insuindi - you're absolutely right. OLT website has been updated.
Flights on Southend-Dresden now on sale only during school holiday periods. Southend-Saarbrucken is suspended from early Nov to late March.
Slightly disappointing that when the Saturday SEN-SCN flights resume in March they depart at 0715 given that the first train from London arrives at 0632 making train connections extremely tight and desk check-in / luggage drop-off impossible unless either a) you spend the night near Southend or b) Stobart arrange some means of early morning London-Southend transport between now and spring.
While Essex-originating traffic may be able to substantially support Easyjet flights to the Med, I imagine that any leisure-focussed Saarbrucken traffic will be spread across London rather than just Essex, with people in Saarbrucken wanting to visit London rather than Essex. This may encourage leisure travellers to fly between Heathrow/Gatwick and Luxembourg with associated 1h15 bus ride to Saarbrucken instead.
At the risk of thread drift, OLT's routes to Budapest, Milan and Paris are also going school-holidays-only, which suggests rather more time on the ground for aircraft than might perhaps have been previously supposed. Perhaps less than ideal, but other LCCs seem quite happy to do offpeak groundings and it's better not to fly if ticket revenues won't cover fuel+landing fees.
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 8th Oct 2012 at 13:10.