Curious Pax

Even if Biden helicopters in from somewhere else there'll be vast herds of security, diplomats, media swilling about C Cornwall for about a month - all ned protecting - just think of the overtime bill for the police!! they probably can't believe their luck.

Eurowings
 

Eurowings have reinstated their Düsseldorf flight. Ops from 5/6 on a 319
Ryanair back up to twice weekly on Alicante for W21/22

G7 summit: Newquay airport to get £7.8m for upgrades https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56484551

any ideas ? What does £7.8 million buy at at airport ?

A flat white and a double choc muffin

I might be wrong but there isn't much time to spend this on improvements to the hard infrastructure (eg, runways, taxiways etc), if that were needed surely it would have been thought about before now.

More likely this will cover the costs of bringing in more ground equipment, temporary buildings for crew use, facilities for security provision etc?

To update the above posted yesteday, there's a bit more info within the following ITV News

You would think that 2.5 months is not a lot of time to complete the types of work mentioned, but we don't know how significant they need to be in reality.

Was Zurich operated to NQY before high summer at some point in past, or is the Edelweiss planned summer service brand new?

its defiantly operated previously. I want to say with Swiss ?

infact

https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1112527

Surprised no one has picked up the old BHD route

Good news! Zürich - Newquay announced in the middle of a pandemic??
Edelweiss A320 ops Sundays July - September.
By my reckoning that’s 10 airlines serving Newquay this summer. Not a bad recovery from the flybe collapse.

No carrier found for London PSO route

https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/...nwall-air-link

Looks like we all need to avoid the area like the plague during the G7 summit - 5,500 extra police involved, rail line shut, serious road disruption for four days plus, nightmare

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56751668

Will make a nice change for the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary catching the kids sniffing stuff behind the sheds in Camborne

Belfast
EIR have added BHD 3pw from 28/6
That’s the 2019 network almost complete.

Easyjet announced 3rd UK domestic summer seasonal route from Newquay to London Gatwick, flights will operate 3x weekly (Tue, Thu & Sat)

That’s the 2019 network almost complete.
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Apart from BHX I really miss this route,! Surely one for Loganair or Eastern?

Good to see scheduled ops at NQY starting to ramp up. London is the glaring gap at the moment, but EZY due to start in a week or so, then BA later in the month.

Noticed an Eastern ATR72 arriving (from SOU) last night, looks like it's operating to JER today - one-off/charter as no mention on the Airport schedules?

The Eastern ATR would have been taking the Cornish Pirates rugby squad to play Jersey Reds.

I never realised NQY has a 2700m runway. That's longer than most in the UK!

EGTE

Thanks for the info!

A320 Glider

But a burden upon the taxpayer, CAL has/had a 3,049m runway, more than they were ever likely to need or might only need once in a blue moon so not sufficient to financially support its existence, so they shut down around 40% of the runway to a more suitable length to reduce overheads, NQY remains with a full length runway!!

I thought the existence of such a long runway was one of the main reasons for selecting NQY as a UK Spaceport location.

You can easily cut that runway in half!
EZY seasonals to LGW can do STOL ops.

TODR won't be an issue as the demand cannot be that high between LGW NQY for a full load on an A319/20.

Not half but certainly by 30%, Cotswold Airport gets by with 2,000m and around these times looks like this


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....02ebb66d95.jpg

Can anyone enlighten me as to the Boeing 777-300 the landed at Newquay yesterday? Thought it looked like it was wearing a Biman livery!

Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) familiarisation flight.

Apparently stopped for lunch and fuel before heading back east!

A few USAF C17's about over recent days also.

any feeling for loads on new EZY GLA route? Fares pretty high for all the staycationers

G7. Delta A330 IAD NQY showing on Flightradar24 now.

Daily Mail reporting UK spent £8 million on a runway extension at NQY for AF1. Do we know what works were actually carried out?

So how busy is NQY today?

All I heard was the southside apron area was re-inforced/ re-surfaced for heavy aircraft.

Golden rule, never trust anything the Daily Fail reports as it's usually inaccurate or wrong!

This article from Simple Flying seems to suggest that "...a large US military plane, carrying several Osprey aircraft" was accompanying POTUS.

According to RadarBox, x4 USAF C-17 Globemasters (03-3119, 00-0184, 07-7169 & 07-7176) landed at NQY between 6-7th Jun so perhaps the upgrades would have been needed in order to be able to handle these, as Dct_Mopas suggests?

willy wombat

24 ATM or thereabouts.

Dct_Mopas

Not that there is any need for a runway extension but a dead giveaway would be if there have been any recent NOTAM's regarding WIP, ILS off air, approach lights inop etc. etc. etc.

Stobart Air ceases trading with immediate effect, that’s the end of Belfast and Dublin flights from NQY as they were operated by Stobart air, as Aer Lingus regional.

Be interested to see if Ryanair would try a twice weekly flight. Could work seasonally.

I would be surprised if EI didn’t have a back up plan. After all the regional contract was only due to run another 12 months or so before transferring to the new operator.

I would suspect mainline metal on some routes short term

and an early start date for the new entity ? Perhaps even taking on the STK leased aircraft and the crews ?

Belfast.
Cityflyer to BHD announced today. Starts 3rd. July.

Reading on the interweb that U2 have added some additional NQY domestic connections.

BHX starts 10/7
INV starts 11/7