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This May, pax numbers to destinations now served by both FR and EZY have soared compared to last year.
Alicante up 141%
Faro up 100%
Malaga up 87%
Palma Mallorca up 126%
Does anyone believe that EZY have failed to exploint the full potential of these routes? Or by keeping capacity below demand did they achieve full aircraft and high yield before the competition came along?
Alicante up 141%
Faro up 100%
Malaga up 87%
Palma Mallorca up 126%
Does anyone believe that EZY have failed to exploint the full potential of these routes? Or by keeping capacity below demand did they achieve full aircraft and high yield before the competition came along?
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This May, pax numbers to destinations now served by both FR and EZY have soared compared to last year.
Alicante up 141%
Faro up 100%
Malaga up 87%
Palma Mallorca up 126%
Does anyone believe that EZY have failed to exploint the full potential of these routes? Or by keeping capacity below demand did they achieve full aircraft and high yield before the competition came along?
Alicante up 141%
Faro up 100%
Malaga up 87%
Palma Mallorca up 126%
Does anyone believe that EZY have failed to exploint the full potential of these routes? Or by keeping capacity below demand did they achieve full aircraft and high yield before the competition came along?
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Yes i believe EZY have failed to exploit those routes and also over the last eight years of ops at SEN not increased the number of aircraft and routes to their full potential, its been only 3 or 4 aircraft based at various times. If they could have increased their SEN base by at least another two A319s/20s then maybe they would not have had Ryanair starting up a base here, but who knows?. Certainly the competition on those sun routes is good for the traveling public.
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Sunday was considerably cooler than the Saturday. I wonder what the temperature cut-off point is before flights are load limited due to the runway/climb out limitations? Does anyone know?
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I don't follow your logic there I'm afraid. How could Loganair responsibly tell pax they can check-in up to 20 minutes before flight departure when at the top of SEN's website home page is a notice declaring "Please ensure that you arrive at least 2 hours before your scheduled time of departure.".
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I used to reckon that it was ok to turn up at the airport out 35 mins before the flight was due to depart with my boarding card already printed off as it always seemed to be ok. Then one day the security queue was significantly longer than normal and it didn't turn out to be ok. Being required to turn up a full 2 hours in advance is just a bit of a**e covering on behalf of the airport, but maybe best not to cut things too fine...
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Your comments about SEN seem to be very bitter and angry, please tell us if you had an unfortunate experience there, or is it that you just don't want the airport to succeed?
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I think what you are saying is that I don't wear rose tinted glasses and come out with the bull sh!t. If Southend wants to keep its favourite airport status it needs to stay ahead of the curve. I can't help but feel awards were presented when passenger numbers were really low and were lapped up here as though Stobart was doing something special. Now with the airport at half capacity passengers are being reported as missing flights. No point pretending it isn't happening with your claims that only 3 people were in front of you in the security queue. This is something that the airport should be addressing.
Extensive coverage of the "opening" of CAX on nationwide BBC Breakfast this morning including footage of the departure of the first LM flight to DUB. It was mentioned that CAX-DUB is currently the best selling of the three routes on offer The inaugural CAX-SEN takes place later today.
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And here's the Echo's take on it. Not quite right as the Southend flights haven't launched yet (not until later today) but then it is the notoriously incorrect Echo!
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/177...g-new-airport/
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/177...g-new-airport/