A comment......I spoke to a NCL couple on a cruise last week and asked them how they travelled to BCN to join the ship. Answer...."with no way of getting there direct from NCL we had to drive to LBA to get a direct flight...only an hour and half drive".....did you know that Ryanair flew from NCL direct.?..."NO...do they...wasn't in any of the information I looked at ?"

A little example of 'airport drift' and passengers lack of information on their local airport and what routes it serves.

LY-CHF seems to have been parked up since operating an inbound charter from Paris last week. Assuming it’s tech given another Klasjet positioned into operate the return after the game last week?

It flew most of the way from France at 11,000ft, so yr probably right.

It may be that the cruise company who they booked with chose a specific airline as their transport provider from/to regional airports, which in this case would have been Jet2 - they also fly to BCN from BHX and MAN.

It was Cunard who use BA and would have routed them via LHR. They were 'cruise only' passengers who wanted a few days in BCN before joining the ship. The wife told me that she did all of the flight bookings herself.

I see St.James has been chosen to host Some games for Euro 2028..

Do you think the airport will extend available apron parking?…no development for 20 years..wonder if the government will provide funds to expand! 😀😀😀 ?

AEGEAN AIRLINES to ATHENS now confirmed for a longer season Summer 24. Twice weekly Wed and SUN... 24th April - 23rd October

Couple of changes for FR S24 so far:
Milan BGY from 2 x weekly to 4 x weekly
Barcelona from 2 x weekly to 3 x weekly

Departed to Orly this morning

Ryanair
 

was looking last night
days of operation seems to change June 1st for a lot of routes.

im hoping this is when the 3rd aircraft is based ?

Good to see! To be honest I’m surprised it isn’t BCN x4 and BGY x3 but I think it’s an absolute given that there’s much more to give on NCL-BCN so all but guaranteed growth there, and if BGY has performed strongly enough to justify 4 weekly, and holds it up. Then brilliant!!

Third aircraft would be fantastic, let’s see. I hope Ryanair are looking at onboard spend because Geordies spend onboard like nobody else.

I wonder if Riga will come back, fares were always quite low from what I saw and it is a long-ish route. Fingers crossed, it’s nice to have a bit diversity.

A return of Madrid, Warsaw and Cork would be top of my wish list if we are in for any new routes. Closely followed by a couple of either Rome, Venice, Budapest, Pisa, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels or Valencia. A bit of competition on a Greek island or two, maybe Corfu or Rhodes, wouldn’t go amiss either.

Ryanair have potential at NCL, and they will make money. We just have to convince them to stay, because as we know, there is always *more* money elsewhere. But there is still money to be made out of NCL.

I would really like to see NCL-STN come back as well

are these on the app - I can’t see them and want to book Milan!

Don't ignore Bergamo.
Far better to stay there and get a 1 hour train into Milan for a day trip.

Thats where they fly to from NCL?

Yes, 20 mins easy bus ride to the bottom of the funicular, depending on your hotel/apartment position.
Feel free to pm me.

Totally agree about Bergamo, a much nicer place to stay than Milan and also very easy (and closer than Milan) for day trips to Verona and Venice

Milan itself in my opinion only needs half a day for the main sights but is a good base to explore Lake Como and Maggiore

useful tips guys - but I still can’t see the flights 🤯

BCN - all 3 flights done by none based
ZAD - both flights none based
BGY - 2x based 2x none based

I should add that it was my first experience of Ryan Air and they were excellent.
And by Bergamo I, and probably GayFriendly, mean the higher part called Citta Alta.
But train journeys to Verona and Venice look quite long, but that's probably getting away from the NCL forum objectives.

Looking at programme loaded, it is still a 2 aircraft base with no new routes (though there’s still time) and FAO, RIX and SNN not yet loaded.

Some frequency increases:
ALC 9x wk
DUB 10x wk
BCN 3x wk
PMI 6x wk
WRO/CHQ/IBZ/ZAD/KRK/GDN/FUE/LPA/TFS/ACE all 2x wk
BGY 4x wk
AGP 3x wk

Based aircraft seems to fly a mixture of all destinations, with exception of BCN, ACE and ZAD which are purely non based aircraft.

Not sure how all this compares to Summer 23.

S24 does look like a capacity increase overall at NCL with extra based aircraft from TUI and increase in frequency from SunExpress and new flights by Southwind.

Ryanair seems to have put all the Summer 24 flights on the timetable now from June onwards. Riga and Shannon have gone but the Polish routes are all back and Faro?? The big question is whether there will be any new routes to be announced.

They can’t be finished yet. I’m sure we’ll be seeing Faro back. Very shocked if not. Plus they need to sort April and May out. Give it a few days or weeks and it’ll all come out in the wash I’m sure

I must have blocked - can’t see Milan as bookable on the app!! Where are you guys getting your Ryanair info from??

They call it Milan-Bergamo, or the other way round

Don't have the App, but BGY is on the website for next summer - apart from May and June as noted above.

thanks. Just has a look - no good for May half term. Appreciate they may come later. TUI are usually rubbish for October half term from
NCL (finishing flights early) only Jet2 seem apply some regional sense!

From the TUI thread, looks like NCL will get 3 based 737MAX and 2 737-800, as well as the already mentioned partially based 788. Additional flights by Freebird again and Albastar for next summer, it’s quite an increase in capacity.

Also noticed EI have not yet put BHD on sale, DUB remains daily.

Half-term varies across the country - and it's only a week - no airline is going to build it's timetables around that - many have enough problems with 6-7 week school summer holidays which vary from June into September across the UK

jet2 do! The largest and most profitable tour operator 🤔

I've always assumed that the weeks between the end of the summer school holidays and the October break are filled by the many people who don't have school-age children and can take advantage of the lower prices. Most of the population in fact.

788 is based all week and will be doing Turkish flights when not long haul

788 only partially based
Mondays and Fridays - Cancun
Tuesdays and Saturdays - Orlando (Tuesday flight is fortnightly)
Sundays - AYT and DLM

SOUTHWIND AIRLINES commence seasonal service to ANTALYA ...FRIDAYS from 5th April - 4th Oct.



cr. Sean M.

Turnover trebles at Newcastle International Airport as Covid recovery continues

4.18m passengers through the gates during the year.

https://www.business-live.co.uk/reta...rport-27919280

Semi charter service on behalf of Holiday Best. Coincidentally, Holiday Best originally were selling 4 weekly services to Turkey shown as operated by Southwind, however these have now decreased to just 1 AYT service.

Ryanair seems to have fully loaded their S24 schedule, with exception of FAO. The 2 based aircraft are fully utilised looking at the schedules, RIX and SNN appear to have been terminated.

TUI also scheduled to use Freebird again for a few of their services to DLM/AYT, with AlbaStar also listed as operating a weekly flight.

NCL traffic seems to be building up again, with increases from LS, TUI and FR. I seem to recall levels of 7 million passengers a year at one point in NCL history, have we surpassed that?

So it looks like Saudia will be sponsoring NUFC more closely, maybe even introducing a route into Newcastle, which I do not think will be sustainable.

How do we know FAO just hasn't been loaded yet and isn't terminated? FAO appears to be loaded for some other UK airports such as BHX and EMA....

Well Faro hasn’t been loaded with Ryanair for S24 from any of the following

BFS
BRS
BOH
LBA
EXT
PIK

to name but a few so it will happen , it hasn’t been discontinued just a slow release

Newcastle Airport wins Best Airport under 5 Million Passenger at Routes World Conference in Istanbul.

Massive achievement, and was the only UK airport nominated. This award is voted for by airlines themselves which shows how much respect they have for the team and the opportunity at Newcastle