TLV is up there with LOS on the cabin crew sh1tlist. Awful.

Off to a good start in 2013:

Monthly traffic statistics - easyJet plc

4.0% increase in passengers and 2.4% loadfactor increase to 84.4%

Good for who?

The shareholders.

And the Stakeholders. :ok:

Wot about the workers?

as long as they are doing better than ryanair and that nasty MOL

A round of applause and, to quote Mr Grace in Are You Being Served, "Well done, you've all done very well." :ok:

oooh my pu**y........sorry I couldn't resist

Many of the workers are shareholders.

When I worked at BA EuroGatwick in the mid 90's as crew we did TLV there and back on a 737, it was top of the 'go sick' duties and I never enjoyed working it, passengers were demanding to say the elast and a 734 was not the right kind of aircraft for the route. There was no dedicated crew, you just got rostered it, with a NAP nightstop the day after as a 'sweetener'. Hats off to the EZY crew who i'm sure also do it as a there and back. Probably followed by another there and back the next day.....

5 daily flights are expected on LIN-FCO route.

Departures from LIN:
06.40
08.40
11.00
19.20
20.40

Announcement on monday feb. 11th.

Eventually SEN-EDI announced, which was supposed to be one fo the first of the new base at the outset. Can't see it generating new traffic tbh. Which London point will it steal from... ?

new route begins 19 April (first route to Serbia)

MXP-BEG 357

I think EZY will attract leisure pax to the route. However I think they will find it hard to attract the higher revenue business traveler due to it being a early afternoon departure and there only being 6 flights a week. It would have made more sense to launch the route with a 2 x daily frequency similar to that operated to BFS.

Agreed. There should be some traffic from Royal Bank of Scotland whose office complex is located at the foot of SEN's extended runway, but once a day is no use for them.....

SEN-BFS has been reduced to just once a day so that's now little use to business travellers whilst the JER service has had some time changes to fit in the new EDI route.

The NQY route replaced some BFS and AMS services also. I'm getting the impression that business trvaellers are not choosing Southend!

BFS to SEN is only once daily on Tues and Wed and double daily ex sat
Probably due to a quiet time of year, February
Would be greater pax numbers if the flight originated from BFS. It's probably difficult to get to SEN for the early morning departure if you are in central London, LGW much easier
Have to admit I do like SEN especially if travelling to East London

It's getting increasingly difficult to distinguish between business and leisure travellers these days, but if suits are anything to go by there seem to be plenty of them passing through SEN's terminals on the Irish flights.

Searching for Destination London (all Airport)
 

It seems that when you search for flights to or from London(All Airports) on easyJet, it doesnt give Southend, even though easyJet has it classed as a London airport.

This has not always been the case, and I would say it is some sort of glitch, and doesn't help SEN to promote its services.

Take for e.g. BFS which is being cut down to daily on most days doesnt get represented when the budget traveller searches for London (All airports), as the SEN option wont come up and quite likely people who dont know of it, wont check it separately.

Be good if this was sorted out.