Yeah......anger mainly
Prescription charges, tuition fees and now APD.
This will hit a part of the 'so-called United' Kingdom - the North East - most of all. Totally unjust and unfair.

So I pay my taxes.....so that Scottish people don't have to.
Someone somewhere is seriously taking the pi$$

Scottish people pay their taxes too! In fact we pay more tax per head than anywhere else in the UK!

Yeah and you also get WAY more back than England! Let's not forget that.

Good ole' Barnett formula!

Fair enough ;)

So, getting back on topic, will we see droves of Geordies head off to use EDI or GLA?

Not that old myth again. :rolleyes:

So what you are saying is my taxes head to the Treasury in London, never to be seen again. If they don't go there, where do they go then?

Didn't the NE have the chance of a Regional Assembly which could have given you the chance of Powers but it was rejected.

Difference is, Scotland isn't a region no matter how many people down south refer to it as such.

You can thank your politicians for panicking as the D-Day came closer with the vote too close to call at that time. Now, we expect what was promised - no more, no less.

You can deal with it with your vote at the forthcoming GE.

Exactly what I was wondering GrahamK. What proportion of NCL's traffic is Band B? I can't really see there being much leakage of Band A traffic at £13 per adult and half that per child per round trip. But if Ms Sturgeon and co halved the Band B rate (£69) and that got passed through 100% then you might be talking. Even then coming back from Dubai or New York with 120 miles to do over Carter Bar would not be everyone's cup of tea.

The NE Regional Assembly was a joke. I'll thought out and information about it was scarce.

It's just a shame the oil price crash didn't happen six months earlier. Would have been a clear NO vote with zero effort required.

Never understood all the anti English sentiment North of the Border. After all we don't get free prescriptions, university or elderly social care. And we will have to pay full APD and public spending per head is less than Scotland. Yet I see nothing but hatred. Despite me being half Scottish and half English I've picked up on it since I was about four years old.

We didn't ask for Scotland to be part of the UK and to be honest a lot of people wanted them to go independent. I personally did. The English also have NO representation in government and are deprived a national identity.
All in all life ain't all that bad North of the border.

Anyway back on topic. I often use EDI but that's only because I get a free rail pass and I use edi for schedule reasons. Not cost. I can't see myself ever going to Glasgow unless it was long haul and at least £100 per head cheaper.

I suppose for Carlisle and W Cumbria the choices would be a bit closer.

anothertyke

Indeed, and already you see travel agents pushing GLA and MAN over NCL flights in Carlisle

Just looked up the CAA origin destination data. First one I came to was 2005. Northumberland and Cumbria sent 37,000 to EDI/GLA, sort of as expected. But Scotland sent 133,000 to NCL, far more than I would have expected.

APD tax
 

To be fair this is a worry for the northeast however I think we need to see what happens as I bet that the full amount doesn't get passed into the passenger

Just look at the price if oil - have air fares reduced? NO
So APD scrapped - savings passed into passengers let's wait and see

I think the margins in which the airlines make will increase.

What maybe will happy though is growth will be more in Scotland as it will be cheaper than ncl for margins!!

Yes this next 500,000 people or ncl will take some doing

With regards to oil you probably won't see a huge difference at first as many airlines hedge so have bought fuel in for a set amount of time. The only airline that has really scored has been Monarch as when they were having problems before the takeover they had not been able to hedge....

But the oil is cheapest in 5 years (2009)
Newer aircraft etc we should see prices fall over the next year or so but we won't

HH6702, I agree, you have the right idea, maybe not loads of geordies heading north but more than likely airlines having less faith in NCL and thus NCL will fall behind in terms of potential for expansion or new airlines.

Very tempted to comment on David Cameron's picture of him at Edinburgh Airport bigging them up today... Might bite my tongue for a bit.

APD
 

Thought it was just that the revenue from APD at Scots airports would be handed over to the Scottish Executive to spend. Got that wrong.

Nonsense, only 2. makes any sense.

The aggravation, hassle, time and cost of flying from EDI instead of NCL (all other things being equal) make it unlikely in most cases.

Nor did the Scots, it was a stitch-up by the establishments/parliaments in both England and Scotland at the time (1707). The people did not have a say. Best decision made as it turned out.

Emirates returned to Dubai
 

This morning's EK35 operated by A6-ECB (777-31H) has diverted back to Dubai base - Replacement a/c is A6-EMF (777-21H ) - which is 18.3 years old.
Now due in to NCL at 17.35 ( 6 Hours late)

NEW ROUTE DEVELOPMENT FUND
 

It looks like NCL will qualify for the above fund to encourage new routes from regional airports which starts this year and will continue for three years with £56m available over 3 years. £17.5m will be available this year.

Regional airports with pax numbers under 5m qualify and have to make submissions.

One thing helping to boost cargo on the EK NCL flight will be the need for MAN freight to be frequently sent elsewhere with a 777 service since the A380 started. As MAN gets a second daily A380 replacing a 777 from next Sunday, watch out for more freight heading your way...

That's why EK needs an A380 900NC (neo combi)

But anyway, A6-EMF is nice to see! I'd have given my right arm to be on that flight today but oh well.

More cargo will definitely be nice to see and hopefully some of that money will go to good use, either to help UA (if they need it) or convince someone to do some new routes.

Suzeman, presumably a lot of that will have went through BHX as well. Although I believe LHR cargo overspill has been sent on the NCL flight at times. Cargo doesnt mind where it flies from I suppose :}

Oh, and the 77W turned back to DXB due to an apparent cracked windscreen (FO side).