Couple of Ryanair changes for s23, Menorca no longer on sale but Alicante increased to 9 x weekly with double flights on Mondays and Thursdays. Would expect further changes

More Ryanair change for S23...DUBLIN increased to 15 weekly with 3 daily flights on Wednesdays and FARO cut from 4 to 3 weekly

Apologies if mentioned before NCL also looks be getting a based 8200 MAX as well. The early Tues morning SNN flight is operated by a NCL based 8200

Quite surprised at the reduction to FAO but perhaps 4 weekly was just a little too much and pushing the price point down a little too far. I'm still surprised not to see more to Malaga. Personally would rather sh*t in my hands and clap than suffer Benidorm but Alicante keeps paying the bills for all 3 of our major operators so... Whatever gets the punters through the door I suppose.

Very odd that Wednesday gets 3 flights to DUB. Sounds a bit random and slot sitter-y to me, rather than commercially driven. Monday, Friday or Sunday I would have understood. Still, a flight is a flight.

Menorca seemed to do rather poorly for FR this summer so it isn't a surprise it's been pulled although slightly disappointing. I'd have thought they'd just reduce to x2 weekly and push the prices a little to see if that drove better yields. They know what they're doing.

As for Cork, I do hope to see it come back along with Shannon for S23. It would be nice to have and maintain 5 irish destinations available from NCL.

Now then... Madrid? Budapest? Berlin? Venice? Brussels? Hamburg?

Shannon is at 3 weekly for summer 23...in fact the route commences on the 26th Mar. 23.

AVGEEK7812....do you mean increasing the base from 2 to 3 a/c?

Sorry meant one of the 738 seems to be upgrading to a MAX. two SNN flights are by SNN a/c and crew and the other seems to be a MAX and NCL crew so it seems NCL will have at least 1 MAX based next year.

more changes.....RYANAIR....CHANIA and ZADAR both up from 1 to 2 weekly for S23....AER LINGUS....daily for S23

Encouraging...

Either Paddies love the toon recently or Geordies love paying 7 euros a pint!

Either way, nice to see. My shamrock flight in October, NCL-DUB was rammed.

JET 2 timetable now showing BERGEN operating 25th and 29th April 2024...part of the City Breaks programme..
2 flts only.



CORK......the airport website has answered the question.....it has been replaced by SHANNON for S23

NCL are taking some STN diversions as their runway is closed due to the heavy snow down there

Four 737-800’s I think plus a Lauda A320 - all still on the ground at NCL at this time

Might just be me but the Ryanair based aircraft aren't utilised very much over the winter season. Seems 1 aircraft Mon-Wed then 2 Thurs-Sun. Surprised Ryanair would do that

What’s up with todays EK flight?

A lot of focus, including from me, has been on Flybe but credit where it’s due they seem to have turned a corner the last couple of weeks.

It seems that Loganair have taken their place, however, and they’ve had some nightmare tech issues this week including today resulting in delays and flight cancellations. I thought personally they usually had a relief/spare aircraft but looks like they must be having similar issues as this isn’t just limited to NCL. Hopefully resolved soon.

Isn't this normal? RYR have parked a/c up in the past over winter. Only 3 Jet2 departures yesterday

Believe it was down to crew illness.

I had a look at 2 random flights from NCL and both planes were 15 years old so tech issues to be expected and they need to have contingency plans for this.

15 years is nothing in years of an aircraft many Ryanair, Easy are same age

If you saw the announcement about the big Boeing purchase this week by United they are replacing a bunch of aircraft that AVERAGE 20-27 years old

Which is why they are replacing them.
How old was the United 757 that spent more time on the ground than in the air?

Exactly. Notwithstanding the fact that many parts and engines will have been chaged then are 15 year old aeroplanes really 15 years old...maybe just the makers plate!

"Which is why they are replacing them"

But they've run them a lot longer than the 15 years you mentioned

Winter weather causes carnage with elderly aircraft. There are no new regional aircraft in the 30/70 seat class. Bar ATRs and they are not the greatest of machines.

This week at NCL:

FZFG at NCL Tue
Handlers de-icing rig broke Wed
Aircraft tech Wed nt with cold weather issues

Couldn’t get usual replacement aircraft in from ABZ due mass disruption, snow and ice causing havoc with crew and maintenance schedule. Also one 145 late back from C check just on its way home now and an ATR late back from C Check home earlier today, both over a week late.

Just about getting back on track now. Not a good week to be flying.

the run up to Christmas is never a good time to go flying

Paris. Are Air France cutting their Newcastle frequencies? From first April, the night –.stop aircraft appears to have been removed and replaced with a single A319 flight in the late morning. A far cry from the 3-times daily service operated last summer.

No....there is an overall increase of 2 flights a week...early season it rises to 15 weekly then drops back to 14 per week. flights per day vary between 1 2 and 3 daily. Gradually recovering to the 3 daily level.

…… that’s not showing on the AF website.

Just looked at the week starting 1 April it varies from 1 to 3 - strangely (to me anyway) it's Monday and Friday with just one flight. (Mix of mainline and Hop!)

No nightstoppers on Sun/Mon and Fri/Sat IIRC. With a 3rd flight on Tues/Thurs?

April is 1x M, 3 x Tu, 2 x W, 3x Th, 1 x F, 2 x Sa and 3 x Su....giving 15 flights an increase of 2 overall.


changing tack ....I wonder how long before Lufthansa goes double daily on FRA?

that will teach me not just to check Mondays and Fridays 🙂

Some October Pax figures.
PARIS................14,095
DUSSELDORF......2120
FRANKFURT.........3798
DUBLIN..............19,829
MILAN................. 2679
ROME..................2984
AMSTERDAM....26,635
STAVANGER..........839
DUBAI...............15,139

MELBOURNE.......3019
CANCUN...............4187

DUBROVIK..........2960
LARNACA............5941
CORFU................3307
CHANIA...............2470
HERAKLION.........5806
KOS.....................5687
RHODES..............6565
FARO................16,438
ALICANTE.........26,635
IBIZA.................13,054
MAHON...............8206
MALAGA...........16,644
PALMA.............30,685
REUS..................5100
ARRECIFE........13,412
FUERTEVENTURA......7170
LAS PALMAS......9806
TENERIFE........23,987
ANTALYA.........12,364
DALAMAN.......12,255
RIGA.................2541
GDANSK...........3671
KRAKOW..........7204
PAPHOS.........10,383

ABERDEEN........767
BELFAST ......16,884
BRISTOL........11,560
EXETER............1247
HEATHROW...29,279
NEWQUAY.........401
SOUTHAMPTON....

TOON 22
No worries....it's all a bit of entertainment on a feezing cold day.
Look at my last post....when I typed the pax numbers they were all in a straight line....look how they've come out.....I am sober as well.

Very odd, really. Pretty much across the board, Monday and Friday are the days of the week with highest demand. Perhaps there's a liaison with KLM that we aren't seeing or the schedule isn't fully complete yet. We have to presume they know their market though. There are, however 2 CDG-NCL flights on Mondays and Fridays. AF mainline night stoppers.

As for LH double daily FRA, lets hope soon. I would like to see Aegean and Lufthansa support eachother and build *A loyalty in the North East. Turkish would be a nice addition to that as well.

Be good to see FRA going twice daily

Loganair Summer 2023
 

MME looses based 145 NCL gains it

Aberdeen 2 x daily
Oslo via Aberdeen 6 x weekly

information from seanM1997 on twitter

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And don't forget SOUTHAMPTON increases to 3 daily.

Best news I have heard for ages.

BA decreasing frequency to LHR to 4 daily next summer.
Wonder if Loganair would have made this move if T3 hadn't just upped frequency to ABZ...

Bet that Loganair timetable bears no resemblance in 6 months. Talk about shifting deckchairs.