Just had a look at the current S12 schedules:

Blue Islands:

All of their JER and GCI flights are down to be operated by ATR42 500's so I assume they will be getting a couple more - also a sizeable increase in capacity compared to the Jetstreams especially since the frequency remains at ~3x daily for both routes.

Aurigny:

Much the same as this year although there do seem to be less flights especially Fri/sat/sun compared to this year.

Eastern

Aberdeen continues as 3 dailyish all on J41 bar Sunday which is a S20 via DTV. No sign of Dijon returning at the moment although I think it did perform fairly well with loads mostly in the 20's this year but don't take my word for it!

Skybus:

Same as last year 3x per week rising to 6x during peak times and at the start of the season at least it seems to be a 1-stop flight although it does not say where it stops.

Flybe:

Few changes to frequency's - BZR and PMI are up from 2x per week this year to 3x. Currently Verona is down as having no flights and Pau isn't even on the schedule although they may be released later.

Thomson:

PMI returns operated by a Flybe E195 on Saturday although the flight could still get upgraded later on as it was for this year.

Thomas Cook:

S12 is not currently bookable but it has been previously said that the flights will return as per this year - PMI on a Saturday and MAH on a Sunday both operated by Flybe E195's.

Thomascook s12 sou
 

Thomas cook holidays for s12 from sou are available starting sat 2nd june to pmi and sun 3rd june mah

cheers col

adfly

Looking on the Blue Islands website Guernsey/Jersey to Southampton next summer is showing as being operated by Jetstream.

Another Atr42-500 is expected to join the fleet next year.
I wonder how Flybe will react to this increase in aircraft size & therefore possible loss of pax on their own SOU Channel Islands routes?

Adfly - I suspect the early season Skybus flights will route via NQY, as that's what the current end of season flights are doing.

Jerbourg: 1 being added would only be enough to cover 1 of the routes as they are both non-stop so if the schedule is correct then they need third aircraft or some rescheduling elsewhere. This can all change though!!

Malta
 

It was an Air Malta Boeing 737-300 used on the route on behalf of Thomson Holidays and First Choice Holidays although separate companys at the time they shared the flight, it was not an Airtours chartered flight, plus Airtours never operated Boeomg 737s.

Several one off charters in conjunction with the Southern Daily Echo travel club along with Newmarket Holidays were also operated after Thomson and First Choice pulled Malta from there SOU IT schedule after only two seasons.

It has been mentioned that the flight went via BRS but I am sure some went via EXT!

Air malta
 

The air malta was chartered by airtours holidays using a air malta 737.300 it opperated on a tues evening ,the flights which opperated via ext were thomson chartered air europa 737.400 to alc on a sat and agp on a sun .

cheers col

Air Malta
 

You may be correct to the Air Malta flights being operated onbehalf of Airtours!

Thomson Holidays used Air Europa, Air Malta, Britannia (Thomson) and Sata for there IT flights and First Choice and Airtours generally used Air Malta, Iberoworld and Spanair.

During the 1998/2001 period there were IT flights to Alicante, Faro, Ibiza, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Palma, Tenerife.

Flights
 

Its a shame they do not offer many charter flights from sou these days .

col

All a bit regional really.

Yes I know they have flights to the continent, but the small mindedness there does nothing to help their progress!!!

Safety first
 

It comes down to safety, lack of classic 737/757 available in fleets these days and also the new A320/B738 being payload restricted if they operate from the runway at SOU.

Besides that point, the charter offering from BOH is substantial.

The two airports compliment each other perfectly.

Who is being small minded? The charter airlines for daring to think there is no strong economic case to operate from SOU?

...not small minded, SOU are probably just not interested in ad hoc charters for fear of taking opportunities from their dominant (90%+) carrier, Flybe. Added to this an unattractive apron configuration for anything above an E95 or baby Airbus, its easy to see why charters dont really fit with peak traffic parking...of course if the holiday charter companies could operate attractive out of peak slots through SOU, that may be a different story.

After many years of waiting and anticipation it seems we may finally get a BCN route from SOU! Apparently Vueling are considering adding SOU as part of their BCN expansion and it is currently being discussed on a.net! :ok:

This service will be diverted to BOH so often that eventually it will move over to BOH - in the same way Air Berlin did.

I don't think it will be, BOH does not have the same demand for a BCN route as FR already serve GRO. I can't see it needing to be diverted at all as the runway can cope easily and you still have room for 2 of Flybe's based E195's even with an A320 taking up two stands!

Sou Bcn route
 

Great news if its true. Lets just hope the timings are right. Sure Flybe will start serving it when they finally get their 175's!

Now how about that Scandanavian destination? Surely Flybe's tie up with Finncomm will allow for this?

Also surely a polish route, Southampton is 1/8th polish last time I checked!

BCN
 

Well I hope this pulls off as I will be on the first flight, a long overdue destination from SOU.

As I am usually traveling alone the extra costs of airport parking, fuel, time, etc to either LGW,LHR,STN for flights to BCN is very frustrating so if this flight actually happens it will now be just a 4 mile hop from my front door to SOU!

I was only thinking when Cardiff was announced, I thought to myself would it be cool if Vueling came to SOU.

Fingers crossed and come on SOU get ya finger out and start building new apron space!

Good point Canberra! I mean I know we are in a recession but surely they could be building more apron space, especially with the sale proceeds of Gatwick and soon to be Edinburgh burning a whole in BAA's back pocket. More taxi ways as well would help with the delays.