slightly surprised EK wasn't back to daily already

Air france have cancelled my flight home in 2 weeks. They seem stuck on 4 flights a week. If Emirates can recover with a 777 and klm are up to 3 flights a day why has air fiancé's recovery been so poor?

French COVID entry rules I expect have damped forward demand .

AF had been back up to 12 flights a week. KLM also seem to have reduced down from 4 daily flights

What happened to the A330 cargo ops
 

It doesn't seem like many months ago since the airport was crowing about A330 freighters being based at Newcastle, what has happened with these. Are these the ones at Birmingham.

There was a statement from the airport in ZFG's press release, so not sure crowing is the appropriate term? I would imagine they were as sceptical as the rest of us, but in the middle of 2021 any new business would have looked good.

Some of the 330's operating to BHX are leased from the same company as the one that turned up at NCL, but I doubt there is anymore of a connection.

Thanks, down as not going to happen then.

The Vueling operation to Paris (Orly) is adopting much better timing for its MON & FRI summer service, moving from early morning to early afternoon slots.

Loganair have today released there W22/23 schedule. Than plan to operate:

Exeter - Up to 5 x Weekly
Newquay - Will operate on 22NOV, 29NOV, 22DEC, 27DEC, 29DEC, 03JAN and 05JAN
Stavanger - Up to 4 x Weekly
Southampton - Up to 13 x Weekly

good news this

JET 2 have announced extra flights to ALICANTE, MALAGA and FARO in March and April from NCL

Aer Lingus Diversion
 

I see G-EILA has just landed from Bridgetown!

BHD - NCL is being shown as a new Flybe route. Time will tell
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A post on the PRESTWICK thread says that the French Rugby charter flights today are parking up at NCL

There are two Air Malta flights planned to come down for EDI until after the game. Not a lot, but given the recent BA and TUI parking is somebody doing something different compared to previous years?

Jan 2022 stats are now out - I make it 99k although the BRS figures haven't been posted, normally about 8k? Interesting that the Spanish destinations have held up well between Dec and Jan. By contrast Jan 2020 was 266k - comparison between last months top destinations (excluding BRS) below

HEATHROW 17,274 (2022) 33,310 (2020) 0.52%

AMSTERDAM 12,751 30,075 0.42

BELFAST 11,858 19,715 0.60

TENERIFE 11,522 17,726 0.65

ALICANTE 6,309 17,888 0.35

DUBAI 6,162 21,017 0.29

ARRECIFE 6,067 8,937 0.68

I think your percentages are out by a factor of 100

Yep - hard sums was never my strong point, but you get the picture! :ok:

still pretty dire. Surprised at LHR figure. There would probably need to be a fairly quick upturn in DXB too.

About 45% of pre-covid figures, but I think all operators are back up and running. DXB needs Australia and New Zealand back.

Be interesting to see how that compares with other regionals.

Looks like Swift Air have taken over from ASL on the FedEx feeder

Aircraft soon to be upgraded to a B734

Don't tell me, "next month" - been hearing that for a while now! :ok:

Jobs advertised as they going self handling, surprised that TUPe isn't being implemented. Although that will happen once jet2 go self handling in the next year or 2.

The jobs advertised are just for in the warehouse, they are not going self handling. The switch to a 734 is happening at the end of this month.

I work at the airport and they are going self handling as they were advertising for Ramp agents specifically to load and unload the aircraft. With the 734 day stopping at NCL instead of at GLA.

So how does that work, for one flight a day? :confused:

Could this be the start of Amazon freight.

There must be a reason why they have switched it from Glasgow......maybe the quanties involved warrant a seperate Glasgow - Paris operation or, as you suggest, they have further plans for the a/c.
Either way the 737 represents a major increase in freight volume capacity available.

I also work at the airport and yes one of the roles Fedex advertised for mentioned using ramp equipment around aircraft however as I mentioned earlier the jobs are all mainly warehouse based. They will continue to have a representative present at the turnaround (Loadmaster) as is currently the case with the ATR but the are not going self handling any time soon!

EasyJet from Belfast today - was fr24 correct and although it flew over newcastle diverted before landing to Edinburgh and then returned a few hours later? If so anyone know what was up? Weather couldn’t have better today at ncl.

On easyjet app its written : runway closure at NCL airport

ta. Mustn’t have been closed for long as I was walking past the airport not long after and everything else seemed to be arriving and departing ok.

There was a light aircraft stuck on the runway for a short time!

FLYBE have announced that its new routes go on sale next week...........is NCL included?????

FLYBE NEW ROUTES
 

BHD - NCL.....DAILY wef 25th AUG 2022

excellent news

A significant milestone for the airport with the Ryanair base operational next week.

How many aircraft are they basing.