It's foggy.

Ryanair diverting to Scotland when DTVA is open just down the road!

Dense fog visibilty down to around 200 metres

The WMI flight then positioned back to NCL empty with crews to carry out the NCL-WMI leg. The learjet also positioned back with relief crew for the 2 Ryanair LPL based aircraft,

I guess that'll just be because Ryanair have a 'station' at EDI or GLA or wherever it went, making things easier for them handling-wise.
I agree though, that the decline of Teesside Airport is very sad indeed. :( A Ryanair station long before Newcastle was.

Was DTV called Newcastle-South by any chance :}

Diverted to Prestwick, the aircraft then flew back to NCL.

Presumably easier to go to PIK, knowing it will be quieter than EDI/GLA at the time of day.

Newcastle had also taken in at least two Ryanair Diversions destined for Liverpool and one Jet 2 scheduled to Leeds Bradford due to fog at those airports earlier.
Wonder if DTV was equipped (Fire/Emergency/Border staff etc...) to take 737s and logistics for onward transition of passengers at the times all this played out?

Was the Ryanair flight to Gdansk due to fly throughout the winter? as it seems to be not bookable now.

They seem to be pulling BFS-LGW for the winter let's hope they aren't pulling anything from ncl

Looks like the FAO is no longer bookable as well

Easyjet for summer is Alicante (6wkly), Barcelona (4), Belfast (19), Berlin (3), Bristol (14), Faro (5), Geneva (2), Malaga (6), Split (2), Corfu (1), Jersey(4) Palma (7), Nice(4), Malta(2) and Rhodes(1) total of 80 flts a week. An expansion of 6 flts per week over this summer.

Nothing new yet but Palma has two flights on Mondays and none on Saturdays.

Thanks for the easyjet update.

I think GDN/FAO cancellations over the winter may be due to the crewing shortage/roster cock up, Ryanair is cutting 34 routes and 18,000 flights between October and March

It is indeed down to the recent issues, routes return early spring

While there will be a degree of pragmatism around which routes have been cut, it won't be the high performers :(

I find it interesting that some of their "important" routes, such as BFS-LGW, EDI/GLA-STN and WMI-WRO/GDN are among the routes cancelled

FR had already announced that they were dropping WMI-GDN and WMI-WRO due to a disagreement with the warsaw airport authority

Ryanair to drop flights from Warsaw to Gda?sk, Wroc?aw: report - Radio Poland :: News from Poland

Thats mainly due to WAW (Chopin) airport authority - not crewing issues.

Newcastle route flies into/from WMI (Modlin)

For the domestic routes, because there is an another airline to accommodate pax it might have made the decision easier.

Or the fact that they had heavy competition may have made the routes among the most marginal.

Number of bookings is probably the main factor - they tend to not get huge number of bookings on these flights until the couple of weeks before the flight - so fewer would be affected. Also many alternatives from London area, including flights, coach and the train.

I notice both of the KLM Amsterdam flights have been cancelled tomorrow morning....anyone know why?

From the home page of the KLM website

Monarch effects on newcastle ( short/long term)

With monarch gone how will this effect newcastle?

I know they weren't based at newcastle but pax from the north east will have travelled
To Leeds Manchester for cheaper fares.

Will the other carriers now fill the gaps at man,BHX etc or will fares increase to make better profit margins will may stop north east pax travelling south?

Will airlines now focus on putting planes and routes into Manchester to increase options rather than start any planned routes which were from newcastle ( Ryanair)

Will Ryanair and easyJet now look at putting extra flights into Manchester so ncl has to wait longer ?

The last big failure I can remember was excel which effected ncl and we are only now getting back to the pax numbers and it's taken 10 years!!

TCX have said they will base 1 aircraft at LBA now replacing 1 of the 2 aircraft monarch had which is why I'm asking the questions on how this may effect ncl over the next few seasons

Could go that way, or it could be that MAN has been oversupplied and the existing airlines will consolidate and not look to replace MON capacity to try and increase yields. This may help NCL as prices at MAN (and LBA) creep up.

Not much of an effect IMO Jet2 EZY TCX may base an extra aircraft here or there but that will be about it. With TCX basing a aircraft down in LBA it may even benefit NCL if they choose to base for example the Avion A320 there and we end up with x3 A321. Excel was a big player here at the time and obviously really effected us as other bases like BHX will feel now Monarchs collapse.

Interesting to see that BA is reducing frequencies next Summer at BHD, EDI and GLA. Newcastle seem to be the same for the moment though.

To be honest about loss of Monarch I think most of MAN routes will be gaining extra Easy and Jet2 with probably 5 or 6 aircraft added and Jet2 look to be adding another A330 but I would guess flights more expensive than this year

TUI have added Dubrovnik for next summer

For GLA just a single early sun AM rotation per week, no great loss I wouldnt imagine.

Does AF/KLM have an info desk at the airport?
I've just had an email my flight has been changed and shows me the original and new flights and they look identical?

I have had previous emails from British Airways in the past and I have just turned up at the airport as usual after checking in online before departing home so I would assume this is similar to yourself, just check the KLM website using your reference to check your active flight details.

Ok, ta.
I did that but can't see the difference to the cancelled and active flight apart from losing my seat booking.
It's the 2nd leg from CDG that has been "changed".
I sent a pm to AF's Facebook page but they haven't bothered replying.
Wish I'd used KLM again.....

You could try calling AF?

Never too sure if I will get through to Paris, ouch.

I sent a pm to KLM on FB and they have replied already asking for more details.
They are so much better than AF at communicating.

Mind, it would still be nice to know if they have an info desk at NCL. They used to but not so sure now.

Can't remember seeing one on a recent visit... Could you not just call the airport switchboard and ask the question?

Good idea! (said seriously, not sarcastically).