Eastern has changed the ORY service to an early dep of 0630 and using a separate ATR72 to EMA/CWL. Also MAN goes x 2 daily on its return in Sept

I think the jury is still out on whether MAN will return at all. A double daily service has been sitting in their system for ages, but on past form, it means it’s unlikely to happen!

Agreed and I believe Loganair has also applied for x 3 daily

And I'm sure we all agree that we would much rather see Loganair operating 3 x daily on Southampton to Manchester rather than a totally unreliable service offered by Eastern Airways ☺️

Hopefully Air France at some point in the future will be resume their Paris CDG to Southampton service. There will be no Eastern Airways Southampton to Paris Orly service if that happens. Eastern Airways had every opportunity to expand from Southampton after the demise of Flybe (mark 1) and they totally blew it. They are totally unreliable, overpriced and a bad excuse for an airline. I've had several incidents involving Eastern Airways over the last two years and I'm definitely not a fan of the airline.

The sooner we have a reliable airline on the Paris service the better!
Clearly Eastern are not that airline,on a sparate matter loganair A 72 to Manchester would be a great move!

Easy to slag off Eastern, but what is stopping Air France/Hop operating now?

no planes or people like everyone else?

So a low priority, then? Maybe Eastern are SOU's level?

It’s very telling the responses you have received from the usual suspects on this comment. It’s common knowledge locally that you drop off at the station and has been for years. I’m sure the same happens at all the other airports.

The fact that the usual suspects don’t know about this proves they are not local and are just trying to exploit any negative. Whilst they must have very sad little lives to hold a vendetta agains an inanimate object those of you that keep giving them bites to their bait are just as bad. You yourself said you wouldn’t be responding to the troll in Luton yet you continue to give him the attention he’s obviously crying out for.

Good news on the changes with Eastern but as others have said the sooner they are driven out of the airport the better. Also at what point do Logan drop the tagline scotlands airline? The more domestic flying they do in England the more daft if seems.

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Offended Rivet Joint replied.
Don't want to be rude but if you think my comments are Trollish then you have some complex issues, as it wasn't even a criticism but a statement of fact. Maybe your world just don't like simple facts? All very strange. Perhaps you could start why you think my comment was negative, as it is lost on me, as it wasn’t my intention.

Oh I forgot, you don’t reply to “trolls” so I guess we will never know.

Paris CDG
 

Indeed,
I too would like to see the Air France CDG service come back with it's Interline connections.

However, we do have KLM (AF's Flying Blue partner) twice daily AMS fights which offer all of the interlining opportunities to many of the same Euro and long haul destinations.
KLM & AF are also now a Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Rewards Partner.
All rather handy for me as I have just booked Venice-AMS-SOU on VS Miles in Business Class, for just 45 euros in Taxes.
With a 2-3 hour stopover in AMS, I can enjoy the rather nice KLM Crown Lounge there.

I can see the AF CDG coming back to SOU, but as for when, I have no idea.
There is of course the Eco hoo hah in France about culling all short domestic flights so maybe the AF CDG-SOU is not top of their list right now.

I think the Eastern ORY flight was frankly useless, and a wasted opportunity.

According to this morning's Guardian "Green Energy tycoon to launch the first electric airline"

https://www.theguardian.com/business...ectric-airline

This indicates operations to commence early next year with a Twin Otter between SOU - EDI! Don't think that Loganair will lose any sleep over this competition?

Probably not ,but might be the way forward on the Paris route?

There is 350 metres of grass runway at the Issy-Les-Moulineux heliport, might work if it can get in/out of there?

Nice to see the runway extension is starting to attracting new airlines!

Have I missed a post or is the claim that the runway extension has attracted a potential Twin Otter operation that could probably take off using just the runway extension?

Given the views of the potential new operator, I'd be keeping quiet about pouring lots of new concrete.... :suspect:

Balkan Airways have announced 2024 holidays,disapponting SOU is not on the list. The airport was mentioned in recent blogs as a possible 2024 destination along with Southend who will be operating a service. With Southampton past service by Balkan and with the extension in place,surely a 2024 destination?

It will be interesting to see if the airport can attract additional airlines apart from easyJet for S24

BACF doesn’t require a second set of steps during fuelling so long as slide deployment areas are clear of obstructions. A SOU rule, perhaps?