I see the Mayor has been on twitter again. Eastern Airways are to announce a new Teeside to Newquay route starting July 6th 2020. On the same day the will also launch the planned Teeside - London City service.

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I suppose with LM not serving NQY at all now this summer, then they might stand a chance.

Would have anyway, NQY was an unexpected success for WW with a 148 seater so Eastern will do just fine

Even with around 4 weeks notice? And hotels might not even be fully open by then anyway

8 - 9 hour drive at best so a winner.

Hmm, interesting point, I'm confident it should still do well but just in case let's hope they don't judge it or any of the routes based on this years performance

Is NQY a holiday season flight or a full yearly.

Will T3 count the year as part of the contract?:confused:

NQY-MME
 

I looked at that service just now for my Yorkshire trip - seems to be just one flight a week only from Mid-July.

It is twice a week - Mon & Fri - from 6th July until 18th September I saw elsewhere.
Rumoured to be run with a J41.

Thanks - I did only see one flight (MON) running when I looked on the booking site today (for the first two weeks of July) - maybe the FRI starts later?

Certainly bookable Mon/Fri from 6th July now - maybe they were still uploading different dates? Confirmed they are J41 operated.

See Leeds have a Newquay service as well! Could be interesting..Eastern are certainly pushing the boat out considering no one is flying anywhere!

Thinking about the extended opening hours..see open all day weekends..,with no movements it must be costing a fortune in staffing? Is this coming out of the mayor’s budget I wonder? Belfast reported it was costing them 60k per day to stay open all hours.
Wonder what TIAs costs are?

Airport drive in music venue plans.
 

Airport drive in music venue plans by Ben Houchen.
Comments about the stage and active runway.. Should be interesting if any litter is blowing around.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...sside-airport/

Aggressive summer sale launched today on Teesside to London City, Belfast City, Aberdeen and Newquay. £49.99 (or a bit less) each way, availability is wide open until 13 September.

Allegedly Eastern have applied for slots at Heathrow to operate a daily service from teeside.

Credit from Heathrow spotters if true.

3x daily allegedly.
Flight numbers the same as SOU route, and mayor told me yesterday that SOU won’t resume on 6 July despite being bookable. Coincidence?

Why not? Shy bairns get nowt. No better time to try, and if they get turned down it's not their fault...

Also, SOU is also £49 but doesn't get a mention.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...ince-lockdown/

mmeteeside - sorry if I'm being a bit thick - but are you saying that the MME-SOU flight numbers will be used for MME-LHR or are you saying that the MME-LCY is being a MME-LCY-SOU route ?

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