Couldn't agree more. LCY caters for the richer folk living this side of London, even on bucket and spade routes, who don't want the STN - FR / EZY experience and can afford the premium.
STN remains much easier to get to than SEN. The A12 out of London is often a nightmare and the train takes longer than to STN. If EZY gets the fares right though it could be fine. I'd try it for the novelty value alone and the fact that it'll be quieter than STN. And anywhere but Luton I'm afraid.

Stansted express 46 mins, Liverpool street to Southend Airport around 50 mins. Not much in it really. Bet you can get to the plane quicker at Southend. Bet you can get to the station quicker from the plane at Southend!!

My house to terminal 5 mins. Easy.

Regards Phil

Maybe the train operating company will be able to add a new service where it will stop
at very few train stations along the route, making it faster and shaving a few more mins of the
journey time to SEN Airport.

Who knows if this will be possible or not.

Only of use if they flying to where you want to go.

true. But ten is better than none.

Regards Phil

Trains !

There is only a few mins in it WRONG !
The train station at Stansted is under the terminal and the trains I understand are every 15min.

The train station at Southend is how far in the wind and rain ?

under 100 metres I would say. Probably a 2 minute walk, unless of course you are wind and rain assisted, which means probably under one minute.

Regards Phil

DAZ211 - have you done your research about what is on offer at Southend at all? There are between 2 trains an hour (off-peak) and 7 an hour (peak) between Southend airport station and Liverpool Street. Not greatly different than at Stansted on average I suspect, but bound to be cheaper.

I think I heard that it was 50 something strides from Southend station to the terminal, and it will be a covered walkway too. Station staff are employed by Stobart also, which means that it is all done by the same team. I know which of the two I would choose to travel from given the choice, small and friendly or not so small and friendly.

The point is covered walk way or not its gonna be cold wet and windy.

Cold, wet and windy in Southend-on-Sea? Come off it. That's the Essex Riviera you're talking about.

SEN will go from strength to strength, I'm sure. Little effect on STN - but if there is, just look on it as clawing back the flights and jobs which went to STN back in 1970 when Channel AW moved there......

Daz, its literally 50 yds station to terminal. My 75 year old mum can do it in under a minute. You either dont know the geography at SEN or youre mischief-making!
One other thing... the fares on stansted express are extortionate, SEN-Liverpool St will be half the price. A lot of people on low-cost airlines are on tight budgets so this will be another factor in their overall costs to fly.
Well done to SEN and EZY for this. As someone who lives in the town and flies from the airport I think this is the best news. Good luck to all.

Luton does OK with its station a mile away so Southend has a big advantage at less the 100m. The issue will be the lack of trains through the night and early morning.

It's 01:20 in the morning at the moment. In the next hour there are 2 departures and 3 arrivals from London

01:22 Bedford On time Details
01:28 London St Pancras International On time Details
01:52 Bedford On time Details
02:18 Bedford On time Details
02:28 London St Pancras International On time

Trains to Stansted in the next hour

01:30 London Liverpool Street On time Details

Southend there is nothing.

If you are an easyjet passenger how are you meant to get to Southend for a departure before 07:15 when the first train from London does not arrive until 06:32?

EasyJet-4
 

It's a leisurely one minute stroll from the station to the terminal. I suppose it just might be possible - it's very difficult I know - for the rail company to put on earlier and later trains....? And what's all this about wind and rain? This is the Essex Riviera you're talking about - the rain this week was the first for four months.

STN won't be affected too greatly by the growth of SEN, but, even if it is, just look back one last time and see it as returning the flights and jobs which moved from SEN to STN when Channel AW moved in 1970.

Much of the passenger numbers will come from Europe using SEN as a convenient London terminal, but don't disregard the local catchment. There's a quarter of a million people within a short distance of SEN and they will be a useful addition to the load factors. STN remains in a rather less densely populated area of the county.

Good luck to SEN and EZY - they will be a highly successful partnership, I'm sure.

easy jet
 

easy jet run a coach service from london 2 stn, day and night,so it would be no problem for them to run a service from london 2 sen,if flights were to leave before 7.30 in the am

mikkie -

EasyJet don't run buses - you're confusing them with EasyBus (owned by Stelios). The EasyBus model has changed since it started and I think it's now linked with Green Line coaches.

Any routes will be decided by the bus operator, not the airline.

Just in the last few minutes I've seen EZ land into DUB. Diversion or is there a new service that hasn't been announced? Hope it's a new service but chances are slim I guess.

I think its in for maintenance. Im sure I read somewhere that a DUB company won the contract to maintain something in the tailplane (or something like that)

Most of EZY A319 landing gear maintenance is done in DUB.

Train fares from Liverpool Street
Stansted £21 single
Southend £14.30 single

(I used Prittlewell as illustration for Southend fare, as the price to the airport station hasn't been loaded into the railway ticket pricing system yet).

As to early morning service. It isn't beyond the bounds of possibility for the train operator* to adjust the schedule. I'm sure there used to be an earlier train (first job was in Essex, remember having to do stupdily early start some days).
* Now that Dept for Transport micro manage the railways, maybe it is impossible for the train operator to adjust the schedule....

Stansted Mountfitchet is a fraction of that and sits 5 mins from the boundary fence. That whole shoddy operation has been a major rip off for years. Competition my backside!