Unlikely to be a 737-500 due to runway restrictions at Antwerp. More likely an ATP or a 146; both feature in the Kon Tiki inventory.

oh yeh sorry missed off the other two aircraft types! :ugh:

Strange route choice. Apart from Manchester, the only other place Antwerp serves is LCY, the nearest airport to Southend! And onwards to Skopje? I am not aware of any great concentration of Macedonian expats/communities in either Essex or Antwerp.

Wizz also already serve Luton-Skopje and according to Wikipedia (yes I know...) Jetairfly are starting Brussels-Skopje in May.

There is a parallel discussion on the new thread SOUTHEND 3 - A new beginning.
May I suggest we concentrate on that new thread from now on ?

Has a Mod died ?

Welkyboy Hi

I completely agree with all your comments on the possibilities at EGMC in the 1960s Southend Borough council did not have the political will to push ahead to build the R/W from the 15 threshold out west, Although profits made by the A/P which was a very large sum in those days was ploughed back into the rate fund which for some years considerable reduced the local council tax to the town, something which seems to be conveniently forgotten by those at SAEN but I expect that none of them or the families even lived in Southend in those days''' (if you were to look at the current OS map or even Google earth Strangle enough it would still be possible with some changes to the roads)
Did you work in the TWR at that time?? with Roy, Hillary, Fred, Paul, Wally, Dave, Mick, Chris, Roger Just to name a few, I worked for Air Charter, CAB, BUA, BUAF, BAF Fm 1958-1974 and in the early 1960 worked in the CAB-BUAF movement control so had a lot to do with the TWR guys, used to get dragged out of bed in the middle of winter nights to handle lots of BEA Viscount diversion do you remember the BEA winter duty engineer, Tug Wilson he had his cream hut next to the TWR and parked all his GPU,s Tow Bars & Steps out front those were the glory days just CAB alone would be running over 100 flights a day in midsummer not counting the ever increasing numbers by Channel, I have just retired last July after 52 Years in Aviation having travelled all over the world in my job it just shows what a good grounding I got at my local airport something that seems to get forgotten these days. I have to hand it to Stobarts they have achieved something which we all only dreamed about 50 Years ago and achieved in very short order they deserve the praise which they are given.
Bye the way my names Peter so it may well help, lots of the names shown in this thread I knew well in those days can also remember the names of most of our Aircrew including those who operated our MOD contract to Adelaide for the Woomera contract with Avro Super Traders, C-54/DC-4, DC-6s
Rgds to all
Peter

I cannot understand why it is necessary to create yet another 'thread'.
Now we are faced with having to check more than one and I don't get a kick out of playing computers, quite pointless in my view.

Simply because, effectively, a new airport has been created at SEN and the new thread reflects and celebrates that fact.