Bacf Lcy
 

Could be a money maker, espcially if it is in conjunction with a large corporate customer. LCY is primarily business orientated, but would it not detract business (LON bound) away from LHR? Must admit never saw this one coming, if it materialises!:confused:

75th Birthday - what are your plans?
 

What are people's plans for viewing on the 26th July? Seems the airport is not providing any suitable viewing area.

I am thinking of heading SW towards Black Calleton to catch the take off's assuming 25 is in use. I think there is some elevated ground in that area. I remember seeing some photo's on fightercontrol.co.uk from the airshow last year. Seems a good spot. I think the road near 25 threshold offers a limited view nowadays.

Are locals genuinely "excited" about the prospect of an EK 773 and BA 747 ? Red Arrows, A380 flypasts etc maybe....

CabinCrewe
I have to presume that is only the "Reggies":8 that are getting really worked up about this. It's a PR based thing for NCL & also an opportunity for NCL & the airlines who will no doubt both have their marketing machines locked in overdrive.
Gone are the days when the airport can make a big thing by inviting public attendance, as ironically there would be no where for a volume public attendees to view any visitors. It is also a Monday & basically "Joe Public" doesn't get worked up about the odd 777 / 747 that visit / divert in on an irregular basis. Incidentally there is even the chance that the EK 777 & the BA747 could both theoretically have visited NCL previously.
As for Red arrows, then the reaction at NCL would be no different from anywhere else, though perhaps slightly more indifferent as they are fairly regular visitors in any event.
Now if someone wants to fly a 380 (of which I have not heard anything at all) at c. 200ft down the runway then I really can't even see that stirring up a great deal of interest to the average inhabitant of Tyneside, though I'm sure that from a suitable angle it would provide a great publicity shot.

Diverts
 

Two TCX flights have diverted from NCL today, one to Gatwick and another to Glasgow. Does anyone know the reason for this? Seems a long way to bus passengers.

We've had a lot of a/c go tech over the weekend. The RHO flight went tech downroute and we had to fly an engineer over to fix the aircraft. The LCA is being subbed by Titan Airways B763. The programme is a bit of a mess this weekend, all a/c and schedules have been shuffled round left, right and centre, so I would imagine the a/c used on those fligths were from those bases.

Sunshine79
Thanks for the info. I can understand the problems ref a/c going tech, how can TCX justify flying past NCL to Glasgow and then bussing 235 passengers back to NCL? I believe the usual excuse is that the crew are out of hours.

This is normally where the a/c is based, therefore the reason they will not fly to NCL.

It was a GLA plane that was needed in GLA, after being robbed from them last night to do the ZTH. Dropping through NCL would have further delayed the next rotation out of GLA, and apart from that 3 sectors after reporting at 1am would involve discretion.

It comes down to minimising delays, fleetwide. It is a big inconvenience for the pax however.

I'm going to be arriving into NCL on the first easyJet flight of the day from BRS on the 26th July, to catch the BA 744 back to LHR. Will there be anything to see during my 4 hour stop over, relating to the event?

It'll be the day after the Sunderland airshow - the aircraft will more than likely still be on the ground, departing Mon AM. It will probably involve a taxi journey if you want to actually see anything, though.

b_r_s_

You could just stay airside. When you get off the BRS flight, turn right instead of left and go down to the gate at the end of the pier. Quite good views from there. If you've already checked in for your LHR flight online, you can probably stay airside till you leave. Bring some sandwiches.

BRS

I echo the last words. Don't go outside the terminal. Viewing is very limited. Your best bet would be to arrive as normal and then go back through departures armed with your new boarding pass. The terminal is split into two sides although it's only one building. You can get very nice views of both the international/domestic gates plus the external stands out at Alpha.

whats dates are BA running the 747 to newcastle????:eek:

26th July :ugh:

BA 1326 LHR - NCL

BA 1327 NCL -LHR

should sit on the ground at NCL for around 1.20.:ok:

Emirates to Dubai
 

Hi all,

Moving back out to Sydney next month and was wondering what the load levels are like this time of year to Dubai with Emirates from NCL?

Thank you

Good luck and you lucky b**gger:ok:

Anniversary
 

So, anybody know what other aircraft the airlines gonna use for the Anniversary?

hay00c2, loads for the last 2 months have averaged at about 74%. The highest average loads that the route has seen was in February or March of this year, when it reached 86%.