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Wizzair have just a single route from Bristol, 8 eastern Europe routes from Birmingham, 5 eastern Europe routes at Gatwick and a lot from Luton. Why would Wizz want to open *another* airport in southern England to serve this market and spread themselves even more thinly, along with incurring the costs of an extra airport in their network ?
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I personally think the name of Hurn lends a certain amount of gravitas to the airport, really important airports are quite happy to be referred to by the names of the villages in which they are situated - Gatwick in Sussex and Heath Row (Heathrow) in what was Middlesex. Associating the airport with a provincial seaside town makes it sound a lot less important!
All but a few hundred metres of the south end of the runway is within the Borough of Eastleigh, and until BAA and their preceding subsidiary pitched up it always was Southampton/Eastleigh Airport.
We don't have "Heathrow Intl" or "Gatwick Intl", what could be next "London Southampton"?
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Why would Wizz want to open *another* airport in southern England to serve this market and spread themselves even more thinly, along with incurring the costs of an extra airport in their network ?
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Wizzair have just a single route from Bristol, 8 eastern Europe routes from Birmingham, 5 eastern Europe routes at Gatwick and a lot from Luton. Why would Wizz want to open *another* airport in southern England to serve this market and spread themselves even more thinly, along with incurring the costs of an extra airport in their network ?
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I think if wizz were interested in SOU to Poland/Romania they would have made it known on announcement of the extension.
There is a lot of speculation about routes that could be announced,but thats it!
There is a lot of speculation about routes that could be announced,but thats it!
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If Bristol can support only a single Wizz route, I'm not particularly hopeful around SOU's chances of getting routes from Wizz in the immediate future
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As runway 20 already has a displaced threshold, would I be correct in assuming that the landing distance available will remain the same when the runway extension is opened?
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Reading in the Telegraph that the SOU drop-off charge has gone up to £6. Forget it, drop-off at Parkway Station for free and walk over.
Stopped using airport taxis years ago, walk over to Parkway for a much better deal.
Stopped using airport taxis years ago, walk over to Parkway for a much better deal.
Yes the runway is grooved but they don’t work as well as they should due to a cross fall with drain gully on the east side. Water often sits in the gully, preventing the grooves from draining.
The issue of grooving has lost some of its importance due to new runway state reporting requirements that came in last November. The description “Damp” which did not incur a performance penalty is no longer used. Consequently what was Damp, with a change of surface colour, is now considered as “Wet” which could impose a performance penalty. Crazy!
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50% increase since the last increase just a year ago. Southampton Airport doing their bit to lower inflation.
https://www.southamptonairport.com/n...mpton-airport/
https://www.southamptonairport.com/n...mpton-airport/
A number of changes are being made to Express Drop Off facilities as part of a review at Southampton Airport. The Express Drop Off in fee will be set at £4 for 20 minutes from June 14, 2022.
The majority of Joe Public will probably remain oblivious.
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Most airports offer a free drop off at an airport car park with the inconvenience of a longer walk or a free bus to catch. Consider the station to be Southampton’s unpublished equivalent, as the cost of travelling through an airport will be a consideration for LCC passengers on a tight budget particularly those passengers where Southampton is one of many airports where they could travel from.