EI-BUD

It's a glitch which arose when the SEN-EDI was pre-loaded onto the system. For some reason it's going to take a couple of days to restore SEN flights to the 'London (all airports)' listings.

I do agree that it seems a little odd to operate both SEN-EDI and SEN-BFS as only once daily. I would have thought a double daily EDI would be better, otherwise perhaps you get the worst of both worlds, although I do think the EDI service will be well supported even at once daily.

I think Southend is going to always be a leisure airport with mainly seasonal summer sun, winter ski and popular city break destinations serving the local area of Essex, Suffolk, Kent and East London.

I assume most of the people in suits are on the Aer Lingus service to Dublin, where there are onward connections to the US? Remember also that suits is not solely related to business travel. People could be travelling for all sorts of formal occasions.

Just a little background knowlege for those less aware, there are three main types of tourism. Business, Leisure and VFR (Visiting Friends and Relatives). There are other types like "Special Interest" and "Dark" tourism (memorials/things relating to death, eg. visiting Auswitch in Poland.) but these do tie into the three main types stated above.

As much as it may be hard to distinguish the different types which I do agree with to an extent, the airlines, like any business have to sterotype to what the typical type of tourist/traveller requires so easyJet's decisions will be based around this.

A 13:30 departure to Edinburgh from an airport 40 miles east of London is clearly not aimed at business travel. Primarliy, business travellers are going to choose the more conveniant Gatwick, Luton and Stansted airports for such services where the surface transport to the airport and range of facilities in the airport are generally more of a consideration than the cost. Again, seems stereotypical but that is the business world.

BFS with only one flight a day is also less feasible to a typical business traveller as they generally require a good choice of flights due to them having less flexability in flying times, days of the week etc. but usually need morning outbound services and evening inbound ones.

With other short routes like Jersey and Newquay, unique to Southend in the London area with EasyJet, I think further shows the emphasis on leisure travel, especially since the Newquay route replaced 1 or 2 Amsterdam and Belfast services.

SEN to BFS is twice daily. The last evening flight on Tues and Wed from SEN was dropped for the last few weeks, probably due to quiet time of the year.
EZY website now showing twice daily

From around 20th May it only goes once daily except on Tuesdays and Thursdays where it will go twice.

From the middle of June it goes down to one every day.

From 1st October, it's showing only 6 return flights a week with no service on Tuesday's.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure the Belfast route didn't reduce to that frequency last year.

Seems like other routes will be dropped or reduced starting 8th April:
FCO-MAD 1 daily cancelled, FCO-VCE down from 2 to 1 daily, LIN-LGW down from 2 to 1 daily and FCO-MXP down from 5 to 3 daily

Guess FCO-LIN starts on Monday, 8th April


Strong numbers for January:

Passengers: 3,878,640 +4.0%
Load Factor: 84.4% +2.4 pp
Passenger Statistics for January 2013

The battle goes on
 

Stelios sets sights on easyJet chairman - Telegraph

You might think he was satisfied with a trebling in the value of his stake....

Why his hatred for all things Airbus ?

Try this:

easyGroup AGM Voting Intentions

He sounds very bitter to me

Chaps

Bitter, but in the interests of good governance, it would probably be a good thing for easyJet to put out a press release addressing the points Stelios raises, so that other shareholders can consider the 2 viewpoints on their own merits. Those people in PR get paid well, and now is their chance to show they earn their money.

Come on Stelios - easyJet shares at their highest ever, company soon to be in FTSE100, reduced losses for the winter etc. May I ask how Fastjet is doing?
PS. Cannot even come to call the gentleman Sir Michael Rake - just Rake.
Very sad all round I am afraid.

LPL - GVA
 

Last week I had a ski-ing holiday in the French Alps. We left on the 0600 flight from Liverpool to Geneva on Saturday 2nd Feb and returned on the 0635 flight on Saturday 9th Feb, one of the 4 daily LPL - GVA flights Easyjet operate on Saturdays at this time of the year. I am impressed by Easyjet - very reasonable charges, on time, clean modern aircraft. I think I will be buying shares in Easjyet !

Share Price
 

Eastjet shares reached £10 per share today before closing at £9.915

Maybe a good time to Stelios to sell his share and leave the management to manage the company without having to deal with his toys being threw out the pram every other month.

GATWICK ¨NEW DEAL¨
 

I see easyJet are not very happy about the so-called ´new deal´´ that Gatwick Airport (50 aircraft based) is proposing, complaining about the rise in passenger charges. Now where have I heard that before!

FCO-LIN starts 25th March 2 daily, increasing to 5 daily from 8th April :ok:

February pax up 3.4%
 

Monthly traffic statistics - easyJet plc

easyjet carried 4,112,186 up 3.4% rolling 59,490,203 +7%

Load Factor 90.5% up 2.9%

Per the Ryanair thread it was close on pax alone with FR reporting 4.2 million.

Pete

I know Easyjet is a well run company and a lot of talented people do their very best to keep aircraft as near full as possible. I do not wish to detract from their achievement and efforts, but a load factor in Europe in February, when the weather is awful and leisure demand to beaches is low, of over 90% sounds suspiciously high and suggests the headline statistic may be hiding some other story. Are things really as good as they seem ?

LF
 

Mmm yes very impressive LF that's right up there at charter company level even FR was much lower despite 80 planes resting is this figure correct? If so then were any planes taken off line ? Just interested

There are definitely less flights in the winter than in the summer, but that does not change the LF. Doesn't mean the winter is profitable, but the losses will be substantially lower than they have been previous winters, percentage wise.

Load factor of A319 at 90% is a lot different that Load factor of a A320 and Easyjet has roughly 154 A319 - 56 A320.....

So based on 153 and 183 seating configs and 90% LF then if every plane in air at same time there would be 30,800 Pax...............with an all A320's fleet and 90% it would be 34,600 pax..............a not inconsiderable difference