Was looking at the stats LCY had 2208 last March
SEN had 828 this March which is not good at all even on 31 seater 328
Even with a deal at Southend against the expense of operation out of London City it is hard to see with the loss of over half of its passengers that the move to Southend was a good idea.
I had hopes that other marginal London City routes would follow Skyworks lead but Skywork has shown that with even an extra flight on Saturdays their passengers do not want to fly to Southend. This has no doubt sent a clear massage to other operators thinking about making the same move.
You would not think that the UK's favourite airport would find it so hard going with passenger numbers down 12% while the bottom two airports of Luton and Stansted were up 18% and 24%.
There seems to be a touch of Sheffield here with that airport also having a great start but then everything just ebbing away.