pictured (l-r) Nick Jones (CEO at Newcastle Airport), Goro, Emma and Stephen Pattie & Luke Farajallah (CEO at Loganair)
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Loganair hits 300K milestone at Newcastle

The UKs leading regional airline Loganair (LM/LOG) is celebrating 300,000 passengers at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT). To celebrate the milestone Loganair awarded the 300,000th passenger, medical-student Emma Pattie, with free flight vouchers. Emma said: “It was such a wonderful surprise to be given these tickets – I wasn’t expecting that at [read more]

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Newcastle Airport gets winter boost from Ryanair

Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) will see a boost to its winter schedule thanks to Ryanair’s (FR/RYR) biggest ever winter program from the airport. The Irish budget airline will operate a total of 80 weekly flights across 15 routes during the Winter 2022/23 season. This includes 6 new routes to Barcelona, Cork, [read more]

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Sun Express plans Bristol and Newcastle expansion

Turkish/German carrier Sun Express (XQ/SXS) has said it plans to launch flights from Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) and Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) from 2023 bringing its UK destinations to eight. Making the announcement at the Routes Europe conference Sun Express confirmed it was also looking to expand its existing UK airports including [read more]

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Loganair launches Newcastle to Norway flights

Hot off the heels of the resumption of Norway flights from Edinburgh, Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has launched new flights from Newcastle (NCL/EGNT). The Newcastle to Stavanger service gets underway for the first time since the pandemic and later this week (Saturday 21st May) sees the start of the brand [read more]

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Ryanair opens Summer base at Newcastle

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has opened its two aircraft summer base at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) bringing 10 new routes and 60 directly-employed jobs to the North-East. The new base will see Ryanair fly a total of 19 routes from Newcastle and up to 130 flights per week. New routes [read more]

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Eastern restarts Aberdeen to Newcastle air link

Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) has restarted its Aberdeen to Newcastle air link in a move welcomed by business in Scotland and the North-East. The service operates Six days a week using Eastern’s low-emission turboprop aircraft. Roger Hage, General Manager, Eastern Airways, said: “In serving the North-East of England to Aberdeen for [read more]

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Ryanair to open Newcastle base

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it is to open a two-aircraft base at Newcastle Airport (NCL/EGNT) in 2022. The move follows high demand for the airline’s flights from Newcastle and will see it add a further 12 routes from the North-eastern gateway. Opening the base will see Ryanair [read more]