So we have an airline in Jet2 with around 40 aircraft able to operate from Southend. It seems reasonable that the new UK bases they talk about will be pushing the company's presence ever further south. They mainly shift people to the sunshine destinations, having hopefully sold them a holiday, and that seems to have become (AMS excepted) SEN's one success story. So, to me, there would be every reason for the airport's management to be trying really hard to persuade Jet2 to come. They are a good fit.
The point I'm trying to make is that if Jet2 are going to open bases in the south, are they just going to be yet another airline that rejects SEN's advances? Advances that surely have been made.
You can almost smell the cynicism coming from these pages sometimes. And with no progress made week after week, month after month it's understandable. But if that target of 2,500,000 pax pa in 18 months time is to be met, the airport is going to have to shock the pants off us all some time soon.