Southampton-3

[Albert Hall]

Unless easyJet has done a deal with another airline yet to be announced, they do not have slots at LHR. They are certainly holding none right now.

And with bases in Palma, Faro, Malaga and Alicante, they could serve Southampton if they wanted to. No W patterns would be needed. It’s exactly the same as the new services at Birmingham where the only remotely complicated routing is that to Corfu.

[TCAS FAN]

RW20

It would appear that we are now down to the final two hurdles, firstly waiting for the S of S to determine if the application is to be called in and secondly EBC to complete a new Section 106 Agreement to lock in the environmental mitigations that the airport offered/council requires..

https://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/plannin...ng-application

[stewyb]

Confident that if the Section 106 is robust and mitigates many of the environmental concerns, it will be passed back to EBC to rubber stamp!

[RW20]

TCAS FAN

it looks like a long way to go before any concrete is laid.On a separate note has there been any improvements on take off obstacles on 20 're Marhill copse?

[TCAS FAN]

See posts 419-421, unfortunately a non-event.

[Expressflight]

In recent history have any 20 departures taken advantage of the 15 degree starboard slew which was implemented many years ago to mitigate the tree problem?

[TCAS FAN]

Expressflight

"In recent history have any 20 departures taken advantage of the 15 degree starboard slew which was implemented many years ago to mitigate the tree problem?"

Just about every departure. The runway 20 Noise Preferential Route (NPR) provides for it.

The NPR must be flown by all turbo-jet aircraft and those with a MTOW 5700 KG or greater.

The problem was, and may still be, that for some aircraft when calculating take-off weight the height of one or more trees in/adjacent to Marhill Copse was too high/close to the end of the runway to allow for a 15 degree turn to be taken in to account. in order to afford the much better obstacle environment.

Once the runway extension is complete (all doubters on this thread please note my positivity) as the start of take-off run will be farther away from the trees it may be sufficient to take full advantage of the 15 degree turn option.

[SKOJB]

Seems TUI has cancelled its summer flight program to PMI, still some ‘holidays only’ bookable using BACF schedules

[uptoncol]

Where have you got that information from ?
August 7th flights onwards ,which I’m on that flight ,looks like they have just consolidated just to BACF ,as I was originally scheduled on Volotea.

[SKOJB]

looking at TUI website, you can no longer book flight only for the whole summer

[uptoncol]

oh right I’m on a package holiday ,may be different.

[BAladdy]

Loganair have over the last couple of days removed from sale there 3 x Weekly service to IOM

[stewyb]

BA added Chambery and Edinburgh for winter season!

[BOHEuropean]

Fantastic to see a Winter Ski flight come back to Southampton, flight programme as follows:

BA2939 EDI-SOU 20:00-21:30 FRIDAY
BA2935 SOU-CMF 07:15-09:55 SATURDAY
BA2936 CMF-SOU 10:45-11:25 SATURDAY
BA2935 SOU-CMF 07:15-09:55 SUNDAY
BA2936 CMF-SOU 10:45-11:25 SUNDAY
BA2900 SOU-EDI 12:15-13:40 SUNDAY

[stewyb]

Also a Sat pm slot up for grabs, wonder where to?

[adfly]

I would personally bet on Alicante or Malaga - can't see them trying Geneva against easyJet. Maybe a small chance of something like Innsbruck/Grenoble/Salzburg/Turin if there is demand for it and a tour operator interested?

Also, I thought the airport was open from 7:30am on Sunday's? They might struggle to make that 7:15am departure...

[TCAS FAN]

If its only one flight per week should be possible if the 10 out of hours provision per month is still in place within the current Section 106 agreement.

[adfly]

S21 Latest updates

The cuts haven't stopped yet, but overall at least traffic is starting to build up again. The Dublin and Manchester and accompanying base start dates for Blue Islands have been delayed for what I believe is the 5th time, and are now due to start exactly a year after they were originally planned to! I've left the BA flights other than Faro off as they are likely highly subject to change depending on where countries fall on the Govt's colour lottery every 3 weeks... As it stands every other destination has a start date beyond 19th June.

As of today Southampton has the following operating:

Aurigny

Guernsey - 5 weekly AT7 (Mon-Fri)

Blue Islands

Jersey - 9 weekly AT7 (2x Mon and Fri)

Eastern

Belfast City - 4 weekly AT7
Manchester - 4 weekly AT7

Loganair

Edinburgh - 9 weekly ER4 (Thurs-Mon 2x except 1x on Sat)
Glasgow - 8 weekly ER4 (Thurs-Mon 2x except 1x on Sat and Sun)
Newcastle - 5 weekly ER4 (Thurs-Mon)

24/05

Eastern start Gibraltar - 2 weekly E70 (changes to E90 early June)

29/05

BA start Faro - 2 weekly E90

31/05

Aurigny increase Guernsey to 7 weekly
Eastern increase Belfast City to 5 weekly
Eastern increase Manchester to 5 weekly
Loganair increase Edinburgh to 11 weekly
Loganair increase Glasgow to 11 weekly
Loganair increase Newcastle to 9 weekly

06/06

Loganair increase Newcastle to 10 weekly

18/06

Eastern resume Teesside - 5 weekly J41

21/06

Blue Islands increase Jersey to 14 weekly (there are some extra flights prior to this on a few dates from 28/05, but no consistent schedule increase)
Eastern resume Leeds Bradford - 5 weekly J41
Loganair increase Edinburgh to 13 weekly
Loganair increase Glasgow to 13 weekly
Loganair increase Newcastle to 13 weekly

25/06

Eastern start Dublin - 4 weekly AT7

28/06

Eastern increase Belfast City to 6 weekly
KLM resume Amsterdam - 7 weekly E75

01/07

Aurigny resume Alderney - 14 weekly D28
Aurigny increase Guernsey to 14 weekly
Blue Islands resume Guernsey - 12 weekly AT7

05/07

Eastern increase Manchester to 11 weekly
Loganair increase Newcastle to 16 weekly

22/07

Eastern start Rennes - 3 weekly AT7

23/07

Eastern start Nantes - 3 weekly AT7

26/07

Loganair increase Edinburgh to 25 weekly
Loganair increase Glasgow to 24 weekly
Loganair increase Newcastle to 18 weekly

02/08

Blue Islands increase Jersey to 20 weekly

31/08

Blue Islands start Dublin - 7 weekly AT7
Blue Islands start Manchester - 19 weekly AT7

03/09

Blue Islands increase Jersey to 23 weekly

06/09

Eastern increase Belfast City to 11 weekly
Eastern increase Leeds Bradford to 10 weekly

[The Nutts Mutts]

Thanks for such a comprehensive update Adfly, I'm always appreciative of your input on this thread.
There's been some noise on Twitter and some chat on the Cardiff thread that Eastern might be about to announce a Jersey route from SOU. If that happens I'm assuming it'll be something to do with their Aurigny codeshare and potentially a way to encourage through traffic from their other SOU routes.

[shetlander]

Isn’t there an Aberdeen to Soton route?