Simple to say that Winter is hard at NCL but lets look at those routes that have been pulled by EZY which are ideal winter routes. Berlin, Budapest Prague, Krakow etc.

Who wants to go to Alicante or Malaga in December? Give us somewhere decent to go, in season during the winter and people will go.

If easyJet cannot shift seats at Newcastle during the winter then maybe they should offer a bigger selection of ski routes since they only offer Geneva as a "true" ski destination. How about 3 x weekly to Zurich, Innsbruck or Salzberg?

I still think Milan makes a good year round destination also, attracting both business and holiday traffic year round. RYR had 40 seats too many on each flight and bad timings to BGO.

ek
 

did todays EK abort and land on second attempt?

There were 4 missed approaches this afternoon due to both a strong tailwind on approach to 07 combined with horizontal shear at around 300ft AGL.

thanks
 

thought I was seeing double when EK went passed twice.

Talking of EK, then they are back in the news again for all the right reasons. Full page in Friday's Journal on EK and their performance, plans re NCL & the 773ER.
Basically a confirmation of earlier posts that they are to showcase the 773ER at airports anniversary, but more importantly stating that EK "hope to start running it on the NCL - DXB if pax no.'s continue to rise"
Laurie Berryman (UK North Manager for EK)
Of interest also is the reference to dramatic cargo growth, 720,000 kilo's handled Jan-Mar 10.
As for pax. up 25% Y.o.Y. then obviously EK can't ignore this sort of demand.

No doubt the cynic's will cite BA problems as a major cintibutory factor, but the reality is that pax may realise that BA have been "trumped" as to much eastbound LH traffic ex NCL.

Jet2 released S11 but no new routes, are any new ones to be announced in future, seen as the likes of BJV etc been announced from majority of other bases...would be nice to see SZG for the winter!?

jet2 summer 2011
 

Have spotted the following

Ibiza 1 extra flight on a saturday now 3x weekly
Murica 1 less flight no flight on a tuesday now 6x weekly

Pisa and split not on sale yet but these maybe added by end of this summer!
Everything else seems to be the same

jet2 s11
 

Cork seems to have gone for summer 2011 or am i missing something

Cork will probably come later. The shorter routes such as LBA-BFS are not yet on sale. So far the routes on sale across the Jet 2 network are generally 'sun' routes, probably in response to Thomas Cook and Thomson having Summer 2011 on sale

Jet2 to New York !!
 

Just had sight of a piece of literature promoting Jet 2 New York Christmas shopping weekends with flights from NCL and LBA.
Departure dates for the 3 night breaks Dec 2nd and Dec 9th 2010.

Leaflet "Holiday Deals 2010/2011" being used in a door drop at various locations. New York info on inside back cover.

where have heard this information about jet2 doing flight from newcastle and leeds bradford for 3 day shopping trip to new york

easyjet / jet2
 

Anybody got any more info when easyjet winter flights are to go on sale from ncl?

good news about jet2 and new york.
maybe the airport can use these figures of pax on these new york flights and try to get CO into ncl....

The bean counters at CO are hardly going to use pax numbers on a couple of shoppers specials when assessing the (non) viability of a NCL- EWR service.

Flybe - Jersey
 

looks like the route has now gone year round.
flights are on sale from nov-march:D

staff car park keeps varying, at the moment it is in car park A as the lights don't work in car park B. Nobody seems to have noticed that they are not working. Simple answer is go into the long term car park and follow the signs for staff car parking.

good luck in your new job

PS easyJets winter schedule will be out this week, expecting it to be substantially reduced.

Easyjet winter
 

Perhaps 3 based aircraft ??

easyjet winter
 

If ezy drop down to 3 based aircraft and I appreciate that it is just a rumour this would be bad for NCL. Surely if this rumour does become fact then it can only support the rumours that ezy have lost all interest in developing the NCL base. Is it time to think about a sweatner to tempt in Ryanair?

EZY
 

3 aircraft base seems to be right, flights for Winter 10/11 on sale now, following routes are not available after 31st October:

Ibiza (seasonal anyway)
London Stansted
Palma
Murcia
Malta
Nice (seasonal)
Rome (seasonal)

Alicante, Barcelona, Faro, Malaga & Paris all on vastly reduced frequencies versus last winter.

Has all the earmarks of a staged base closure to me (the un-trained eye), considering two years ago we had 7 based aircraft for Summer and 6 for Winter.....unless the above routes are being released at a later date of course!

Kev

On the Stansted route the Stansted BAA published timetable shows a timetable variation for the route after 31/10/10.

It remains as is however without the last rotation of the day 516/517 for the winter?

So does this indicate it will be released later?