Great shots all, great to see a shot off Air Newcastle

James

Nice shots there:cool:

James

I don´t think there´s a tradition among Spanish holidaymakers in spending their holidays there. It´s a lovely place indeed, but most people are interested in city breaks essentially London and Edimburgh. If advertised properly could be interesting for the thounsands of Spanish kids who travel to the south to learn English. But that´s essentially seasonble. Let´s wait and see.

Hope it turns out ok then the BOH-Hahn route which was stopped.

James

Yeah this is the right place,Nice report and great pictures there where abouts is Niederrhein-Weeze is it near any city or town? the RAF Tonkas are they GR1’s?

James

Madrid Barajas Airport, despite of being the busiest in the country, and the gateaway to our capital is indeed the worst ever seen and not popular in Spain at all. The flashy new T4, and stravaganza built in a pharaonic way just for Iberia showing off hasn´t resolved the overcapacity problems. Delays, wrong configuration of the new runways, long taxing and a lack of interconection to the capital in terms of public transport and the other terminals. Long walking distances makes MAD an unconfortable terminal. T1, T2, T3 has been built as an excuse. A long succession of buildings with also lots of integral problems and walking distances of almost 3 km.

Ryanair has to get into Madrid for several reasons. Don Quijote Airport, built in the nearby Ciudad Real (private investment) is delayed on and on. And Vueling, ClickAir and Easyjet are just getting in Madrid. So Ryanair needed something big in Madrid. Some destinations are a bit strange, and some others don´t make sense. It seems that they are transition ones before deciding what to do in the domestic market.

Faro and Porto are intelligent ones, since are natural markets of Iberia Regional with the non cost effective CRJ operation, as well as Marseille. Some are a bit risky, I would say Shannon and Paris Beauvais. Let´s remember Madrid is not a touristical destination. So I wonder if Bournemouth,would work. There´s a overcapacity for main Paris Airports, so who would want to fly to Beauvais. The same applies to Eindhoven, unless focusized to the city´s hinderland, and I find intelligent the Scandinavian option. I hope it breaks the SAS Group and IB monopoly. Billund enters in directo competition with Stearling. East Midlands….who knows?. Thounsand of passengers who fly from London doesn´t come from the capital, but the area hinderland. So it´s an intelligent way to cut passengers from going to London.

The key here…..going for the Iberia Regional market. CRJ can´t simply compete with low costs. Things like Lyon, Marseille, Turin, Bourdeux, Strassbourg, Naples, Bologne……these are easy destinations.

I think the BOH route would work with spanish people visiting Bournemouth for a hoilday in england.

James

Nice shots Will 😉

James

jet2 hopefully easy need a kick up the rear at ncl at the moment.

Why that they doing cr*p up there?

James