Southampton-2

[SWBKCB]

Looks to be Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, December to February

[The Nutts Mutts]

Tue, Thurs, Sun from what I can see.

[MARKEYD]

Easy jet are returning for another season

Flights leave the same days as this year and similar times of departure , no Saturday flight offered though and the Tuesday flight is now an A319

[stewyb]

Rumour talks have taken place with EZY to operate S19, let's wait and see!

[RW20]

With the airside limitations at SOU I can't see Easy doing much on the Sun routes,it's a shame as given the catchment area,and with London airports at maximum ,there is a massive potential,but we have been saying this about SOU for some years.

[RW20]

Surely to make Easy operation worthwhile from SOU they need to operate with A320 to the Sun routes,given the competition down the road at BOU. This would I'm sure have some payload restrictions in the Summer temps, something Easy will not contemplate!.

[shamrock7seal]

What is ur source for this stewyb? Surely this is confidential information.

They tried other routes from BOH to Grenoble and Kraków back in 2007/8 but they didn’t work out. Interesting considering Ryanair is making Kraków work from BOH ten years later.

EasyJet would surely be talking to both BOH and SOU about S19. When does easyJet go on sale with S19?

[MARKEYD]

Easy jet summer 2019 normally goes on sale around 1 Oct 18

I think Easy talk to many airports throughout the year and visa versa . If they did decide a base it would be a minimum of 3 aircraft like the Southend start up and take it from there .
It really is along way ahead and I am sure very confidential about talks etc

[inOban]

I would have thought that it would more likely to be routes operated, like GVA, from continental bases. The days of Easyjet or Ryanair creating new, small, bases are over.

[Severn]

Assuming EZY isn't about to open a SOU base in 2019, it will rely on other bases in the network for any new routes out of SOU.
EZY currently has 11 UK bases (LGW, LTN, STN, SEN, BRS, MAN, LPL, NCL, EDI, GLA & BFS) as well as 7 other UK airports they serve: SOU, BOH, BHX, INV, ABZ, IOM & JER
The routes from these UK non-easyjet bases are as follows:
SOU: GVA
BOH: GVA
BHX: BFS, GVA, GNB

INV: LGW, LTN, BRS
ABZ: LGW, LTN,

IOM: LGW, LTN, BRS, LPL, BFS

JER: LGW, LTN, SEN, LPL, NCL, EDI, GLA, BFS

As you can see, apart from the airports in England (BHX, BOH & SOU) which have destinations to the continent (GVA & GNB), the other 4 airports only have destinations within the rest of the UK.
This would suggest that the next EZY-related news to be announced at SOU (if there is going to be any) would be:

• GVA to go year-round,
• a new route to GNB announced,
• or EZY going up against BE/T3 on routes to one of its UK bases.

Anything outside of the above list would mean bucking the usually easy to follow EZY-trend (unless they are to open a base, which is even less likely).

[FrequentlyFlying]

Just the regular reminder that SOU and BOH both operated by Easy Swiss not Easy - Geneva snow flights mean little more than resort fillers for the season. Would love to see some new City routes at SOU by 100 plus jet but best hope is someone who takes on a C Series has a go - going up against Ryanair at BOH on sun routes is probably not a great way forward.

[RW20]

Good post,can't see Easy expanding beyond present operations at SOU,given the airdrome limitations.
Indeed 2019 could see stagnation in pax,with the decline in sun routes on offer.

[compton3bravo]

I think you will find the Birmingham-Grenoble route has been dropped due to poor loads and competition from Jet2.

[Severn]

I think you will find the Birmingham-Grenoble route has been dropped due to poor loads and competition from Jet2.

At the time of posting, BHX-GNB is still operating and it's last flight of the season will be next Saturday. The fact that it hasn't been loaded for next season escaped me, so I do apologise. Even with BHX-GNB removed from my previous post I think you can still draw the same conclusions.

Just the regular reminder that SOU and BOH both operated by Easy Swiss not Easy

My post is based on the flights being sold by easyJet regardless if the aircraft operating the route is Easy or Easy Swiss. The flights from BRS-GVA for example run with a mix of Easy and Easy Swiss, but the punter booking the flights does not know any different from the time of booking right through to travel. Maybe I should have put "EasyJet Group" to make things a little clearer?

[Rivet Joint]

Originally Posted by shamrock7seal

What is ur source for this stewyb? Surely this is confidential information.

They tried other routes from BOH to Grenoble and Kraków back in 2007/8 but they didn’t work out. Interesting considering Ryanair is making Kraków work from BOH ten years later.

EasyJet would surely be talking to both BOH and SOU about S19. When does easyJet go on sale with S19?

Shamrock, just my observation, but I do not think BOH fits EZY’s profile as well as SOU does. As others have said, the Geneva route is operated by their Swiss unit who seem to operate slightly differently and will operate into various airports on the odd route. The UK unit only seems to operate from airports that can sustain a sizeable base. BOH has never been able to sustain a base, especially on business routes. People forget EZY is as much about business traffic as it is leisure. As mentioned before, EZY probably see SOU as an oportunity to grow their market share outside the slot restricted London airports. It’s pretty much as near to London as Southend is. BOH looks like it will always be an airport for the tour operators, nothing more.

[Rivet Joint]

Originally Posted by inOban

I would have thought that it would more likely to be routes operated, like GVA, from continental bases. The days of Easyjet or Ryanair creating new, small, bases are over.

Not true. How do you explain Southend? They cannot grow at the rate they want at the traditional London airports. I would argue SOU has 10 x what Southend has to offer for EZY. Do we know if Southend had to carry out a lot of investment as part of the deal of EZY opening a base? Was the train station being built part of it? As we have all said for years, SOU needs to put its hand in its pocket.

[ezyBoh]

Flights to/from BOH & SOU are operated by both easyJet Switzerland & easyJet. Usually by NCL & LTN based aircraft. For example LTN-GVA-BOH-GVA-LTN.

[southside bobby]

Try not to use SEN as a EZY yardstick & example for small base investment at SOU.

"Special factors" are/were in play with the SEN setup of course.

EZY had/have plenty of scope for continued good growth rate at the North London airports without the diversion of SEN.

[Cozy F]

Interesting thoughts here folks. I’m certain that SOU would welcome some operator diversity, and would concur that SOU might be a slightly better EZY fit than BOH.

Also agree with Severn’s thoughts regarding initial EZY options, which are essentially links to existing U.K. domestic bases beyond a small smattering of ski services.

Looking at the 11 EZY U.K. Base operations the 5 in the south of England are geographically illogical for ops from SOU whilst airport management might be a little reticent to encourage direct head-to-heads with their main customer BE on MAN, NCL, EDI or GLA - which leaves, IMO, LPL and BFS as the two proving grounds for further market potential for EZY from SOU.

[The Nutts Mutts]

If it were to be the sun routes from SOU that Easy were to be interested in, exploiting the gap left by the departure of the Flybe E195s, then would W-patterns from other bases be a possibility? Eg LGW-ALC-SOU-ALC-LGW?