Passengers down 1.7%
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Newcastle Airport blamed strike threats and the ash cloud crisis for a 1.7% decline in year on year decline in passengers. The airport is 'cautiously optimistic about the future,’ and its Corporate Affairs Director, Graeme Mason, told Travel Daily: ‘We believe we would have seen growth again had it not been for the BA strikes, the threat of industrial action and the ash cloud situation, which shut the airport for a week.’
In the last year, the popularity of flights to Dubai has increased as well as passengers on services to Amsterdam and Paris. However, Mr Mason admits that while international destinations are growing, domestic travel has been hit hard.
He told the travel news service that the airport is keen to operate flights to the Americas, saying: ‘We’re talking to airlines about the possibility of flights to New York. In addition to that we’d like to see operations to Frankfurt; it’s our number one European target destination.’
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