Summer ‘24
The programme for next year is beginning to appear. EasyJet, reductions on Manchester. No second Friday flight and Wednesdays dropped. Hopefully this will encourage Loganair to go double-daily. Ryanair will be back on all six routes with Alicante up to 3 per week. (Faro not yet loaded.) July/August passenger numbers, 97.5% of the same months in 2019. Great result.

Will both Ryanair and Aer Lingus continue to fly NQY/DUB?

Yes, Ryanair will operate three per week end EI daily.Ryanair have reduced the original schedule for 24/25 from 4pw to 3. Still a lot of seeds to fill.

Apologies. Should have read: 23/24.

Aer Lingus have loaded daily NQY/DUB and Ryanair have a 3 weekly (Tue/Fri/Sun) NQY/DUB loaded in their system for Summer 24

Genuine question.

When might EI consider double daily DUB at am and pm

same question for loganair MAN

With Ryanair also on the route my question would be when will one of them quit

Stansted returns.Without announcement or fanfare, Ryanair have put Stansted on sale from 17th December. (previously relaunch was at the start of the summer schedule). Thursday and Sunday. That’s now five year-round routes from Newquay. I stand to be corrected, but that is more than any other non--base airport in the UK. Well done team CAN!

Ryanair diversions?
 

Why are all the Ryanair flights diverted to EXT today? But everything else is operating normally? Plus some additional odd easyJet movements. What’s going on?

The easyjet movements may be training flights.

The EZY aircraft are doing circuits, touch and go for training.

Lack of de-icing facilities at NQY apparently

Looks like Eastern have dropped both Humberside and East Midlands and SAS Copenhagen for S’24. Not significant in terms of seeds, but not great to lose three out of last years destinations.

Seats!

Where has that come from? Eastern still selling HUY flight.

Kind regards

BristolexFlyer

Still showing on the drop-down menu, but no flights bookable

I stand corrected! HUY, now showing as Monday/Friday. Was it yesterday when I checked.

That's Eastern you're dealing with - no wonder it gets confusing

NQY sent out an email advertising CPH with SAS so seems like it isn’t dropped.

Copenhagen, not on sale as of today.Let’s hope the airport are right and I’m not

It is available to book. At least on my SAS app. Operating every Monday and Thursday during summer. Operated by CRJ900.

You’re right. It’s there this morning (I must get out more!). 10 airlines operating from Newquay this summer is great for the airport and Cornwall. Half a million passages this year? 1989

Additional frequency to Alicante. 4th weekly flight commences 2nd July until end of S ‘24.Sorry to see that Jonathan Hinkles has departed Loganair. He was a great supporter of Newquay, especially immediately after the flybe collapse.

Yes, I too am sad/surprised to see Mr Hinkles depart from Loganair so suddenly, however he's a shrewd businessman and must/will do whatever is right for himself; I believe that he's left Loganair in a far better condition than it was in when he became CEO and I have an immense amount of respect for him - unless anyone is willing to say something that would give me reason to think otherwise...!?

Specifically on the point of NQY though, he did have a bit of a rant when they allowed Flybe 2.0 to compete on the NQY-MAN route, which Loganair was already serving at the time.

He didn't just have a rant he had a full on hissy fit and pulled the service along with EDI before re-instating it 6 months later

And with the benefit of hindsight, I think called it probably bang on. That route won’t support two airlines over winter, the relaunch date planned in advance predicted Flybe Mk2’s failure within a couple of weeks and it sent a clear message to Newquay Airport!

Anybody know how FR loads have been on the Stansted service?

Not such great news from easyJet. They’ve dropped all departures in October on Manchester, and the increased frequency in July/August is going too. If ever, there was an opportunity for Loganair to go double-daily, it’s now.

Hopefully they redirect some of this MAN capacity to SOU

This isn’t new - it was about three months ago that they cut back to twice weekly for the summer. Used to be five weekly in peak summer and now just Mon & Fri only.

Start a business route in July?
More likely that demand from their holiday division requires an additional flight somewhere.

There’s a huge gap in the market here ready for loganair to find a couple of frames to base at Nqy.

Manchester supports around 8k passengers per month during peak season. Shouldn’t be hard to run x3 daily with an early ex Nqy and late back with a middle of the day

open a base and run the other routes ex Nqy ? Add in LBA, EMA, AMS …..

Loganair aren't cheap..............

oooooh I’m well aware.

but demand is there for Manchester. Loganair offer codeshares etc to connect at Manchester

it’s been a huge market for Nqy going waaaay back. Most recently loganair and Easy. Flybe. BMI baby. Air south west etc

Neither is the train fare!

Stellar performance from the February CAA Stats. Nearly 23k passengers, 107% up up on February’23 - easily the best in the country. Rolling year is up to 424k passengers. New winter services to Stansted, Malaga and Faro, plus additional Dublin frequencies have driven most of the growth. Clouds on the horizon: easyJet pulling Manchester from the end of September; Belfast ending mid-September and no EIR Dublin on sale for winter 24/5.

Cornwall Council have announced they are seeking a "private sector partner" to assist or take over the running of the airport! Any takers?

That's a job for RCA, Regional and City Airports, who run airports such as NWI, I would say.

Interesting that they do not appear to be considering a sale of the site, which would almost certainly result in purchase by a developer who would permanently close it and build on it, be it houses or business facilities like at DSA. This seems to be a way of offloading it without losing the airport as a strategic asset.