Southend flights to Manchester, France and Germany? (From Southend Standard)
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Southend flights to Manchester, France and Germany?
9:00am Thursday 22nd November 2012 in Echo News
The possible routes
A NEW airline which wants to start flights between Southend and Manchester, France and Germany claims it is only a few months away from getting airborne.
Netherlands-based JOIN Airlines, has revealed it hopes to welcome its first passengers in February. The company has named Southend as one of the airports at which it would like to base some of its aircraft, enabling it to launch flights to the continent, as well as the town’s first domestic route to Manchester.
In an email to interested parties, Bernard Jacobs, JOIN’s chief commercial officer, said: “We are heading for a start up in later February 2013.
“We will take in aircraft two by two every three months, as from January.”
In a separate email to the Echo, he added that more would be revealed at the end of November.
He said: “There is still an interest in operating Southend Airport, but there is more to tell.”
JOIN, which acts as a umbrella organisation for a number of regional airlines, first revealed it was interested in flying to Southend last June, just days after easyJet announced it had a signed a ten-year deal with the airport.
The departures board now features eleven destinations serviced by easyJet and flights to Dublin operated by Air Lingus Regional.
Two more routes, to Berlin and Krakow, are due to be added by easyJet next year.
JOIN initially envisages flying from Southend to Manchester, Caen in France, Cologne-Bonn in Germany and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, using a mix of turboprop and jet aircraft.
Aircraft based in Groningen, in the Netherlands, may also fly to the town.
However, it is not yet clear whether the Southend routes are among those scheduled to start in February.
Jonathan Rayner, the airport’s business development manager, said: “We are talking to a number of airlines.
“As soon as anything is confirmed, we will announce it.”
Comments(30)
fatmed
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10:47am Thu 22 Nov 12
Levelfield
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11:54am Thu 22 Nov 12
Olivia2847
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12:06pm Thu 22 Nov 12
Nebs
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3:26pm Thu 22 Nov 12
supershrimper
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4:05pm Thu 22 Nov 12
I can't see how they are going to compete with easyJet to Amsterdam - they will have to aim for a luxury rather than low cost model.
Still, we may get these routes which would be fanstastic.
supershrimper
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4:12pm Thu 22 Nov 12
www.joinairlines.com
supershrimper
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4:12pm Thu 22 Nov 12
www.joinairlines.com
largo1
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4:57pm Thu 22 Nov 12
rouliere
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5:01pm Thu 22 Nov 12
Wethersfield
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7:46am Fri 23 Nov 12
jayman
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11:49am Fri 23 Nov 12
jayman
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11:49am Fri 23 Nov 12
largo1
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12:50pm Fri 23 Nov 12
largo1
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12:51pm Fri 23 Nov 12
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
jayman
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4:51pm Fri 23 Nov 12
largo1 wrote:Maximillian Largo aka max aka max impact.. nice one...
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
you still have no sense of humour max, and unlike you, i only sign in as jayman
jayman
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4:57pm Fri 23 Nov 12
largo1 wrote:walt mitty was also a character was would adopt a false life to enhance his sad and lonely existence.. your sucking in to much of that jet exhaust.. my advice to you is its time for a different job/hobby.
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
jayman
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4:57pm Fri 23 Nov 12
largo1 wrote:walt mitty was also a character was would adopt a false life to enhance his sad and lonely existence.. your sucking in to much of that jet exhaust.. my advice to you is its time for a different job/hobby.
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
Max Impact
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6:39pm Fri 23 Nov 12
jayman wrote:Largo1 is not me but I can't prove that just as much as you can not prove you do not log in as jayman/jollyboy/1111
largo1 wrote:Maximillian Largo aka max aka max impact.. nice one...
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
you still have no sense of humour max, and unlike you, i only sign in as jayman
11/fatgezzer/or the other one that I have forgotten.
Joe Wildman
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7:09pm Fri 23 Nov 12
Max Impact wrote:I know I have only been here a short about of time but you two (Max Impact & Jayman) really should get a room, you are like an old married couple!
jayman wrote:Largo1 is not me but I can't prove that just as much as you can not prove you do not log in as jayman/jollyboy/1111
largo1 wrote:Maximillian Largo aka max aka max impact.. nice one...
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
you still have no sense of humour max, and unlike you, i only sign in as jayman
11/fatgezzer/or the other one that I have forgotten.
I have one login Joe Wildman and only Joe Wildman as thats all I need and thats all that I shall be.
jayman
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9:01pm Fri 23 Nov 12
Joe Wildman wrote:nah.. max and all his personalities would insist on a budget room at the airport hotel. max would order a pasty from room service and spend the night talking about aircraft specifications and showing me plane manufacturers brochures. this would undoubtedly kill any passion. LOL
Max Impact wrote:I know I have only been here a short about of time but you two (Max Impact & Jayman) really should get a room, you are like an old married couple!
jayman wrote:Largo1 is not me but I can't prove that just as much as you can not prove you do not log in as jayman/jollyboy/1111
largo1 wrote:Maximillian Largo aka max aka max impact.. nice one...
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
you still have no sense of humour max, and unlike you, i only sign in as jayman
11/fatgezzer/or the other one that I have forgotten.
I have one login Joe Wildman and only Joe Wildman as thats all I need and thats all that I shall be.
largo1
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9:43pm Fri 23 Nov 12
jayman wrote:think you'll find i only log in as my above name actually and my name is after emileo largo so get your facts right knobhead :)
largo1 wrote:Maximillian Largo aka max aka max impact.. nice one...
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
you still have no sense of humour max, and unlike you, i only sign in as jayman
largo1
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9:44pm Fri 23 Nov 12
jayman wrote:also jayman if you hate the airport so much why don't you f*ck off some place else and quit your whinging?!
largo1 wrote:Maximillian Largo aka max aka max impact.. nice one...
largo1 wrote:and i think jayman is one of these sad people haha
why the hell are there so many people down arrowing comments suporting the airport, oh i forgot its probably only 2 or 3 people but signing in using multiply accounts. sad so sad!!
you still have no sense of humour max, and unlike you, i only sign in as jayman
111111
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9:51pm Fri 23 Nov 12
tws123
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10:43pm Fri 23 Nov 12
tws123
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10:44pm Fri 23 Nov 12
tophatdt
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11:05am Sat 24 Nov 12
supershrimper
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7:38am Mon 26 Nov 12
largo1
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4:59pm Tue 27 Nov 12
supershrimper wrote:don't tell jayman, he mite start whinging again about non existant plane noise haha
I wonder whether Europort Express will ever do their flights to Rotterdam and Jetisfaction to Munster-Osnabruck?
largo1
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4:59pm Tue 27 Nov 12
supershrimper wrote:don't tell jayman, he mite start whinging again about non existant plane noise haha
I wonder whether Europort Express will ever do their flights to Rotterdam and Jetisfaction to Munster-Osnabruck?
mesaka says...
9:57am Thu 22 Nov 12