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Post by tagron on Jul 31, 2018 20:56:53 GMT
Yes EZY to PRG remains at 4 flights per week right through the winter schedules to March 24.
But STK are cutting back on PRG. They appear to be dropping the Tues/Wed/Thurs flights - still appearing in the booking engine but listed as "full or not available", price £0. Though its back to daily for the xmas/NY weeks.
Then what happens after Jan 13? - see STK thread.
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Post by expressflight on Aug 1, 2018 7:28:42 GMT
Just to clarify that it's only from 31st October that the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday flights appear to be dropped. It may well be that STK will not operate PRG next year but that would only be in line with the statements they made when the idea of them opening up additional routes from SEN first came to light. In effect they said that they wanted to demonstrate that SEN could sustain such routes and hinted that if other operators then showed an interest they might give up routes which those operators wanted to operate in their stead.
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Post by expressflight on Aug 9, 2018 9:50:53 GMT
Another new route announced is SEN-BUD twice weekly, Monday and Friday, wef 2nd November 2018. Equipment is A320 according to the seat plan. The Stobart Air policy of passing on routes once they become established to EZY and presumably RYR next year seems to be working. It will be interesting to see if Stobart open new routes for next year in their place.
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Post by tagron on Sept 21, 2018 20:57:30 GMT
Some observations on the EZY Spring 2019 schedules, valid to June 23: -
The Murcia airport at San Javier MJV was due to close on January 14 and from the next day all flights were to operate to the new airport at Corvera. The EZY flights are scheduled to run through this changeover date unaltered. But from March 23 all EZY services to Murcia appear to cease, not just from SEN but from the other UK bases i.e. LGW, BRS.
The EZY SEN-BUD route which is due to start on November 2 appears to run only to March 30. The Flybe timetable shows STK on this route until January 6 at 3 per week then stopping.
The second daily service to ALC and FAO (3 per week each)start on April 1, much earlier than previous years. So taking into account Ryanair on some days there will be 3 flights from SEN to these destinations.
JER starts early - April 1 -and straight off at 5 per week. Fares on this route always look dirt cheap to me outside of the summer peak.
The programme appears to need 2 x A320 and 2 x A319
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Post by Humberside on Sept 21, 2018 21:13:57 GMT
I guess Jersey is a good route to increase utilisation - not enough time for a longer sector into Europe, but enough time for a quick trip to Jersey and back
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Post by Thames Gateway on Sept 21, 2018 22:11:25 GMT
Also Jersey might be a hedge for Brexit difficulties- it could see an increase due uncertainty.
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Post by expressflight on Sept 22, 2018 8:05:53 GMT
EZY certainly seem to be making a clear statement to RYR that they have no intentions of backing off at SEN. A very encouraging programme all in all and TG's observation regarding the JER route makes sense. Looking at the programme as a whole there still seem to be a couple of spare slots to fill in order to take up the capacity of the 2 x A320 and 2 x A319 SEN-based fleet.
EDIT: Now that I have finished the daily aircraft allocation charts for Spring 2019 I see that the two slots still to be filled would fit exactly this Summer's MJV schedule. It looks therefore as if the arrangements at Cordoba are not yet firmed up and EZY expect to add these in due course.
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Post by tagron on Sept 28, 2018 9:18:29 GMT
Murcia is now back on sale for the summer, 2/week as at present. But no Budapest after March. That does seem strange to run it as a winter only route. Is something else going to happen ?!
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Post by expressflight on Sept 29, 2018 11:10:28 GMT
There are now no spare slots to fill for the SEN-based aircraft in S19 so any new routes would have to be operated by away-based aircraft. I suppose it's possible that BUD-SEN could be one of those.
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Post by ianc on Sept 29, 2018 16:25:39 GMT
My friends are booked on a flight from Southend to Budapest next September, via Riviera Travel, presumably someone is operating the flight
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Post by expressflight on Oct 1, 2018 7:22:04 GMT
Are you sure it's from SEN? Looking at the Riviera Travel website I cannot find SEN departures to any destination.
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Post by tagron on Oct 23, 2018 15:46:08 GMT
The new Murcia airport at Corvera is now officially renamed as the Region de Murcia International Airport. ICAO code RMU. EZY flights from SEN are published as using the new airport from March 26
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Post by tagron on Nov 6, 2018 13:41:21 GMT
Correcting the above post, EZY are now showing the transfer of their flights from MJV to RMU to January 15, which is the official opening day of the new airport.
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Post by ianc on Nov 7, 2018 17:27:48 GMT
Budapest Airport have issued press release welcoming EasyJets new route to Southend
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Post by tagron on Nov 22, 2018 10:58:18 GMT
It appears that an A320NEO is being introdued on the SEN routes over the next few days. I have no information as to how long it will stay. I would have thought its principal attraction to EZY would be for the TFS route which has suffered some fuel stops this winter.
A post on pprune last year from a contributor I would consider to be credible stated that EZY would be able to plan the NEO on SEN-TFS without restriction in the winter, but possibly restricted at times in the summer. Worth watching to see what happens in practice.
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