SOUTHEND 5
Daily Mail (yes, I know) reports that CityJet will operate to 18 destinations from April, adding 600k pax.
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Good Lord - what strange comments about the Daily Mail. I think it is rather more representative of the average UK person than some of the left-wing rags that soil our news-stands. Just compare the Mail sales figures with some of these chip-paper left-wing publications.
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The Daily Mail is owned by a trust whose chair and controlling shareholder is Viscount Rothermere. It's no longer the most reliable or balanced newspaper around, for example calling three High Court judges enemies of the people was simply ignorant of our law and constitution. It always seems to be furious about something. In the past it showed a strong interest and support for aviation and it has championed some good causes such as its pursuit of the murderers of Steven Lawrence. EssexMan61 is, sadly, probably right that it is representative of a certain sort of UK person, but it is anathema to certain others. Our views of the merits of this rather unpleasant newspaper aren't relevant on a forum discussing Southend Airport so let's leave it at that.
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Anything is better than the Guardian. I totally agree with Pat Byrne, inbound traffic can definitely add to profit, but educating folk living abroad is costly as far as media and advertising is concerned.
Educating the Normandie public was very effectively done by CFR who had the advantage of having the full resources of the Chamber of Trade & Commerce who also hold the management contract for the airport. The cost of doing so was still substantial however.
I recall that for one of the early months of the SEN-CFR-SEN flights the mix was 40% UK and 60% French pax (taken from passport details). That obviously doesn't automatically mean that exactly 60% of traffic was inbound to UK but I think it gives a fair indication.
I recall that for one of the early months of the SEN-CFR-SEN flights the mix was 40% UK and 60% French pax (taken from passport details). That obviously doesn't automatically mean that exactly 60% of traffic was inbound to UK but I think it gives a fair indication.
I wish Cityjet well at Southend, but if they are going to launch even 12 out of 18 new routes for April, surely it's time to get on with saying where they are going to fly, publish a timetable and put tickets on sale ?
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The more time passes without advertising or even any flight details the more I worry they are going to do a Cambridge again. I am convinced their Cambridge flights would have worked much better if they hadn't been started at a few week's notice and without anyone being told about them.
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What's the alternative? Stagnation I guess. Cityjet do seem to throw their toy (aeroplanes) out of the pram if things don't go to plan, but the Stobart link surely means they will give this venture a fair shot.
I note Cityjet have dropped that nice aerial pic of the Shard from their homepage in favour of a map, to which SEN can be added.
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The real problem with Cityjet is that 7 months later they still have nothing to do with their SSJs. I know of very few successful airlines that take delivery of brand new planes and just fly them on the odd charter flight for months (+ the short Finnair contract).
I am not convinced SEN is part of a strategy or throwing another dart at the board.
There is clearly still some space in Europe for a low cost operating linking secondary/secondary markets and secondary/tertiary markets (think Volotea). I am not sure Cityjet is that airline.
I am not convinced SEN is part of a strategy or throwing another dart at the board.
There is clearly still some space in Europe for a low cost operating linking secondary/secondary markets and secondary/tertiary markets (think Volotea). I am not sure Cityjet is that airline.