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So looking at the weather forecast for next week would you be happy to book an Easyjet flight from Southend for midweek to say Spain or Portugal? Actually I wonder if Easyjet look at the forecast and are now restricting ticket sales.
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Flights to Chisinau commence this evening.
Whilst waiting to board one of the longest summer flights from the airport, passengers may wish to purchase something high tech to pass the time from the the airport's latest retail offering which opens today.
https://southendairport.com/explore/...2cee-308486449
Whilst waiting to board one of the longest summer flights from the airport, passengers may wish to purchase something high tech to pass the time from the the airport's latest retail offering which opens today.
https://southendairport.com/explore/...2cee-308486449
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It’s logistically a lot harder now for airlines to offload due to last minute performance restrictions, since more people than ever travel with hand luggage and check in on line. Therefore the first contact they have with airline ground staff is at the gate. To start offloading passengers at this late stage is going to be far more problematic, than if a flight is overbooked (for example) as offloaded passengers in this case can’t even make it airside.
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Flights to Chisinau commence this evening.
Whilst waiting to board one of the longest summer flights from the airport, passengers may wish to purchase something high tech to pass the time from the the airport's latest retail offering which opens today.
https://southendairport.com/explore/...2cee-308486449
Whilst waiting to board one of the longest summer flights from the airport, passengers may wish to purchase something high tech to pass the time from the the airport's latest retail offering which opens today.
https://southendairport.com/explore/...2cee-308486449
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My guess would be because it is RAF Valley.in the first place and thus not a commercial airport?
PS: Interesting piece of data is that the six (sort of) London airports account for 55 per cent of all UK air traffic passengerwise.
PS: Interesting piece of data is that the six (sort of) London airports account for 55 per cent of all UK air traffic passengerwise.
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[QUOTE=virginblue;10523500]My guess would be because it is RAF Valley.in the first place and thus not a commercial airport?
PS: Interesting piece of data is that the six (sort of) London airports account for 55 per cent of all UK air traffic passengerwise.[/QUOTE
What does 'sort of' mean?
PS: Interesting piece of data is that the six (sort of) London airports account for 55 per cent of all UK air traffic passengerwise.[/QUOTE
What does 'sort of' mean?
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However, RAF Valley on the isle of Anglesey has 2 commercial flights a day.
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Just looked up the weather forecast for the airport for the week. Not good with temperatures expected of 32 and 33C by mid week. I have just looked at easyJet’s website and I can still book daily super expensive seats to Malaga indicating the aircraft are nearly full yet Easyjet will know that passengers are going to kicked off many Southend flights meaning that separate non refundable bookings for hotels will be lost and family holidays ruined.
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If passengers booked a hotel through Easyjet I would think they would be the last people to be kicked off as I think Easyjet would be liable for the lost hotel accommodation as well because passengers would have bought a package. On the day through would those that pick the unfortunate know who has booked a package?
Reading last weeks newspaper article it would appear that those kicked off had no idea what was the real cause of their misery.
Could Easyjet not take a full load and refuel on the way at a small airport to reduce the delay?
Is Ryanair affected by this issue?
Reading last weeks newspaper article it would appear that those kicked off had no idea what was the real cause of their misery.
Could Easyjet not take a full load and refuel on the way at a small airport to reduce the delay?
Is Ryanair affected by this issue?
It will certainly be interesting to see if SEN ops are affected this week by high temperatures/wind conditions imposing limiting RTOWs. When and if that happens is the time to discuss things in my opinion, rather than pessimistic speculation at this stage. I hope someone also monitors LCY ops, and maybe elsewhere, in a similar manner to add a little balance to the discussion.