A groundbreaking, and frankly life changing, academy scheme has landed at Newcastle Airport. Its aim? To help staff understand the impact of autism on their customers as well as and the various forms of neurodiversity in the North East.

Exciting news for holidaymakers living near Newcastle; the Geordie airport has announced new routes a whole range of new routes!

It’s been a positive start to 2017 for Newcastle Airport;  a dramatic increase in passengers saw almost 40,000 passengers using the airport in January. This was a 16.2% increase on the same month in 2016.

Ryanair have recently announced 5 new routes from Newcastle International Airport as part of their winter schedule. As of November 3rd, the new routes now available throughout the working week will include flights to destinations such as Wroclaw (on Sunday), Gdansk (on Monday), Tenerife and Warsaw taking off on Tuesday and finally, Lanzarote (Wednesday).. Alongside this announcement, it has also been revealed that a new direct route to Berlin has also been opened at Newcastle Airport.

It has been reported this week that Newcastle Airport had their busiest weekend of the year last weekend, with a staggering 55,000 passengers travelling through the airport. Not only has Newcastle had success with passenger numbers, it has also received high praise from their customers.