SOUTHEND
 

Just fishing around for those familiar with Southend, Manston & Lydd who probably don't quite warrant a post of their own at this time, whether there are any developments currently being undertaken?

Southend-endless rumours little action and a time scale akin to Wembley, the existing terminal looks well worn and a disgrace for the few travellers passing thru. Manston nice terminal (empty) and Lydd has been mentioned on the site and is underggoing a lot of changes plus a new terminal but fail to see who is going to fly from there. As you say they do not warrant a spot, at all?

The main development at SEN is that the recent government railway planning assesment for East Anglia included plans for an airport station

There's more on Manston here - http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...=202125&page=6

Agree that the terminal at Southend is looking a little tired however, with the work currently going on to extend the carpark in front of the existing terminal to accomodate an additional 200+ cars combined with the fact that the airport held recruitment days in the terminal on Monday and Tuesday of this week looking for 6 additional part time check-in staff, 12 Security Officers and 4 additional full time fire fighters "as a result of recent business opportunities" (see airport website (jobs)), would seem to suggest that something is in the pipeline for the not too distant future ?

approach 24 ; this flurry of activity is for the Ford EU I believe but I still content that this contract will add little to the building of a new terminal which at the current rate will not be ready for the forthcoming olympics which must be the key to its future.

Southend doesn't warrant a post!!!? Why ever not? If someone has something of interest about what Southend are up to we would all like to hear of it. There is NO restriction about starting a thread for Southend.

PPP

Southend
 

Noted outside the paintshop yesterday was an Excel 737
and a Jet2 757

No thread for Southend
 

Back in February 2005, I did start a thread for Southend news.

Trouble is, since then not a lot has happened apart from regular articles in the local press that the future is rosy and developments are imminent.

We do get the occasional bits of good news, like the Ford contract, the maintenance side of things looks very active and there seems to be a significant increase in biz-jets. On the down side the Emerald cargo operation did'nt last long and Flybe seem to be dragging their heels.

Would like to think there will be sufficient interest and news to prevent this thread going the same way as my earlier one. I'll certainly post anything I hear which may be of interest.

Cheers

Southender.

Is the Ford Contract the B737BBJ flights to CGN that are presently at STN?

Now its got its own thread! ;)

Thanks. Now with Ford's operations plus other developments it should become
a long running thread!! :ok:

I presume the 'Ford contact' is the company shuttle flights that currently use STN....can someone confirm please? Also does anyone know the state of play with the 737BBJs as most of the current flights from STN have been operated by Excel/Titan/etc.

Glad to see some good news for SEN after years in the doldrums. Hopefully Flybe will add more services in the not too distant future.

Cheers

The first of the Jersey schedules began today, courtesy of a Flybe
Dash 8 Q400

Plus a charter to Cardiff, something about a football match?!! ;)

Did it manage to be late? It managed it for the majority of last seasons flights. Do not go building your hopes up.

Seems like this thread is going the same way as the earlier Southend threads, so to bring it back to the top I'll ask if anyone knows how the Ford flights are going.

What times are departures and arrivals?

Is the MD83 flying the Turkish Route?

It does seem to me that there are more Flightline positioning flights these days so perhaps it's going well.

Await replies with baited breath.

Cheers

Southender

The MD83 is indeed flying the Turkish route from STN.

Southend
 

Southend Council recently submitted its proposal for a regional casino to be located in the town (available on the web). The document covers a number of areas including transport links and specifically, the towns airport and how it intends to re-introduce passanger flights.

Quote " Flybe will be incorporating 14 new flight paths into its business plan from 2007".

Not sure if 'flight paths' means 14 routes, 14 flights per day/week or none of these, but it's very specific and would seem to confirm/suggest that Flybe will be introducing some new routes from Southend next year.

Rumour has it that the FordAir flights ex Sen begin early June.

Below are the proposed schedules of the FLT MD83 flights from STN:

Monday 07.00-16.00 to Dalaman
16.55-01.50 to Bodrum

Thursday 07.00-16.00 to Arrecife

Friday 07.00-16.00 to Tenerife
17.00-01.50 to Dalaman

This still does not clarify the whom what where and why the Ford op will commence at SEN. Once again the big day is this weekend's airshow?