German Labour Courts punish easyJet over law flouting
 

This is the gist of one earlier post.

Have they never heard of Herr O´Leary then ?

FR has no staff based at SXF. No FR staff in Germany is organised in a union. It's of course a different story why this is so. I don't think I ever had German staff in a FR aircraft, though there must be some at the HHN, NRN and BRE bases, but even there hardly any German nationals. Quite typical for Germans to leave low-paid and low-profile jobs to EU or Turkish immigrants.
EZY staff at their SXF base is organised in the powerful service union VERDI (millions of members) . SXF is EZY's only remaining base in Germany (probably for exactly that reason). The union has limited interest in the fate of Eastern European workers (as you can read in recent interviews about the 1st May job market opening).

Could an announcment about a SEN operation for 2012 be imminent?

This morning an Easyjet A319 arrived at SEN and is currently parked on the apron with an Eddie Stobart lorry on either side of it, as if ready for a photo shoot.

Yep, they are launching the new operation from sen. Photoshoot today etc. Be interesting to hear the plans :)

Any updates yet
 

Any ezy staff got any information on this announcement for SEN airport.

Will it just be flights operating to and from SEN, or will it be an EZY Base.

Could it be a GVA / SEN route ?

Possibly.
Arann are said to be doing AMS from sen later in the year.
I think the hype was about a carrier doing "sunshine" links, but I guess anything is possible. We will just have to wait and see.

Easyjet set to fly from Stobart's Southend airport
 

easyJet to launch services from London Southend Airport

http://corporate.easyjet.com/media/l...555&h=372&as=1

Good of FR to bring along their new fleet for the SLF to compare :E

Wonder how many people with be bitching about U2 flying from LONDON Southend Airport as they would if FR was flying from there.

Easyjet to fly from London Southend Airport
 

Announced this morning that Easyjet are going to launch 10 routes from Southend in April 2012 and rationalize Stansted routes.
Stobart have put a lot of investment into the airport and now looks like its paying off, though some locals are still trying to get the runway extension blocked I hear.

Three aircraft and mix of city and leisure routes.

Only an airline could refer to Southend as London!

Which one of those three would I be travelling on then? I'm betting one of the wingmen...

Correction.. Only a loco airline could! :ugh:

Wonder if we will see a green easy jet.com for the first based Aircraft, would be nice.

Out of interest, I know BA are the "official" airline of London 2012, so how far can Easyjet and SEN go marketing this as the ideal airline and airport for the games before the Olympics legal team start complaining?

Wonder how many people with be bitching about U2 flying from LONDON Southend Airport as they would if FR was flying from there.

Is it any different than flying from London Luton? Which if I recall correctly both FR and EZY do.

True, it's a bit of a stretch to call it London, but on the other hand, the train times into London are similar to Stansted - and if you are going to the Olympics at Stratford, Southend will be faster.

Sounds like those bean counters at Easyjet are putting pressure on Stansted to keep their landing fees down!

And have you forgotten the ancient plans to build a new London airport on Maplin Sands....not far from Southend.

They must have got a hell of a good deal from the airport authority