Originally Posted by
LTNman
I am not knocking the airport as it could teach all the big boys a few lessons about the passenger experience but it is a struggle to work out what is holding Southend back apart from its location.
Well anyone coming from the north-east and east anglia etc. would be driving an hour or so past STN just to reach SEN, anyone coming thru/across the Dartford then SEN & STN are a similar distance but then they have LGW already in their neck of the woods, a railway line running alongside SEN airfield with a station a stone's throw from the terminal is a gem even if the train transit times are not, but take a look on GE at Radlett airfield, that has two railway lines alongside the former airfield, one either side, and they shut that airfield down due lack of interest!