HLX plant Erweiterung der Dest. Newcastle

[Andie007]

Bald auch von Stuttgart, Berlin und Köln nach Newcastle?

 

 

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0500bus...mp;siteid=50081

 

A low-cost airline which began flying to Newcastle from Hanover this week wants to link the region with three other German cities.

 

Hapag-Lloyd Express will fly between the two cities three times a week after the first commercial flight touched down yesterday.

 

And chief executive Wolfgang Kurth said it will look to begin flying to Newcastle from Berlin, Cologne and Stuttgart if the new service is a success. But he added that the performance over the next six months was "crucial".

 

"Our plan is simple; to make money. Next we want to increase the number and frequency of flights to Newcastle and we will be watching demand carefully," he said.

 

"The performance in the next six months is crucial. If the demand is there in Newcastle we will be looking to connect the city with the other German airports which we serve."

 

Expanding the Hapag-Lloyd service to include Berlin could put the German airline in competition with easyJet, which began flying to the capital from Newcastle this month.

 

Mr Kurth said: "We will be looking carefully at easyJet's service to Berlin before making a decision, but competition is enjoyable."

 

Hapag-Lloyd, part of the giant TUI travel empire, has already attracted 7,000 advance bookings for the Newcastle to Hanover service; almost half the annual target.

 

Mr Kurth said: "We have every confidence in the new service. Hapag-Lloyd will be looking to attract more than 15,000 passengers to the service this year."

 

More than 250,000 euros was invested in the new service by Hapag-Lloyd before the first commercial flight landed in the North-East from North West Germany at 2.30pm yesterday.

 

The airline already flies to 18 destinations in Italy, Austria, England, Germany, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland. Hapag-Lloyd flies to Manchester from Cologne and Stuttgart.

 

Welcoming the new airline yesterday, Newcastle Airport commercial director Mike Luddy said: "Our low cost flights are extremely popular and are a major source of growth. It is fantastic that we have managed to secure a German no-frills airline, especially as it means that we are now able to offer a completely new destination.

 

"Like Newcastle itself, Hanover is developing into a major commercial hub and we have long been aware of a strong demand for a regular, great value air link to serve the needs of the North-East." Budget flights, which began in earnest in Newcastle with the arrival of easyJet 12 months ago, pushed passenger numbers at the airport to four million this year.

 

Hapag-Lloyd's 90-minute flights will leave Newcastle on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 3pm, arriving in Hanover at 5.30pm. Return flights, on the same days, leave Hanover at 2pm, landing in Newcastle at 2.30pm.

[joe]

Kann mir ehrlich gesagt nicht vorstellen, dass HLX so dusselig sein wird gegen EZY von BER nach NCL zu fliegen.

 

Wie von vielen hier festgestellt, ist NCL die Strecke, welche wohl am schlechtesten von den bereits aufgenommenen angelaufen ist. Abgesehen davon, ist NCL nicht gerade der Touristikrenner, fand ich zumindest nach meinem Besuch dort; demzufolge das Aufkommen etwa im Vgl. zu NAP (EZY ex SXF) um einiges geringer sein dürfte.

 

HLX sollte wohl mal lieber LPL ins Auge fassen, da SXF-LPL wohl super laufen soll; sogar besser als alle anderen Destis ex SXF von EZY.