Originally Posted by
Pain in the R's
In an effort to be lean and efficient Southend will have just enough staff on duty to cover the days planned movements. Nothing wrong in that but if the planned movements are just a couple of flights over a couple of hours and a mass of City diversions turn up then the diverted aircraft will just sit there maybe an hour or two waiting for the passengers to be off loaded.
You have mentioned the 'hour or two' wait to be offloaded a couple of times. Do you have any specific example of this? The only reason I ask is I have quite a good knowledge of Southends operations and cannot think of cases, in recent times at least, where such an event has occurred. I think certainly in the past 6 months (since Southend seems to have got its act together with accepting more than 1 or 2 only, something they curiously did for a little while) most feedback has been mainly positive with minimal to no wait for offload?