SOUTHEND 5

[Expressflight]

The easyJet SEN-CDG service starts today, it having replaced the SXF route, and it looks to have load factors of around 95% outbound and 42% inbound. It will be interesting to see how successful the route proves to be.

[Pain in the R's]

Pain in the R's I doubt you noticed but last nights Barcelona flight landed at Southend at 0318 this morning

Good to see there appears to be a change of policy. I can't see why easyjet would want to divert late running flights in the past so I think the change has come from the airport or maybe enough staff agreed to work on.

[Lord Gumboil Jnr.]

Expressflight:

Thanks for the Paris info., it looks a promising start. The 42% Inbound may be particularly significant, seeing as those passengers did not depart from Southend.

[wetlanding]

Do we know if the Osijek flights are starting later in March, no information is comming from the airport management and there is a need for new operators ASAP or we will again see a drop in PAX.

[davidjohnson6]

wetlanding - I appreciate your desire for passengers numbers at Southend to increase. However a Southend-Osijek route at high-ish fares seems most unlikely to work long term from SEN against Ryanair from Stansted. Does an airport with 1m pax really want to risk another potential OLT-style outcome ?

[FRatSTN]

Thanks for the Paris info., it looks a promising start. The 42% Inbound may be particularly significant, seeing as those passengers did not depart from Southend.

Significant in that the inbound LF was less than half that as the outbound?

No dig at SEN, but helps proves the point that even on major city routes, it's still significantly more an outbound leisure market, rather than a gateway London airport.

[Expressflight]

FRatSTN

Actually I think 42% CDG-SEN was very good when you consider the amount of alternative capacity on the LON route. I rather doubt that many of those pax had Southend as their final destination. If the European departure airport had been one with no existing link to LON you might have a point but from CDG I don't think so.

[Pain in the R's]

Looking at the 3 week view Southend seems to have the cheapest flights of all the London airports. I don't know if this is an opening offer to get the route going but it is good to see a good start on this route.

[chesna152]

Originally Posted by Pain in the R's

Looking at the 3 week view Southend seems to have the cheapest flights of all the London airports. I don't know if this is an opening offer to get the route going but it is good to see a good start on this route.

I personally don't have high hopes for the route. Of course I would love to see it work, however of late Southend has struggled with the city routes (with the exception of AMS), so that mixed with the fact that many leisure travelers will have been put off by events in Paris over the past year makes me think the long term future of the route is far from certain.

I desperately hope I will be proved wrong!

[SWBKCB]

I would expect EZY have a pretty good idea of the market between London and Paris - they'll have plenty of data.

[LTNman]

Seeing that Luton is only 20 odd minutes from the Eurostar terminal and easyjet has no problem with its Paris service from there Southend should be on a winner.

[tws123]

Be interesting to see what affect the new Flybe LCY-CDG route has on the SEN numbers when it commences on the 28th March.

[claron]

I realise this a Rumour Network.

However an article in todays Times, says that EasyJet are to Quit Southend due to falling PAX numbers.

[chesna152]

Originally Posted by claron

I realise this a Rumour Network.

However an article in todays Times, says that EasyJet are to Quit Southend due to falling PAX numbers.

I'm confused as to your post. Are you saying there is an article that explicitly references an easyjet withdrawal from
Southend? If so I would have thought this information would be more widely publicised. Any chance of a link or picture of the article?

[mikkie4]

would have thought that EZY would have announced this FIRST rather than wait for a report in a newspaper to say that it was ending its flights from SEN

[claron]

Sorry do not know how to forward link.

However this is the Article as printed.

Southend Airport rues EasyJets departure
Stansted, Luton and City airports were the big winners, and Southend and Aberdeen the standout losers, in a year in which Britain's airports handled 5 per cent more passengers. About 254 million people passed through Britain's 40 airports last year, up from 241 a year earlier, according to the CAA data. Heathrow accounted for three in every ten passengers, but Southend suffered an 18 per cent plunge after easyjet decided to quit the hub on the Thames estuary.

[chesna152]

Originally Posted by claron

Sorry do not know how to forward link.

However this is the Article as printed.

Southend Airport rues EasyJets departure
Stansted, Luton and City airports were the big winners, and Southend and Aberdeen the standout losers, in a year in which Britain's airports handled 5 per cent more passengers. About 254 million people passed through Britain's 40 airports last year, up from 241 a year earlier, according to the CAA data. Heathrow accounted for three in every ten passengers, but Southend suffered an 18 per cent plunge after easyjet decided to quit the hub on the Thames estuary.

Thanks for the info Claron. It looks like there is a bit of journalistic research/accuracy missing here as that decrease is due to the withdrawal of an easyjet airframe oposed to them 'quitting the hub'. Panic over 😀

[wethersfield]

Looks like the hack has got confused with EZY pulling the 4 th aircraft last year, which has contributed to the quoted 18% plunge in pax number for 2015.

i hope the LSA and EZY management quickly get the times to publish a correction tomorrow as this is not the sort of publicity LSA needs right now, when they are struggling to increase carriers and services.

[tws123]

Totally agree, this is a terrible mistake by the publisher, which shows no research whatsoever. Panic over, life goes on...

[chesna152]

Originally Posted by tws123

Totally agree, this is a terrible mistake by the publisher, which shows no research whatsoever. Panic over, life goes on...

An employee from the airport has posted on another site to say the paper has been contacted and a correction will be printed!