Originally Posted by
LTNman
Three shifts of staff required to handle one set of flights each is not a good outcome.
This isn’t so different to the winters of not so long ago, and the airport seemed to manage OK. There might be a single ATR leaving early with another couple later in the day and an easyjet to AMS and back mid-afternoon. Granted this is summer season still, but everyone is hurting at relative scales and the challenges faced at Southend are no different to those at many other smaller airports.
Passenger numbers are very low though. Dummy bookings for tomorrow show 55 reserved/checked in for Malaga, 9(!) for Palma, 64 to Faro and Vilnius it won’t let you book. That is of course assuming all turn up which is unlikely.
I also see there has been a further cull of flights after this week, next week until at least Half Term will see very few weekly flights.