The "Etihad" S2000 even more confusing than it appears. The operating airline is Darwin Airline. Etihad has now sold its interest in the airline to Adria, so the airline is to be renamed Adria Airways Switzerland.
I think its an Eastern Airways service, codeshare with flyBe, operated by Darwin Airline in Ethiad colours. But it could be a flyBe device operated by Darwin Airline in Etihad colours, on behalf of Eastern.

I saw something as part of an email from Newcastle Airport

Celebrating 10 years flying to Dubai
We're celebrating 10 years of the daily Emirates service to Dubai this month.

Since launch, over 1.8 million passengers have travelled to and from Dubai on the service, a great asset to the North East region.

That was it.

Thomas Cook NCL-CFU was operated by G-TCDH today but then did CFU-BRS, whilst the BRS-CFU flight operated by G-TCDN that landed at the same time did CFU back to NCL. The crew swapped AC on the tarmac in CFU, we were on the CFU-NCL flight.

Why would they swap over aircraft in CFU? Both identical new A321s!

Happens often by all airlines you very rarely get the same aircraft stuck at one base all summer. G-EZRE did NCL-PMI yesterday then PMI-MAN whilst G-EZPY did PMI-NCL resulting in over an hour delay.

Cheers ! :ok:

Just seemed odd as both AC had been based at NCL and BRS for some time. I was worried the ground handlers had put the wrong pax on the wrong AC for a moment as the only 2 AC on the ground at CFU were identical TCXs :)

Keep an eye on G-TCDH i wouldnt be suprised to see it swap again and go to MAN as soon as the chance comes if its needed in the hangar soon. MAN-BRS swaps may arise more often than MAN-NCL so if a aircraft is needed at TCX HQ soon for a checkup it makes more sense to first swap with BRS downroute then onto MAN.

The Emirates got a water salute on the 1st

I've tweeted SAS and they replied saying the route was ending for the winter, and I asked if it was coming back seasonally in 2018 and they said yes. Whether that happens or not we shall see next summer. It's a shame the route is ending as it's managed to go a few years now in a time slot which wasn't the best for connections.

Strange considering it stopped for the best part of the busy part of this summer?

It's an Eastern Airways service/flight; under the venture scheme - codeshared with Flybe. Resulting in crew being Etihad Regional and Flybe (depending on crewing, rotas etc). No eastern airways crewing the S2000.

Hopefully that clears it up.

A post on the Eastern thread says an AIS Jetstream 31 moves to NCL this weekend and that together with the S2000 will operate the NCL routes. The post gives the operational details.

Ryanair Summer 2018

flights now on sale same as this year so far
expect a few new routes in the coming weeks to be added

Definitely hoping for a few new routes, and I'll be slightly disappointed if there arent, but very pleased to see that all of the current routes have survived

Without wanting to speak to soon, here's hoping that Gdansk, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Madrid have survived the "touch and go"phase. It's generally accepted that if Ryanair aren't happy in the first 12 months they'll drop it. Fingers crossed!

Will easyJet get their skates on before they lose any more ground? If I were them, routes like Munich, Amsterdam, Paris, Venice and Milan would be key routes to get their foot in the door before FR. I'm sure that Madrid could have been an easyJet contender

Changes to Summer 18 Jet 2 schedules:
Alicante 11 weekly (down from 12)
Antalya 3 (up from 2)
Dalaman 3 (up from 2)

Came across a timetable for scheduled flights from NCL in 1983. Flights were:

ABZ - Dan Air (1 daily on weekends), Air UK (2 daily on weekdays)
AMS - British Caledonian (2 daily)
BFS - Dan Air (1 daily on weekdays)
BGO - Dan Air (1 daily on weekdays)
BHX - Dan Air (2 flights on Tue & Thur)
BOH - Dan Air (2 daily)
CWL - Dan Air (2 flights on Mon, Wed & Fri)
DUB - Dan Air (1 daily - not Sat)
GLA - British Caledonian (2 daily)
IOM - Dan Air (2x Sat, 1x Sun)
JER - Dan Air (1x Sat, 3x Sun)
LGW - Dan Air (2 daily on weekdays, 1 daily on weekends)
LHR - BA (5 daily weekdays, 3 daily weekends)
MAN - Dan Air (2 daily on weekdays)
SVG - Dan Air (1 daily on weekdays)

Scheduled flights were only Britain, Ireland and Norway - a far cry from today.

2 flights a day to Bournemouth stood out for me. Double dailies to GLA and MAN too.

The BCAL will have been GLA-NCL-AMS and the BOH would have been NCL-MAN-BOH with CWL and BHX in the mix on certain days - Dan Air had an extensive 'bus stop' domestic network on 748's (Avro not Boeing....), so not quite as weird as it looks.

Also there was a strict split between scheduled and charters, and never the twain were mixed....

I'm surprised there weren't any flights to Paris in 1983. I know Air UK used to do it at some point in the 1980s, followed by Air France with TAT F28s. Also, either CP Air or Wardair would have been doing Toronto at that time, Wardair was definitely classed as a scheduled flight (the spin about Emirates being NCL's first long-haul schedule being untrue). Maybe this was a winter timetable? Schedules on your list cover UK, Ireland, Norway, Jersey and Netherlands btw (sorry for the pedantry :) )

Were Wardair schedules? My memory says charters, but you know what memories are like! :ok: (though much derided at the time by young spotters like me, having worked with them I found them to actually be an excellent company - far better than the likes of Laker, CP Air, etc)

Yup, I definitely remember seeing them in the airport timetable. Flight number was WD180/181 (God, I must have been a strange child). I suspect that a lot of seats were sold in blocks to Jetsave and other travel agents but they were defo in the scheduled services timetable.

Sorry, the Isle of Man is also - like Jersey - not part of the UK. Before someone is pedantic about my pedantry. :)