight coming from Esbjerg regarding?

"EZ325A ESBJERG 0740"

Or is the flight code something in particular? The only EZ near to a flight code I know is EasyJet and I know they don't fly to Esbjerg from Newcastle.

:)

It's Sun Air, the BA franchise operator.

NCL - STN
 

Rumours of easyjet returning on this route from sept 2014

Can't see it but stated in the STN tread from wiki

thank you :)

Well, I think we can safely say ORK is now gone. Could EIR be a legitimate replacement, maybe 4 x weekly on the ATR72?

It certainly seems to be looking that way, and the monthly pax figures seemed to be rising. Will be interesting to see if it is taken up by another operator, seems more suited to a smaller capacity a/c.

There are a few posts about this on the Cork thread.

I hear that the Stansted mail is going back to the railway and Newcastle is to loose one of the Jet 2 based 737QC aircraft.

N707ZS, I assume if that happens, then the QC would be replaced by a "normal" 733

No idea about a replacement Grahamk, just heard the mail flight is due to finish.

RM STN flight
 

Mail has been back on the railway for around 8 months now, it simply takes some of the weight of Sky Net 8 (STN mail flight).
The 737 was due to be replaced by a West Atlantic ATP on 3rd November but this has now been rescheduled to sometime in January. West Atlantic got the contract for the STN mail flight but it has been mentioned that they may have already lost it due to safety issues?
There will be flights to both EMA and STN with RM for at least another 7 years.

Jet2 will start weekly service to both Fuerteventura and Funchal next summer. On sale now