EasyJet - 4
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Essex
Age: 60
Posts: 146
FRatSTN -
You do seem to have a bit of a downer on Southend. So -Easyjet have moved a few (3????) routes to exclusively operate from Southend instead of Stansted. I read a post recently - I think it was on SKYTRAX Airport Reviews - bemoaning the fact that the author now had to travel to SEN instead of STN to travel to Alicante (if I remember the destination correctly).. Well I would like to bemoan the fact that I have to travel to STN for certain routes when there is a perfectly good Easyjet base at SEN!! Trust me - getting the X30 bus from Southend at 0300 or 0400hrs is not cheap, convenient, or enjoyable!! Nor do I like the cavernous Stansted when I arrive there. Buy - hey - live and let live!!!!
I would imagine that SEN is always going to be a fairly small player in the overall scheme of Londons airports but - please - let us look forward to its expansion to full potential. I travel far more on EZY since they started operating from SEN and am very grateful to both EZY and SEN for the great opportunities provided by this expansion. The size and ambience of London Southend offers a much more pleasant travel experience than some of the other options. I am off to Amsterdam next week from SEN and am very happy to have this option. I did my time travelling to STN and -to be honest - I did not like it!!
Now - if Greater Anglia / Abellio could finally play ball with some extended early / late trains then that really would be the icing on the cake.
You do seem to have a bit of a downer on Southend. So -Easyjet have moved a few (3????) routes to exclusively operate from Southend instead of Stansted. I read a post recently - I think it was on SKYTRAX Airport Reviews - bemoaning the fact that the author now had to travel to SEN instead of STN to travel to Alicante (if I remember the destination correctly).. Well I would like to bemoan the fact that I have to travel to STN for certain routes when there is a perfectly good Easyjet base at SEN!! Trust me - getting the X30 bus from Southend at 0300 or 0400hrs is not cheap, convenient, or enjoyable!! Nor do I like the cavernous Stansted when I arrive there. Buy - hey - live and let live!!!!
I would imagine that SEN is always going to be a fairly small player in the overall scheme of Londons airports but - please - let us look forward to its expansion to full potential. I travel far more on EZY since they started operating from SEN and am very grateful to both EZY and SEN for the great opportunities provided by this expansion. The size and ambience of London Southend offers a much more pleasant travel experience than some of the other options. I am off to Amsterdam next week from SEN and am very happy to have this option. I did my time travelling to STN and -to be honest - I did not like it!!
Now - if Greater Anglia / Abellio could finally play ball with some extended early / late trains then that really would be the icing on the cake.
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 1,323
Yawn!
You are one person who strangely enough lives locally so of course are going to prefer SEN.
You even complain about having to travel to Stansted within Essex!
Think about all of those who would have to travel past a major and better connected airport like Stansted right down to Southend because we no longer have the choice to use Stansted!
The truth is, very few people will. I have nothing against Southend, but it covers only a much more local catchment area.
EasyJet may well fill planes ok at SEN, but the people in them will be generally a lot more local, hence EasyJet has reduced it's catchment area as it seeks a way to increase yields.
And by the way, Fuerteventura, Madeira and Tallinn also no longer available from Stansted and massively less choice of flights to Malaga, Palma, and even city routes like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Munich, amongst others!
You are one person who strangely enough lives locally so of course are going to prefer SEN.
You even complain about having to travel to Stansted within Essex!
Think about all of those who would have to travel past a major and better connected airport like Stansted right down to Southend because we no longer have the choice to use Stansted!
The truth is, very few people will. I have nothing against Southend, but it covers only a much more local catchment area.
EasyJet may well fill planes ok at SEN, but the people in them will be generally a lot more local, hence EasyJet has reduced it's catchment area as it seeks a way to increase yields.
And by the way, Fuerteventura, Madeira and Tallinn also no longer available from Stansted and massively less choice of flights to Malaga, Palma, and even city routes like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Munich, amongst others!
Last edited by FRatSTN; 28th Aug 2013 at 20:20.
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: London
Posts: 2,962
If EZY pull routes from LTN where would that make the nearest considerable
airport serving Yorks, E.Mids & W. Mids?
airport serving Yorks, E.Mids & W. Mids?
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Manchester
Posts: 1,607
Indeed, MAN has always been one of the (if not the) primary airport for much Yorkshire. Many folk in South Yorkshire particularly would never dream of using LBA. Despite some congestion at peak times, MAN is a very easy airport to get to by road together with good rail links.
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 1,323
surely if there were this huge potential from stn that ezy has thrown away then another airline would have jumped straight in?
Ryanair may have cut back as well (although nowhere near as much as EZY has) but they now serve Barcelona and Tallinn and have more flights to Alicante, Faro and Fuerteventura since EZY dropped those routes, but admittedly still not sufficient enough to cover EZY's withdrawal.
And Thomas Cook have added another aircraft and new holidays, where EZY's cutting back may have made it more attractive for them? Especially as Thomas Cook said this:
"We believe that this area of the country is currently underserved with respect of airport departures to holiday destinations and that demand exists to make our partnership with the airport a continued success."
Last edited by FRatSTN; 29th Aug 2013 at 21:27.
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Loughborough
Age: 47
Posts: 51
Surely if FlyBe share holders are happy with the sell off at LGW, they would also look towards a mass sell off to EZY at BHX?? Thats my hope.
On another note: I would love to see EZY back at EMA, but thatll never happen: FlyBe are not doing a great job of time keeping at EMA with commuter flights. For example yesterday they cancelled the mid afternoon Glasgow to EMA flight, and then the evening flight was delayed by an hour. Much the same this lunchtime too.
On another note: I would love to see EZY back at EMA, but thatll never happen: FlyBe are not doing a great job of time keeping at EMA with commuter flights. For example yesterday they cancelled the mid afternoon Glasgow to EMA flight, and then the evening flight was delayed by an hour. Much the same this lunchtime too.
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: London, UK & Europe
Posts: 2
Surely if FlyBe share holders are happy with the sell off at LGW, they would also look towards a mass sell off to EZY at BHX?? Thats my hope.
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: stockport
Age: 66
Posts: 290
Most of Flybe ex BHX are domestic or low volume France with a few major
European Cities. If you look at Manchester there is virtually no overlap
except Belfast and even they are different airports
Chaps
European Cities. If you look at Manchester there is virtually no overlap
except Belfast and even they are different airports
Chaps
Last edited by chaps2011; 31st Aug 2013 at 17:17.
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Loughborough
Age: 47
Posts: 51
FRatSTN
According to EZY Facebook page they go on sale tomorrow for Apr/May/Jun.
Does anyone have any ideas of additional routes at all?
ALSO - FRatSTN, when would we expect to see FR Apr-Jun flights go on sale?
According to EZY Facebook page they go on sale tomorrow for Apr/May/Jun.
Does anyone have any ideas of additional routes at all?
ALSO - FRatSTN, when would we expect to see FR Apr-Jun flights go on sale?
