Ryanair
 

Interesting words from Micheal O'Leary earlier: "EasyJet are closing their bases at Stansted and Southend. I think we would look to take up their slots."

A glimmer of positivity from the Ryanair boss? Could be good news for SEN. Although I see FR have already acquired 166 slot pairs from EZY at STN for Summer 2021.

Good news for STN then.:E

Was Southend constrained by runway slots to a meaningful degree in 2019, or was the terminal's passenger processing capacity the limiting factor at peak times ?

It’s just as easily a risk for SEN, the aircraft need to come from somewhere to fill those slots and it could mean shifting across from LTN/SEN. Or alternatively they are projecting the £ to fall further against the € making UK operations cheaper. Some time back a lot of the STN operation was ‘off-shored’ to cheaper bases coming in morning and evening.

If FR think the pound will weaken against the euro over the next 6 months, then FR will likely decrease the number of flights touching the UK. Salaries in the UK would be cheaper but this is a small part of corporate costs - the far bigger impact would be UK based customers seeing fares quoted in pounds becoming more expensive and deciding to fly less

As far as I am aware Southend doesn’t have slots, it just has limited terminal opening hours so the overnight “slots” are zero

Ryanair’s MOL
https://simpleflying.com/london-gatwick-battleground/

Yes, that's one more based aircraft if we're lucky then.

What's this about EZYs Airbuses leaving?

Not sure but one arrived earlier

A little more detail would be useful. Every day, they come they go. Sometimes they just have a jolly around the Essex coast before settling down on the apron for a few days.

The Jollies are the problem I have heard.

I doubt if their sparse local flights have upset anybody. I think the airline may move some aircraft to Europe from UK airports which are charging too much. Southend is cheap and full up now.

I believe there are around 20 EZY aircraft parked up at SEN at the moment.

They are swapping them around from ones which are Parked and will be ready for action from 2/12 to those which are Stored and will not be required until 2021, hence will not require air tests so soon no jollies around Essex to keep just Parked, but plans may change, a few gone/going to Eastern Europe to be Stored from LGW & LTN.

Fair few at Lasham, not all for United.

I see Amazon have (fairly recently?) added a Leipzig rotation to their Southend schedule in the middle of the night so now serve 5 destinations from SEN.

already discussed
https://www.pprune.org/airlines-airp...l#post10923079

Stobart say they are still solvent despite setback.

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-11-15/...ingus-contract

Earlier in the week a flight tracker showed the Leipzig flight departing SEN at 3:30am on the SW runway, overflying Leigh and then turning right to head downwind over Rayleigh and Hockley, Ashington etc... For an airport trying to show consideration to its neighbours I thought this departure to be particularly unhelpful.