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Fares when I had a look for interest last week and a few images in the media would seem to confirm this, although there have been very few flights - about 2-4 per day - and they are to quite mainstream destinations
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Stobart have sold Stobart Rail for £1000. I guess what they are doing is try and slow down of group losses in order to keep hold of the airport possibly until some sort of knight in shining armour comes along to save them.
Talking of knights, Andrew Tinkler says he would have paid 5 million for Stobart Rail, and again called for the removal of Warwick Brady.
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/185...thend-airport/
Talking of knights, Andrew Tinkler says he would have paid 5 million for Stobart Rail, and again called for the removal of Warwick Brady.
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/185...thend-airport/
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Stobart have sold Stobart Rail for £1000. I guess what they are doing is try and slow down of group losses in order to keep hold of the airport possibly /
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Not a good time for Stobart to focus on Southend when aviation has been decimated. Southend will now have to compete head on with other London Airports with plenty of spare capacity and better transport links who will be doing their own deals. To compete means offering ever lower fees or not charging fees at all, which will mean even lower wages and zero hour contracts.
Mirror that for STN, GAT, and LTN and it is a race to the bottom with the airlines holding all the aces.
Mirror that for STN, GAT, and LTN and it is a race to the bottom with the airlines holding all the aces.
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Southend does its own handing. Stobart has already said it has to reduce costs so people will be made redundant and then no doubt taken back on again, as the airport picks up, on new inferior contracts.
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So what can be made of the fact that Ezy have put a near full schedule on sale from Southend for next summer:
A) They are a company in cash generation mode and are just trying to acquire cash even if they know they will be almost certainly cancelling the flights?
B) They plan on offering a larger range of destinations through non based flying than most of us would have originally thought (the timings of many flights make this unlikely)?
C) A possible U turn over base closure (hopefully so but probably the most unlikely)?
D) Something else?
A) They are a company in cash generation mode and are just trying to acquire cash even if they know they will be almost certainly cancelling the flights?
B) They plan on offering a larger range of destinations through non based flying than most of us would have originally thought (the timings of many flights make this unlikely)?
C) A possible U turn over base closure (hopefully so but probably the most unlikely)?
D) Something else?
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F) They continue to sell tickets as normal since they're still consulting with unions about the base closure and will reaccomodate bookings, or offer a refund, when the inevitable is officially confirmed.
Seems the most logical explanation to me.
Seems the most logical explanation to me.
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EZY are allegedly operating a full pre-Covid schedule from early September. Fares are temptingly good...now, are they really going from 0 weekly to 13 weekly to AMS for example? My hunch is the cash generation option cited for why the 2021 schedule is on sale isn’t far off the mark. I’d be surprised if all the Sep flights take to the skies and that’s far more immediate.
As an aside my STN-AMS has been retimed and the schedule appears to all be operated from the AMS base whereas from what I can tell SEN-AMS is being operated from SEN.
As an aside my STN-AMS has been retimed and the schedule appears to all be operated from the AMS base whereas from what I can tell SEN-AMS is being operated from SEN.
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Not a good time for Stobart to focus on Southend when aviation has been decimated. Southend will now have to compete head on with other London Airports with plenty of spare capacity and better transport links who will be doing their own deals. To compete means offering ever lower fees or not charging fees at all, which will mean even lower wages and zero hour contracts.
Mirror that for STN, GAT, and LTN and it is a race to the bottom with the airlines holding all the aces.
Mirror that for STN, GAT, and LTN and it is a race to the bottom with the airlines holding all the aces.