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What would work however is a Wizz to Warsaw, The Southampton pole population must be the largest in the south. With The Runway extension it makes it doable!
However all's quite on the SOU front,other airports including Southend,and down the road at BOH are introduceing routes almost weekly!
So what's happening with AGS and SOU management ?, the airport needs positive announcments!
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I had heard that late last year Wizz were due to announce something from the airport, to what extent I don’t know, so assume this has now been put back/postponed. Agreed that SOU needs further additions soon and to new destinations ideally
Are you able to inform us as to where you had "heard" that Wizz were due to announce something from the airport?
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I don't think the route could be profitable ,as it needs to be daily,but to fill a 320 ?,I don't think so.
What would work however is a Wizz to Warsaw, The Southampton pole population must be the largest in the south. With The Runway extension it makes it doable!
However all's quite on the SOU front,other airports including Southend,and down the road at BOH are introduceing routes almost weekly!
So what's happening with AGS and SOU management ?, the airport needs positive announcments!
What would work however is a Wizz to Warsaw, The Southampton pole population must be the largest in the south. With The Runway extension it makes it doable!
However all's quite on the SOU front,other airports including Southend,and down the road at BOH are introduceing routes almost weekly!
So what's happening with AGS and SOU management ?, the airport needs positive announcments!
If new routes from the UK to Poland were to be introduced, surely Southampton would be the place to consider?
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The Polish population in Southampton is not only the largest in the south, it’s one of the largest in the UK.
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The trouble with “what you heard” is that it could have come from the office cleaner who heard it from the fish lady at the market who was actually talking about Bournemouth.
You’re out of touch. Many of the Polish have gone home and have been replaced by Romanians.
You’re out of touch. Many of the Polish have gone home and have been replaced by Romanians.
However, I agree that it’s always going to be difficult to attract a plethora of routes to Southampton, the airport’s best hope is a gradual increase in domestic passengers with Loganair, Emerald/Aer Lingus, Blue Islands and Aurigny, a gradual build-up of numbers on KLM Amsterdam, the re-introduction of Manchester and CDG and additional frequencies and a sprinkling of additional sun/leisure/ski routes.
It’s never going to be another Bristol, Leeds or East Midlands, but it’s location in a busy heavily populated area at the very bottom of the UK will always require good north/south links and there will always be a small but relatively regular market for quick breaks and holidays in the sun or on the slopes.I can certainly see SOU reaching the two million passengers per annum figure in the next ten years.
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One thing that I think would help SOU would be if the traffic problems round Chichester could be resolved. I live in the South of Sussex and the unpredictability of how long it would take to get round Chichester puts me off but I’m sure SOU is a much nicer experience than LGW.
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Am told that Loganair has cancelled the slots it was holding for MAN-SOU, so presume we are not going to see this development any time soon. They are apparently still raging with AGS Airports.
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If this is so then it's a blow for SOU, it's certainly a quite time for the airport with no significant developments on the horizon!
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Loganair has no exclusive right nor monopoly on any routes from SOU and instead should understand open competition just like any other successful business. Sounds more like sour grapes to me and suggest they start reducing their fares first before toys out of pram. If they cannot price competitively because of their business model, don’t expect others to stand by whilst demand from the general public suffers accordingly!
Loganair has no exclusive right nor monopoly on any routes from SOU and instead should understand open competition just like any other successful business. Sounds more like sour grapes to me and suggest they start reducing their fares first before toys out of pram. If they cannot price competitively because of their business model, don’t expect others to stand by whilst demand from the general public suffers accordingly!
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agree with this and most likely scenario, doesn’t mean Loganair are right though and easyJet in the wrong
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Probably much to be said for that logic. If you were Loganair, why would you bother with the expense of building up routes for easyJet to muscle in on when the airport has shown you no loyalty whatsoever? Free market economics indeed.
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They could just present Easyjet with a contract that stopped them operating on any route already served by another Operator.......................
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They could just present Easyjet with a contract that stopped them operating on any route already served by another Operator.......................
