SOUTHAMPTON

[RW20]

I notice from notams that there are various airfield things u/s including lights on hold position,met post etc.Is this normal for a fairly busy airfield?
Down the road at Hurn there never seems to be these problems.

[adfly]

Flybe S16

I'll do a full post later as not all flights are currently released. As it stands ALC, AGP and FAO run until 3rd April.

AVN, MXP, BIA, PMI, PGF all appear to be dropped.

AMS and DUB are now ~4 daily, GLA and MAN are back to 5 daily, BOD is now 2 weekly.

DUS continues, as does the double daily GCI.

[Wycombe]

Online timetable not yet updated, but yes looks like there are weekly (weekend) flights to AGP, ALC and FAO re-starting just before Xmas and running to beginning of April.

These routes all ended last week (after October half-term holiday), so odd that they are coming back for a bit, but then stopping at the start of S16.

I guess the needed Embraer is then committed elsewhere.

[gavinhicks]

will dol, biq and tln be moving over from bournemouth when that base closes

[fjencl]

Maybe Southampton airport management need to task Volotea or another operator to run schedules operating to FAO, AGP, ALC, from April Onwards.

[adfly]

Looks as though the loss of the Embraers is confirmed, as I have said on the Flybe thread already I've no idea how putting them on the likes of DSA-NQY will make more money. Echo article suggests that AVN, BES, PGF will return.

Flybe pulling out of south coast airport - but will fly new routes from Southampton (From Daily Echo)

Lets hope the management at SOU are in discussions with other carriers to take over said routes.

[stewyb]

Today's announcement although disappointing gives an opportunity for Volotea to take up the slack in ops to Spain/Portugal during the summer months. As mentioned previous, Volotea pricing seems very competitive and would surely become a popular choice of airline from SOU. In fact have we not been saying for some time that the airport has needed another airline as competition for Flybe? maybe that time has come!!

[fjencl]

People can email
[email protected]

and tell them you want more flights for ALC, AGP & FAO

Good luck

[RW20]

I guess the management team at SOU have known for a while Flybe sun route Intention's, hence the introduction of volotea to palma announced recently. Would volotea have the capacity to fly to Alicante/Malaga etc from Southampton next Summer?

[TartinTon]

I hear that there's a 2nd round of flying still to be announced by Flybe towards the end of the month....still hope for S16 sun flights yet....

[EI-BUD]

Perhaps opportunity area for Cityjet?

[bean]

No hope for the sun routes because no Embraers left to fly them

[Cloud1]

Originally Posted by bean

No hope for the sun routes because no Embraers left to fly them

I see the winter sun routes are operated by the E175. Are all these allocated during the summer? What's to stop say an E175 doing EDI-SOU-AGP-SOU-EDI for example?

[gkmeech]

Sun Routes

The Q400 was used on the SOU -PMI route a few times this year.

[bean]

Cloud 1
E1 95 fleet distribution s16
DSA 2
CWL 2
NQY 1
EXT 1
MAN/BHX 3
Total 9
Total aircraft in fleet 9

[Cloud1]

Originally Posted by bean

Cloud 1
E1 95 fleet distribution s16
DSA 2
CWL 2
NQY 1
EXT 1
MAN/BHX 3
Total 9
Total aircraft in fleet 9

Bean - I said E175

[Groundloop]

Just received an e-mail from Flybe advertising SUMMER 2016 routes:-

Malaga Alicante Amsterdam
Avignon Brest Belfast City
Bordeaux Chambéry Dublin
Düsseldorf Edinburgh Bergerac
Faro Guernsey Glasgow Intl.
Geneva Jersey Limoges
La Rochelle Manchester Newcastle
Nantes Paris Orly Ouest Perpignan
Rennes Verona

So Malaga, Alicante and Faro are listed. Will these be operated by Q400s or Embraers operating a W pattern from another base?

HOWEVER, still not bookable beyond 2 April!

[stewyb]

I would say that this is a marketing error and the 26 routes highlighted are in fact all SOU destinations, both summer and winter, as Geneva and Chambery are also showing and these are surely winter routes only!!

[Wycombe]

I fear you may be correct and that the "Sunshine" routes will be gone completely after early April.

I received the same email, which is misleading to say the least if the above does come to pass.

[adfly]

Very misleading advertising, needless to say there are some very annoyed customers on their FB page, and for once I'd argue rightly so.