These operators and routes tend to go round in cycles. Everyone piles on to the same destination for a few seasons, then most pull out. I guarantee Sun Express and Correndon wont be there in same shape in a few seasons
(and not unique to NCL).

Corendon will most likely start Greek flights like they do from Manchester and Gatwick too and have already expressed an interest in expanding routes from the UK

According to Wikipedia... Vueling ceases Paris-Orly on the 15th July.22.

yes correct was posted on twitter.

shame they haven’t started BCN again

We must consider that pre-pandemic, Thomas Cook Airlines represented a huge amount of capacity between UK airports and Turkey / Greece for the leisure market. They didn't do much to Spain. If those countries want to attract UK tourists in similar numbers going forward, someone has to backfill that lost volume of airseats. The Turkish carriers have taken on that challenge. With Thomas Cook gone, there is a gap for them to fill. TUI and Jet2 can only do so much. They don't need to reinvent the market. Just pick up some of those customers displaced by the loss of Thomas Cook Airlines.

Chatting to a crew member today on a flight into LCY I was told that BA CityFlyer will be operating a charter series between NCL and SALZBURG.....sorry, no further details were given.

Yes, that's correct. It will be on behalf of TUI Lakes and Mountains. They have operated GLA-SZG charter flights for several years now. The aircraft will operate GLA-SZG-NCL-SZG-GLA on Saturdays. Think this is the first time they have operated the NCL route, in the past it has been operated by TUI and before that flybe.

Correct, BA CityFlyer E190 operating:

Saturdays 28May-03Sep
BA4521 GLA-SZG departs 0740
BA4524 SZG-NCL arrives 1330
BA4523 NCL-SZG departs 1500
BA4522 SZG-GLA arrives 2040

10Sep operates GLA-SZG-GLA only

BA Cityflyer did have a Saturday lunchtime W rotation service from NCL in 2011 and pretty sure this was also SZG.

It would appear that reports of the demise of Vueling's ORY-NCL route from mid-July may be incorrect. Flights remain on sale after 15th July and appear to run now until 9th September.

APRIL 22 some sample Caa statistics
 

Paris (cdg).................9003
paris (ory)..................1251
dusseldorf.................1639
frankfurt....................3965
dublin......................18,356
bergamo................... 2424
rome...........................3148
amsterdam.............22,589
geneva.......................1495
dubai.......................10,996
zadar..........................1735
paphos.......................1735
chania........................2479
malta..........................1259
faro..........................13,810
alicante....................22,589
ibiza............................4590
mahon........................3137
malaga.....................13,337
palma.......................16,893
arrecife.....................12,226
fuerteventura..............6557
gran canaria...............7777
tenerife....................20,970
keflavik........................ 645
antalya.......................9653
dalaman.................... 4349
prague........................2496
riga.............................2073
gdansk.......................3115
krakow.......................3154
wrocklaw...................2128
hurghada...................1798
montego bay...............476
praia..............................16

aberdeen.......................589
belfast......................16,361
bristol.......................15,388
exeter...........................1532
london (lhr)...............28,904
newquay.........................380
southampton...............3278
.

Hopefully Teesside's management look at these statistics and can see where their passengers want to fly to as its quite obvious.

Ryanair
 

Just a quick observation it looks like they’ve dropped one winter rotation Newcastle to Tenerife in winter 22/23 and Gran Canaria isn’t bookable at all now anyone know if we are to lose anything else ?

Looks like Air France have gone to using mainline equipment, even an A321 this morning! Anyone know the reason?

The Ryanair 2022/23 programme looks like this so far:-

MILAN.......................2 WKLY
ALICANTE.................3 WKLY
DUBLIN.....................6 WKLY
FARO........................2 WKLY
FUERTEVENTURA.....2 WKLY
GDANSK...................3 WKLY
LANZAROTE..............2 WKLY
MALAGA.;.................2 WKLY
TENERIFE.................2 WKLY
KRAKOW..................3 WKLY
WROCLAW...............2 WKLY

DUBLIN IS THE SURPRISE 6 WKLY IS A REALLY LOW FREQUENCY

Looks like Corendon have dropped the Tuesday DLM flight until end of July.

Mmm, that doesn't sound very encouraging. But lots of Turkey overkill generally (a bit like Christmas)

Or a typical Scottich school holidays switch?

who would ever have thought you'd have more passengers to Dubai than to Paris? The world has certainly changed!!

Which they have only now become aware of?

And you know it wasn't pre-planned?

They did sell tickets for those flights so if it was pre-planned having to now cancel them and rebook or refund customers is not great PR for a company trying to establish themselves at NCL.

It’s not just NCL they have cut back from

I’m guessing they will be suffering like everyone else with staffing

The figures in May certainly for some regional flying will be stronger.

Handlers certainly are struggling. Lots of new staff not up to speed. Try and help when can.

"DUBLIN IS THE SURPRISE 6 WKLY IS A REALLY LOW FREQUENCY"

Well its 3x the frequency to Malaga - no doubt as passenger numbers increase so will the flights

Have they run out of fuel at NCL? A lot of outbound seem to be operating via other airports this morning

Yes noticed the TUI 73M on the NCL-CFU only managed as far as EMA, as per FR24 then never made it above FL170, assume all part of the flight plan, & not another "hiccup"...

RYANAIR WINTER 22/23

Winter timetable now changed to:-
DUBLIN 14 WEEKLY 3x M 2 x Tu/W/F/Sa/Su Th x1

good news there seems to be a few gaps so hopefully some new routes to come also

It transpires that there was a complete disaster at NCL this morning insofar as fuel availability is concerned. Very surprised that only one comment re this mess,.
For clarity AT LEAST ELEVEN departures from NCL this morning diverted (EMA x7), (STN x3) , (CGN x1), there may be many more................
Is this due to industrial unrest, & is it ongoing / resolved ?
A significant number of NCL pax affected by this mess, insofar as returning flights then significant delays already eg. LS514 from HER looking like 4 hours due to delays at STN.
Bit of a nightmare I'd say.

Also since my post on the 1st June re Ryanairs Winter 22/23 timetable

Malaga has been increased from 2 to 3 weekly.....Gran Canaria has been re-instated with 2 weekly as has Riga with 2 weekly rotations plus Dublin at 14 weekly.

How the hell did the airport allow this to happen & who foots the bill for this mess? It must have cost the airlines concerned a fair amount in wasted fuel and landing costs never mind delay compensation costs for retuning customers

Do we know if it was lack of fuel or lack of staff to refuel aircraft? Either way a real mess as others have said. It wasn't mentioned but one or two days last week all early morning departures were delayed, I think it was Thursday or Friday when that was by at least 45 mins to an hour in most cases, maybe connected?

Both I hear - reportedly a one-off, last week was just the usual mix of stuff

At least one airline has been tanking fuel to NCL for at least the last month. Mainly due to hippies glueing themselves to the tankers leaving the refineries, apparently.

Nobody does dirty washing online.

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2...-supply-issues
A spokesperson for Newcastle Airport said: "Due to temporary issues with the supply of aviation fuel to a number of airlines, we experienced some limited disruption to flights from Newcastle Airport this morning.

"Each airline has a contract with a fuel supplier, who then contract fuel deliveries to haulage companies.

"We have been working with all parties to minimise the impact of this disruption and the issue is now resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."

We’ve got our vests on and we’re ready to get some lunch now.

never has a quote summed up my beloved fellow NCL passengers so much!

I blame it on the lack of supply drivers outside the airfield. No glue specialists about the north east. I do not blame the airport. I blame Boris and the Monkey hangers that caused this.