September stats

airport 2016-09 2015-09 percent
PALMA 41,074 36,947 11.17
ALICANTE 36,460 24,174 50.82
AMSTERDAM 31,070 32,625 -4.77
MALAGA 27,782 18,366 51.27
DUBAI 20,429 20,518 -0.43
DUBLIN 19,987 15,978 25.09
TENERIFE 16,715 11,827 41.33
FARO 16,653 14,005 18.91
IBIZA 15,216 14,405 5.63
DALAMAN 14,727 21,437 -31.30
PARIS 13,038 13,880 -6.07
ARRECIFE 11,770 9,357 25.79
BARCELONA 10,946 6,333 72.84
REUS 10,548 8,161 29.25
CORFU 9,188 7,946 15.63
RHODES 8,796 7,504 17.22
MAHON 7,702 7,360 4.65
ZAKINTHOS 7,575 6,578 15.16
LARNACA 7,124 7,328 -2.78
PAPHOS 6,081 6,666 -8.78
HERAKLION 5,804 5,079 14.27
LAS PALMAS 5,783 3,143 84.00
BURGAS 5,459 5,992 -8.90
ANTALYA 5,179 6,411 -19.22
FUERTEVENTURA 4,515 4,877 -7.42
CANCUN 4,388 2,323 88.89
GENEVA 3,917 4,304 -8.99
MALTA 3,843 5,130 -25.09
NICE 3,798 3,711 2.34
DUSSELDORF 3,626 3,760 -3.56
DUBROVNIK 3,589 3,425 4.79
KOS 3,527 3,215 9.70
NAPLES 3,208 1,487 115.74
BODRUM 3,187 3,092 3.07
KEFALLINIA 2,901 2,593 11.88
MURCIA 2,900 4,353 -33.38
COPENHAGEN 2,825 2,849 -0.84
SANFORD 2,666 2,312 15.31
VERONA 2,652 2,198 20.66
KRAKOW 2,642 2,268 16.49
ROME 2,547 2,249 13.25
FUNCHAL 2,536 2,604 -2.61
PRAGUE 2,482 2,133 16.36
SKIATHOS 2,029 1,382 46.82
BRUSSELS 1,952 2,835 -31.15
PISA 1,796 1,968 -8.74
CORK 1,733 837 107.05
SANTORINI 1,685 1,014 66.17
GIRONA 1,490 0 0.00
NEW YORK 1,247 1,024 21.78
STAVANGER 741 1,248 -40.63
SALZBURG 464 877 -47.09
SPLIT 252 1,991 -87.34
VENICE 132 0 0.00
GENOA 130 144 -9.72
ATHENS 0 162 -100.00
HURGHADA 0 1,816 -100.00
SHARM EL SHEIKH 0 5,016 -100.00

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...brexit-431240/
Interesting read about Ryanairs plans with some seat info at the bottom comparing Newcastle.

Looks like much the same scenario for summer 17 with Newcastle expansion.

The airport has published the October 2016 stats with Movements at 4,703 (4352) the biggest increase is in freight/mail flights and International with a big reduction in domestic.
Pax stand at 444,660 (418,239) the biggest increase is in International with the expected fall in domestic.

The comparisons are with Oct 15.

Is DUB and ORK considered International in the numbers?

The domestic numbers should settle once the discontinued routes of Stansted and Belfast City drops out of the figures.

DUB and ORK are classed as international I believe.

Last time I was there, Dublin and Cork were listed as 'UK' destinations next to the 'domestic' arrivals area.
Not saying that this affects where they show up on the figures, just that the management of NCL should have a bit more knowledge of their destinations. And maybe a bit of common sense.

Have flown into NCL twice from Dublin since august, always go through domestic arrival area and departure area due to the CTA agreement with Ireland.

Yep, not disputing that RoI arrivals should go through the same arrivals gate as UK arrivals due to the Common Travel Area. Just think it should be labelled as 'UK & RoI arrivals' like it is at Heathrow etc. I spotted it as I was picking someone up from Cork (must have been a few years ago, now I think about it, as they were on Jet2) and I walked straight past the 'UK arrivals' and went to International arrivals. Only when I finally found them loitering at domestic arrivals did I see that Cork was on the list of 'UK' airports (it was a permanent list, not the arrivals board)


To explain my pedantry , I'm a primary school teacher and we teach them at age 6 the difference between England, Great Britain, the UK, the British Isles etc. :)

See that Ryanair app is showing flights upto march 2018...
Not bookable but the flights on sale this winter same as next so far

That was one hell of a turn out of Emergency Services today for the Easy Jet landing.
It was an excellent effort by the Airport Authorities to contain the emergency and get the other traffic running with minimal delay.
But two full emergencies in one day, that must be a first for Newcastle.

Nope......far from it!!!:)

Go on, I'll bite - what was the other one?

Details?
 

What was the nature of the emergencies today?

EasyJet flight makes emergency landing at Newcastle Airport due to 'fumes in the cabin' - Chronicle Live

An easyJet flight had to make an emergency landing in Newcastle after reports of fumes in the cabin.
The flight to Hamburg took off from Edinburgh Airport at 12.40pm today but had to be re-directed to Newcastle International Airport .
The plane landed safely at around 1.25pm and emergency services and fire crews were waiting on the runway.
Airlive.net tweeted: “EasyJet #U26931 to Hamburg diverted due to fumes in the cabin. Spare aircraft on its way to Newcastle.”....................

What was the other emergency?

I believe the other emergency was a helicopter with engine failure.

The EZY aircraft in question was G-EZWX still on ground at NCL

Summer 2017 update

Some big gaps in the current Easyjet schedule for the peak months next summer (based on three based aircraft):

Monday - full aircraft spare all day (2 or 3 return trips)
Tuesday - two return trips (AM & early PM)
Wednesday - one return trip (AM only)
Thursday - no gaps
Friday - no gaps
Saturday - one return trip (late PM only)
Sunday - no gaps

The Flybe schedule is also out, with Exeter and Newquay as per this summer though Southampton increases to four daily Monday-Friday, three on a Saturday and two on Sunday respectively. Everything else sees limited changes vs. this year (Almeria is a new destination with Jet2 & Thomas Cook, additional fortnightly Orlando-Sanford with Thomson), with the exception of the previously reported increases by Ryanair.

New route??
 

NIKI showing to operate the SALZBURG from 22nd of May 2017 to 10th of September 2017.

Coincidentally...

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...eisure-432094/

Thomson show Niki as flying their Salzburg route every Saturday for the summer 17 season.

Easyjet Summer 2017
 

Re the earlier post by Kev 1.

Could the spare capacity/ gaps be for new routes yet to be announced ? or are the aircraft going to be used elsewhere during the summer ? Seems really odd reducing the frequency in the peak season. Apparently it is the same situation at some other airports.

Anyone have any ideas??

It is a bit late to announce new routes.

It could be to provide a more robust flying program. Last summer had lots of challenges (some external) and creating gaps COULD be to introduce resilience and bigger firebreaks.

Never suprised at how late airlines leave to announce new routes, 1 week for one at Manchester this week and to Iraq as well

Ian

Except for maybe Customer Services, you can't really compare Iraqi Airways and easyJet.

Having been victim of one of easyJets "challenges" earlier this year, I hope this to introduce resilience and bigger firebreaks (although most of the gaps seem to be on the quiet days?). It might need a change of approach though, as they didn't use such gaps to recover the programme in my case.

There are no quiet days in the easyJet summer. It's pretty full on each day of the week with many aircraft spending just a few hours on the ground overnight.

There were no such breaks in the schedule in summer 16 season.

I think that easyJet maybe playing a safe game by waiting to see what jet2 and Ryanair are doing. I think the gaps will go nearer the time expect extra flights being added when they know what they can sell and what price.

Ryanair coming daily on the Palma will hurt easyJet.
Big question will be how easyJet react???? Add extra or keep the same amount of seats or adjust downwards and add when they need to.

So as anybody got an update on post 8412?

easyJet
 

BRS too has some gaps in July and August. Last month the local newspaper there published an article about easyJet and BRS in which the airline's UK commercial manager is quoted as saying that new BRS routes will be announced in the New Year.

On that basis it is reasonable to speculate that those other 'easyJet airports' that currently also have gaps, including NCL, will see them plugged in some way before the season begins.

Post 5832 on BFS INTL thread of interest to NCL readers

Bfs was supposed to op from 'their end' from Sept this year I believe but not happened yet of course. Brs as we know has however, on all but the Sat am rotation in summer with most/all reverting back to ncl based a/c through winter. Would be an awful lot of time each day freed up with often 3x ncl a/c doing the bfs run per day.

November stats out on the airport website.

Big increase in Movements from Nov. 2015 at 4,333 (3539) mainly in Freight/mail and Other.

Pax total at 296,167 (269,810) all of the increase in International, small fall in Domestic and IT, big fall in Other.

Hows EK doing?

18860 pax down 5% on 2015 in October

Ian

So now we are mid way through December... is there only one handling agent (swissport) handling all airlines at NCL?

5% down that's quite a bit.
Anybody know any reason for this maybe?

This is the October figure....November hasn't been published yet.

I'm thinking about the school holiday more in November compared to the year before

I hope they aren't all Swissport.

Airport staff in pre-Christmas strike - BBC News

Check-in staff, baggage handlers and cargo crew at 18 UK airports plan 48-hour strike from 23 December in a pay row, the Unite Union says.
More than 1,500 workers at Swissport, the world's largest ground and cargo handler, are staging the walkout following a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.
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The Unite Union seems to be trying to cause trouble everywhere.
Come back Maggie, we need you.