Today marks the beginning of the school summer holidays and families across the region are already jetting off on their long-awaited and well deserved breaks.
Over the next six weeks, 900,000 people are expected to jet out of Newcastle International Airport to popular destinations such as Greece, Turkey and of course, Spain. There are also a host of new routes that adventurous travellers may take to see something new from the region, including Zadar in Croatia, Riga in Latvia and Bergen in Norway.
While there's been a chaotic summer at other airports in the country, Newcastle seems to have escaped much of the queues and cancellations that have plagued larger airports. And that continued today, as flights were largely on time as excited families arrived at the airport.
