Cornishsimon
I do respect and admire your support for your local airport across several aviation related forums. However, you may need to accept that in these austere times air services from Newquay will not expand and may even shrink in the future. Domestic air travel will probably never see the kind of activity we saw in the 90s and early 2000s. If there was money to be made airlines would be there, but there isn't so they are not. Airlines exist to carry passengers and cargo but need to make money. If they do not, they go bust.


Some people also seem unable to move on from the demise of Air Southwest. Unfortunately it lost money so went under. If the routes that they flew made money, other airlines would have stepped in, or Air Southwest would itself have been viable and still flying. It's no good blaming other airlines or dreaming up conspiracy theories.
I do not mean to come across as antagonistic but the constant suggestions on these forums for airlines to open this route and that route at times bear no relation to economic reality.

V.

East Midlands was served by BmiBaby during the summer hols twice a week during 2012 when they still existed. I think they even did in in 2011 as well if I remember correctly. As there are still some gaps in the timetable for the FlyBe base at EMA, I think it is likely that Newquay may be served by them during next summer. We will see.

NQY-EDI
 

NQY-EDI now back for summer 2013, twice weekly, wed & sat, May to Sept according to Flybe website, but not yet showing on NQY or EDI websites.

It's good to see EDI back but twice weekly !!!!!

Well anything is better than nothing


cs

Twice weekly in current circumstances is probably a good result. Now people have to book it in sufficient numbers at the right price.

V.

what was it last year ?

Mostly four weekly from what I remember


cs

Looks like it's operating the NWI route as well looking by the schedule...

Turkey charters from NQY in April
 

Just spotted the following in the NQY website news section:

Flights to Turkey, to be operated by Corendon Airlines, on Fridays in April

Well that's strange because Corendon are owned by a Dutch tour operator and unless things have changed they operate to/from most if not all of the Dutch airports and one or two in Belgium, perhaps Germany, also, if they were to start operations to/from UK then surely the obvious place(s) would be one of the mega cities and not a quaint seaside town ... unless this may be similar to Isle of Man charters ... once the hoteliers own season is over they all b'gger off on a holiday of their own.

BUT ... Corendon change their schedules at the drop of a hat, not even their own crews clearly understand where they may be going to and at what time the next day, travelling with them on business often I jumpseated AMS/AYT but I never actually made it back to AMS, despite my best attempts every time I ended up back in RTM, sometimes via Groningen, and needed to hire car it RTM/AMS :)

Flights sold by OSKA Travel ( ATOL 10519) registered 06/11, licensed for 3500 pax Jan to Mar 2013. No previous carrying. So far so good, hey we all started somewhere..... I would love to see this work.... but....
They are offering 7 night tours at knock down prices using 4/5 star hotels.... confirm which hotels when you arrive, pay for food inflite, entry fees, meals other than buffet breakfast all extra. Not one for the discerning then.

Four rotations out of NQY, how that works economically with empty sectors defies me, unless you are coming back to NQY by bus or have incoming traffic and AYT/NQY ,,,, nah.

First flights same week as Easter, most folk are entertaining the emmets so that is 50% of the locals out of it. Taking out those that think Turkey is what you breed for Christmas it doesn't leave a huge audience. I hope none of my council tax has gone into incentives for this.

I remember well a poster on Pprune offering to eat his hat if an airline I started got off the ground, never took him up on it and would never say it myself but I do have a particularly tasty looking trilby in the wardrobe.....:eek:

Classic Aircraft Trust is moving from Coventry to Newquay, great news for the airport and another example of how to diversify to cover the costs. Pleasure flights as well I understand.

294 flights in November - that is not very many a day by anyone's reckoning.

....and I guess a fair number of those were additional Skybus flights due to the closure at St Just?

I think that LEQ has only been closed December and January so that's only going to show on the NQY stats for those months.


cs

Are the 294 quoted flights for November commercial flights or all flights ?

I wonder if the flying school, training, military, and private movements are included or not ?


cs

It was all flights. 276 commercial air transport, 10 commercial positioning flights and 8 test & training. No aero club, private or military.
NS

I think you will find that the numbers aren't correct in that case.


cs

Apple aviation to set up an MRO and aircraft recycling facility at NQY. Should be open by September 2013.


Dynamic Aerospace company sets up new base at Aerohub | Newquay Cornwall Airport


cs

NQY should not be surprised about the decline of their business - when I try to look up the flights for this summer season in the timetable section, I am getting told "you are not authorized to access this page".

Sorry NQY airport for bothering you with my business, those passengers must really be a pest for you airport operators....