Getting away from it all...

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Newcastle Airport has an ever increasing number of scheduled, year-round flights. As I've made use of them myself I thought I'd produce a handy list here. When I eventually get round to sorting out a proper web page I'll keep an up to date list there. Until that time, this blog will have to do.

There are several airlines running scheduled services out of Newcastle:
easyJet is by far the largest presence and will get you to Alicante, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin, Bristol, Budapest, Faro, Geneva, Ibiza, Stanstead, Malaga, Nice, Palma, Paris (CdG), Prague and Rome.
The other big name, Ryanair flys to Dublin, Milan and Oslo.
Eastern Airways covers Aberdeen, Birmingham, Isle of Man, London City and Southampton.
Jet2 has recently arrived on the field and will happily take you as far as Amsterdam, Bergan, Cork, Mahon (Menorca), Murcia and Pisa.
flybe serves Belfast City, Exeter, Jersey and Southampton.
British Airways handles Heathrow and Gatwick and through them the rest of the world.

There are other providers such as Scandinavian Airlines for Copenhagen and Stavanger, KLM for Amsterdam and the world and SN Brussels for, well... Brussels and the world. Hapag-Lloyd Express goes to Hanover and Lufthansa to Dusseldorf.

I think the above is enough for now. There are of course charter flights as well, but if you think I'm keeping that list up to date... :-)

Anyway, I hope the above is of some use and stimulates you into seeing a little of the world before the cheap flights disappear for good.

Comments

Mal said…
You think the cheap flights *will* disappear?
23 January, 2006 00:27
Unknown said…
They're bound to. At some point the chancellor will get wise to the fact that he could earn some revenue from taxing aviation fuel at least as heavily as he does car fuel. Currently the duty is a lot lower, which doesn't really make sense, but correcting that would knock the budget airlines out of the sky (or out of British skies, at least). That would also help Britain meet its carbon emission targets.
23 January, 2006 18:48
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