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Post by expressflight on Jun 8, 2019 10:17:01 GMT
The commencement date for the early and late trains between Liverpool Street and SEN has been brought forward to 10th June 2019 - three months earlier than previously shown. Timings are as previously mentioned but a Sunday night train has been added although there is still no Sunday early morning service from Liverpool Street, presumably due to the ongoing engineering work. Unfortunately the PDF timetable on the GA website still annotates these new services as starting in September - only if you search for specific dates on the booking page do you find it starts on Monday 10th June.
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Post by Thames Gateway on Jun 15, 2019 19:56:32 GMT
Short video of the recent runway project here: LSA Runway upgrade
Good news about the trains, but I wonder if there is room for a bus service serving different areas, perhaps now later than the last train, and certainly to fill in for Sat night/Sun morning?
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Post by Thames Gateway on Jul 25, 2019 12:53:12 GMT
Plans to build another hotel, adjacent to the first: Echo
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Post by aurigny72 on Jul 26, 2019 10:21:59 GMT
I wonder where the airport staff will park? Do we really need a massive hotel with potentially a total of 400 bedrooms which is in addition to the Holiday Inn with approx 200 bedrooms. I would have thought the priority would be to extend the present terminal which was talked about last year, also create more aircraft stands,i believe there is room for two extra ATR size stands by or near the tower, which would free up present stands 1 and 2 for larger aircraft. Any thoughts on this by people more in the know than me would be appreciated.
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Post by expressflight on Jul 28, 2019 15:11:55 GMT
The last time I tried booking a room at the Holiday Inn it was full so I had to stay at the Rochford Hotel a couple of miles away, so I would welcome another Hotel 'on site' at SEN. Many of my friends book an on-airport hotel room if they are catching an early morning flight, not just at SEN, and I think this trend is on the increase so I'm sure the demand will be there. I really don't see it affecting other expenditure on the airport and certainly not the terminal extension I would hope.
I agree that extra stands are needed but if you use 11 and 12, as you suggest, there will be no aircraft parking in front of the Stobart Jet Centre and that will also involve quite a walk for the pax to those two stands. I did see plans which involved adding stands on the West side of Alpha opposite 2 and 3 but that would involve bussing the pax. The only solution which would quickly add a fair few 'new' stands will be the inclusion of the North Apron within the Terminal security area and bus the pax to those.
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Post by aurigny72 on Jul 28, 2019 17:34:40 GMT
The last time I tried booking a room at the Holiday Inn it was full so I had to stay at the Rochford Hotel a couple of miles away, so I would welcome another Hotel 'on site' at SEN. Many of my friends book an on-airport hotel room if they are catching an early morning flight, not just at SEN, and I think this trend is on the increase so I'm sure the demand will be there. I really don't see it affecting other expenditure on the airport and certainly not the terminal extension I would hope. I agree that extra stands are needed but if you use 11 and 12, as you suggest, there will be no aircraft parking in front of the Stobart Jet Centre and that will also involve quite a walk for the pax to those two stands. I did see plans which involved adding stands on the West side of Alpha opposite 2 and 3 but that would involve bussing the pax. The only solution which would quickly add a fair few 'new' stands will be the inclusion of the North Apron within the Terminal security area and bus the pax to those. With all due respect Expressflight i did not mention stands 11 and 12, although maybe i didnt make myself clear, i was referring to possibly constructing two new stands near or past the tower. I seem to remember someone mentioning this sometime ago, whoever it was stated there would probably be only enough room for ATR sized aircraft but it would free up stands 1 and 2 for A319/20 type aircraft?.
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Post by expressflight on Jul 29, 2019 7:22:37 GMT
[/quote]With all due respect Expressflight i did not mention stands 11 and 12, although maybe i didnt make myself clear, i was referring to possibly constructing two new stands near or past the tower. I seem to remember someone mentioning this sometime ago, whoever it was stated there would probably be only enough room for ATR sized aircraft but it would free up stands 1 and 2 for A319/20 type aircraft?.[/quote]
Aurigny72 If you look at the SEN Parking/Docking Chart on the NATS AIS website I think you will see that there is no room for an additional stand (let alone two stands) adjacent to stand 10. I think that even just one to cater for an ATR would not fit if stands 10 and 11 are to remain in use.
I did hear a rumour this morning that although the RYR fleet will reduce to two aircraft this winter, it will be increased to four aircraft for S2020. My gut feeling is that this is optimistic with RYR talking of reducing routes, and even closing bases, because of the continued 737 MAX grounding.
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Post by DC3 Dave on Jul 29, 2019 20:26:13 GMT
I may be missing something, but I believe aurigny72 is looking at extending beyond stand 1. This could provide another stand, but it would mean taking back around 25 spaces from the extended car park 2.
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Post by aurigny72 on Jul 29, 2019 21:16:10 GMT
Yes DC3 Dave thats excactly what i was saying but Expressflight didnt seem to grasp what i meant. Thanks for your answer, so i guess thats a no go idea then.
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Post by expressflight on Jul 30, 2019 6:49:22 GMT
My apologies Aurigny72. I completely misunderstood you and, for some odd reason, assumed you were talking about the old tower rather than the new. I'll blame the hot weather but perhaps it goes deeper than than that! Anyway, yes I agree with you it would be possible to extend the apron Northwards as you suggest but I think using the North apron by including that in the terminal area security zone may be more likely for next year.
P.S. A snapshot of CAX pax numbers. Last Friday 16 Southbound and 30 Northbound. GRQ yesterday SEN-GRQ-SEN was 63/52 and 60/30.
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Post by tagron on Jul 31, 2019 11:21:18 GMT
What is the reason for not including the Northern and Southern aprons in the terminal area security zone ? Is it the use of these aprons by g.a. and Jota ? It seems to me an issue they will need to address sooner or later.
The stands west of Alpha mentioned by Expressflight were included in a plan of possible developments that came into public view about five years ago. They were referred to then as "pushback stands".
If extra stands were added north of the tower as discussed above, I would think they would necessarily require a bussing operation. In which case if there were to be a need for more hard standing maybe the centre of the airfield would be a more attractive area for development.
There seem to be ongoing rumours about the retail park. There is an obvious attraction about absorbing this area in to the airport. Does anyone know if this is a real possibility or just some wishful thinking ?
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Post by expressflight on Jul 31, 2019 16:30:19 GMT
Tagron
For the past few weeks Jota positioning departures have had to be towed to a terminal stand for security clearance rather than just taxying for departure from the North apron or their hangar area. I haven't noticed if this is just international departures or all departures. I don't know why it should be difficult to extend the security area to include the North apron and would hope that this becomes the case before too long. I know that at present Stands 11 and 12 can sometimes, on request, be temporarily included in the security area.
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Post by tagron on Sept 13, 2019 16:41:41 GMT
A new NOTAM dated 12 September has been issued raising the declared bearing strength of RW 05/23 to PCN65.
See my post of April 16 where I noted that the bearing strength had been increased from PCN39 to PCN 46 following the completion of runway works.
Why this change now ? The result of testing perhaps ? Any clues as to which aircraft or operator might benefit ?
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Post by expressflight on Sept 14, 2019 8:10:27 GMT
I believe it may be to permit commercial A321 operations at SEN. A technical assessment was carried out to determine the revised PCN declaration.
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Post by EGMCfollower on Sept 14, 2019 8:48:05 GMT
I suspect you’re right. Glyn Jones mentioned A321 operations in a TV interview a couple of months ago or so. Look forward to seeing what this brings in terms of new routes and airlines.
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