Ouch...

It can only get better.

Re VOE...Appears SEN have the (RYR) tiger firmly by the tail.

For sure it can
only get better, but I am concerned the schedule is only for tourists and not appealling to business people enroute to the London area.

Splendid effort...
A community garden featuring 2000 red ceramic poppies made by hundreds of children from 25 schools in the region unveiled on the lawn in front of the terminal today.

I do tend to agree. Very little marketing in Essex. I don't know about the German side.

This should be fun. Share price down to 190p today on the back of the news of the High Court action.

Stobart Group Dispute With Former CEO Set For UK High Court

[ 12 Nov 2018 09:15 ]
LONDON (Alliance News) - A UK judge is preparing to oversee a High Court battle involving a multimillion-pound infrastructure business which started up in an isolated Lake District village half a century ago.
Bosses at Stobart Group PLC, which began life when founder Eddie Stobart went into business as an agricultural contractor in Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria, in the 1960s, have sued former chief executive Andrew Tinkler.
They say Tinkler conspired with other businessmen to harm the company's interests.
Bosses have also have made claims about money spent on air travel, and want a judge to rule that he was lawfully dismissed.
Tinkler, who was chief executive of the business between 2007 and 2017, denies wrongdoing, saying he was removed for no good reason, and has counter-claimed.
Judge Jonathan Russen is set to start overseeing a trial in London on Monday.

Worth having a look at the Flybe thread which shows a bar chart of their UK operation . Seems their SEN routes are a horror story of massive loses and is their worst performing airport. I wasn't expecting that!

If Flybe can sustain heavy losses from an operation where they supposedly take no commercial risk then God help them.

The chart only compares fare revenue per route with estimated operating cost for each route (cost of fuel, aircraft, overhead etc). It doesn't take into account any subsidy paid by Stobart (or Cardiff Airport, or whoever) - how could it? So it could be that the SEN routes are profitable for flyBE, just that the profit is not coming from the fare revenue...

Fare revenue to whom?

Fare revenue to the airline, based on the (estimated) average fare charged to the punters. The guys making the chart know that x,000 passengers flew from A to B in September. Their system crawls over the web booking engine on a regular basis from a few months out looking at how much the fare is for all the dates in September. They make some assumptions about the booking curve, i.e. how many people book how long before the flight on which days (and this is where the biggest inaccuracies come in). This lets them estimate roughly how much revenue the airline gets from selling tickets.

Jesus - lets take some figures derived by a simplistic methodology, ignore any caveats and use them out of context to draw conclusions.

I might as well be at work :sad:

Any fool can fill an aircraft. Load factor means sod-all.

Very true but I hope by now everyone knows that.

The based EZY fleet mix has changed slightly recently and now comprises 2 x A319 and 2 x A320ceo. An A320neo will arrive in a few days but I don't know if that is a permanent replacement for one of the A320ceo.

I read on another thread that Flybe are dropping NQY-LGW next year, choosing LHR instead.

Any pluses or minuses for SEN-NQY?