Refinancing
 

What's going on here? Doesn't seem to be the best time to be asking LA's for additional capital.

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NCL-BHX
 

I see the Newcastle- Birmingham route has stopped until 3 September. I know Eastern normally scale back routes in the summer but is it normal for such a long period as this.

£298 million debt. Ouch, that's going to hurt the LA7's coffers and folks are going to start asking questions.

But a New York route will solve the problem

Summer 2013
 

Watch out for news on jet2 and Thomson !!

Any clues? TOM 1x757 3x738, LS 1 extra 733?

LHR
 

Summer 2013 schedules have now been amended back to 6 returns Mon- Fri, 5 on Sun and 4 on Sats, same as this Summer.
Winter 2012/2013 is 6 returns daily ex Sun when its 5.
Good news.

Jamesair, just to get some context on June's 'bucket and spade' pax figures, are they compared to May 2012 or to June last year?
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All the figures are percentage increases against June 2011. Interestingly, in most cases the figures on IT operations only showed a fall.

I realise that Jet 2 figures would include Jet 2 Holidays and Olympic Holidays so skewing the figures a bit, but healthy nevertheless.

JUNE PROVISIONAL STATS
 

One further statistic for June 2012

Pax Total 483,043 up 2.3% on June 2011

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Interesting figures from 2007 to Present. Newcastle overtaken by East Midlands & Liverpool - Other Airports have seen some recent growth!

Interesting to see that only 2 of the top 16 are not showing growth and Newcastle is one of them. A post further up the thread says the rolling 12 months to June passenger figures are down 1.3%.

Can this solely be blamed on the economy, is the North East doing significantly worse than the rest of the UK or are there any other contributing factors.

I note that in this time Leeds/Bradford has managed to attract Ryanair and Monarch into basing aircraft at the home of Jet2.

Here are some figures for year ending 2009/2010 and 2011

2009 2010 2011

Domestic pax 1,414,367 1,253,780 1,184,903
International 1,869,550 1,876,017 1,911,743
IT 1,304,377 1,221,094 1,256,735


The continuing decline in Domestic pax, the loss of STN certainly didn't help. IT pax declined in 2010 and started to recover in 2011. The star performer is International routes which are consistently increasing pax numbers each year.

Various factors could be mentioned, loss of IT tour operators, EZY cutting a/c from 5 to 3 and using smaller aircraft, partly offset by Jet increasing based a/c.

Failure to attract new operators,

statistics are taken from the airport website.

Any idea on the news from Thomson HH6702? Picking up the work from the 1 less TCX aircraft next summer that currently does some of the TOM work?

Thomson summer 2013
 

Tflyer

Thomsons timetable is shown 4 based aircraft on some days.
Heard that ncl is to be all 737-800 from may 2013 so maybe to pick up the diffence in seats and nothing to do with tcx!

Hopefully may get a new route or two!!

HH6702

I've just gone through the timetable for S13 & I only see 3 based aircraft everyday apart from Mon & Tues where the 763 comes in for the SFB & CUN.

That's right TOM will be an all 738 base from May 1st 2013 as all flight deck at NCL go from the 756 go over to 737.

THOMSON SUMMER 2013
 

Excluding the 763 a/c and adding in Verona and Salzburg flights, I found a need for 4 a/c on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday so far.

TOM Summer 2013
 

Looking through the timetable, there are extra flights on those days but these are operated by TCX (Skiathos, Bourgas, Kefalonia etc.) and Jet2 (Dalaman) and can only see the need for 3 x TOM aircraft (all to be B738) - excluding the Florida/Mexico flights with a B763 on Monday & Tuesdays.

Looks like LH are reducing DUS to 1 x Daily during th winter, although all flights are scheduled to be opped by the CR9. The morning flight seems to have been dropped.

Surprising considering the huge growth on this route over the last year or so.

Can't see this mentioned so far.
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