Help out flight to BUCHAREST ( Blue Air ) tonight

Inbound via Iasi, think this is helping out LTN rather than LHR as they don't do Inbound from Iasi on a Thursdays. I think the normal LTN flight operates arrival about 07:30am. Perhaps ACL wouldn't vary slot by such a big difference in operating hours. Maybe an aircraft went Tech unexpected overnight.
With nothing else planned around that time some overtime for SEN employees?

Another pair of Blue Air flights today but this time at around 6pm. Now the question is why are they not routed via Luton? Oh and don’t say Luton is full because it isn’t.

Without Blue Air there was only one flight in each direction today. Hardly worth unlocking the terminal doors for and keeping the terminal open for 20 hours but saying that it has allowed the airport to handle the Blue Air flights.

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This one seems to be helping out LHR, the LTN inbound flight is running. Today's outbound LHR flight does not appear to be running, normally AM so slot not given to PM departure.

Nice to see the first visit of a 738MAX to SEN.

New CEO announced. Not sure what direction they think they’re going with this appointment.

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/205...ief-executive/

Terminal open 24/7 for locals to get refreshments and free WiFi for a fixed 3 hour access charge? :}

The new CEO has moved fast and already achieved great success with the launch of a new route to Bucharest with Blue Air. Starts and ends next Tuesday.

Similar Blue Air flight booked for 9/8, at least it is in their booking engine now so a chance to sell more inbound seats. No further flights shown, for now.

New boss has managed airport lounges..... Must be cheap, or the only applicant!

Always remarkable what makes news

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/205...ght-bucharest/

I notice he has an industry wide experience in aviation - not. Best of, he will need it.

Maybe one for the LTN crowd to answer but why is the inbound Bacău flight effectively empty? I see it’s available for 12.99 again next week as it was this week, 17 pax on Tue. Are low loads on this route normal or is it effectively a positioning flight to operate the outbound Bucharest? Although if it is, why isn’t there an inbound?

Bacău 72,877 January to May this year

I think it is effectively just a positioning flight inbound as you suggest and the reason there is no inbound OTP-SEN sector is probably explained by this being a LHR displacement due to their pax number restrictions and the re-routing from SEN allows their normal LHR flights to operate normally. This SEN-OTP is perhaps additional to the normal LHR capacity.

So why doesn’t Blue Air fly inbound to Heathrow and then make the short hop to Southend for the outbound rather than flying empty back home only for another positioning flight later that day from Romania?

The normal Blue Air OTP-LHR flight on Tuesday morning will then operate LHR-OTP as a normal revenue flight. There's no "flying empty back home" involved.

So the SEN -OPT is a one way additional flight and has nothing to do with Heathrow?

I suppose so but perhaps Blue Air operate some additional LHR flights from time to time and just cannot get slots for them at present. The seat prices for the morning LHR-OTP and the evening SEN-OTP are identical at present on their website.