Originally Posted by
ErwinFCG
Some people on a Dutch forum pointed out that for Summer next year, starting Sunday 25 March 2018, much more flights between Southend and Groningen are loaded into the Flybe booking system.
On weekdays, there are three return flights, on Saturdays 2x GRQ-SEN and 1x SEN-GRQ and on Sundays 1x GRQ-SEN and 2x SEN-GRQ. So that means 18 (!) return flights per week, up from 8 last summer and 6 this winter. Based on the timings (first departure from GRQ at 7:10 and last arrival at 21:10), it seems they plan to base an ATR in Groningen.
For the first week (i.e. the last week of March 2018) all these flights are bookable, but for the rest of the Summer season they are loaded but "Full or not enough seats".
That timetable is now bookable right through the summer on the Flybe website and, indeed, an aircraft will be night-stopping in GRQ to operate first and last flights of the day. I really find it quite remarkable that such a great number of seats will be offered on that route. Congratulations to GRQ for securing this and it certainly accounts for the spare slots which were evident when the S2018 schedules were released last week.