KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12022 posts, RR: 43 Reply 7, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2076 times:
MEA-707, they are getting rid of all the F50s to concentrate only on LCC flying with the 737s. They cancelled the contract they had with BU to fly the west coast routes, and also a couple of routes in northern Norway.
Caravelle From Norway, joined Aug 2000, 666 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 2044 times:
GKirk, you must be joking. Maybe during the football season, Fridays and Mondays for a punter's full week end, as Newcastle has some fans here, but two smallish cities serving one smallish city? Don't think so....
GKirk From UK - Scotland, joined Jun 2000, 24621 posts, RR: 59 Reply 9, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2008 times:
Caravelle...not the football fans, but the oil/gas etc. Been a big market between NCL and Norway since the days of Braathens. A LCC would increase this market, especially if they didnt operate NCL-SVG.
Norwegian have operated a LOT of charters between NCL and Bergen recently, for shoppers to the Metro Centre I believe.
You'd be surprised. Maybe an Oslo-Bergen-Newcastle flight?
Or Wideroe operating seperate NCL-OSL and NCL-Bergen flights.
When you hear the noise of the Tartan Army Boys, we'll be coming down the road!
VCE From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1966 times:
Split is a nice old city built by the Venetians (it's a small Venice) and the Italians then (the old name is Ragusa) that has become Croatian at the end of the WWII when Italy was defeated.
It's in the Dalmatian coast in the Adriatic sea.
Heisan67 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1881 times:
A route between Oslo and Newcastle...not to mention Stavanger - Newcastle would be very interesting I belive. Widerøe operates 2 daily flights from Stavanger to Newcastle already....
Caravelle From Norway, joined Aug 2000, 666 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1862 times:
Exactly. WF has the kind of aircraft to fly between destinations of this size. Norwegian got rid of their F50s, and using their 737's would be like wearing a poncho for a napkin. The business community is interested in daily connections, and I can't imagine ever that there would be enough pax from Oslo AND Bergen to NCL on a daily basis.
GKirk From UK - Scotland, joined Jun 2000, 24621 posts, RR: 59 Reply 13, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 1833 times:
Caravelle...I have to agree with you. If it happens it'll either be NCL-Oslo or NCL-Bergen. Probably NCL-Oslo I would think, with maybe WF doing Bergen
When you hear the noise of the Tartan Army Boys, we'll be coming down the road!
Chriskam From Norway, joined Jun 2000, 44 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 1720 times:
KaiGywer: You've got it a little mixed up. The SAS Group cancelled the contract DY had with Braathens after SAS bought Braathens. DY also operated two F50s on PSO-flights in Northern Norway in 2003 (Tromsø to Lakselv and Andenes), but cancelled that contract when they figured out it wasn't such a hot idea after all. The PSO-flights are now operated by Widerøes. Norwegian did operate SVG-NCL in 2002 with F50s, but cancelled that route in December 2002 when Widerøe became too tough a competitor, and DY was too preoccupied with their LCC-operations in Norway to spend time on NCL. P***d a lot of folks in NCL off! The airline flew a lot of groups (school kids mostly) from the UK to Norway during the winter and summer.
I don't think business-fliers will switch from Widerøe on the SVG-NCL route to DY, which does most of their international flights WAY off-peak. Widerøe has a really good product, with connections from the rest o Norway with SAS Braathens
Caravelle From Norway, joined Aug 2000, 666 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1643 times:
Heisan67, what cargo to carry? Salmon?
Or heavy oil related equipment? Forget it. They use ships these days. It's not a 24 day voyage. It's done in less than 20 hours if need be.
VCE From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 19, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1614 times:
Gamarocchi, you are right regaring the name, Dubrovnik was Ragusa, Split was Spalato.. but both were built by the Venetians and then before to become Croatian they were part of the Kingdom of Italy.
Heisan67 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1582 times:
I belive there are cargo between Stavanger and Newcastle, which also would effect the traffic, but I understand that there is not that much as between eg Stavanger-Aberdeen.
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12022 posts, RR: 43 Reply 21, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1532 times:
As far as I remember from working for WF at SVG, the cargo loads to ABZ were always heavy, with pieces of equipment weighing up to 150-200 kgs each. I don't remember much cargo on NCL however.
CroFlight From Croatia, joined Jul 2001, 275 posts, RR: 1 Reply 22, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1501 times:
VCE, you probably missed some of your basic history classes in primary school... or... something's wrong with your head?
Dubrovnik was independent republic, never belonged to Italy or any other country in history!
Split was italian only during the italian occupation in II WW, when your idol Mussolini was the main guy.
It was built by roman emperor Dioklecian far before Italy was founded or Venice was built.
Sorry for off-topic, guys, but I couldn't resist... hope you understand.
VCE From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1395 times:
Does anybody knows if Norwegian will continue to fly to Venice also in winter 2004? Thanx in advance.
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Dear CroFlight.. my idol was is not Mussolini.. and i know the history well. Dalmatia has become Italian before Mussolini took over Italy and anyway the Dalmatians as all the other Italians payed a big tribute to the Reunification of the country. Should we remind the thousands of Italians killed by yr idol Tito when he took over Dalmatia at the end of the WWII? Don't you remind that people there were forbidden to study Italian or to print newspapers in Italian? I remind also that Tito wanted Trieste.. Anyway you should know that the origins of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) are dated to the Roman Empire, and
25 Gamarocchi: VCE: I am sorry to contradict you. It is true that a request of Italy was to have Istria and Dalmatia after the first world war. Anyway, Italy only go
26 VCE: Gamarocchi, right only if you speak about the south of Dalmatia, and basically Ragusa (Dubrovnik). Anyway if you still go now as i often do in the cen
27 Gamarocchi: Agreed for Fiume. And true that there was maybe an "almost majority" of Italians in Spalato. I also know very well about what happened to the venetian
28 Heisan67: Regarding Norwegian....3 more B737-300 are added to their fleet these days, thats why they add more destinations to their network. If Norwegian will c
29 Marcopolo747: DY has one of the nicest liveries in the sky and is apparently taking the Norwegian flag farther than Braathens used too. I've not flown with it, but
30 Heisan67: And the livery for Braathens will be changed soon, so will the SAS livery for SAS Norway. SAS Norway and Braathens are to become 1 airline company in
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