Summer 2016 Charter Flights
 

Hi

I know i will get shot by saying 2016!!!! however Thomson, Thomas Cook and Jet2 etc should start to load there flights on sale within the next 2 weeks.

Any rumours yet of what we may see new from NCL??

No rumours but a Third A321 instead of the leased A320 wouldnt go a miss from TCX

Thomson Airways release their Summer 2016 flights on 23rd April.

Thomas Cook release theirs on 30th April.

Not sure on Jet2 but ill say very soon possibly this week. :)

Extra flights to Cancun with TOM for Summer 2016, nothing else appears to be new from NCL

How do you mean extra flights? Increase in weekly frequency or extended period of operation?

Fingers crossed for something... Wonder TOM or TCX will be brave enough to base another frame... And who. I don't think 3 A321's is that far fetched really... Although 2 A321's and 1 753 (Condor) would be my inner pipe dreamer's wet dream

I think 2016 will be very very similar to 2015 but maybe just with even less appropriately timed Easyjet flights. Jet2 not made anymore promises for 8 aircraft yet?

The way it sounds is an extra frequency, but we shall see

March Provisional stats
 

Something seriously wrong with the CAA provisional stats this month....NCL-DXB showing over 35,500! :suspect:

Cancun
 

Is long haul not already on sale?

CAA stats
 

Think there are some other dubious figures in these provisional stats. Not just Dubai.

- Heathrow up by 7,000 pax (18%) Possible?
- NCL-STN missing
- BFS down 6,000 (33%) hope not!
- SOU up 2000 (28%) hope so!
- 128% up on Brussels... Again hope so but doubtful
- 1000pax (54%) up on Copenhagen?
- 5000pax (45%) up on Paris??? (including over 1000 on charters? What charters?)
- Dusseldorf up over 1000 plus 500 on mystery charters...
- Cork's first increase and Dublin up by 9000 passengers...
- Malta and Definitely Amsterdam looking too enthusiastic!
- Going to give up here... They are almost all wrong by my reckoning!!!

Mind you... 32565 pax on the EK flight (2790 were charters) gives us 123% load factors based on 2 class 77W... Do you think that's enough for an upgrade yet? ;)

Someone gone done f*cked up...

Thomson Cancun S16
 

Thomson press release States extra flights to Cancun

Let's hope it's 2x weekly for the whole summer season!!

Doesn't mention NCL for any short haul routes but let's see if there is any increases when they go on sale..

Remember a lot of the increases planned for this summer haven't happened

I need to go to a meeting in Essex in a couple of weeks and thought it would be an ideal opportunity to try the NCL-STN route.

However, I hadn't realised how bad the flight times are:

Depart NCL 08:45, arrive STN 10:05
Depart STN 16:10, arrive NCL 17:25

To make the return flight you need to be back at STN not much after 15:00 which gives only a 5 hour working window. Presumably day return pax are not FlyBe's target market for this route otherwise there would be a much bigger gap between the flights.

Boro kick off two-year Leeds Bradford Airport deal with exclusive offers for fans
 

High flying Boro has announced that Leeds Bradford Airport is now the ‘Official Airport’ of the club.

Boro kick off two-year Leeds Bradford Airport deal with exclusive offers for fans - Gazette Live

Little bit of a kick in the teeth for the North East's two airports, but I doubt this will really have much effect on the general trend of which airports passengers want to use.

Congrats LBA anyway, it's a canny little airport

The championship club MFC deal with LBA is basically irrelevant as it is purely a marketing exercise to give away / sell discount flights.
Or from an other perspective then aren't LBA not making use of such marketing promtion with the Chamionship & League One clubs in their own back yard?

The question that should be raised from this is perhaps what marketing initiatives are in place for NCL given that there are two (current :() premier clubs much closer the the form of NCL & SAFC...............?

Is it perhaps that LBA has a much greater need through lack of demand to offload freebies than NCL? :E

Looks like the extra Cancun flight is fortnightly, although it does not give start / end dates for Summer 16

There is also an additional weekly flight to Naples by Thomson/First Choice

Wizz Air
 

Do you think that Wizz Air would be a good fit at NCL? They have recently announced some routes to Aberdeen and Bristol and Belfast etc and the frequency is usually pretty low 2/3 per week etc. We are lacking in routes to Eastern Europe, I was just in Budapest last week and it would be so much easier to be able to fly from NCL. Did Easyjet used to do that route in the past? Jet2 fly to Budapest from their other bases so maybe that could be a a future city break route for their holiday operation like the Prague route but I do think some main Eastern European cities on a lower frequency may work.

Im not sure of demand but would like to see a connection to Iceland

No - not the inward demand

Yes, and didn't Jet2 fly to Budapest as well? If so, there's your clue!