SOUTHEND - 2

[JSCL]

Didn't they already send a plane for the media launches!?

[maliyahsdad2]

Some Easyjet Southend routes go on sale next tuesday, I suppose Easyjet want to get the best exposure possible.

[virginblue]

The reason some locos depart at Dark O'clock is that allows a whole other rotatioin to be squeezed in during operating hours, if they don't do this, costs creep up and Joe Public realises this and trys a different loco making a false economy.

One reason Debonair went bust. Poor scheduling such as their daily LTN-BCN W pattern through LGW. Mid summer, leave LTN at 0800z when the others are on their way back or heading to the next destination !! Same with CIA, leave LTN 1015z. Madness.

Although this has changed to some extent. I remember when the German Locos set up shop at CGN a couple of years, the first departure wave was at 6 a.m. Even though public transport and road access to the airport is quite good so that passengers could make it easily to the airport at, say 4:30 or 5 a.m., departures were laterp pushed forward to approx. 7 am. Nowadays, there are hardly any departures before 6:45 a.m.

[Red Four]

From Air Transport News

easyJet seats on sale from London Southend Airport
Source: easyJet
26/07/2011
easyJet today announced the destinations that it will operate to and from London Southend Airport, from April 2012. With seats on sale later today, passengers will have a choice to fly to Amsterdam, Alicante, Barcelona, Belfast, Faro, Ibiza, Malaga and Mallorca.

[maliyahsdad2]

Here we come! easyJet flights from Southend to Malaga, Mallorca and Alicante (From Echo)

[Powerjet1]

Flights now on sale.

[tommyc2005]

It is fantastic to actually see these new routes on sale.

There does appear to be a gap in the schedule between 12:45-16:50 every day except Sunday, so an off-peak route to somewhere like Edinburgh could fit in there. If there are to be ten destinations as mentioned in the initial press release, at least one further destination must be served by a non-based unit.

There will also probably be some minor shuffling of existing routes, as the Saturday IBZ is scheduled to depart at 17:00 while the a/c to operate it appears to arrive at 17:10, and Mon-Fri evenings there is only 15 mins between AMS arriving and BFS departing.

[EI-BUD]

Would love to see Easyjet serve Dublin from Southend!!! Unlikely though.

[Nakata77]

Weekly frequencies

Sen-ams
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sen-bfs
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sen-bcn
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sen-alc
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sen-fao
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sen-ibz
1-3--6-

sen-pmi
-2-45-7

sen-agp
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total flights per week on sale: 62

remaining flights per week to be placed on sale: 8

note: Ibz not bookable past june, still loading?

[VIKING9]

One assumes they return to SEN also

I'll get me coat....

[Barling Magna]

Airport Railway Station

Great to see the airport coming to life. I assume the Aer Arann passengers are pleased with their nice new railway station to speed them to London? Youtube has several videos of the station; here is the best of the bunch IMHO:

‪Video Tour of the Brand New Southend Airport Station‬‏ - YouTube

Today's the day for the next SAEN appeal. Fingers crossed they'll get theirs burned....

[maliyahsdad2]

[JSCL]

Yeah noticed the new logo - also on the SEN Facepprune page there's a video with Sally gunnell and Easyjet lady and also the more recent PR pictures!

Oh the irony of that train advert.

EaSySEX.

[BAladdy]

EZY flight from SEN are at present available to book only up until 24 June 2012.

Bookings for travel after 24th June will be able to be made shorty

Alicante (Route Launches 05th April 2012)

EZY7417 SEN 07:10 ALC 10:35 319 7
EZY7417 SEN 10:20 ALC 13:45 319 x7

EZY7418 ALC 11:20 SEN 13:05 319 7
EZY7418 ALC 14:20 SEN 16:05 319 x7

Amsterdam (Route Launches 02nd April 2012)

EZY7401 SEN 07:30 AMS 09:30 319 x7
EZY7403 SEN 13:00 AMS 15:00 319 7
EZY7405 SEN 16:10 AMS 18:10 319 x67
EZY7405 SEN 16:20 AMS 18:20 319 7

EZY7402 AMS 09:55 SEN 09:55 319 x7
EZY7404 AMS 15:30 SEN 15:30 319 7
EZY7406 AMS 18:40 SEN 18:40 319 x67
EZY7406 AMS 18:50 SEN 18:50 319 7

Barcelona (Route Launches 02nd April 2012)

EZY7383 SEN 10:25 BCN 13:25 319 x7
EZY7385 SEN 13:40 BCN 16:45 319 7

EZY7384 BCN 14:00 SEN 15:25 319 x7
EZY7386 BCN 17:20 SEN 18:45 319 7

Belfast International (Route Launches 02nd April 2012)

EZY715 SEN 07:00 BFS 08:15 319 x7
EZY717 SEN 13:25 BFS 14:40 319 7
EZY719 SEN 19:05 BFS 20:20 319 x67
EZY719 SEN 19:15 BFS 20:30 319 7

EZY716 BFS 08:40 SEN 10:00 319 x7
EZY718 BFS 15:05 SEN 16:25 319 7
EZY720 BFS 20:45 SEN 22:00 319 x67
EZY720 BFS 20:55 SEN 22:10 319 7

Faro (Route Launches 05th April 2012)

EZY7361 SEN 06:30 FAO 09:20 319 D
EZY7365 SEN 16:10 FAO 19:00 319 6

EZY7362 FAO 09:50 SEN 12:45 319 D
EZY7366 FAO 19:35 SEN 22:30 319 6

Ibiza (Route Launches 01st May 2012)

EZY7447 SEN 17:00 IBZ 20:20 319 1,3,6

EZY7448 IBZ 20:55 SEN 22:35 319 1,3,6

Palma (Route Launches 01st May 2012)

EZY7421 SEN 07:00 PMI 10:20 319 7
EZY7423 SEN 17:00 PMI 20:20 319 2,4,5

EZY7422 PMI 10:55 SEN 12:35 319 7
EZY7424 PMI 20:55 SEN 22:35 319 2,4,5

Malaga (Route Launches 01st May 2012)

EZY7435 SEN 16:50 AGP 20:40 319 D

EZY7436 AGP 21:15 SEN 23:10 319 D

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[Mayfly1]

Aer Arann

Hi, anyone know what the plans are with SEN for Aer Arann?
Picked this up on Anna Aero where Southend say "we have a five-year agreement with Aer Arann who have indicated that they would like to base an aircraft at the airport in the future. They could introduce five or six new routes in the near future and that would deliver about 300,000 annual passengers"
This would imply not one but a few aircraft to be based in SEN and more?What routes would they fly, and how would they handle the maintenance /crewing side ?

[mikkie4]

have just read an artical on another web site,bosses at sen are hinting about charter flights using boeing 757s,what sort of destinations/passenger numbers given the length of the new runway,could a plane like that hold

[davidjohnson6]

757 charter flights sounds like running before certainty that one can walk.
It would be surprising if there weren't any teething issues in April 2012 when the orange brigade start operating at SEN

Perhaps a few months of letting some A319s and any other similiar or smaller sized aircraft bed in and operate in a stable manner would be worthwhile first ?

[LEWIS APPLEBY]

Southend 757's

Back in the day I recall a Canada 3000 757 which had been on maintenance going direct from SEN to Toronto with just the crew on board, and it only used about half the runway to get airborne so maybe with a full pax load 757's could fly to European destinations once the runway is extended. I think the real problem is the runway and taxiway widths and ground facilties e.g. steps and the like.

[Cool Wavy NG738]

I used to work at Southend Airport 1983-1986 and I can remember Hispania Caravelles heading out to Malaga non-stop, fully loaded, happily blasting the sandbank over the railway line and into back gardens whilst holding on the brakes for a runway 24 departure. However you couldn't quite see where they rotated, bet the roof tiles of the church got dislodged a few times! I think a 757 would be ok, no different to BY operating out of Southampton for a short flight to Palma a few years back.