Good news, this, and importantly it also allays some fears that flybe are going to abandon the regions and turn into purely a feeder for Virgin Atlantic at Heathrow and Manchester.

Rather low key announcement....

Flybe launches new route from Newcastle to London Southend

SOU also increased.

TUI flying to Dubai DWC Next winter to coincide with the Marella ship being based in port there over the winter.

NCL Facebook saying fly to Budapest with Lufthansa.
Is this really a direct flight?

Sadly not, I've followed the link in the facebook post and did a dummy booking. All the flights are via Duesseldorf or Munich.

It's a bit sill of the airport to post it like they have, very misleading.
They could choose any city on the planet if you need transfers and multiple flights.

CAA stats out - drop about 4%. Big drop on LHR (25% - over 11,000) and also the TCX affect.

DXB small decrease, AMS steady, 16% up on CDG.

Today's Air France mid morning flights to NCL AF1058 and return to CDG AF1059 are showing on FR24 as being operated by Air Austral with flight nos. UU8058 / UU8059. Same is showing for next week Tuesday 26th Nov,
Today's flights did not operate and are not showing on Newcastle Airport's Arr./Departure screens.
Any explanations as to why they are showing on FR24? (operated by Air Austral E190 - which are not part of Air Austral's fleet)
I seem to remember AF had planned to reduce schedules temporarily by cancelling this mid morning flight

Air Austral codeshare with AF. Not sure why the mid morning flight hasn't operated today, but is back tomorrow on s Hop E170

Seems to be just the Tuesday flights - Not bookable via Air France booking site next week (26th) either, although back on sale for Tuesday 3rd December.

Looks like someone has removed the AF1058/9 from the schedules, but hasn't removed the Air Austral codeshare flight number. Still, would be nice to see an Air Austral at Woolsington!

Newcastle Airport's Passenger stats for October now available on their website. Total passengers for October 473,974 compared with 512,455 for same period last year same - A difference of -38,481.
Year on Year comparison to date 136,174 down on 2018

https://www.newcastleairport.com/abo...er-statistics/

easyJet celebrates flying 20 million passengers with flight giveaway at Newcastle International Airport

With TUI quickly scheduling and announcing load of extra departures from NCL next summer to cover the loss of TCX flights, there still seems to be no sign of any extra flights from JET2. Are there still more flights to be timetabled?

Very interesting to see the September pax figure for ABZ showing at 3,730 up 168% on the Sept 18 figure. Comparing it with the Aug 19 figure of 1.419 it shows what a big untapped market there is for this route. It looks like they were correct to take the plunge. Brussels seems to be climbing back, cutting back the loss of pax to minus 22% at 1,952 and Stavanger up 36% at 1,169.

Congratulations to the sales development team at NCL for the increasing flow of new routes arriving this winter and next summer.

We found the same thing during Loganair's brief competing on the Aberdeen route down the road. They not only found a market of their own, they boosted Eastern's too.

Yes good increase im guessing the price has helped also.
I wonder which other route Loganair could have a go at they could have the right size aircraft for some european routes

So long as they're making money...