I see the NOTAM has appeared for the runway closures for resurfacing, closed Mon-Fri 2330-0545 between 5th January and 9th April.

Does anyone know if the FR form DUB got in this morning ?

Cheers

ILS calibration today?
 

Saw a Beechcraft aircraft in the circuit for 25 today, was navy blue so I'm assuming it was a Flight Precision craft. Could anyone confirm this/what it was doing?

There is a thread regarding NCL handling in the Flight/Ground Ops, Crewing and Dispatch forum. Numerous posts have been moved to it.

http://www.pprune.org/flight-ground-...-handling.html

Car Park Conspiracy
 

Sorry it's time for my annual Car Park rant..................

Is it me or has anyone else noticed that all the perfectly useable car parks that are NEAR to the airport terminal are all closed ,forcing everyone to use the ones that back onto Ponteland??!! :ugh:

I suppose this encourages everone to use the busses which justifies their existance!!

Whatever the reply, lets try and avoid mentioning Airport Management before this thread gets closed by the Mr Mods too!! :oh:

HAs anybody has any involvement with the new policing team in the airport, seems to me to be a good idea to have them there 24hrs.

RUmour is that Thomas Cook are adding a new route summer 09.... will post when i find out more

According to the Chronicle

"They include the addition of three brand new routes to the Greek Islands of Kefalonia and mainland resorts of Santorini and Skiathos, where hit movie Mamma Mia was set."

The chronicle article states that a third 757-200 will be based at the airport and will be relocated from Canada. The destinations quoted above maybe new to TCX but are not new to NCL. Good news anyway and more holidays available as the aircraft has a full 7 programme.

When does the Summer timetable get published?

According to the Maltese government, Easyjet has confirmed its interest to operate a twice-weekly flight from Newcastle to MLA.

Spotted on: Times of Malta website

First edition of the summer timetable generally becomes available on the website around now, but I suspect lots of changes therefore could be a while. The winter one was never updated!!

Does anyone know when the new TCX flights will go on sale?

Tcx 757-200
 

Airport website is now also reporting Thomas Cooks decision to add an extra 757-200 to its base fleet. The report also shows the aircrafts daily schedule.

Monday
Dalaman

Tuesday
Reus and Santorini

Wednesday
Sharm el Sheikh

Thursday
Zante and Crete

Friday
Skiathos and Tenerife

Saturday
Paphos and Bodrum

Sunday
Kefalonia and Larnaca

It is said that the addition will make another 70,000 seats available for Summer 09 at Newcastle, definitley good news for the airport.

At least I won't have to trek to MAN to go to Santorini and Skiathos this coming summer. I think TC had a good share of the XL flights last summer, so they should be able to fill them this summer.

Excellant news about a 3rd based TCX. However I always remember previous operators getting big slot delays down in to the smaller airfields of the greek Isles.

Fingers crossed for EZY expansion - its about time. Hopefully more route development in the near future.

Good luck 10 DME :ok:

If you scan through the TCX programme, it is indeed fairly busy, using the 3 aircraft most of the time - with little down time. Some of the smaller greek islands do suffer from ATC delays, but I'd say no more than anywhere else. I always thought JSI couldn't accept a 75, learned something new there, but does anyone know if it is returning via another airport?

Anyone have an idea of the schedule on a monday for all 3 aircraft - appears to be a gap?!

I do think, EZY may be very gradual in introducing additional routes, MLA though I am not convinced on. Air Malta operate a service, some seats sold as scheduled and some sold onto tour operators and still the flight is rarely full. NCL has been crying out for a low cost service to Cyprus - could that be possible with EZY?

TCX
 

This is good news. Keeping those routes we all thought we had lost from ncl after xl went.

hope the malta route comes from easyjet also

:ok::ok::ok:

Chaps,

I'd like to take my young nephew away for the day as he loves flying but can anyone tell me of any day return flights from Newcastle to foreign climes where you can get a few hours in at the destination city before flying back?

Many thanks.

Depending on the age of your nephew ..... Amsterdam :O

Ops Guy,

Good suggestion, maybe in another 10 years.......I was really thinking of budget airline destinations, oh and maybe with a bit of sun!!!!