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