thanks for that ;)


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I see that BE have loaded the weekly BHD, NCL and NWI for NQY but no EDI nex year ?

I'm also surprised that BE have not picked up the EMA route ?



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The return of these domestic destinations is obviously welcome but you have to wonder about a once a week service to NQY, surely two or three weekly would allow shorter breaks and more flexibility to the traveling public ?

EMA, LBA and DUB are the routes that I'm surprised have not reappeared following the demise of SZ.

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notice that BE8271 is expected to arrive at Newquay ex Manston today. Whats this all about ?


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Truro City v Dover Athletic tonight. Dover to Truro by road would be some slog!

Thankyou sir


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Good job they weren't playing in Dover then......:(

At last some good news

Looks like my guess was right, EZY are in the process of loading SEN-NQY for summer 13 as I predicted, however I'm shocked to see LPL also loaded. Both seem to be 3 weekly


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Looks like an EZY foray then into Flybe territory on the LGW (London area) and MAN services to NQY.

I think the London area service would have been better out of STN or LTN than SEN.

I wonder if EZY might also be likely to fill the EDI gap that seems to have been left by Flybe also?

Well, according to their websites it's actually five minutes quicker to fly from NQY to SEN by EZY than to fly from NQY to LGW with flybe. Add in the swift passage through the terminal at SEN and on to the train and the SEN service should save quite a bit of time. LTN or STN would give access to more connenctions of course, but I guess you can get those via LGW so SEN can provide a jet link to London for the good folk of Cornwall - and provide a rapid link to those splendid surfing beaches for the good folk of Essex and East London. Fares look comparable too......

Either way it should be a welcome boost to passenger numbers for NQY, and I also wonder of EZY will be the ones to step in on the vacant EDI route considering the fairly large amount of based aircraft they have at EDI.


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Well previously BA operated daily on a 735 to LGW along with 4 DH8-300 by SZ and 3 Q400 from BE along with the twice daily 738 to STN from Ryanair.

It say demand is present tbh.


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Ryanair pulled the 3 NQY routes due to the development fee at NQY, SZ were closed down by eastern

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Pax numbers halved with the demise of SZ which meant the loss of a variety of destinations.
BE really went for the LGW route, but once SZ disappeared, frequency was slashed and prices rocketed, and no other routes out of NQY are particularly well served in terms of frequency or price.
If BE bale out now, it would be a pity for the airport, but would it make that much difference in terms of total numbers?
Having written off all that cash establishing themselves on the LGW route and killing off the local airline, it would be ironic if BE abandoned NQY just because a bigger and richer competitor showed some interest.

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I don't really think that's true about the frequency being slashed. I've operated the route for the last 3 years and it has always been 3 x daily apart from in the winter where some are slashed if the numbers aren't there; but then that's always been the case.

Speaking of Leeds, did Jet2 try Newquay a few summers back, from Leeds? Or was it Belfast? Or was it both? My memory cells are fading!

Jet2 tried Leeds and Belfast.

only lasted one season i think, but considering Air Southwest were on LBA with multiple flights per day its no surprise it failed.

Now NQY doesnt get a LBA flight, shame that JET2 dont give it another go really.

Mind you, LS could easily fill the gap on EDI, EMA & LBA which are now all unserved


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Cornishsimon - The demand you are talking about was in different economic times. The SZ 3/4 times dail;y was based on a bussiness model of picking passengers up at Plymouth and Newquay and in reality is all the route warrants.
BE will pull the plug and run when it gets tough and Newquay airport might have wished it had not jumped into bed with them so quicly and sh*t on SZ .

Agreed with the comments about NQY and SZ.

Anything else new on the horizon ? Other than the EZY LPL and SEN ?

Still missing EDI for 2013 compared to 2012

Any sign of DUB, EMA, LBA etc ?


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