Herding the sheep from Greggs? The sausage rolls are always cold.

Not a Greggs in sight!!! waiting of the coaches from the beach areas.......just thought it all looked a very efficient organisation. Thessalonika Airport has one of those "no view" internal lounges I hate.

No different to what you see at NCL. Just not Geordies.

What exactly is the link to NCL here?!?

Greggs

SWBKCB.....I was checking in at Thessaloniki for a London flight at the same time as a NCL flight by JET2 was due for departure. It was just a complementary comment on how impressed I was with the Jet2 arrangements there. The NCL pax would have been impressed......sorry if I have offended you in some way.

Not offended in anyway, but baffled by the tenuous link. Might have been more appropriate on the Jet2 thread.

Disappointing ti see AF have reduced CDG to 7 x weekly until the end of October

Checked a few days in September and still selling 2-3 flights a day?

AF we were on a morning flight returning to NCL in November, flight was fairly full as I remember when I reserved seats but flight cancelled and left with a 12hr wait in CDG! So changed all flights to KLM the next day just to get decent connections!! We had only moved to AF when KLM cancelled the outbound longhaul flight!:ugh:

I have had timing problems with both AF and KLM.
And KLM even tried to throw me out of my very carefully chosen seat when I already had my boarding pass from checking in my suitcase, ie when I was in the lounge waiting to board. I didn't let them get away with that.

In the early days of Nissan..all, Or most cargo flights operated through Newcastle ..I’m sure it was something to do with how much the local authorities were subsidising the airport.
I notice now all..or most cargo flights for Nissan appear to be operating through Teesside.

Is there a reason for this? I know the airport (Teesside) has invested a large amount of money in the freight handling side of the airport and Newcastle seem to concentrate on the Passengers.. But are the local councils ok with that?

Bit like the Saudis buying up all the players from the premier league and helping other teams develop rather than Newcastle 😀😀 !

Bit over thinking going on here - the amounts of cargo involved are tiny. It's for more likely that the operators/agents are more significant, maybe even the fuel price. Note that at the end of last year when MME was getting flights from Gyor, NCL was getting Nissan flights from Toulouse

From small acorns….however..it’s a fact Teesside are getting more dedicated “ freight charters” now than Newcastle..so must be doing something right? Maybe the freight investment down here is slowly starting to pay off?
Don’t think Newcastle have invested anything major on that side for years, management blinkered maybe?

Just putting this down carefully then standing back well back - Newcastle 6th in the list of the 10 least stressful airports in Europe...

https://www.cntraveller.com/article/...orts-in-europe

With the highest car parking charges

This is getting silly now, but I'll bite, although a look at the CAA monthly stats will put this to bed. Do the Nissan charters even use the new freight facility at Teesside, isn't it literally "man and a van" stuff?

https://www.caa.co.uk/Documents/Down...5d7927dcb/6047

Recent investment in freight at Newcastle from April this year

https://www.newcastleairport.com/new...ional-airport/

NCL's FedEx service has also grown from ATR-72 to B.738F recently

Absolutely, spot on.

While the car parking isn't the cheapest (I'd imagine anyone in Tyne and Wear or South Northumberland is better off in a taxi...) I've managed to get 2 weeks in the premium meet and greet (which involves no meeting or greeting these days) for £101 for 2 weeks which isn't too horrendous a price, though out of season in late November

Re the freight..
If you guys aren’t concerned, well that’s ok!

I would think the airport management might be starting to think otherwise?

Lots more to come down here though!

My original query..was…Nissan has become established and still subsidised to some degree by the local authorities(business rates etc)… so why are their freight flights going to a competitor? Any revenue..which in turn would fill Sunderland Council and the rest’s coffers..going to the Tees Valley and Ben?

Maybe I’m missing something?

Just seems odd!

No covid anymore. The aircraft I believe is based at NCL but it goes to CDG for FEDEX and I wager it does a couple of UK stops on the way. I only see one or two pallets ever. CDG is the hub for FEDEX European ops.

No UK tour for the FedEx 737-800 as it flies first to Liege, then Paris CDG and finally Cologne before returning to Newcastle. And to think it all started with an ATR-42 based in Glasgow which dropped into Newcastle in both directions just on its way to Paris CDG.

Think it was a EMB-120 originally on the GLA-NCL-CDG

Good to see Aegean have added flights to Athens over the Xmas period, seems to be a popular flight.

Quite a selective bunch, Conde Nast travellers - they obviously haven't been to North Ronaldsay :)
Joking aside, good to see NCL on a list that we want to be on.

HOLIDAY BEST...using SOUTHWIND AIRLINES for charter flights to TURKEY for the 2024 SUMMER SEASON.

cr SEAN M

https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2023/0...rs-this-summer

"complete refurbishment of all of the catering outlets within the next 18 months."

Hope the couches are laid to rest in the shed.

SUN EXPRESS....SUMMER 24

ANTALYA flights to be increased from 3 to 5 wkly. Flights also become year round operating 1 wkly DEC/JAN/FEB/MAR

cr.NCL airport
Sun Express

First visit of a Jumbo Jet for a few years tonight. Last one was either BA or the UAE?

It's B744 of ATLAS AIR due in from New York at 2111......almost certainly carrying NUFC home.

Good news indeed...up to 5 x daily....especially as it goes against the constant cutting of slots at Schipol. Must be a profitable route for KLM

Lot of feeder traffic to long haul I 'd guess. - certainly better than LHR

As usual, intersting use of the word 'new' - this is a restoration to 5. Hasn't it been up to 6?

TUI flight from Newcastle to Mexico diverted to Glasgow due to 'weather conditions'

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news...mments-wrapper

​​​​​Think some journalists need to understand the difference between a divert and a tech stop :ugh:

Has Newcastle fitted new scanners or do you still need your clear plastic bags for security.

Nope.

odd that TUI NCL-Cancun 788 did a fuel stop in GLA ?
stop press:
”Unfortunately, due to weather conditions at Newcastle Airport affecting the performance of the aircraft, the flight was forced to make a stop at Glasgow in order to pick additional fuel for the onward journey.