thats the one! starting work on it before xmas im told

Some good news to report
Only to return next winter (2008/09). The tour operator is Thomson. Also looks like MYT/TCX will be nightstopping on Thursday/Friday again

HUY has secured a Fred Olsen cruise flight to Fort Lauderdale next November :)

There will be a new Antalya charter next summer operated by Onur Air for Goldtrail Holidays. Thomas Cook currently have an Antalya flight. Next summer sees 8 weekly Turkey charters

(Next summer sees 8 weekly Turkey charters)

Seems Christmas is coming early to Humberside :cool:

I dont think it's Christmas. This flight, and the other new one (Freebird to Dalaman) replace Alicante and Ibiza (Thomson flight) so things are looking pretty static next summer. Good news anyway to get a new flight, and static is better than decline :)

Dont get too excited, Goldtrail are very astute at "playing the field", they market holidays from various UK airports and lo & behold, those that have good advance bookings operate as advertised, those that don't suddenly get transferred to other airports.
I seem to remember they did precisely that at Humberside last year - the latter that is.

No Goldtrail didn’t do that at HUY last year. If i remember correctly they planned to start last years once weekly service in July as it was only announced a couple of months before May.

This past summer they sent in 2 weekly OHY, Airbus A300's. One each from Bodrum and Dalaman.

Correct me if I’m wrong though.

In fact, during S07, the vast majority of GT holidays that were initially advertised from regional airport, actually operated. HUY's BJV was operated 99% of the time with A300 a/c, and the DLM with the A321. The only negative thing I can see happening, is HUY losing the Thomas Cook AYT after S08 due to the fact that GT are invariably cheaper.

Regards

Mike

Its far better than a loss of routes, hopefuly things will start to look up again after next year

I'm sorry if this is an old chestnut, but I'm going to mention it anyway. By my reckoning Humberside is now the only airport in the UK named after a region. Humberside will have no meaning outside the UK, and little within it, the political entity having been abolished some time ago. Is it not time to consider a change of name to the cities it serves? Grimsby/Hull or Hull/Grimsby? They may not have the highest of European profiles, but they have to have more than Humberside. Does anyone know if there is any legal reason why the name could not be changed, such as a daft clause left by the now defunct county council after the airport was privatised?

East Midlands, Kent International and, stretching a point, Durham Tees Valley

To make everyone in the region happy it would need to be Hull Grimsby Scunthorpe Lincoln International Airport... Probably just down to not wanting to cast anyone out they still use Humberside.

My opinion would be Hull Lincolnshire Airport or Hull Grimsby, you would have thought it would market the airport better to airlines etc??

To carry on with the latest fashion, how about Friar Tuck International.:)

Remember NEMA - Nottingham may have liked the name change but Derby and Leicester didn't and it's now back to simple EMA

Simply I don't think there is a name that will please everyone, so probably best to keep how it how it is

How about Harry Haddock International?:ok:

Kirmington - always was, always will be.

It could have been John Prescott International.
Unfortunately he supported DSA in an attempt to kill off his home airport. Or, maybe he thought the region needed more airports.I suppose similar to owning 2 Jags..:mad:

Hull-Lincolnshire is long winded, and the Lincolnshire would drop off abroad, but it has a certain quality to it.
On a different topic of names, I recall that in the not too distant past Air Anglia (now KLM) split their Humberside scheduled services between Kirmington and the BAe plant at Brough, a short train ride from Hull. Could anybody tell me
1) Why they did this;
2) What the Brough site was called in timetables;
3) Is the infrastructure still at Brough for public transport fligths?

Bae Brough
 

If I remember correctly, Brough became an unlicensed airfield because a chimney was built on the approach to one of the runways. Didn't affect Bae flights at the time, as they were private operation.
Add: From Wiko....
"As of 7th September 2007 the company are intending to fly all Hawk jets from Brough to Warton at a rate of two per month. It is unsure whether the airfield will become fully operational though"
and a quote from an old Yorkshire Aviation News sums it up!
Quote:
The Last Laugh
.. was with Hawker Siddelev over the closure of Brough Airfield. They
have sold an H.S.125 to the Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp. but the Corporation will
not be able to fly to within 50 miles of their new £9M plan because the
600ft high chimney it incorporates is closing the local airport- Brough.
Unquote