Originally Posted by
LTNman
Wizz does seem to have a love love relationship with Luton. One can speculate why but it does give them the flexibility to move crews and aircraft around. They never seem to have a problem in filling their aircraft at Luton and more flights per day to a single destination gives passengers more flexibility to pick a time to suit their requirements thus increasing demand.
They now have bit the bullet and showed their commitment by basing 3 aircraft at Luton flying new routes including to non Eastern European countries. There is a valid question why they would need Southend when Southend falls within Luton's 2 hour catchment area unless Luton ran out of slots but with more capacity for next summer it will help Wizz if required.
The key questions are would flights from Southend give Wizz access to new passengers that would not trek to Bedfordshire. Does Wizz operate from any short field runways at the moment? I would have thought not as most of the airports they fly from that nobody has heard of are ex military bases with long runways.
It is being reported on another forum today that Wizz have been emailed in response to the rumoured SEN operation. It seems their reply was ' Watch this space ' So we shall see what we shall see!