Some people were calling New York a pipe dream route.

Well said ash666

We will always dream...

However 2015 is looking very good.

News from all major airlines really

New routes from Thomson, Thomas Cook, jet2 and now easyjet..

Let's hope it continues

easyJet also introducing a Fear of Flying Course at the moment.

Regarding developments at NCL, are they continuing the focus on redeveloping the departures area, and how close are they to being finished?

The development in departures is still on going, they're about half way through the process by the looks of it, it's meant to be finished for the start of summer 15 I beleive, hopefully they'll have a look at the gates next as they really are in need of a refresh.

Easyjet winter 2015/6
 

Shall we start taking guesses what CFU will be replaced with then

Berlin - Xmas markets??
Salzburg - ski

KEF,AMS??


So do this now mean that easyjet and the airport are now working more closely or easyjet is trying to cover what they could have had

Thomson Airways are adding a Friday flight to Hurghada for winter 15/16. On sale today (11th Dec). Also operating to Larnaca for winter too (not sure if the LCA is full season yet)

Hopefully the TOM, HRG flights mean TCX did well with their NCL-HRG flights in November and have strong forward bookings. Hoping for a positive coexistance on that route this time next year.

HH6702, CFU, RHO and Split are all summer seasonal so hopefully that means 4 new similar length frequencies for winter too, or more shorter ones. This begs a question, as NCL is losing 4 weekly AMS and 2 daily LGW, these 15 weekly frequencies have been replaced by 4 (albeit longer) weekly flights, do EZY still have considerable slack or do the messed up Bristol schedules even everything out?

I (half tongue in cheek) posted on the aiport's announcement:
"Very pleased to see this, I'm almost sorry I ever doubted EZY (but the Bristol schedules still need fixing!) roll on more Easyjet for 2016! Berlin, Marrakech, Milan, Munich and Reykjavik please"

I live in hope they see sense and grant us a fourth aircraft and tap these destinations, if they can do Split where one has failed already and jump in on CFU/RHO against NCL's big 3... I'm sure they can do those 5 with no competition.

For winter though I almost expect to see something like Sharm El Sheikh, going for winter sun rather than ski, as they have with Tenerife.

LGW isn't done by NCL based a/c.

First return of the day is done by a NCL based machine, the second by a LGW one.

A spokesperson for Newcastle recently attended the Runways UK event at Manchester where there were discussions on how regional airports could help solve the capacity crunch in the South East.

Given that Newcastle already has 7 flights a day to Heathrow they were still advocating that they want more yet more access. Is 7 a day not enough ?

A spokesperson for Newcastle recently attended the Runways UK event at Manchester where there were discussions on how regional airports could help solve the capacity crunch in the South East.

Given that Newcastle already has 7 flights a day to Heathrow they were still advocating that they want more yet more access. Is 7 a day not enough ?

Would they not prefer better choice and accessibility to places like Istanbul, Abu Dhabi etc and would such a strong stance deter those airlines from starting NEW flights?

BRS schedules may look as if they're messed up, but from EZYs point of view (and pax) they seem to work fine, which is the most important thing (makes them a profit) so they won't be changing that in a hurry.

NCL can get up to 8 flights a day from LHR, with some day stopping to make use of cheaper parking here and freeing up space/slots at LHR. Not sure how long this is to last, possibly just until January.

Not all of them go out full (or even half full). Loads tend to fluctuate a lot

They have no plans to permanently add more scheduled flights into NCL at present. They're pretty much making use of parking space elsewhere but offering flights to pax to earn some revenue to make them worthwhile.

Of course a timetable that does not allow a business day in Bristol or Newcastle most days is not going to attract passengers and passenger numbers on the route are falling.

A good point. It should be catered more towards business travellers. But, as usual, if they're making money, they won't bother, which is a shame.

But the point is they kind of have to be making less money... Hence my suspicion that they are trying to kill it like STN. I hope I'm wrong and these new routes make me hope even more that I am wrong... But 1 morning flight per week, come on!

"trying to kill it"? If they don't want to operate it, they won't

Thomson
 

Hi

Is Thomson basing an aircraft in SSH for winter 2015/16 as the ncl flights are not using a based ncl machine


Monday and Thursday flights

Departs SSH 10.30 arriving ncl at 1800
Departs NCL 19.00

Hurghada flights are the same on Fridays aircraft not ncl based

Thomson to close NCL base to become summer only
 

ALL flights on the Thomson website are shown as (w) into NCL

EITHER A Mistake are the base is to close??

LHR drops to 5 per day from late Dec to sometime in Jan then it goes back to up to 6/7/8 per day until the start of summer when it reverts to 6 per day. Next winter sees an increase again to 7/8 per day.

Easyjet, BRS. I dont understand why on most of the days where there are two flights, none is in the morning yet two in the afternoon /evening within about 3 hrs of each other. On these days in the morning there seems to be an aircraft doing nothing on the ground at NCL. So there is an aircraft available to do a morning BRS rotation.

There must be a reason for this?? meanwhile the PAX nos appear to be dropping.

Thomson Winter 2015/2016
 

HH6702 Think you will find its an error on the timetables. Look in the holiday booking part and you will find what I understand are the correct times. (I Hope). Dont panic.