The original thinking was that Southend has a catchment of 600,000 people in the area. Given the horror story of queues of other airports an airport such as Southend should be attractive. While somebody like easyJet might well see it as attractive, the other current limitations such as staff etc may just put the lid on opportunities. The airport did have moderate success is the locality, and some routes did very well in 2019, like ALC, AGP, PMI, AMS and CFU. The 1st challenge will be getting an operator in to fill the localr demand and then look to attracting inbound tourism, obv a much harder sell. In the context of current LHR and LGW, they could be very attractive. Certainly in Ireland now, I'd rather fly from Knock, Belfast City or Shannon than Dublin.... If London thinks the same?
AMy likelihood Wizz would look at SEN in the context of closing DSA? If that has been discussed already, please forgive me.