Could be I looked at the timings before and was put off. Would not use KLM with tight timings!!

Ash - Understand about your comments about the break in the journey but you have flown direct from NCL and not had the 8hr+(bus/tube) to London!! Surely three hours to get bite to eat etc before next flights beats the journey to London!?!? Most people I speak to find the break good to stretch legs before being delivered direct to destination. Before Emirates/DXB a lot of destinations were two stops from NCL, especially in the likes of India and the Far East.

I have to stop you on Dubai being full of "Arabs" sleeping on floor?? Not Arabs?? May be some Asian workers sleeping on floors in terminal one or two but only peak times, terminal 3 can be full during peak waves but always seats available if you look, I am in/out the terminals most working days and at all different times. Also new extension to Terminal3 with 17 A380 stands opens beginning next year.

43 Million people in the last year seemed to enjoy their visit to DXB, has averaged around 10% percent grown since I been here so must be doing some thing right! DXB airport forecast for 2020 between the two airports is 90 million passengers!!
Any way I really don't think you will stop getting National Express or who ever to Victoria and enjoying the 'smells' of the underground to LHR but its not for me......enjoy cheers 10D:\

They were definitely dressed in the Arab/Muslim robes and a Dubai work colleague confirmed it.
Horses for courses, I suppose but may try it again one day. If you want to save up and fly busy class it is a lot more expensive than EVA, though.

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Just had a look at timings. KLM gets to AMS at 18.50 and EVA leaves at 21.40.
On return EVA gets into AMS at 19.25 and KLM leaves at 22.10.
Is this so risky?

Summer 2012
 

Thomson and Thomas cook short haul flights go on sale today.

Anything new ??

Does not appear to be anything new although it does appear Thomson have dropped Punta Cana in Dom Rep

ash666. Sorry I got the arrival and departure times for EVA crossed. So it is possible, but I am always nervous about using two different airlines on a connection. Its usually easier to sort out any problems that may arise when your on a through ticket with say KL/BA etc.

For example, if you were flying from NCL to AMS today to connect with EVA air, you would perhaps have a problem because according to the flight info system the EVA from AMS to BKK is cancelled, as is there inbound from BKK. I dont think they have another service tommorrow either.

Your not flying today? are you. ( sorry meant as a humerous remark, couldnt help myself )

not today, just planning for October. It's a shame that if they are not ticketed together then if KLM make me miss my EVA flight then they have no responsibility to arrange onward transport.
Or have the rules changed?

I think that if you purchased two "seperate" tickets say NCL LHR with BA, then another with say Virgin LHR to HKG, each with seperate booking references and not linked to each other. If the BA was late and you missed the Virgin as a result, you may be in difficulties, but Virgin would probably help you out if they could but I dont think they are obliged to.

However if you bought a LHR HKG with Virgin and at the same time through Virgin added a NCL LHR connection in the same booking then I believe if you miss a flight due to a delay you will be looked after, ie transferred to next flight with no extra cost. (I use this example as one of my family did it last year)

The best way in my opinion is to book all your flights together with one airline or its codeshare partners and you should be safe. ie NCL LHR LHR HKG all with BA or perhaps BA to LHR and then CX to HKG. With one locator/booking ref for all flights.

Hope your trip in OCT works out well.

cheers for that, I'll have to see what add ons I can do, prob none via the EVA website but ebookers or Expedia might but booking the main flight via EVA themselves is hugely cheaper than, say, Expedia(£1700 v £5000 for busy class).
Final destination on Oct is BKK but long weekend planned for Luang Prabang in Laos while there.

I had some spare time while working in Manchester yesterday so visited the airport's Aviation Park..............it was fantastic, great viewing points, a shop and a cafe.........oh, and a Concorde is there too! The car park was virtually full so that proves it is well used.

Will Newcastle EVER reinstate a viewing point?

Not unless they can make money from it :E:E:E

Wait and see eh .............. :ok:

I don't know if the MAN viewing park makes money if the car park fees (£3/hr - worth it) have to cover the costs of maintaining the planes etc. but it is certainly very popular, and definitely not just with planespotters. Perhaps someone from over the Pennines could enlighten us.

Maybe the drawback with a similar thing at NCL would be if there were enough movements to sustain interest, and obviously if there were a suitable plot of land available.

STN
 

Any news on anyone seeking to pick up the STN route, am starting to miss it now as a connecting flight. Seems very few interesting alternative weekend destinations from airports <3hrs from NCL.

Johnnychips,

The plot of land they set aside for the NIA 75th Anniversary viewing point wouldn't be bad.

The MAN Airpark was virtually full when I visited and that was a week day with no school holidays, the amount of serious spotters was incredible, the cafe was great and the Aviation Shop was full of goodies, the view was spot on, in fact I was suprised at how close the viewing areas actually were to the Taxiway in this day and age of heightened security.

The parking charges were quite steep at £3.00 per hour but as you say it most probably goes on the up keep.

Any sort of viewing point at NCL would be a start though!

There are plans underway to recreate the original airport building on the land which was formerly occupied by Wings Social Club, just off the roundabout next to Samson Aviaton Terminal. Im not sure how advanced the plans are but it is deffinately happening. The site is said to have a museum type visitor centre and viewing area in what would have been the garden of Wings, which would be perfect for 07 dpartures and arrivals.

Be patient and remember Newcastle is very much a developing REGIONAL airport.

Regional airport
 

Am I missing something here, I thought Newcastle Airport had been around for rather a long time surely not a developing regional airport - it was called Woolsington at one time.

This has to be total nonsense. the "wings social club" was formaly the aero club, and before that it was the origional airport terminal and departure lounge. Before they knocked it down, it still looked the same as it did in the old days. I don't see them knocking down the origional building, just to replace it with a replica. Or then again, that's maybe why they are in so much debt!

Jet2 are doing EWR again this year, December 1st and 8th for 3 nights, along with LBA, EMA and GLA.