The doommongers appear 😀. Probably correct though, as I suspect T3 will relocate to MME

I think SAJN needs scrapped. A colleague has flew with Loganair 3 times in the last week and has had 2 cancellations and a delay. It’s gone tech for the fourth time in a week, unbelievable really.

Is it still there? Have they fixed it?

BA. LHR.
 

from what I can see it’s 4 daily Sat and Sun. And 5 or 6 daily on weekdays.

Piece from a local rag.
Pilot mistook the A1 for Newcastle Airport's runway | The Northern Echo

and here's me thinking there are only bad drivers on the roads...........how many points did that get him? MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone

Good thing too.
 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news...ptive-25901913

Wonder if my mate saw it.

I note that FLYBE...... BHD flights yesterday and today cancelled.

Tech issues, again, I believe. They’ve done well for the last few weeks though.

Any ideas why G-JZHK diverted to Manchester tonight? No weather issues or anything!

something about the lights not working correctly on the aircraft

Regarding G-JZHK diversion- it suffered an instrument failure which precluded it flying in icing conditions. It's raining in Newcastle (airframe icing conditions) and gin clear in Manchester. I was on it.

Did they find you a seat on EZY or ????

Off topic......what are the CAA number crunchers up to? the monthly stats haven't got beyond October so far.

Correct me if wrong .but only updating every 2 months I hear? Cost saving?

New system, so they still come out monthly, but figures are two months behind the month. So October came out end of December. November will come out end of January.

Thanks for the info......I suppose that is called an 'IMPROVEMENT' to the stats service.

Loganair must be paying out some serious compensation the last 6 weeks from NCL.

Taking advantage of a lull in proceedings to ask a possibly strange question that occurred to me the other day...
Going through my aircraft photos, I noticed that every airport of any size (I'm excluding places like Stronsay and Alderney here) has a block paving surface on the ramp. The only exceptions I can find are Reykjavik (the domestic airport, not Keflavik), Vagar in the Faroe Islands, El Hierro in the Canary Islands - none of which handle large jets of the size of some that frequent NCL - and possibly Luxembourg, although it was raining when I was there so it's hard to say for certain.
Basically, why does Newcastle have a tarmac ramp?

Idle hypothesis here: Something to do with the possibility of subsidence or shifting ground? The Canaries and Iceland are volcanic (not sure about the Faroes?). Tyneside and Luxembourg are both riddled with mine workings, iron in Luxembourg and coal on Tyneside.
I'm probably wrong here, but any ideas / inside info?

CORENDON increased DALAMAN flights to 2 weekly Wed/Sat for Summer 23 from planned 1 wkly (Sat)

Selection of pax figures for november 22

paris..................7905
dusseldorf..........1651
frankfurt..............3266
cork....................2394
dublin...............17,111
milan..................2332
rome...................2537
amsterdam.......20,398
barcelona............2863
stavanger..............702
prague................2586
riga....................1857
gdansk...............2416
krakow................5762
wroclaw...............2324
dubai...............12,800

paphos.......1343
faro............6021
funchal.......1233
alicante....14,609
malaga.......8049
palma......... 596
arrecife.....12,376
fuerteventura....6510
las palmas..7721
tenerife....22,878
antalya.......3821
dalaman..... 579
hurghada...1402

aberdeen...............764
belfast city...........766
belfast int.........14,771
bristol..................7541
exeter....................861
heathrow..........40,488
southampton......3680

Amazing you can guess the accuracy of pax numbers 10 months in the future.

oops....well spotted......just one of my amazing talents!!!

Dubai seems low for November?

Emirates
 

Correct, based on the expected aircraft just 71% load factor but there were quite a few three class versions (354/360 seats) so more like 77% load factor.

November is not one of the busier months for Dubai looking at the UK figures but that could also be said for the figures pre-Covid.

Pete

If you are using load factor as a measure of route performance, is it relevant that they substituted lower capacity a/c on occasions?

Maybe more relevant is that 158t of cargo was carried, 50% more than any other month of the year.

Trying to think whether the world cup should have increased Dubai traffic in November or whether it would have subdued it?

I'm not sure why it would have increased traffic.

EK don't fly from Dubai to Doha, and they don't codeshare with QR on that route, so a separate ticket would have been needed DXB-DOH £944 return cheapest for one hour flight. many probably travelled 90mins up the road and Caught direct Qatar

50% increase in cargo is great.
let’s hope this continues.

with Teesside setting up a freight centre I wonder if this will effect Ncl in the years ahead

Virtually all NCL's cargo is carried in the belly of the EK 777 or on the FedEx 737. There is very little ad hoc work. The 'just in time' charters for Nissan on biz jets and small turbo props are so small that they don't trouble the scorers down at the CAA.

For some reason it appears the powers that be decided passengers were the only way at Newcastle.

It appears very little, if any investment has been put into freight or ancillary work..hangers , paint , maintenance.

This is despite a freight base market of Pharmaceuticals,Del la Rue ,Nissan etc. combined with an aviation void in the area , meanwhile, Teesside scraped along, just surviving.

Teesside now appear to have found a market and despite minimal freight so far, it appears that the future could be brighter due to the pro active Mayor and airport management?

Apart from developing the freight village (at a guess I would say 3 times larger than MME's hangar?), Apron G for mail/freight flights, and the academy. Newcastle doesn't have a lot of spare space for big hangars, the site is a lot smaller than MME

Del la rue is away, and the others won't sustain freight only services. Nissan 'just in time' charters tend to be spilt between NCL/MME depending on origin/operator

Have a look at a map - the urban areas in the northeast are small and surrounded by fields and moorland...

De La Rue are still there I think, was a Kuwaiti C17 on its usual visit the other say.

FLYBE have gone into Administration.......no more flights..very sad state of affairs for all concerned..

I wonder if anyone will pick up NCL - BHD....if it was making any money.

If anyone picks up NCL-BHD, Emerald Airways would be a good bet. The problem is they only have three aircraft on their UK AOC at present to operate from Belfast City. It may come at some point though. It has always been a popular route in the past, running simultaneously with Aldergrove flights.

Blue Islands flying in the Southampton football team tomorrow evening....arr 1835

Anyone know what’s happening to the Easy Jet Bristol route..doesn’t seem to be operating much at all?

Thought it did quite well?

seems as so easyjet seems to be slowly reducing it to oblivion doesn’t it ? It’s always popular - for a large swathe of the summer there won’t be a Saturday service at all - far cry from 3-4 daily

Slack time of the year - seems to be 2 a day over summer, 1 on Tuesday, 3 on Friday when there is no Saturday

My understanding was that Easyjet use short distance routes such as BFS-NCL and BRS-NCL as filler when they would otherwise have aircraft on the ground. Loads can be really strong but yields are often not great but they keep the planes in the air, generating revenue.