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Exactly Adfly. They have a so called media manager or however you want to label it as well! Do these people just sharpen pencils all day? I'm hoping that when they sell the other airports in their portfolio that they start spending some time and money on Southampton 
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A little disappointed in your last comment Rivet Joint. Perhaps if you had an appreciation of other business priorities, you might not have been quite so harsh or opinionated about the people who work at Southampton. Truth is, BAA will not publish a press release until the airline(s) concerned have formalised their arrival and departure slots with ACL. There might also be other behind the scenes work going on with regard to the financial arrangements for a new start route. So it may be worth thinking a little next time before you write something quite so inappropriate about the marketing people at SOU. 
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Apologies Stgermain. I don't work for BAA so perhaps jumped the gun a bit in my assumptions. The routes in question are however for sale on the respective airlines sites though. Plus the Varna route has not been operated for 2 years at least 
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Just searched on the Air France website and SOU-LYS is showing as 1 weekly operated by Regional from 30th June. Details are as follows:
AF5320 LYS-SOU Sat 6:40-7:10 Regional Embraer 190
AF5321 SOU-LYS Sat 7:50-10:15 Regional Embraer 190
AF5320 LYS-SOU Sat 6:40-7:10 Regional Embraer 190
AF5321 SOU-LYS Sat 7:50-10:15 Regional Embraer 190
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Lyon and Nantes
In addition to the above mentioned Lyon flights Air France will also start a weekly flight to Nantes:
AF5458 NTE-SOU Saturday 19:40-19:35 Regional Embraer 170
AF5459 SOU-NTE Saturday 20:15-22:15 Regional Embraer 170
AF5458 NTE-SOU Saturday 19:40-19:35 Regional Embraer 170
AF5459 SOU-NTE Saturday 20:15-22:15 Regional Embraer 170
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Lyon and Nantes
Very welcome news that Air France will once again be operatong from Southampton but I am surprised really as I would have thought these added flights would have been flown by Flybe with at least a more frequent schedule then is planned by Air France, maybe a future Marseille and a return of a Toulouse route from SOU?
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So Southampton is going to have the full range of Embraer jets operating this summer from the 170 upt to the 195 
Incidently, is there any UK domestic airport with more routes to France then Southampton?
Incidently, is there any UK domestic airport with more routes to France then Southampton?
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Regional Lyon - Sou
Hi All,
I checked the prices for this for a flight out during July and returngin back the week later and it was over £700. cannot see anyone using this unless it is in place for some sort of Olympics flights!
I checked the prices for this for a flight out during July and returngin back the week later and it was over £700. cannot see anyone using this unless it is in place for some sort of Olympics flights!
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I would say probably no, maybe Stansted with all their RYR operated routes?
I reckon it's 16 including these latest announcements, made up of 14 from Flybe (if you include CMF which stops after the ski season). Haven't included DIJ as not sure if this is being operated by Eastern this year? I also excluded PUF with Flybe which seems to have not returned after 1 season.
Incidently, is there any UK domestic airport with more routes to France than Southampton?
I reckon it's 16 including these latest announcements, made up of 14 from Flybe (if you include CMF which stops after the ski season). Haven't included DIJ as not sure if this is being operated by Eastern this year? I also excluded PUF with Flybe which seems to have not returned after 1 season.
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zantopst - I'm guessing the high fares are down to the fact that the class says Premium Economy on the booking engine when you select economy so I'd guess that small error in the booking engine is the main reason for the exceptionally high prices. When I searched Nantes in July this error was not present and the prices were reasonable.
Also, I would expect flights around that time into SOU to be a little more expensive around the Olympics due to SOU's reasonable proximity and good rail links to centeral London.
Also, I would expect flights around that time into SOU to be a little more expensive around the Olympics due to SOU's reasonable proximity and good rail links to centeral London.
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As a tourist on that thread, congrats to SOU for the LYS route - just as it gets axed from BHX. Not sure of the logic here - obviously agree that SOU has a great portfolio for French routes, and must get a fair few people coming out from Waterloo & the M25 corridors. OK, it's just weekly, in which case why pull the plug completely on us at BHX? Or is this also serving the cruise market?
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A good few weeks for SOU with Barcelona, Tours, Nantes and Lyon announced. It's a pity BAA can't be bothered to update their website, but hey it's not Heathrow.
Now we need VCE, FCO and MUC.
Now we need VCE, FCO and MUC.
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A completely misguided and uninformed view of BAA.
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Its all a bit academic now as the Vueling and Regional flights (Lyon and Nantes) are on the BAA Southampton website.. To be fair to them they were very quick to put the Regional airlines flight on so maybe they were waiting to make one change for all rather than 2 sets of changes to the site.
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IOM ending
After all the new routes it seems a shame to lose a fairly long running one from SOU! But the Daily IOM-SOU-BRU-SOU-IOM ends on the 28th of this month however from SOU only the IOM leg will be dropped so I assume space has been found in the schedule for a SOU based Q400 to operate BRU.
I am quite surprised to not see the route be reduced to around 4 weekly first or even it being returned to a seasonal route. It seems like a big jump between 6/7 weekly Q400 flights to 0!!
Hopefully Manx2 may see this as an opportunity to launch either SOU or BOH-IOM on smaller aircraft (D228/J31) at either the same or higher frequency - Double-daily is still only 38 daily seats vs 78 for a Q400 and having a choice of flights should appeal to business passengers too.
I am quite surprised to not see the route be reduced to around 4 weekly first or even it being returned to a seasonal route. It seems like a big jump between 6/7 weekly Q400 flights to 0!!
Hopefully Manx2 may see this as an opportunity to launch either SOU or BOH-IOM on smaller aircraft (D228/J31) at either the same or higher frequency - Double-daily is still only 38 daily seats vs 78 for a Q400 and having a choice of flights should appeal to business passengers too.
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Southampton - Brussels was succesfully operated by Eastern 3 daily for a number of years before the bully of Flybe decided to trample all over it, lower the service and now dump it.
Well done Flybe, you set of t******
Well done Flybe, you set of t******
I've flown BRU-SOU in a Loganair Jetstream many years ago!
However most of the recent posts about this route refer to the good old days before Eurostar services to Brussels came down to only 1hr 50m - right to the centre of Brussels, not to Zaventam out on the outskirts.
Maybe many ex-pax from the catchment area north of SOU now find it quicker and easier to go by train.
In recent years Eurostar has absolutely hammered Paris and Brussels air traffic.
However most of the recent posts about this route refer to the good old days before Eurostar services to Brussels came down to only 1hr 50m - right to the centre of Brussels, not to Zaventam out on the outskirts.
Maybe many ex-pax from the catchment area north of SOU now find it quicker and easier to go by train.
In recent years Eurostar has absolutely hammered Paris and Brussels air traffic.