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Flybe
Rumours of bergan and Newquay to start soon with flybe
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Newcastle-Bergen 3 x weekly from March 25th
Newcastle-Newquay 1 x weekly from May 5th |
BERGEN dep 1030 arr 1425 Tu/Th/Sa.... 27/3 - 27/10
NEWQUAY dep 1410 arr 1330 Sa .... 5/5 - 22/9 |
The December pax figures as a whole are + 6.7% but against the snow last December, more importantly the year is -0.2% with NCL -Gatwick figures not yet factored in.
Highlights are: Paris 16,457 + 28% reflecting the bigger a/c Amsterdam 22,571 + 17% Cork 1607 +13% Malta 2263 + 32% Stavanger 1932 + 45% Prague 2308 +6% Alicante 8293 up from 5455 last year..reflecting the Jet 2 winter service Dusseldorf 3756 + 7% Brussels 3329 +1% (the smallest of recent increases) Dubai 13,726 - 3% Faro 2351 - 6% Barcelona 5001 -10% Domestic routes are mixed...Gatwick figures are not out yet. Heathrow 40,923 + 42% (against all of the cancellations last Dec.) Belfast City 2897 + 8% Belfast Int 15,126 + 13% Bristol 14,334 + Isle of Man 185 - 66% Aberdeen 1394 - 29% Exeter 1657 -11% |
Easyjet upgrading an A319 to A320 link here
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The usual standard of accurate press reporting - '150-seat Airbus A320 replacing the existing 124-seat A319' - only 30 odd seats out. If EasyJet had any sense it would give up joining Ryainair in the gutter of dishonest pricing and use the A320 on routes where there would be a good demand from Newcastle like Cyprus and the Canaries. Often the charter and Jet2 prices are high.
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Excellent news!! I wonder if new routes will come or just increased capacity on the same number of flights. Will it be based or just a night stopper from another base?
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From the NIA website:
easyJet has today announced it will increase capacity on eight of its routes from the North East’s airport with the arrival of a new aircraft. The £20m Airbus A320 will arrive at the airport later this year meaning easyJet is able to provide seats for 13,000 more North East passengers. Hugh Aitken, easyJet’s commercial manager, confirmed: “Due to increased customer demand we are replacing an Airbus A319 with an A320 to provide additional seats to our loyal flyers. This move demonstrates that easyJet is committed to Newcastle Airport and continues to invest in this key base for the benefit of passengers in the region. We are determined to make travel even easier and more affordable for all, and a larger aircraft means we can make some of our most popular destinations even more accessible to people in the North East. Passengers flying from Newcastle will now find it even easier to jet off and soak up the sun and city culture with additional flights to favourites such as Malta, Majorca, Paris and Bristol.” Additional capacity will be available on easyJet’s most popular routes: Malta, Majorca, Paris, Bristol, Alicante, Malaga, Barcelona and Belfast. |
Easyjet And Flybe
Good To Hear That Easyjet Basing A A320 Up Here, Does Anyone Know When It Will Arrive? Also Will The FlyBe Routes Be Operated By A Dash-8? Just Need Emirates To Say The 777's Will Be In Use From 2012 For Even Better News !!!
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Would an EK 777 help the 8% drop in pax combined over past 3 months ?
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Not all about Pax. Freight has been growing on NCL route with Emirates year on year.
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CabinCrewe - maths is clearly not your strong subject is it? You cannot add together three months declines and then claim it is an 8% drop when it is not.:= Want to bet now on whether January will be up or down? I'll go for it being up.
Anyway, in airlines, it's not just about passenger numbers as they need to be multiplied by route yield to arrive at route revenue and then account taken of network contribution plus, of course, freight's similar contribution to compare against operating costs and overheads. If costs have not changed and you achieve a five percent yield improvement with volume down two percent that is a year on year improvement as far as the airline is concerned. |
EasyJet announcement
Some subtle differences in the statement on the NIA website:
Hugh Aitken, easyJet’s commercial manager, confirmed: “Due to increased customer demand we are replacing an Airbus A319 with an A320 to provide additional seats to our loyal flyers. This move demonstrates that easyJet is committed to Newcastle Airport and continues to invest in this key base for the benefit of passengers in the region. We are determined to make travel even easier and more affordable for all, and a larger aircraft means we can make some of our most popular destinations even more accessible to people in the North East. Passengers flying from Newcastle will now find it even easier to jet off and soak up the sun and city culture with additional flights to favourites such as Malta, Majorca, Paris and Bristol.” And that on EasyJets website Hugh Aitken, easyJet's commercial manager confirmed: "Due to increased customer demand we are replacing an Airbus A319 with an Airbus A320 to provide additional seats to our loyal flyers. This move demonstrates that easyJet is committed to further growth at Newcastle Airport. Passengers flying from Newcastle will now find it even easier to jet off and soak up the sun and city culture with additional flights to favourites such as Malta, Majorca, Paris and Bristol on offer." |
The differences make sense, one is a sales pitch PR from the airline and one is an airports announcement PR.
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All the Easyjet statements seem to mention "additional" flights to Malta, Palma, Paris and Bristol. These don't seem to be showing on the timetable yet as far as I can see.
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An all-in-all great day for NCL! :)
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Did it not say additional seats and not flights?
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It says flights - see posts 2733 and 2738. Might not be what it means, but it's what it says.
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Flybe confirmed:
UK low-fare carrier Flybe has revealed an additional six routes that it will launch this summer from the UK, comprising a mix of domestic and international services. It may be less than ten weeks until the 2012 summer schedules are introduced at the end of March, reducing the time for forward bookings, but Flybe has pressed ahead with its plans to further extend its network and adding an additional 34 weekly flights. There will be two additional routes from Newcastle International in North East England, a weekly domestic link to Newquay from May 5, 2012 and the resumption of a key link to Bergen in Norway on a three times weekly basis from March 25, 2012. Norway’s second largest city is twinned with Newcastle and the two have a close and active bond. The King of Norway, Olav V, opened Newcastle's Civic Centre in 1968 and each December the City is presented with a Christmas tree by the City of Bergen. The route was previously operated by Eastern Airways. |
T3 to Bergen, Still was seasonal, I wonder if it is now?
I bet the big wigs at Eastern did not see that coming, but then again up to 80 seats to Bergen to fill???? |
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