PF:
Are you withdrawing, then, your earlier critism(s) something to do with rockets being required for an Airbus, or similar, to operate out of SEN
That was a throw-away comment but it was specifically about claims that Easyjet were about to move into Southend. As you have said yourself:
whether SEN's aircraft will be painted in an orange & white livery remains to be seen and something I, personally, have my doubts regarding
so I don't see there is much disagreement between us.
Of course if you make it light enough an Airbus or any other aircraft can get into all sorts of short runways (including the current Southend, when coming in empty for maintenance, painting etc). But the question is whether you can operate with an economically viable payload.
NS