Further BA LHR rotation reductions… (though some on most domestic routes)

Doubt it, Why they went bust. Happy as it makes the security of my job safer.

Probably right...Belfast is well served.... A few operators have had a go on the route over time.......there was even a rumour a few years ago that Ryanair were considering competing with EZY on the BFS route.

AER LINGUS.....daily to BHD from 28th April

source....aer lingus

Dep,. BHD 1540 arr NCL 1650. Dep NCL 1720 arr BHD 1830 M - F & Su
Dep...BHD 1120 arr NCL 1230..Dep NCL 1305 arr BHD 1415 Sa

Was BA1324 this morning a Dreamliner?

FR24 shows it as an A320 G-EUUP.

I was outside when it was flying in and it looked bigger and slower, a bit like the EK 777 but too early for that, so I looked at FR on my phone and it said a 9 year old 787 Dreamliner.
I had a look on my PC later which had it down as an A320 G-EUUP.

Dreamliner was G-TUIB LGW-NCL to operate to BGI

A-ha!
Thanks

Aer LINGUS
 

well that’s a surprise I didn’t think they would pick up the city route.

well done let’s hope people use it

People were using it albeit loads weren’t brilliant, they were consistently between 40-50% and growing which isn’t bad going head to head with EZY on their well known route to BFS. It was Flybe operating routes with less than 15 people on some routes, consistently, which was crippling them along with their late cancellations and tech issues.

EI have 8 less seats, off the top of my head, so with that in mind and a little more trust in the brand, they’ll be making a little if they can push it to 65-70% loads rather than the aircraft sitting on the ground empty.

One additional flight to Palma in April 23 by Jet2

Speaking of extra cargo flights, West Atlantic seem.to be operating a few flights to Stockholm using a 737-400F. Car parts related?

Some selected Stats from the CAA December 22 reports.

Total PAX for the year ended 31st Dec 22 is 4,127,000 making NCL the 11th largest airport in the UK (behind Belfast Intl. and ahead of Liverpool)

PARIS.........................8116
DUSSELDORf.............2162
FRANKFURT...............3557
DUBLIN....................16,299
CORK....................... 1894
MILAN........................2820
AMSTERDAM..........19,859
BARCELONA.............2743
STAVANGER.............. 585
PRAGUE...................3042
RIGA..........................2337
GDANSK...................2615
KRAKOW..................6251
WROCLAW...............2141
GENEVA...................2698
DUBAI....................18,625

ALICANTE.............. 11,198
MALAGA....................7261
ARRECIFE...............12,498
FUERTEVENTURA......5899
LAS PALMAS.............8191
TENERIFE...............22,440
FARO.......................4590
ANTALYA...................1684
HURGHADA...............2020
BARBADOS................295

VIENNA....................1761
BUDAPEST..............1175
ROVANIEMI..............2414

ABERDEEN.............755
BELFAST CITY........1678*
BELFAST INT.......14,077
BRISTOL................9491
EXETER.................1262
HEATHROW.........35,796
SOUTHAMPTON.....3254

* Shows the demand, even when operated by FLYBE with cancellations....explains why Aer Lingus snapped it up so quickly.

Bit on local news about ATC shortages and CAA ..asking questions…about closures to airspace?

Not good for the regions number 1 airport?

No closures currently NOTAM'd.

Sure it wasn't Teesside - no ATC 18.00-21.00 this evening?

Teesside ? Ben probably kept that out of the news!

Tui

looks like Orlando is increasing to 2x weekly from May 2023 and will continue throughout Summer 2024

JET 2

Two pieces of news from Jet 2, one is that NCL is to become a self handling base and ROME will have two extra flights on the 2nd and 5th May, 2024 to cover Rugby matches.

New routes

a well known guy on twitter has stated some UK airports will gain new routes next week let’s hope NCL is in the list of them.

good news about Jet2
let’s hope there is more