The problem is that the area south of London is by far the most under-resourced area in the country for new building, houses etc - many of the airports in S England are actually in or immediately adjacent to built up areas under severe development pressure. Lydd is the only real exception. Shoreham & Blackbushe must be a major concern - then Southampton. Bournemouth may last a bit longer. Exeter? who knows......................

You are on the wrong forum group and instead suggest you post on Construction News, tedious to say the least!

You may find this “tedious”; personally, I find it “fair comment”. I can’t see why it would get anyone “hot under the collar”. Given the current concern about aviation generally (& I am an enthusiast), it only feels appropriate that people engage in this sort of speculation or discussion. “General interest” would cover it.

I can assure you that there is no such concern at Blackbushe!

Apologies for off-topic response, but couldn't leave what is a very ill/not informed comment.

It's never the people who fly from an airport/airfield that you have to worry about - it's the financial types who drive by every day and think $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Then they start financial engineering and make offers that no-one can refuse

Is there to be an official launch event in September?

Bit difficult to get the average person in So'ton excited about an asphalt strip being extended...

Yes - amazing how people can be so negative. :rolleyes:

As the marketing saying goes, you sell the sizzle not the sausage - i.e. you gotta show real tangible benefits to somebody who is neither an airport employee nor somebody with special interest in the runway.
Show new routes appearing, and the average person is interested. Show them a strip of asphalt saying "in ye olden days the asphalt only came up to where I'm standing and everything behind where I'm standing was just grass", and the reaction is likely to be "Meh...".

Never a truer word spoken. Most Southampton residents won’t give a monkey’s and the ones that will be interested will be more concerned about extra noise, as they were the ones that objected.

The proof of the pudding is when there is announcement of Summer routes 24 ?

There has been plenty of announcements at Southend but many still view the airport as failing.

Difference being SOU has a very healthy and long standing domestic schedule of near on 30 departures per day, something SEN can only dream of. Add to that some expected holiday/European city destinations and you have an airport that is very much not failing and will most likely hit 1m pax per annum within 12/18 months!

Agreed. SOU existing routes are the bedrock of its operations and will remain so. We all await with great anticipation to see what will happen in the next 12 to 24 months. Getting new routes will not be an issue as surely they will come but the big question is will they be successful, as U.K. plc faces some challenging times ahead and there might well be some consolidation next summer.

An issue is that with no announcements forthcoming passengers are already booking their Gatwick flights for next year, business that could have come to Southampton.

Aer Lingus - BHD goes x 3 daily from 29th October. No news as yet of Loganair taking on MAN x 3 daily!

EasyJet summer 2024
 

Well EasyJet have released flights up until September 2024 this morning,still no new destinations from Southampton ☹️

Does that include any new flights anywhere else, or just a roll over of the exisitng timetable? They tend to save launches of new routes and announce them separaretly

New routes are released separate, these will be announced in the coming weeks!

In the coming weeks 🤔

And you're absolutely convinced in your mind that any announcement by EasyJet will include Southampton.

I'm hoping like everything else on this thread that any announcement by EasyJet regarding new routes will include Southampton. But tbh I'm not as optimistic as you and several others are regarding this.

If EasyJet were to announce a range of new flights from Southampton I'm absolutely sure that they would have announced it by now. Schedules for Summer 2024 at Southampton would surely be available by now if EasyJet were as serious as you try and make out.

In previous post's you have more or less given the impression that you have some kind of inside knowledge. After reading the same same in nearly every post I'm under the impression that your not engaged with any "inside knowledge".

It's all hear say and totally based on unfounded rumours. As I've previously mentioned on several occasions, until there is an official announcement by EasyJet regarding any new routes from Southampton it's all wishful thinking.

FYI....one of the reasons why I gave up plane registration spotting in the early 1980s was because of the totally unfounded rumours that were continous and annoying.

Thats way too constructive and sensible a reply/view, may you be banished from this thread forever with that kind of negative thinking!!! 😉😂

Of course though, you are 100% correct, is far too many dreamers on here only believing there own made up fantasies......

What will be will be.......