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Flights to Munich
Flights to Munich now withdrawn until 13th June according to Sea Air's website. LSA's site should try to keep up with events. At least this will allow time for this tarnished operation to rethink and hopefully rebrand the airline. A new name would be a good start: my suggestion is Thin Air. Any others?
Sea Air
After sitting idle at PAD for over a week B734 9H-VVB has today positioned back to CWL. This aircraft was to be used by Sea Air for its PAD route network so that isn't looking too hopeful either at present.
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The feeling from the Luton folk including me is that WAT-LTN was doing very nicely but Stobarts view that they could simply move the route to SEN to kick start their new airport at SEN without impacting passengers numbers proved to be a disaster. It wasn't helped by the fact that the new terminal was not even open. They then tried out of desperation to operate to both SEN and LTN but but it all ended in tears as the damage was already done.
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The feeling from the Luton folk including me is that WAT-LTN was doing very nicely but Stobarts view that they could simply move the route to SEN to kick start their new airport at SEN without impacting passengers numbers proved to be a disaster. It wasn't helped by the fact that the new terminal was not even open. They then tried out of desperation to operate to both SEN and LTN but but it all ended in tears as the damage was already done.
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But let's not forget had it not been for Stobart then air Arran/Stobart air would probably be no more. Yes moving the Luton route was not a good idea, however I feel Stobart needed to make the move to give credibility to its passenger operation at SEN. It didn't work out but I think the only real loser is poor old Waterford airport, the fact that a couple of operators haven't made the route work over the past couple of years shows how hard it is to make a route work from a small base/catchment!
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Stobart would have been better waiting for the new terminal and station to open. By the time they were open the regulars had tried the new route and didn't like it so never got to try out the new terminal and station.
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I agree, however I think the station was open as the airport provided a free shuttle bus to it. I think what is more likely is that Luton was a better location than SEN for a lot of the pax so new terminal or not the route was probably always going to fail.
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Splitting the route between LTN and SEN was never going to end well, and so it was proved. I don't think WAT are in a position at the moment to be picky about potential airlines and routes. Surely IF Stobart approached them they'd grab the opportunity to at least try something out?
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LTNman
could we poss see SEN-DUB using the spare aircraft ? we all know what the figs were like when SEN flew to DUB , could we pick up from were we left off or are there to many airlines doing the DUBLIN run?