TUI Airways introduced flights between Newcastle and Sal in Cape Verde on Tuesday 7 November. The 4,620-kilometre service will be maintained weekly with the 189-seat 737 MAX 8 aircraft. TUI faces no competition on the route. Flight BY800 departs Newcastle at 09:30 local time, arriving in Sal at 15:05 local time. The return service, operating […]
November 17, 2023 | Latest Route News +
SunExpress (IATA code XQ) is a joint venture between Star Alliance partners Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, founded as long ago as 1989. A German-based subsidiary, SunExpress Deutschland (IATA code XG) operated between 2011 and 2020. According to planespotters.net SunExpress currently has a fleet of 50 737s, a mix of 41 -800s and nine MAX 8s. […]
April 13, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ryanair serves 21 airports in the UK. Of these, Newcastle was its 11th busiest last year, based on Cirium schedules information data. It had 487,000 one-way seats, a 37% rise versus 2019 thanks to its Newcastle base opening in S22. It meant it had a 19% share of the airport’s capacity. Only Jet2.com was bigger. […]
January 19, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
The ‘new’ Flybe has started its first winter season operating 44 daily flights (Mondays to Fridays) and 15 routes across 11 airports. It celebrated the start of the winter season by adding new routes from Newquay to both London LHR and Manchester, and from Newcastle to both Belfast BHD and London LHR. The Newcastle routes […]
November 17, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Earlier this week Ryanair held a press conference in London at which it revealed it would be operating its biggest ever programme from UK airports this winter. Contributing to this would be 21 new international routes including six from Birmingham and five from London STN. Of course, there was no mention of any routes that […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport, UK leisure airline Jet2.com has just reach a significant milestone. On 24 August 2022 the carrier celebrated its 100 millionth passenger. The airline, which had evolved out of Channel Express, launched its first flight out of Leeds Bradford (to Amsterdam) on 12 February 2003. By the end of […]
Back in the summer of 2019 the leading carrier between the UK and Turkey was Thomas Cook Airlines. When the airline ceased operating in September of that year, there would have been concerns about the future of the market. And then came the pandemic. So it may come as a surprise, that this summer the […]
May 6, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Corendon Airlines (IATA code XC) began its first ever flights to Newcastle in the in north-east of the UK on Saturday 2 April with service from both Antalya and Dalaman. The fast-growing Turkish leisure carrier will operate both routes 2-weekly this summer. The Antalya service will be offered on Wednesdays and Saturdays with Dalaman flights […]
April 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The start of the 2022 summer season (S22) has seen Ryanair open a new base at Newcastle in the north-east of England. This summer will see the Irish ULCC operate to 19 destinations from the airport, up from just 10 in the summer of 2019 when Newcastle was not one of Ryanair’s bases. After starting […]
March 31, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story