Southend-2

[Expressflight]

No surprise at all unfortunately. It's hard to make an argument for Wizz staying at SEN once European flying restarts in a more organised way.

[stewyb]

Originally Posted by Expressflight

No surprise at all unfortunately. It's hard to make an argument for Wizz staying at SEN once European flying restarts in a more organised way.

With close by LTN serving Wizz and once RYR jumped on the same routes, it was never going to succeed!

[MARKEYD]

Looks like Ryanair are having a cull at Southend this winter with only 1 based aircraft operating between Friday - Monday

SEN - ALC - SEN - AGP - SEN - DUB - SEN

[LTNman]

Better than nothing and they have left the door open for better days.

[Expressflight]

The Spring 2021 schedule currently seems to need two aircraft to operate it. It's possible, of course, that additions may be made to that schedule in coming months.

[LTNman]

Not good but surely the good times will return at Southend in the medium term.

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/185...us-worse-9-11/

[SeanM1997]

Originally Posted by stewyb

Twitter suggesting Wizz Vilnius dropped!

Wizz have dropped its Vilnius route but Bucharest remains 3x weekly. The app only shows routes which are bookable and is sometimes more accurate than the website (which shows a number of routes from around Europe with no available dates)

[Barling Magna]

Originally Posted by LTNman

Not good but surely the good times will return at Southend in the medium term.

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/185...us-worse-9-11/

There is an element of whistling in the dark, but also some truth in what Glyn Jones says:“There are two things in our favour, the first is we are still very largely a leisure-based airport, leisure will come back before business for practical reasons.

“We’re a short haul airport and I think we have got a good chance of coming back early and a chance of getting more share, but you have to work really hard for it.”

Time will tell.....

[Expressflight]

Southend looks to remain a three aircraft RYR base next summer with the Summer 2021 schedules starting to appear on their website. So far ALC, REU, CFU, DUB, FAO, AGP and PMI are bookable and presumably other destinations will appear, as RYR normally drip-feed their route releases.

[SWBKCB]

There is an element of whistling in the dark, but also some truth in what Glyn Jones says:“There are two things in our favour, the first is we are still very largely a leisure-based airport, leisure will come back before business for practical reasons.

“We’re a short haul airport and I think we have got a good chance of coming back early and a chance of getting more share, but you have to work really hard for it.”

Unlike local rivals Luton, Gatwick and Stansted?!?

[tws123]

Wideroe have announced a new Bergen to Southend service operating 2x weekly on their E190-E2 from 31 August 2020.

Flights operate on Mondays and Fridays

BGO 8:30 - 9:20 SEN
SEN 9:50 - 12:50 BGO

[AirportPlanner1]

Are they going to fly to Bergen from every London airport?!

Sadly I think this may be temporary, they’ve got slots at LCY I believe so wouldn’t be surprised if both this and Kristiansand shift over come winter

[AirLCY]

Why wouldn’t they go straight into LCY now if that’s the plan for winter, it’s not exactly full?

I think payload would be an issue LCY-KRS on the Q400

[Expressflight]

Originally Posted by AirportPlanner1

Sadly I think this may be temporary, they’ve got slots at LCY I believe so wouldn’t be surprised if both this and Kristiansand shift over come winter

You could be right as far as BGO is concerned because it's only bookable from SEN between August 31st and October 19th. KRS seems less likely as that is bookable from SEN right through to Summer 2021, when it increases to a daily frequency.

[LTNman]

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2020...ockdown-eases/

So what is this quote all about?

We are recognised as the only London airport where you don't need extra safety and the only airport in England where you can fly to Greece and not be quarantined when you get there so we have some really big advantages

– GLYN JONES, LONDON SOUTHEND AIRPORT

[AirportPlanner1]

Maybe the checks are the equivalent of what the Greeks would have given on arrival so it’s a bit like US customs clearance in Dublin? Shame there aren’t many flights between SEN and Greece!

[compton3bravo]

I think Mr Jones has been doing what I call an Everley Brothers - All I have to do is dream, dream, dream!

[chrism20]

Originally Posted by LTNman

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2020...ockdown-eases/

So what is this quote all about?

Might have something to do with the article below. I remember laughing at the time when it was published as it was practically saying it was safe for me to travel from my local airport in Edinburgh but sixty miles down the M8 Glasgow wasn't. Southend was also mentioned as being "Safe"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/1179...-july-airport/

[Red Four]

I would imagine the comment stems from this EASA document: Annex 1 to EASA SD No 2020-01 and SD 2020-02

[tws123]

Originally Posted by Expressflight

You could be right as far as BGO is concerned because it's only bookable from SEN between August 31st and October 19th. KRS seems less likely as that is bookable from SEN right through to Summer 2021, when it increases to a daily frequency.

Further update to the above post.

Bergen (BGO) now on sale 2x weekly through to 21 June 2021.
Kristiansand (KRS) remains on sale at 5x weekly, rising to daily from 28 March 2021 through to 24 June 2021