I’ve flown from Newcastle Airport for decades and only just realised there’s a bus stop outside the terminal. I didn’t realise the airport was served by buses at all.

Stagecoach X78 stops on Ponteland Road but I wouldn’t class that as the airport. I wonder why they don’t use the proper airport bus stop? I’m sure people would use the bus over the Metro, workers / people who live in the west end of town. It wouldn’t add much to the journey time and I bet it would make the bus more attractive. No one wants to walk from Ponteland Road with luggage in all weathers.

(17 Jun 2022, 5:13 pm)balise33 wrote I’ve flown from Newcastle Airport for decades and only just realised there’s a bus stop outside the terminal. I didn’t realise the airport was served by buses at all.

Stagecoach X78 stops on Ponteland Road but I wouldn’t class that as the airport. I wonder why they don’t use the proper airport bus stop? I’m sure people would use the bus over the Metro, workers / people who live in the west end of town. It wouldn’t add much to the journey time and I bet it would make the bus more attractive. No one wants to walk from Ponteland Road with luggage in all weathers.

If Stagecoach refuse to pay to use bus stations, then I'd imagine they'd refuse to pay the no doubt extortionate rate to use the Airport bus stop

Isn’t the airport council owned? They should be supporting public transport.

(17 Jun 2022, 6:15 pm)balise33 wrote Isn’t the airport council owned? They should be supporting public transport.

Tell that to Nexus

(17 Jun 2022, 6:26 pm)Unber43 wrote Tell that to Nexus

Nexus has nothing to do with Newcastle Airport, other than the Metro station there. It's the individual Councils that are shareholders, not Nexus.

The 42A ran into the airport grounds

Used to love an excursion up to the Airport on the X77 (which stopped right outside tbe terminal) before the Metro was extended in 1991.

The seperate National Express timetable display at the same stop was still up there the last I passed through the Airport a couple of months ago! I don't think any NX services have ran though there for a decade!

(17 Jun 2022, 6:51 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Used to love an excursion up to the Airport on the X77 (which stopped right outside tbe terminal) before the Metro was extended in 1991.

See, I was always on the one that went via Kingston Park. Can't remember the number, but getting that and heading out on to the viewing platform to see the odd Dan Air and not much else, was always a highlight.

(17 Jun 2022, 6:57 pm)Andreos1 wrote See, I was always on the one that went via Kingston Park. Can't remember the number, but getting that and heading out on to the viewing platform to see the odd Dan Air and not much else, was always a highlight.

That was the X77. Went over the crossing and along Windsor Way before re-joining Ponteland Road.

Can't really remember any of the planes, to be honest, but it was always nice going up onto the outdoor viewing deck to watch them take off.

100 between Ashington/Morpeth and Kirkley Hall/Cramlington used to run to the airport until 2014/5. Plenty of local routes before then too.

(17 Jun 2022, 6:56 pm)DeltaMan wrote The seperate National Express timetable display at the same stop was still up there the last I passed through the Airport a couple of months ago! I don't think any NX services have ran though there for a decade!

That's right, was route 383 which ceased in 2012. Edinburgh to Wrexham via Jedburgh, Newcastle and Leeds.

(17 Jun 2022, 11:15 pm)omnicity4659 wrote 100 between Ashington/Morpeth and Kirkley Hall/Cramlington used to run to the airport until 2014/5. Plenty of local routes before then too.

That's right, was route 383 which ceased in 2012. Edinburgh to Wrexham via Jedburgh, Newcastle and Leeds.

I’m sure the 534 from Glasgow to Hull served it until 2016.

That's the stop the Metro Replacements run from too.

Over the last few years I've seen the following services (Off the top of my head) operate via the Airport.
42A - Kingston Park - North Shields via North Tyneside
100 - Kirkley Hall - Morpeth / Ashington
101 - Kingston Park - Blyth
102 - Airport to Metrocentre (Arriva) or Throckley - Metrocentre via Airport (Go North East)
131 - Jedburgh to Newcastle
353 - Four Lane Ends - Kingston Park
900 - Metro Replacement
NatEx - Various Routes

Before the Metro was extended and the airport expanded, the Darras Hall Expresses used to serve the Airport (there's footage of an Atlantean there in an episode of Auf Wiedersehen Pet), and there was the Metrolink shuttle from Airport to Bank Foot.

(20 Jun 2022, 6:32 pm)Rapidsnap wrote Over the last few years I've seen the following services (Off the top of my head) operate via the Airport.
42A - Kingston Park - North Shields via North Tyneside
100 - Kirkley Hall - Morpeth / Ashington
101 - Kingston Park - Blyth
102 - Airport to Metrocentre (Arriva) or Throckley - Metrocentre via Airport (Go North East)
131 - Jedburgh to Newcastle
353 - Four Lane Ends - Kingston Park
900 - Metro Replacement
NatEx - Various Routes

Before the Metro was extended and the airport expanded, the Darras Hall Expresses used to serve the Airport (there's footage of an Atlantean there in an episode of Auf Wiedersehen Pet), and there was the Metrolink shuttle from Airport to Bank Foot.

PTE days