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Surely though while expansion in terms of routes always helps, growing load factor is the easiest way and as all these routes are still new they should show growth, DUB for one continues to grow and EIR has indicated it wants 4x daily in the future.
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Southend is Europe's fastest growing airport
London Southend Airport saw a 57.1% increase in its passenger numbers from 2012 to 2013, signifying the largest growth of any European airport.
London Southend Airport saw a 57.1% increase in its passenger numbers from 2012 to 2013, signifying the largest growth of any European airport.
Yes, it's all pretty meaningless in reality.
It's the growth this year and next that will tell the true story and they need to have a few additional routes and, ideally, an additional operator for this summer and beyond if 2014 totals are to exceed those of 2013 by any appreciable margin.
The January 2014 provisional figures were quite respectable with year on year growth of 21% on each of DUB, ALC and AMS, although AGP and FAO were somewhat down.
It's the growth this year and next that will tell the true story and they need to have a few additional routes and, ideally, an additional operator for this summer and beyond if 2014 totals are to exceed those of 2013 by any appreciable margin.
The January 2014 provisional figures were quite respectable with year on year growth of 21% on each of DUB, ALC and AMS, although AGP and FAO were somewhat down.
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The Easyjet website shows that the Tenerife route is returning from mid-September after the Summer break - twice weekly - (Tue / Sat rather than Tue / Fri as now).
Good news!!
Good news!!
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The Canary Islands are excellent all-the-year round holiday destinations, and it would be no surprise of EZY add one of the other islands to SEN too.
In the meantime, i am itching to know how good Stobart's man is for attracting new airlines and routes to SEN. It can't be easy and I know we all think we are experts but has he pushed hard to get Darwin/Etihad Regional, KLM, Wizzair, etc to consider SEN. I still believe there is a demand for flights to a European hub for onwards flights worldwide.
In the meantime, i am itching to know how good Stobart's man is for attracting new airlines and routes to SEN. It can't be easy and I know we all think we are experts but has he pushed hard to get Darwin/Etihad Regional, KLM, Wizzair, etc to consider SEN. I still believe there is a demand for flights to a European hub for onwards flights worldwide.
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KLM won't come to SEN with EZY on the AMS route already at 2/3 daily. With Krakow being dropped it doesn't really show Wizzair that eastern European routes work from SEN (although Wizzair don't fly to Krakow currently). However I could see Etihad Regional moving from CBG to SEN if they were committed to serving the East of England/London market as I can't see them lasting long there with current pay loads. There is only so long they can keep ploughing money into it.
Southend cannot support either Edinburgh, Belfast - says to me that business demand is weak and/or that business in west Essex prefers London City. Can't remember exactly, but I imagine that Cityjet will continue to codeshare with KLM on the Amsterdam route at a far higher frequency than Southend could ever sustain.
The routes that remain at Southend are heavily leisure and beach focussed. This is not a good signal to send to Darwin or a network carrier. When I see an airline operate a route on sale to the public to somewhere in Germany, I'll change my mind...
The routes that remain at Southend are heavily leisure and beach focussed. This is not a good signal to send to Darwin or a network carrier. When I see an airline operate a route on sale to the public to somewhere in Germany, I'll change my mind...
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I wouldn't say that UK domestics couldn't be viable from SEN. In 2012 over 90,000 travelled to/from BFS from SEN which is more than Aer Arann get on the Dublin route in a year. It just needs smaller aircraft with more frequencies, and not the larger A319s of EZY which they cannot fill.
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From what I gather also in Germany, FMO is more or less a given. Apparently something like 5 or 6 weekly flights. I would assume that these flights will be noon-time flights, allowing the aircraft to serve a destination double-daily in the mornings and evenings and another destination daily in-between. So how about something up in Scotland and a French destination on top of FMO?
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Aer Arann base
Jobs are being advertised for a new Aer Arann base at Southend. They are also funding training for the ATR72-600 type which suggests that the last one to be delivered will be going to SEN (EI-FCY). Contracts begin at the end of March, beginning of April. Good news that effectively confirms what we suspected!
Link: ***NEW BASE*** London Southend ATR Captains with Sigma Aviation Services | 1401384315
Link: ***NEW BASE*** London Southend ATR Captains with Sigma Aviation Services | 1401384315
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Daily Munster is a given. Another poster is sure about Caen.
One or two daily Edinburgh is possible I suppose, I don't think they would do Belfast though.
Does anyone know if it is just one or more aircraft to be based? That will dictate what is possible. Paderborn is another long-served destination about to lose its London link
I wonder with the economy picking up a bit and SEN's profile improved if they might look again at Waterford, even if just a few weekly off peak flights for the leisure pax
One or two daily Edinburgh is possible I suppose, I don't think they would do Belfast though.
Does anyone know if it is just one or more aircraft to be based? That will dictate what is possible. Paderborn is another long-served destination about to lose its London link
I wonder with the economy picking up a bit and SEN's profile improved if they might look again at Waterford, even if just a few weekly off peak flights for the leisure pax
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Why is Belfast not a possibility, although load factors weren't great with ezy, total pax numbers where, although I think if they did start it would be to BHD rather than BFS as EI is now there, and with BE no longer flying to LGW and EI isn't increasing frequency on the route I think it would be quite a money spinner
I don't think anyone is actually sure about Caen yet, or any other specific route come to that, just that Caen is in the mix. Presumably an announcement from Aer Arann cannot be that far off.
Why is a Southend-Caen route being considered, when London City-Deauville already exists ? LCY-DOL sustains a F50 just 2x per week.
Yes, places like Bayeux or the D-Day beaches are a big tourist draw, along with other places like Honfleur and inland Normandy, and I know LCC fares will create demand where a F50 can't, but the business case as a whole still seems a bit weak.
Caen looks to me more like Ryanair / Stansted territory than anything from Southend.
Yes, places like Bayeux or the D-Day beaches are a big tourist draw, along with other places like Honfleur and inland Normandy, and I know LCC fares will create demand where a F50 can't, but the business case as a whole still seems a bit weak.
Caen looks to me more like Ryanair / Stansted territory than anything from Southend.
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The business case for CFR is actually quite strong and its natural catchment is much greater than that for DOL. When LON-CFR was previously operated, albeit some years ago, it carried 30,000 pax annually.
The points that you make in your second paragraph accurately illustrate the advantages that RE on the CFR route would have over the current limited Cityjet DOL service.
The business case for CFR is actually quite strong and its natural catchment is much greater than that for DOL. When LON-CFR was previously operated, albeit some years ago, it carried 30,000 pax annually.
The points that you make in your second paragraph accurately illustrate the advantages that RE on the CFR route would have over the current limited Cityjet DOL service.
