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I've friends coming in on the new FR SEN service when it starts up. Interested to hear what they think.
Take it the airport will have the Fire tenders out for the arched hose welcome together with media from Heart, Echo, ITV London News, etc
Take it the airport will have the Fire tenders out for the arched hose welcome together with media from Heart, Echo, ITV London News, etc
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Wow. Met with dazzle of blue and yellow and Ryanair decal adverts carpetted all over c2c train station entry and exit barriers to platforms - prominently in bold yellow SOUTHEND
Good advert campaigning - very visible, it's everywhere
Good advert campaigning - very visible, it's everywhere
The three aircraft should be EI-GDZ, EI-GJG plus another, with ETA SEN around 11:30L, 1145L and 12:00L. Landing on 05 today I should imagine.
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I don’t know, but a question I’ve always wondered (not unique to SEN) is why airlines do perverse things just to fit in with summer/winter schedules when they don’t need to. For example, the Stobart DUB route would surely have been better ending yesterday or today rather than Saturday. This would have enabled rather than block the busy weekend market, and given continuity until the FR take over tomorrow. Similarly surely the Newquay route would be better starting on Thursday or Friday, or even pushed back a couple of weeks to Easter.
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just curious to know the load factor for the FR flight to PMI tomorrow !
I can say that the EZY flight is empty ! i mean 119 to PMI and only 29 on the way back
I checked the loads for PMI flights the whole month (EZY) and the figures are not high
just how FR hope having the fights full ? i know it s only the beginning of the season and my question is stupid
I can say that the EZY flight is empty ! i mean 119 to PMI and only 29 on the way back
I checked the loads for PMI flights the whole month (EZY) and the figures are not high
just how FR hope having the fights full ? i know it s only the beginning of the season and my question is stupid
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Correct me if I'm wrong but you seem to have looked at the EZY seat selection plan for tomorrow's SEN-PMI to determine the number of seats sold. That isn't always a reliable indicator. On the same basis the first RYR flight to PMI show an almost identical number of seats reserved so, while not saying that your question is "stupid", I'm not sure what that tells us for the future - probably nothing.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but you seem to have looked at the EZY seat selection plan for tomorrow's SEN-PMI to determine the number of seats sold. That isn't always a reliable indicator. On the same basis the first RYR flight to PMI show an almost identical number of seats reserved so, while not saying that your question is "stupid", I'm not sure what that tells us for the future - probably nothing.
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29 would be about normal for the first week of flights, even lower can be expected. It’s completely normal. There has been a sudden ramping up of frequency compared to last week across the UK, so there’s few pax already in PMI to go around. Come the end of October it will be the same pattern in reverse.
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Great day for SEN having RYR arrive in addition to EZY. Seemed like the brakes on the empty 738 were being pressed harder on landing than the 320 and will be interesting to see its field performance out of the airport!
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Auto brake number? https://youtu.be/9mV_l7JL2nA?t=44
If they're around in 2 years that will be a great success story. Not being negative, or suggesting they will or they won't, just saying that FR are rarely in it for the long haul, unless they are coining it, without detracting from profitability of other bases.
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It looks like the DUB route is off to a weak start as I predicted. If you compare similar times (circa 19:00 out tonight, 23:00 return and 06:30 out tomorrow, return 09:30) the following number of people are checked in:
Southend: 146
Stansted: 233
Luton: 313
Gatwick: 403 (this isn’t quite like-for-like first/last are later/earlier)
Hopefully the route will pick up, but the 06:30 departure and 23:30 arrival look particularly low as I suggested would be the case based on previous experience. This shows the critical need for a proper put-of-hours service to London.
But overall hopefully the wider FR operation will do good things.
Southend: 146
Stansted: 233
Luton: 313
Gatwick: 403 (this isn’t quite like-for-like first/last are later/earlier)
Hopefully the route will pick up, but the 06:30 departure and 23:30 arrival look particularly low as I suggested would be the case based on previous experience. This shows the critical need for a proper put-of-hours service to London.
But overall hopefully the wider FR operation will do good things.