"A Newcastle to New York transatlantic route would help bring £1bn to the region"
 

Here we go again!

Newcastle City Council asks for help with New York flights - Today's News - News - JournalLive

Newcastle City meet Ministers for New York Flights
 

CITY leaders have met with Cabinet ministers to discuss Government help to create a Newcastle to New York transatlantic route which would help bring £1bn to the regional economy.
A senior delegation from Newcastle City Council made the case for regular flights as part of its pitch to be one of a handful of cities handed a raft of new powers in the Chancellor’s March Budget.
Council leader Nick Forbes and his chief executive Barry Rowland set out their plans at the Cabinet Office yesterday before Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, Business Secretary Vince Cable and Cities Minister Greg Clark. Mr Forbes is also looking for new borrowing powers which will allow him to spend tens of millions of pounds transforming Newcastle, with the money repaid through the business rates of those moving into new shopping centres and office blocks.
City leaders want Government help to get around strict state aid rules which prevent financial help being offered to private firms.

Emirates are to announce tomorrow that from 1st September - the 5th anniversary of their NCL-DXB service, they are upgrading the aircraft to a two-class Boeing 777-300ER.

Emirates
 

New to this folks.............

777-300er shown on emirates website from NCL-Dubai:)

Fantastic news for the region.

starts officially 1st September..... it shows on the Emirates booking engine as 777-300ER from that date onwards! :D

Excellent news for Newcastle gaining the 77W!

EK 777 confirmed

Emirates introduce larger aircraft to North-East service (From The Northern Echo)

Emirates B777
 

http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...er_offline.gif Wish it was us(DTV)...but my man in the know says September the 1st for 777...to be announced in the next week or so.

http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...er_offline.gif I refer the honourable gentlemen to my post of 13th January..na na !!

On a more serious note thats my DTV to Dubai trip sorted...sorry KLM and I'm sure this will have a knock on effect on the KLM flights ex DTV ?

good luck to the service!

I have only flown from NCL once or twice, but IIRC, the apron around the terminal structure is not exactly designed to cater for very large aircraft - can a B777-300 be easily accommodated at a gate position without blocking anything else?

Hi Virgin Blue
 

I must admit I thought that when it was first mooted about the
EK B777-300ER coming to NCL. However its surprising how easy it
does actually fit on the stand. There is a good aerial photo on the
airports website under the newsroom section/75th anniversary showing
the beast on stand. I know its rather "lankey" but its seems fine. Its also
operated into the airport 3 times in the last 12 months so they have
had a chance to service it quite smoothly. It looks very impressive on take off too!! Effortless is how I describe it!! Good look to them though, I use the service at least twice a year and it will be a nice change. The benefits to the region economically will be much welcomed ;)

As well as a report on the Emirates upgrade, more senseless hot air about a New York route and government subsidies on today's Look North. Why don't they look around and see what has happened to transatlantic links from UK regional airports over the last 20 years?

Emirates And KLM
 

Great News On Emirates Upgrading To 777, Also Does Anyone Know If KLM Will Use The Embraers For The Summer Season For The Dinner Time Flight?

Sam the KLM flights dep NCL operate as follows for the summer.

0605 EMB190
0910 F70
1115 EMB190
1315 F70
1725 737

Emirates
 

Good news for NCL. I see the type used has "lie flat" beds in Business. Much better than the recliners on the Airbus.

The economy cabin is also a big improvement with an improved environment vs the Airbus.

Better entetainment also with the ICE system.

Should attract passengers to NCL or back to NCL who may have travelled to GLA or MAN for the better on board experience over the NCL Airbus

Newcastle to NY to be announced Monday ?

New York
 

Doubt It, Which Airline Would Do The Flight? Where Did You Get This Source From?

Why on earth would any company want to fly from EGNT to New York.

1. There is no market. The NE is the economic basket case of the UK and would not attract tourists from the US.

2. The NE cannot even advertise itself as a tourism destination within the UK to staycationers.

...yet is the only English region with a positive trade balance (mainly thanks to exports from the science, automotive, pharmaceutical and chemical sectors).

...or as a gateway to the Lake District, Hadrian's Wall country or Hogwarts (Alnwick Castle) for our American friends.

Robert G Mugabe - I suspect your as delusional as your namesake

The North East economy is certainly not as you put it "a basket case".

I can also confirm that as far as tourism is concerned the North East is booming. As for hotels both the business and leisure sector are experiencing acute shortages of beds hence the reason why as for as hotel construction is concerned several large hotels from budget to 5 start are set to open in the next 5 years. In the last few years as a city Newcastle has seen a large increase in bed availability however this is still unable to meet current demand.

Whilst I don't think we will see a link to NY anytime soon lets not make inaccurate statements as a reason why such a link is not going to happen