The flight is full as well, although you can fly next week for £250 return. The airport seems to be coping better with the weather than most of its neighbours. It has been open this afternoon and evening when other the airports in the North East, Yorkshire and Eastern Scotland are closed.
|
I noticed that...has it taken any diversions?
|
Diversions
Think they`ve taken a few. Snow teams have apparently done an amazing job, kept the airport open nearly all day and still going in terrible conditions.
A credit to the airport, well done. |
Thomsons/First Choice will offer Barbados as a destination from Newcastle for Winter 2011. It will also carry passengers to join Thomson cruise ship "Thomson Dream ex Barbados
|
Yeah the Barbados departures are on 15Jan12 / 12Feb12 / 04 Mar 12 / 01 Apr 12. Mainly used for cruises but Thomson and First Choice mainstream are offering holidays on it.
|
Yes the staff at NCL have done an excellent job keeping the place open during very bad weather.
Must be very annoying to see BA cancel 50% of flights from/to LHR today and I think yesterday also. I appreciate LHR has had some problems down there but the proportion of LHR-NCL flights cancelled far exceeds the few cancelled today from LHR to EDI, ABZ, MAN and GLA. I understand NCL has remained open all day today so why such a high proportion of LHR cancellations. Have they had any diversions into NCL?. |
KLM Summer 11
Don't recall this being mentioned, but AMS increases to 5 x Daily next summer, albeit all operated by KL Cityhopper.
|
KL
And 4 Daily for winter 2011/12 (at the moment and subject to change) 3 Main and one City.
|
moving forward again at last.
I notice that of the 5 rotations, the early and late flights are with E190 a/c and the middle 3 are F70 a/c. |
Eastern, according to the timetable is increasing NCL - ABZ to 5 daily Mon-Fri
Jet 2 has announced additional flights to Cork in December 2011 on: 10th,12th,17th,19th,23rd,27th and 30th. and to Prague in Dec. 2011 on 12th,16th,19th,23rd,27th and 30th |
Air Berlin and Stansted
With the recent suspension of the easyJet services from Stansted to Newcastle would there be a slight possibility that airBerlin could possibly take over the route and use it also for onward connections through Stansted into Germany?
Just a thought. |
Very unlikely IMO. Air Berlin gave up similar STN-MAN/GLA/BHD routes some time ago, and plan to move some STN-Germany flights to Gatwick soon
|
FR
Oslo gone from the booking system for next summer. Still no sign of Girona.
|
Any update on the Airport hotel and when it might open and any news if anything is going to be built on the old Wings site?
|
November seen the DXB route get 75% figs based on 30 daily 332HDs...still up by 9% on Nov 09. Were any EK flights cancelled during the snow?
|
GrahamK!
Every EK flight during the snow made it in and back out again! |
I don't believe Newcastle has ever lost an EK arrival since the route started due to weather. Has the flight even ever been cancelled since it started?
|
Ops Guy,
Yes, during the Ash cloud crisis :ouch: |
Any update on how SN is doing since they've introduced the regional jets of bmi regional and added a 3rd flight to BRU? It seems from the GDS the flights may come back to ARJ next year?
|
SN146, NCL-BRU seen a rise of 114% in November to 3390, which equates to an average load of 72% (or just over 35 passengers per flight).
|
The estimated loadfactor seems very good indeed.
A question, that 114% increase in pax, is that in relation to the same month, last year, or how should I read that? Do you happen to have data on the number of pax on the route this year, as well as the total number of pax in 2009, so I can work out how many more pax SN attracted since they increased frequencies again? |
Check your PMs.
I've shown you how to access CAA stats. |
Thank you!
I'll have a go at it and post the figures here for those interested, meaning nobody but me probably, but okay... ;) |
YTD pax numbers on NCL-BRS: 30,101, against 15,874 over the same period in 2009, so an increase of almost 90%.
|
The November 2010 pax statistics show the following routes showing increases over the previous November
Brussels Paris Dusseldorf Dublin Amsterdam Stavanger Faro Tenerife Dubai Malta London Heathrow Aberdeen Bristol figures not posted yet. All other routes show falls |
A fair few diversions in today, including an EK 77W from BHX, and BA 747, 767 and 777, with two more BA 744s en-route into Newcastle now.
Has there ever been a time where NCL has seen 3 x 747s on the ground at the same time? |
Any idea when the 747's are likely to depart, i'll pop up for a look.
Shame there's no viewing point any more though! |
They are all stopping overnight, prob leaving around lunch time tomorrow depending on the weather!
|
Diversions
Anybody know if the diverted Aircraft from Saturday ( BA 747's etc) if they are still at Newcastle or returned back to there base? plus i saw a Thomas Cook A330 on Monday was that also a diversion? and has there been anymore up here?
|
They've all long gone. There was two BA 737-400's also diverted in, but they left yesterday around lunchtime.
The TCX was to operate a cruise charter, I believe to POP. |
JET2 have increased frequency on Faro for summer 2011 by adding Tu and Fri flights in the peak period making 5 weekly.
|
Ryanair to Oslo (Rygge) now seems to be on sale for summer '11 operates on Tues/thurs/Sat,
|
Israel
Hope everyone had a good christmas.
I have just finished watching the Top Gear Special and it got me thinking, apologies if this is already been talked about. But what are the chances of the airport getting a link to Israel? Would El AL launch a route to Tel Aviv or even Jet2 at twice weekly, do you think it would work? Just with the large Jewish population in Gateshead i would have thought it would. Hope you all have a good New Years! Philip |
Some interesting numbers in this story from yesterdays Chronicle:
Newcastle Airport seizes a stash of weapons - Chronicle News - News - ChronicleLive a total of 1,597,964 passengers and staff have been screened over the last six months at Newcastle Airport. Of those 270,212 set off alarms as they walked through metal detectors and had to be searched. A total of 2,869,623 items were screened by x-ray, an average of 1.8 items per passenger. From the total number of staff and passengers screened at the airport 668,534 were between the peak hours of 4am and 8am. Since January this year 88.6% of passengers have had their security check completed in under five minutes. Only 1.6% have taken longer than ten minutes. |
Just out of interest, is it possible to take an unassembled brand new shotgun on board an internal UK flight from Stansted to Newcastle or do I need to contact Easyjet and the airport security and get clearance and paperwork first?
|
Knieval77
I would say you could just walk up on the day!! Because just by posting on a forum the men in raincoats and dark glasses now know your internet service provider, your ip address and from this your home address, phone numbers and by the time I have finished typing this what you had for breakfast. Whatever you are on please can I have some my man flu is horrible today. |
All that info is on my licence anyway which is held by the Law Enforcement Agencies so that's no problem to me!
Get well soon :ok: |
KNIEVEL77
I seem to recall easyJet allow the carraige of sport/competition firearms in the hold, however I do believe you need to contact the airline before you travel. |
From easyjet:
Can I take my sports firearms on board? For an additional non-refundable fee we can take sporting or competition firearms and a maximum of five kilos of ammunition on board. Please note that firearms must be packed individually in a suitable gun bag and ammunition must be packed securely in a hard wooden or metal box. Ammunition with explosive or incendiary projectiles is prohibited. In addition, you must inform us in advance that you wish to take firearms or ammunition on board and you will need to show valid documentation of proof of ownership and legal authority for the possession of the firearm at check-in (even if you are carrying only ammunition). Please make sure you arrive at check-in at least 90 minutes prior to the scheduled departure of your flight in order that we can carry out all the necessary checks. If you arrive after this time you may not be allowed to fly. Please call our Customer Experience Team on 0871 244 2366 to let us know if you are travelling with a firearm or ammunition. For more information about sports/competition firearms and baggage allowances check out our Carrier's Regulations. |
Thanks Geordiejet (great username!).
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 01:07. |
Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.