757's and 320's have used the airport in the past so it's not as if Southampton hasn't coped before but I agree that the situation isn't perfect and I the only way is up when it comes to any terminal expansion which should be a priority in the foreseeable future.

Seems like a good time to put this together. Shouldn't be many further changes now. Hopefully it is fairly accurate, if anyone has any more details on Ski charters etc let me know and I'll add them on. Looks like a pretty flat winter, with gains from easyJet and Powdair offset by Flybe reductions.

Aer Lingus Regional

Cork - 4 weekly AT7

Aurigny

Alderney - 14-16 weekly D28

BMI Regional

Munich - 12 weekly ER3/4

easyJet Switzerland

Geneva (New) - 3 weekly 320 (From 14/12)

Flybe

Aberdeen - 11 weekly J41 (Via LBA) (Eastern) / 1 weekly Q400(?)
Alicante - 2 weekly Q400
Amsterdam - 26 weekly Q400
Belfast City - 19 weekly Q400
Bergerac - 3-7 weekly Q400
Bordeaux - 3 weekly Q400 (15/12 - 01/01)
Chambery - 3 weekly Q400
Dublin - 21-25 weekly Q400
Dusseldorf - 6-7 weekly Q400
Edinburgh - 31 weekly Q400
Geneva - 3 weekly Q400
Glasgow - 26 weekly Q400
Guernsey - 29 weekly AT4/7 (Blue Islands)
Jersey - 32 weekly AT4/7 (Blue Islands)
La Rochelle - 1-2 weekly (21/12 - 02/01)
Leeds/Bradford - 19 weekly J41 (Eastern)
Limoges - 3 weekly (18/12 - 01/01)
Lyon - 4 weekly Q400 (Ends 18/02)
Manchester - 36 weekly Q400
Nantes - 4-6 weekly Q400
Newcastle - 18 weekly Q400
Paris CDG - 12 weekly Q400
Rennes - 4 weekly Q400 (16/12-01/01)

KLM Cityhopper

Amsterdam - 11-12 weekly E75

Powdair

Sion (New) - 4 weekly CR2 (From 15/02)

Ski/Santa Charters

Chambery - 1 weekly Flybe Q400 (Ski Total)
Ivalo - 12/12 (Santa's Lapland)
Enontekio - 09/12 (Transun), 20/12 (Canterbury Travel)


Overall

Flybe weekly departures: 300-329 (W16/17 - 311-324)
Other airlines weekly departures: 48-51 (W16/17 - 60-61)
Overall weekly departures: 349-380 (W16/17 - 372-385)
Overall average daily departures:50-54 (W16/17 - 53-55)

Adfly
Good analyses,so with Powdair likely to implode,it seems the airport is on a downturn?
Prehaps it has reached its full potential with existing infrastructure?
Interesting times,await with batted breath on any airfield developments!

Any more news/rumours on Volotea for next summer? Thomson flights are showing but Volotea already loaded all other route schedules, yet nothing ex SOU!

Adfly

Haven't KLM recently announced an additional flight on Sunday mornings from the start of the winter schedule making it a total of 13 weekly flights!

Adfly, in addition to the list above Flybe seem to be flying direct flights between ABZ and SOU on weekends throughout the winter. From what I can tell there appears to be a one-way ABZ-SOU on a Friday evening, and then a one-way SOU-ABZ on a Sunday evening. Positioning an aircraft or a crew perhaps?
Are Austrian operating charters to Innsbruck this year?

Flybe/Eastern SOU-LBA-ABZ flights are operated by BAe Jetstream 41's not Saab 2000's

I have tried to search the Inghams website to see if they are offering flights from Southampton to Innsbruck for 2018 but found nothing even though it has Southampton listed as a departure airport on their homepage.

I have to mention that there website is terrible to navigate and I for one would easily search another operator if I was personally looking to book a ski holiday.

Looks as if the KLM flight was just for the summer. Showing as 12 weekly for most of the winter and 11 weekly in Jan/Feb (no Sat). Will add the other updates as well.

Why are Powdair likely to implode? They have just bought into Backbone Aviation who are supplying the CJ200s.

Doesn't appear to be a flight on Sat 6th Jan to Innbruck, or any other random weekend date I input. Seefeld is just up the road from INN.

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Adfly

Good work there ,

Flybe have a charter to CMF on a Sunday am for Ski Total throughout the winter

Defiantly no Inghams Ski charters with Austrian this winter

Volotea
 

Just received this from Volotea ....

Yes, we should fly from Southampton next summer. Generally flights are scheduled approximately 6/7 months in advance. Best regards, Bruno

Good article!
 

They seem to use a picture of a completely empty departure lounge! If only!

The 'compact' terminal is going to be difficult for some to take.

However, these are good problems to have - a full to bursting terminal in need of expansion. Much better versus the near empty departure lounges of Bournemouth Airport just 25mins down the road.

New route: FlyLoLo SOU-JSI (Skiathos) from July 3 to October 2, 2018 operated by a Flybe EMB195
(just had an email from the SOU press office)

New route alert

New airline, Flylolo, have announced flights to Skiathos starting July 2018. This will be the first time that Southampton Airport has offered flights to Greece

For more info visit: http://bit.ly/2yrgA5p

Flylolo are just a ticketing agent and not an airline. They had a go (possibly under a different brand name) at selling flights to Greece last year but in the end had to cancel all flights.

Using Flybe and for two adults and a 14 year old inc baggage, £2000! Flyhihi!

Not sure where the 195 aircraft is coming from as the Flybe 195 is used for the Tuesday Palma service , unless they swap the planes around and use a DCH8 from July to Palma ( Flybe Schedule only up to June at the moment )

Also was wondering if it might be passenger / weight restricted as it must be the longest route from Southampton now ( 1451 miles ) especially as it leaves at 3pm in the heat of the summer months of July / Aug

The flight also lands quite late back into SOU given any ATC delays might be an issue as well ?

The Echo says its a 100 seat 195 , could be a misprint though