Southend Airport cancels flight (From Southend Standard)
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Southend Airport cancels flight
8:23pm Sunday 10th February 2013 in News
Southend Airport has cancelled a flight.
The flight to Venice has been cancelled due to runway closure there.
The Airport said it was not connected to snowfall.
Passengers are advised to contact easyJet for more information.
Comments(17)
GentleGiant
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8:45pm Sun 10 Feb 13
lucy10
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8:48pm Sun 10 Feb 13
j-w wrote:yes
It's venice that's closed
H.79
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11:18pm Sun 10 Feb 13
GentleGiant wrote:Haha!!! Indeed! Was hardly worth reporting!
why let a fact get in the way of a good story.....
emcee
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11:24pm Sun 10 Feb 13
blaireau
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11:47pm Sun 10 Feb 13
tac123
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3:51am Mon 11 Feb 13
Leighexpat
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4:27am Mon 11 Feb 13
Ian P
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7:15am Mon 11 Feb 13
H.79 wrote:I suspect it might have been of great interest to anyone planning to travel on the cancelled flight to Venice. Still, why let the facts get in the way of a good p*%s take eh?
GentleGiant wrote: why let a fact get in the way of a good story.....Haha!!! Indeed! Was hardly worth reporting!
DogsMessInLeigh
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9:19am Mon 11 Feb 13
Always check with the airport/airline its self.
Joe Wildman-Clark
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10:27am Mon 11 Feb 13
SARFENDMAN
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10:36am Mon 11 Feb 13
Great reporting...NOT!
DogsMessInLeigh
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11:09am Mon 11 Feb 13
Joe Wildman-Clark wrote:To save confusion......The headline had the word Snow in it...like southend airport cancels flight due to snow....and also in the original there was no mention of venice or runway closure OR easyjet, i guess who ever was doing the news items on a sunday evening didn't research a little bit and wanted to get the news item on here fast, thinking because there was a smuttering of snow in the air outside it was southend that had problems when it was posted/reported on here at 8.23pm....but when they realised (and after reading the comments on here...because they do get read) it was updated.
The Echo should at least have "edited story" at the top of the article, as anyone reading it for the first time will be confused by the comments, prehaps include a link to the original article that they posted up.
F the Police
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1:08pm Mon 11 Feb 13
stopmoaning1
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1:14pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Rochford Rob
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2:01pm Mon 11 Feb 13
(Which ones though I'm not sure??)
And on the down side another will come along on his bicycle shortly to rejoice.
Thames Gateway
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6:39pm Tue 12 Feb 13
j-w says...
8:38pm Sun 10 Feb 13