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SeanM on twitter reports Eurowings have announced 2x weekly NCL-BER. VisitBritain stats show that Newcastle has a fraction of the number of German visitors that Glasgow has, yet NCL now has more German destinations than GLA. A number of positive announcements, including city routes, at NCL- an airp...

I'm not encouraged by the sale price £1.53 billion @ 5% interest (minimum) = £76.5m interest charges per year But let's see Interest charges to whome? The deal includes acquiring the £653 million external debt and no doubt internal debt will be tax efficiently used somewhere in the corporate struct...

I'm not encouraged by the sale price

£1.53 billion @ 5% interest (minimum) = £76.5m interest charges per year

But let's see

Yes, headline grabbing spin! APD is likely to be a high percentage of an average Ryanair 'load factor active/yield passive' base fare but look at the baggage / seat reservation extras being added then add in accommodation / travel to/from airports at either end to get a better reflection of the impa...

It will be interesting to see how Scotland-Canada pans out over the next couple of years with so much competiton. Much of TS pax are low-yield VFR traffic and Canadian Affair bookings and I suspect it's largely an outbound market nowadays (careful). WestJet serving ***-YYC is an interesting one giv...

I assume easyJet dropped GLA-NQY for summer 2025 Interesting use of language - AGS spokesperson 'With the addition of Newquay, Glasgow will be connected to nine destinations in England next summer.' while NQY spokesperson 'We're delighted to see the return of the Newquay to Glasgow, now served by Lo...

Who knows if this start-up will actually commence commercial operations. An article on alleged plans to operate from Scotland in the future. Given that only Prestwick and Glasgow can currently accept or accommodate 388’s, could this be the realistic hope of GLA securing a new US route in the near f...

awwdabaaby wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 9:51 pm Lots of diverts to Dxb, EK28 currently diverting to JED

Obviously a huge area of airspace was blocked out with little notice . . . not just DXB affected

A quarterly meeting and no minutes published since January's meeting . . . I suspect nothing to say!

Clive wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:34 am There’s Jet2 737-300 coming in on a charter from Parma this afternoon.

I'm sure the EXS028C is a positioning callsign - it is presumably coming in to perform an outbound charter tomorrow or Tuesday (Celtic in Dortmund?)