Cornwall Airport Newquay - General Thread

[TheLocalYokel]

Cornwall Newquay Airport has closed for everything except 'vital' services' that include the Cornwall Air Ambulance, HM Coastguard Search and Rescue and military operations.

The temporary suspension of all passenger flights is the result of "the impact of current Government guidelines on demand". It is not known when the airport will reopen to passenger services.

Cornwall Airport Newquay closes and suspends all flights

The aerodrome will stay open to support vital services

www.cornwalllive.com

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Re previous post, NQY is now reopening for some domestic flights.

Cornwall Airport Newquay reopens for UK domestic flights

Commercial flights have been stopped since November 9

www.cornwalllive.com

 

[Jerry]

Flight start dates

www.cornwallairportnewquay.com

 

[superking]

Boris announced today the G7 2021 summit will be in Cornwall this year. Not been released yet where in Cornwall it will be held,but not too many places to choose from.The airport better get it self open and get the decorators in. They have a nice long runway with plenty of aircraft parking. We must not forget RAF Culdrose is not far away from Newquay It should be some good buisness for Newquay.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Boris announced today the G7 2021 summit will be in Cornwall this year. Not been released yet where in Cornwall it will be held,but not too many places to choose from.The airport better get it self open and get the decorators in. They have a nice long runway with plenty of aircraft parking. We must not forget RAF Culdrose is not far away from Newquay It should be some good buisness for Newquay.

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[TheLocalYokel]

I saw an interview with Tim Jeans on the BBC's News 24 Channel at teatime. He is chairman of the company that runs NQY and is also a former managing director of Monarch Airlines and former commercial director with Ryanair amongst other previous aviation posts.

He was asked about the situation with the industry and specifically how NQY is managing. The airport is closed for commercial traffic at the moment, as mentioned recently in the NQY forum, and he expects this year to see a slow recovery in the first part of the summer period which should increase in momentum around July.

He again made a plea so often heard from the industry during the pandemic that air passenger duty be relaxed and gave as an example someone flying from Manchester to Newquay and then back to Manchester. Such a journey would attract £13 in APD on both journeys and Tim Jeans suggested that levying this charge on only one leg would be of considerable help to the industry.

 

[superking]

Looks like the G7 will not be in Cornwall. By what has been said in the dried plum that some one jumped the gun by saying Cornwall for the G7 this time.
I wonder who is right.??

 

[HPsauce]

The announcement that this years G7 summit will be held at Carbis Bay near St Ives, Cornwall June 11 - 13th will present a major boost to Newquay Airport i would imagine. A visit from the new US President Joe Biden et all.

 

[Jerry]

Looks like the G7 will not be in Cornwall. By what has been said in the dried plum that some one jumped the gun by saying Cornwall for the G7 this time.
I wonder who is right.??

Cornwall seaside resort to host G7 summit of world leaders

The four-star Carbis Bay Estate is set to host the event in June, which US President Joe Biden is expected to attend.

www.google.com

 

[Ray Finkle]

It should be a good few days and Newquay or Culdrose. It sure was a sight to see in 1998 when it was held in Birmingham.

 

[David_itl]

One of the things that can be neglected is that sometimes the bilaterals in place often limit which airports can be served. Not every country signed up to EU-"them" open-skies treaties and so the old "UK-"them" bilateral is in place. From what I remember, the UK-Taiwan bilateral offered up London only originally but was updated to allow Manchester operations. Back in the day, it was either Air Jamaica or BWIA that were restricted to flying to London or Prestwick only so the had to lobby to get the bilateral altered to allow Manchester to be served.

Even what would appear to be the straightforward Biman operating Dhaka-BHX-JFK couldn't actually be done as though the Bangladeshi and UK authorities didn't mind, it was the USA that put the block on as they refused to allow Biman the right to transfer the "intermediate" 5th freedom point from Manchester to Birmingham. BHX would have been served as purely Dhaka-BHX-Dhaka with a timetable akin to arriving one day and departing over 24 hours later with the aircraft having operated to/from JFK in between times.

 

[Jerry]

Virgin Orbit successfully put a satellite into orbit on the 17th. They'll be moving to Newquay eventually and operating from there.

 

[Jerry]

Route network from the past!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1360606807333498882

 

[TheLocalYokel]

G7 summit: Newquay airport to get £7.8m for upgrades

The airport needs upgrades to support "the aircraft types" which world leaders will arrive on.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[TheLocalYokel]

World's biggest and deepest pool set to be built in Cornwall

The facility would help train astronauts and has the backing of Major Tim Peake

www.cornwalllive.com

 

[Jerry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413954642866749442

 

[CM.]

Intriguing! Wonder who or what will do it.

 

[Jerry]

It'll be interesting to see who bids for it!

 

[forest1979]

I flew with BA last Sunday back to NQY. Not one seat empty… not sure what the load factors are like but a regular twice a day into LHR year round would be good for me

 

[forest1979]

With edelweiss landing this week, NQY has a good mix of airlines this year with 9 serving this little airport.
Also Jet2 last couple of weeks from Manchester. Don’t see that listed but that would have been three airlines from Manchester!