Sharm flights now cancelled until at least 27th May.

Who does the maintenance for easyJet? Ryanair have a hangar at PIK and STN but do EZY have anything similar at all?

EZY have a large (orange) hangar at Luton.

Noticed a few EJs have been going to Cambridge on a regular basis so i guess Marshalls are doing the checks over there.
Then there is the Orange hangar at LTN for line Maintenance.

BOH base?
 

U2 apparently reviewed a potential base at BOH with the following route studies being completed (but no timeline):

Faro, Funchal, Palma, Bordeaux, Nice, Gibralter, Seville, Almeria, Barcelona & Venice

It remains to be seen if this is something that will come to save BOH passenger volumes in 2016 or if it is later in 2017.

I very much doubt BOH would be a base. 3 units seems the minimum base size and BOH would not sustain a year round 3 aircraft base. At best they'll do NCE/BCN/GVA with aircraft based at those locations or W patterns from other bases. AMS/MXP/VCE maybe but they're much less likely. Other destination would need a base and I just can't see it.

ezy base
 

in regards to the last post i must agree. also boh is kind of between gatwick and bristol.both big bases so u2 wont base at boh. they will do what they are now and that is gva as a winter route.

couldn't the same have been argued at the time for Southend when they started with the proximity to STN and LTN really?All well established bases but easyJet are doing well out of SEN

SEN is different. Firstly it serves London. It has a large catchment area which is highly populated and affluent. BOH, whilst wealthy, has a fairly small catchment - with half of its catchment area being the English Channel. To the west is BRS with over 50 destinations, to the East LGW with 100+ destinations.

The fact that EZY have over 20 bases and only operate flights from one of them speaks volumes to me. There's no Milan, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Nice, Lyon, Barcelona, Toulouse, Venice or Naples. Nor are there any flights from their UK bases. They could easily operate those flights from BOH but have so far not seen the demand to warrant flights to them. Nor have they operated W patterns to anywhere else (except for GVA).

Maybe, but SEN has the advantage of a direct rail link to London.

...for some of the time. At other times it has no public transport so is no better than BOH

It's no better than SEN apart from the vastly larger population on its doorstep just a short drive away.

If you are referring to the late train issue then *yawn* this has been talked to death! While it
Is essential that they try to resolve this issue I think the fact that there are 4 trains an hour depating from the airports on site station direct to London upto 2300, and of course if you are traveling into Southend town the trains run considerably later, means it's on a slightly different footing to BOH!

fair enough thanks all! Didn't quite realise just how much of a catchment area SEN has on its' doorstep, along with the infrastructure. Bit naive of me really! Being a west-country bumpkin I suppose I don't know whats happening 'up east'! But BOH I suppose is situated close enough for either BRS or LGW. So rightfully so, why then would EZY consider a start up with 2 massive basses for them very similar distances apart. But a 2 hour 15 min drive to each airport is further than I anticipated!!

VENICE BASE
 

There was talk of extra flights to LONDON with the VENICE BASED aircraft with SOUTHEND possibly getting extra flights any news if this might go ahead ?

mikkie4

SEN won't be seeing any additional flights this summer (according to the timetable), although I don't know if this is the same for the LTN or LGW routes.

It certainly isn't vastly larger. Within a twenty mile radius from SEN there are over three quarters of a million people.

Does SEN only have a 20 mile catchment area? How many live within 1 hours drive compared to BOH? I can't believe people are comparing a London airport with a large town on the south coast. They are not the same.

I may have misunderstood. I thought you were saying BOH had a vastly larger population on its doorstep, including Southampton presumably.

SEN is not a London airport in reality, 50% of the catchment area with SEN at it's centre is fish.....it's a common problem when you're on the coast far away from competing airports with wholly land based options in that circle :) See also Manston.