31 Departures on the board for tomorrow......things are looking up

I'm not saying you are incorrect, but Flightradar24 is currently showing 38 departures tomorrow. So could be even better!

Don't always believe FR24, shows some that will not be on the schedule.

I realise that! That's why I said 'I'm not saying your are incorrect'

I do think the airport board is more likely to be correct, like ERICLDAY I have seen flights on FR24 that I know are not operating.

Ryanair Base
 

Opens March 2022

11 new routes
2 based aircraft

Had FR ever ‘based’ aircraft at NCL before?
Wonder if any link with closure of Belfast base?
Im guessing this will just spread the pot thinner amongst all the current operators on duplicating routes- who’ll be first to drop or reduce?

4 brand new routes to ncl.
Riga being one of them

guys, no doubt it’s true but is there a link yet to a full story?

Not yet - announcement expected later today at an event at the airport.

The new routes should be

Bergamo
Fuerteventura
Gran Canaria
Krakow
Lanzarote
Paphos
riga .
Tenerife
Ibiza
Menorca
Chania and Zadar now for summer 2022

The coast near Riga has some nice beech resorts.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news...outes-21234130

So which ones aren't currently served by anybody from NCL - Riga and Bergamo for sure, and Zadar and Chania?

I wouldn't have thought there will be too much dilution of other carrier's networks with this base. Ryanair are probably more likely to bring growth with cheaper fares and bring the pax back to NCL that would have ordinarily leaked out to EDI/LBA/MAN. Since S19 NCL has also lost x6 based aircraft between TCX and EZY. These have now just about been covered. All being well, and covid dependent, x5 of those based aircraft have been recovered. x1 from TUI, x2 from Jet2 and x2 from Ryanair, as well as the new routes from Vueling and Corendon, S22 is really starting to look up. It is a shame that NCL appears to have lost it's fair split of Business/leisure/charter traffic that was always held onto for so long, but in comparison to similar sized airports, we do rather well. Here's hoping EK come back, LH stay and grow to a more feasible x2 daily rotation and BA/AF/KL/LM recover their networks.

Ryanair summer 2022 looks as follows:
Dublin - x11 weekly (DUB based - there appears to be a NCL based afternoon rotation scheduled on Saturdays but they all currently appear as 'sold out' - so could be x12 weekly)
Alicante - x7 weekly (ALC based)
Fuerteventura - x2 weekly
Gran Canaria - x2 weekly
Ibiza - x3 weekly
Lanzarote - x2 weekly
Malaga - x2 weekly (AGP based - reduced from x4/5 weekly)
Menorca - x3 weekly
Palma - x7 weekly (PMI based)
Tenerife - x2 weekly
Faro - x4 weekly (FAO based)
Gdansk - x2 weekly (GDN based)
Krakow - x3 weekly
Wroclaw - x2 weekly (WRO based)
Riga - x2 weekly
Milan Bergamo - x2 weekly
Chania - x2 weekly
Paphos - x2 weekly
Zadar - x2 weekly

Not a bad setup, just off to pick which ones I'm going to use now!

KRK starts October 2021. Using KRK based aircraft, before switching to NCL based aircraft once base opens.

Any news on the new cargo airline....has it any a/c at NCL?

No - didn't operate a flight.

Cargo airline
 

Any ideas what is happening has this operation failed or is there hope it will still be happening ?

Can’t believe Easy Jet aren’t interested in a Newcastle Aberdeen route? (Or someone?)

250 plus miles..terrible roads and two areas with massive planned and current industrial development?

A route that has operated for 50 years?
Don’t understand 🤔

A train every couple of hours (every hour if you change at Edinburgh ). Apart from a 20 mile stretch south of Berwick, almost all the road is a dual carriageway. Admittedly the Edinburgh bypass is usually solid, and the Dundee section is iffy. As against 2 flights a day at best?

Strange that Teesside seems to be able to sustain 3 flights a day to Aberdeen (even with the Mayor's money and two operators on the route) and Newcastle is not. Clearly the Chemical and Oil/Gas industries are more evident in Teesside but Newcastle is a far larger market and the train still takes ages.

Aberdeen will be back once the demand picks up.

Historically of course, Teesside has always had more passengers to Aberdeen than Newcastle, up until Loganair started in 2019 and Eastern were having issues with reliability - CAA passengers figures from previous years - 2014 –
Teesside – 35034
Newcastle - 30168

2015 -
Teesside – 28224
Newcastle – 20788

2016 -
Teesside – 13225
Newcastle – 8925

2017-
Teesside – 17508
Newcastle – 11410

2018-
Teesside – 21496
Newcastle – 10923

2019-
Teesside – 17055
Newcastle – 22215

And cancelled Teesside!

Well that’s a very predictable move - looks to be once a day Sun-Fri with a J41

Exactly what I thought would happen....and gradually increase frequencies as pax levels recover.

EK
 

Looks like EK have pulled out for winter 2021/22

Seem to be operating from October 15th EK33/34 Arriving 19:10PM departing to Dubai at 21:10

Seems to be a handful of student (?) flights in October and at Christmas - although mid-October seems a bit late for students?

on EK website they have flights mon, wed, fri and sun from mid October. Hope they are coming back.

But only in October? Can't find any in Nov or Dec?

EK have brought forward their re-start date. It was due to be 1st September. New flight times are so much better. They ,ay be re-editing the winter schedule which is why its not on sale. They are using STN flight times and flight number instead of the usual NCL EK35/36 times

Available throughout winter on EK33/34.

sunshine79

Yes, bookable now.

Bit confused. Appears its bookable from the end of October. MWFSu. ( Not brought forward from 1 Sept)

It looks like Emirates have been updating their website over the past 24hrs - flights are bookable from 15 October, mainly four times a week but some weeks vary.

EK033/034 were the old STN flight numbers when the service launched single daily in 2018 as an afternoon arrival/evening departure, with a long layover inbetween.

When it went double daily from July 2019 the new flight numbers became EK065/066 and EK067/068. They're showing STN from March 2022 with just the afternoon EK065/066 rotation.

EK033/034 hasn't been used since, and the NCL winter timings are not the same as the previous STN times, which was a 17:45 arrival (EK067) and 20:15 departure (EK068).

Any update on the A330F, it seems to have gone quiet and doesn't seem to be operating.

Several of us have put up a question about this and the new cargo operation which seemed to have started up........ but no-one seems to have any information.

On a different matter....with 36 departures on the board tomorrow, this must be the highest so far...with Jet2 using 7 a/c

The only info on the cargo op is that the aircraft that was parked here for a few weeks (9H-LFS) is being used out of Kiev to various destinations, so draw your conclusions from that. Cancelled or delayed ?