All very true but easyjet can only use Southend for 18 hours a day
More than others use Heathrow you mean? Good point!
Daily LGW-NQY flights will start from end March
Not quite, they're consdering it, I suspect angling for some form of taxpayer subsidy dressed up as a start up discount.
the only thing that really will help is a lot of money being spent on building work.
It's the old gag about how do you get somewhere, well I wouldn't start from here if I were you! LTN is now what LHR did ages ago, sticking on adhoc bits willy nilly to an old terminal as far as budget will allow. Like EDI and a few others, the end result over decades is a nightmare that really needs a small fortune spent to sort it out. My definition of a good arrival experience is cold water in the bathrooms on a hot day to splash on your face and refresh, something 20th century primitve airports used to have yet we seem to have forgotten.