at least its a dam site better than the old tin hut that used to be the old terminal,and we at sen happen to like it!!!!!

Terminal nearly ready.

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Looks like our local B&Q but without the racking

Seating
 

Looks like 150 seats in the "departure" lounge. Could get a bit crowded unless Easyjet are going to buck the loco model and fly evenly spaced departures throughout the day.

On a walk past the other day I also noticed the close proximity of the entry/exit doors to the terminal (located adjacent to each other). This could also be a cause of friction when you have 150 arriving passengers trying to get past the 150 departing passengers on a footpath to the 2 doors that is no wider than 6 feet.

Still - good luck to SEN, the locals deserve a cheap flight to the sun without having to brave the A13/A127/M25/M11 horrors.

Since when have airports been concerned about having enough seats in the departure lounge, or easyjet concerned about having enough (or any) seats in the cattle pen.

Luton and Stansted don't seem to bother much with providing seating for waiting passengers. Why would Southend feel the need to spend the money ?

LTNMAN
 

you should think your self lucky that your b&q is as nice looking as our new terminal,at least its a dam site better than the tin hut that was being used before!!!!!!!¬

Well it looks better than Blackpool. Their new terminal came with exposed breeze block walls that were not even painted. At least they have been plastered and painted at Southend.

Waterford - Southend has dropped to 10 weekly since last week for thw whole winter season. Was planned to be 13 weekly for some of the winter season.

One flight - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday
Two flight - Sunday, Monday and Friday

Has any dates been announced for opening of the new terminal? I'm guessing it will wait till easyJet arrive, I can't see it launching for 1 flight a day somehow!

Terminal Opening Date
 

Mart901.

I have heard that the terminal will most likely open in February for staff training purposes. There has been talk of volunteers being sought to act as 'pretend' passengers in order to ensure that staff procedures and other systems are working as planned. Naturally, StobartAir would not wait until the day before the commencement of EasyJet flights in the hope it would be alright on the day! In view of this, it looks as though Aer Arann passengers will be the first 'real-life' customers to experience the new terminal. You could say it was luck of the Irish!

LOL. Dublin airport did that with terminal 2 but I think they used acting extras or certainly paid people to trial the new terminal, practising boarding flights, emergency evacuations etc. It will be really interesting to watch things develop at Southend and how long it will take another airline to move in?

That was not the plan for T2. All carriers were due to move in when it opened but a number of problems caused delays. They did not pay people to test T2 they asked for voluntrees to test the systems.

Oh right I only remember catching a bit of that on rte website thanks for clarification.

roumor has it that three airlines to start new services from southend,one of them is the motor company ford and their flight to cologne,any news on what airlines these maybe.

Not much chance of passengers or luggage getting lost as Southend.

Ford
 

((roumor has it that three airlines to start new services from southend,one of them is the motor company ford and their flight to cologne,any news on what airlines these maybe.))

German Wings carry the ford pax out of STN, perhaps they're on the move to sen too?:ok:

Perhaps they are re-stating the Fordair 1-11 service to CGN :eek:

It would be great to see the return of Flightline, but I somehow doubt we will see it.

I'm told by a reliable source that Ford will be returning the RJ off lease in the New Year, so I doesn't look as if they will operate the SEN-CGN in their own right. This seems to be a change of plan to that of a couple of months ago. Join! of course were/are very interested in operating the route with a F100 - if they ever get off the ground. Otherwise, as SENFLYER speculates, German Wings is a possibility for the route.