Stansted has a train service to and from the Airport, terminal to terminal meaning if you get the train from Stansted or London you will get a seat on a train with plenty of room for your bags on new state of the art trains designed for travel to and from the Airport with wifi, You can evn get trains to Stratford, Cambridge and Birmingham.
There are also coaches operated by many companies who have many services from London and other UK cities to the large coach station at the Airport.

What will you get at Southend ? A packed commuter train where you will struggle to get a seat at peak times or a train full of hoodies going to and from Southend to play on the slots and get Pi**ed. :}.

Trains starting at Southend Victoria will have plenty of room on them by the time they get to Southend Airport which will be the second stop on the line. Those coming from London should be OK until the afternoon rush.

FYI most of the hoodies probably walk to the seafront after they have been to the post office in the high street to get their cash

You should really control your anti Southend sentiments. I notice you come from Colchester, whats so special about that?

Nubrawarriors
 

You should really control your anti Southend sentiments !!!!!!

I think you will find my first post on here or the southend thread was to say well done, congratulations and good luck to both Southend and Easyjet.

So what the :mad: you going on about ?
I am only saying that you cant Look at what Southend has or might have to offer and put it along side Stansted, Southend will never be anything like or offer anything like Stansted.

You best get use to people saying things that you do not want to hear on this thread, Its the joys of having an Airport you like to shout about but everyone dont have to agree with you all the time.

I think you need to calm yourself down and take a stroll along the sea front to clear your head.

I am calm.

Obviously you are not.

Can we quit these jibes at each other?

At the end of the day, a commercial decision has been made, and no amount of sniping is going to change that.

We just have to get used to the fact there is a 'new' London airport on the block, and just like every airport around London, its going to be looking for its share of the business. The sooner everyone gets used to that, the better and we can actually get on to easyjet news!

daz211

You ask "What will you get at Southend?" and that's a perfectly good question.

But you and some others seem to work on the assumption that what is there now is what will be there next April. The fact that there is not a very early morning train service from Liverpool Street today doesn't mean there won't be one by then and the same goes for coach services. Or are you seriously suggesting that both Easyjet and Stobart won't tackle any such current shortcomings?

Lets just wait and see, once again good luck to everyone and I hope it all goes to plan :ok: So what elso is going on in the big orange world ?

Remember most of EZYs STN operation was inherited from Go rather than grown by themselves

It would be nice to see Easy set up an operation at COV as BHX doesn't seem to feature in their forward planning.

COV (CVT?) didn't exactly work for Thomson, so there's little chance it'll feature in easy's plans - besides, CVT is more Ryanair than easyJet in terms of low-cost airports - ie a few portakabins and an apron! London Coventry anyone?

Rumors report Easyjet will not open new Lisbon base due to start in October 2011 and officially announced in October 2010. Three A319 planned for Lisbon base now go to new London Southend base.

What "rumours" would these be and what is their source?

I can't see that, but I could see "Birmingham Coventry" if BXH became uneconomic.

easy jet
 

does that mean there will be six planes based at southend,3from portugal and 3 from stansted

daz211

just a note about the Stansted Express mate. I agree with you that the new trains are a big improvement, but as a regular traveller on the line, from both Liv St and Tot Hale - I assure you that there is no guarantee of a seat at peak times.

The service stops at Harlow Town or Bishop's Stortford as you know - and on most services after 1630 they are packed with commuters.

You ARE guaranteed a seat from Stortford to the terminal - so that's nice! :E

SXF strike ballot
 

German media is reporting about a strike ballot currently held at Easyjet's SXF base:

Unbefristeter Streik bei Easyjet droht | rbb Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

Result to be announced next Monday. This is for unlimited (!) strike action. German union force for you. I hope to be save with not using a SXF-based plane to London (i.e. the 7:00 to LGW), but instead a LTN flight which I think are all LTN-based planes. My guess is that only about half of the flights from SXF are SXF-based planes. The strike shouldn't affect handling agents (GlobeGround Berlin).

Will we see EZY at FRA finally ?
 

It's a bit of an old topic, and I know the FRA WaitingList doesn't really mean anything, but just spotted that EZY got their wishes pretty much:

1230 A EZY8913 31OCT 23MAR 1234567 319 1305 LGW LGW J W1
1300 D EZY8914 31OCT 23MAR 1234567 319 1335 LGW LGW J W1
1800 A EZY8915 31OCT 23MAR 12345_7 319 1705 LGW LGW J W1
1830 D EZY8916 31OCT 23MAR 12345_7 319 1815 LGW LGW J W1

https://sws.fhkd.org

With the new (landing) runway in operation this autumn, seems quite a sensible time to get a foot in the door at FRA. Mind you, BE cancelling BHX/MAN-FRA soon will leave an opening for them, e.g. MAN/LPL-FRA. FRA-GVA with EZS would be another obvious route, though surely LH would not like FRA to allow that. It's one of LH's money-makers, ask the locals who endure 7-hour-train-rides.

EDIT: There's actually already a EZS request for summer 2012:

1835 A EZS3515 31OCT 23MAR 12345_7 319 1815 GVA GVA J S2
1905 D EZS3516 31OCT 23MAR 12345_7 319 1845 GVA GVA J S2

Again this could mean nothing, as in the past. But they haven't applied for all kind of routes (e.g. MXP) like in the past, just those two. I've dragged-out this article about FRA considering EZY after the new runway opens (put it into the auto-translator of your choice):

Fraport in Verhandlungen mit easyJet: Frankfurter Flughafen zeigt sich offen für Billigflieger | RP ONLINE

Flugreisen: Frankfurter Flughafen setzt stärker auf Billigflieger - Nachrichten Wirtschaft - WELT ONLINE

Who would like to speculate about EZY future fleet plans.......?
With Airbus taking 2 years worth of NEO orders at Paris should EZY making MOU now, the 321NEO is very much like a 757 so would push them futher into Africa & Eastern Europe but on thinner short haul might they be considering another airframe?

Best Low-Cost Airline in Europe
 

Congratulations to easyjet on winning the Best Low-Cost Airline in Europe award for 2011.

Yes congratulations !
Just need to work on your time keeping :ok:.