I was thinking that myself with up to 20 arrivals some days.....a bit confusing sometimes with 2 departures to Exeter showing on some days last week. Tomorrow has LM002 dep. 0950 and LM543 dep 1025

i’ll third that, just looked at departures for tomorrow and seeing 3 TUI flights was pleasantly surprising! Let’s just hope there is no going back.

Tentatively been looking at Greece for August this afternoon ……

Any more news on the new Cargo start-up?

When are air france returning?
 

Does anyone know when AF are returning to NCL?

Been back since March - now 3/4 times a week

Has anyone heard any rumours of IBERIA EXPRESS returning to NCL after their very brief series over Christmas/New Year 20/21.

not yet would be good to see them at ncl

good news but it was meant to be this summer but with all the restrictions some routes got dropped.
Fingers crossed summer 2022 will be good

SWBKCB

AF from NCL?
I can't see any sign of them.

Look harder - next one's tomorrow morning.

See this from March:

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

I stand corrected.
Every 2-4 days.

Car parking
 

£4 now for 10 mins..that will please the Teesside mayor!

or 15 mins free if you don't mind walking for 3 minutes...

Are you talking about walking from the Long stay car park? I thought that had been stopped.

GBYAJ

Interestingly I was up at NCL this afternoon for a Covid test, & looking across at the ramp, then partially visible were the tails of a number 4? Tui 738's & a 788?, presumed still in storage ?
It presented a very sad state of affairs, given that it's now Mid July & approaching peak season, so appears unlikely of any significant utilisation this year.
In looking at the NCL arrivals / departures board of late then very few Tui movements & in any event NCL isn't currently even currently a designated base.
With this amount of hardware lying about & no doubt dozens more elsewhere, another missing season, public confidence / optimism at a low. Then for someone who has been around NCL for many, many years, then it's all presents a surreal scene,
One just wonders how long this situation is sustainable before something gives.
One thing is for certain you can't run an airline on optimism for the future alone...

From Monday 19th, both Jet2 and TUI will be flying a considerably larger flying programme to amber list destinations. This is pretty much everywhere they would normally go apart from Turkey.

Lets see how long that lasts given the huge increase in infections in the UK. Think a lot of countries will start to get nervous letting the Brits in to holiday with the infection rate. I can see dark clouds ahead.

There's been three 738's operating most days from NCL?

3 x TUI 738 and 5 x Jet 2 738 flying Monday.

Is this not simply "papering over the cracks"?. .. 3 TUI departures from NCL in morning to PMI, CFU & IBZ returning in afternoon & that's it for the day.

Think you are confusing JET2, ref TUI then quite a few days last week when one / no flights !

Incidentally I understand that TUI's stated policy was that they were not operating to any destination on where isolation was required on return, i.e. the previous Amber Criteria. As such there remains a very limited market for TUI to operate.

Finally what's going on with TFS, one of the most popular routes & "nothing" not even on a Friday traditionally the most popular day.

Reality unfortunately is that things are as far from Normal" as they have ever been & the airport for much of the day resembles a ghost gown.

Obviously the airport and every other airport is nowhere near as busy as things were pre Covid. But its a start. (28 departures on Monday.)

Stating the obvious unfortunately Skyman. Who’d have thought seeing TFS back on the departure boards tomorrow would be an exciting event!

Yes on looking at tomorrow's departures board, then a lot more on offer, albeit predominantly Spanish destinations.
It would be nice to think that the volume of flights on offer would continue to grow, however the only certainty at this point where growth is concerned is that of the infections as regularly displayed on Govt graphs.
Indeed dare I say that insofar as the growth of traffic has concerned, then it may soon be approaching a peak for the time being.

Loganair dropping ABZ after 1st August?

Still seems to be some 'odd' (couple a week) flights for sale in Sept/Oct

ABZ/ NCL/SOU routes confirmed as cancelled.

NCL-SOU Still Bookable. 2x Daily ( 3xDaily from Sept)

NCL- ABZ Gone

NCL-SOU is definitely continuing, as are other NCL routes to Exeter, Newquay and across to Norway from next summer.

Is the ABZ cancellation permanent or temporary?
I noticed in the CAA May stats that far more pax were travelling to ABZ from MME than NCL.
Maybe Eastern will return!

The price competition at MME won't have done the route NCL any favours.

Yes , but can the mayor continue to subsidise indefinitely? I suppose he and his extravaganza on the airport must be held accountable eventually?

It’s ironic as he is trumpeting new investment and jobs on Teesside..but a lot of skilled workers still off to Aberdeen and the oil fields!

EasyJet with a quick low cost Aberdeen route would blow Loganair out of the water !

Not enough to fill an EZY A320 on low fares I wouldn’t have thought. Don’t hold your breath for that route.
These short EZY domestic routes will be gone this time next year.

A big part of the problem is apparently the offshore shift pattern changes and testing requirements.

Where you used to have a full flight north on Monday morning, many of those now need to go north on Saturday and Sunday for company PCR tests and depending on who you work for, quarantine. To carry the same number of passengers, you’d need three flights instead of one. On a route where road and rail is an option, it’s just not practical.

A shame to see the closure of a route which dates back to Air Anglia days. Do the shift pattern changes etc not also apply to MME operations? This route seems to have healthier loads.

Yes but MME routes heavily subsidised by those with money!

Jamesair1

What MME has is two airlines competing so prices are lower. Interesting to see how long that is sustainable.

A bit early to be looking at CAA stats I know, but one which raised an eyebrow was BFS. Almost 50% of pre Covid figures. June 2019 - 23,435. June 2021 - 10,695

I noticed that as well....must be pretty high demand, even in these tricky times. Below, are the rest of the stats.

PARIS...................295
CORFU..................75
DUBLIN................423
AMSTERDAM.....5871
FARO.................2060
ALICANTE..........1615
MALAGA............1023
PALMA................469
WROCKLAW.......350

ABERDEEN..........511
BELFAST..........10,505
BRISTOL.............4219
EXETER................585
HEATHROW.........8152
JERSEY.................176
NEWQUAY.............651
SOUTHAMPTON...2007

Ryanair
 

Faro now year round 2x weekly

rumours of more to follow