The closure of Belmont Airport, commonly referred to as Aeropelican, in the Lake Macquarie suburb of Marks Point has caused Williamtown to become Newcastle's only major airport and residents in the south of the Newcastle metropolitan area must commute up to by car to reach Williamtown.

Newcastle Airport lies around 45 minutes drive-time away, and provides 19 daily flights to London ( Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and London City ), with regular flights to other UK centres.

The nearest major airport is Newcastle Airport, about 10 miles away.

From Bergen and Stavanger, Widerøe serves Aberdeen Airport and from Stavanger Newcastle Airport.

Heading eastbound, the M5 provides access to Sydney Airport and the CBD ; while the M7 provides access to Newcastle and Brisbane bypassing the Sydney CBD.

Tyne and Wear Metro stations at Gateshead Interchange and Gateshead Stadium provide direct light-rail access to Newcastle Central Station, Newcastle International Airport, Sunderland, Tynemouth and South Shields.

In September 2004, with the Home Office, DFT started an initiative called the " Multi Agency Threat and Risk Assessment " ( MATRA ), which was piloted at five of the United Kingdom's major airports — Heathrow, Birmingham, East Midlands Airport, Newcastle and Glasgow.

Newcastle International Airport is located in Woolsington, a village within the boundary of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, north-west of the city centre.

Newcastle Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence ( Number P725 ) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.

In the 1970s, with passenger figures approaching one million per year, the Airport status was changed to Category B, making it a regional international airport, in the same decade it was re-branded as Newcastle Airport.

In 1991, Airport Metro station opened, connecting the airport with Newcastle and later in 2002 Sunderland city centres using the Tyne and Wear Metro system.

In terms of passenger numbers, Newcastle is the third largest airport in the North of England, after Manchester Airport and Liverpool Airport.

* Newcastle upon Tyne, England-Woolsington-Newcastle Airport

The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail system connecting the area with the rest of the Tyne and Wear conurbation, including Sunderland and Newcastle Central Station and Newcastle International Airport.

Metro consists of two lines, the Green Line, which runs between Newcastle Airport and South Hylton via Newcastle upon Tyne city centre, Gateshead and Sunderland and the Yellow Line, which runs between St James and South Shields via North Shields, Tynemouth, Whitley Bay, then looping back on itself and going south via the city centre, Gateshead and Jarrow.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, completed in 1849, is an early example of a double-deck bridge.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Scottish & Newcastle launched Foster's Twist, a beer with a hint of citrus that is marketed as a refreshing alternative to other heavier beers and Premium Packaged Spirits such as Smirnoff Ice.

The city is the administrative centre of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle.

Scots, as spoken in the lowlands and along the east coast of Scotland, developed independently from Modern English and is based on the Northern dialects of Anglo-Saxon, particularly Northumbrian, which also serve as the basis of Northern English dialects such as those of Yorkshire and Newcastle upon Tyne.

These were originated by Professor Colin Ramshaw and led to the concept of Process Intensification: research into these novel technologies is now being pursued by the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University.

* 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the.

The George and Jobling aircraft control column is in the collection of the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Made possible by a grant from MOMA that had originally been intended to help restore the Hannover original, one wall of this last structure is now in the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle ; the shell of the barn remains in Elterwater, near Ambleside.

* 1906 – Cunard Line's is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

In this story, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle, when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years.

Arthur, former lead singer of the band The Chart Commandos, still continues to perform with " Big Black Bomb " and is still considered to be an innovating force on the Newcastle music scene.

is founded as the Stanley F. C., with a further name change to Newcastle East End F. C.

* June 25 – The Incorporated Guild of Smiths is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.

* October 6 – The great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead is ignited by a spectacular explosion.

is renamed Newcastle United F. C., following the demise of the Newcastle West End F. C.

Northumbria is also used in the names of some regional institutions: particularly the police force ( Northumbria Police, which covers Northumberland and Tyne and Wear ) and a university ( Northumbria University ) based in Newcastle.

Newcastle Brown Ale ( colloquially " Newkie Brown " ( UK ), " Newcastle " ( US ) or " Dog " ( North East )) is an English beer owned by Heineken and produced at their John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

Newcastle Brown is also distributed in cans in the U. S., but is very rare.

The nearest major airports are at Edinburgh and Newcastle.

The nearest major airport is Newcastle Airport.

The town is now served by a bus service which runs via Longframlington, Longhorsley, Morpeth and continues to Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest city.

Amble also lies near to the A1, providing easy access to nearest city Newcastle upon Tyne ( south ), Gateshead Centre ( south ) and to the Scottish capital Edinburgh ( north ).

The main and nearest city to New York is Newcastle upon Tyne.

The nearest supply centers of any consequence were Newcastle and Smithville, near present-day Loomis.

According to Ogden, the arena clearly filled a market opportunity for touring acts who had otherwise bypassed the area, with the next nearest local venue being the 2, 000 seat Newcastle City Hall, and the only other medium sized venues being as far away as Sheffield to the south or Glasgow to the north.

The nearest heavy rail station is in Newcastle, while the Tyne and Wear Metro is accessible at Gateshead Interchange.

The nearest village is Newcastle.

It is the nearest station to Newcastle University, Northumbria University's City Campus West, the Civic Centre, and the major shopping area that surrounds Northumberland Street.