Talk:London Southend Airport/Archive 1

Channel Airways

The section entitled "aviation history" fails to mention Channel Airways, a major resident user of the airport during the 1960s and early '70s (until the airline's demise in early 1972). During that time Channel Airways not only was one of the airport's biggest users, but also one of the UK's five leading Independent airlines (apart from British United, British Eagle, Caledonian and Skyways). Perhaps it is also worth mentioning in this section that during the aforementioned period Southend handled many more aircraft movements as well as passengers than Stansted, making it a worthy contemporary competitor to Gatwick. Pimpom123 16:14, 21 January 2008 (GMT)

Looking at the Flightline website I cannot see any mention that they fly scheduled flights from Southend to Cologne / Bonn. Do they do it under the name of a different airline ? If so, the other airline should be mentioned here instead —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.62.145 (talk) 21:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

New Airlines/destinations

As mentioned many times by many people, please do not add any new services until schedules/start dates have been published and officially announced by the airline. Also, the hidden notes are there for this reason only. Anyone attempts to remove or modify the notes without discussing will be reported and blocked. Thanks! 71.91.73.4 (talk) 21:10, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

It may worth adding it just as a comment based on the press release [1] which says services will start in April 2012, tickets go on sale in July 2011 so it will not be long before a more detailed schedule is available. The statement There will be 70 easyJet flights per week and passengers will have a choice of around ten different European destinations including Barcelona, Faro and Ibiza. is still not firm enough on actual destinations but a EasyJet will operate 70 flights a week from April 2012 comment is probably appropriate (even in the future developments section) as it is a significant new service for the airport. MilborneOne (talk) 23:06, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

And just like the city of Rome being built, the many routes will most likely not all start on one same day. HkCaGu (talk) 01:49, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

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Is this still considered an airport serving London, England?

Does anybody know if this airport is still considered an airport serving London, England? A lot of IPs continue to list this airport as "Southend-on-Sea". Snoozlepet (talk) 21:09, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

It has a reasonable rail service to London but would be unlikely to attract many customers from the London area when Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted or even Luton are better established. Certainly airlines like EasyJet are starting services to attract the locals from Essex rather than London. London Southend is just a bit of marketing as most people would not know where Southend was otherwise, but it is 40 miles from the center of London. MilborneOne (talk) 21:20, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

So, should we list it as London-Southend or as Southend-on-the-Sea in airport articles? Snoozlepet (talk) 22:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

'Southend-on-Sea', not 'Southend-on-the-Sea'. It's locally known as just 'Southend'. In England's south, all local airports serve London via train. MilborneOne is right; it's part of marketing as a bid to attract the locals and to help people outside Britain to figure out LSA's location. Although only 40 miles from London, it takes up to an hour (between 45 mins and 1 hour 10 mins) to travel from Liverpool Street Station or Fenchurch Street Station (both in London) to Southend's Victoria Station in town centre. 0zero9nine (talk) 01:51, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

The 27 Dec 2012 edit by TBrandley seems to be against the Wikipedia convention used with the rest of the London Airports. Luton, Stansted and Gatwick are all similarly known locally by these names, but are listed as London Luton etc on wikipedia. Clearly 'London Southend' is now recognised as a London Airport, both by the UK CAA and also IATA (see: http://www.southendairport.com/news/latest-news/southend-is-now-officially-a-london-airport/). A search for flights using the code "LON" brings up flights at London Southend as well as other London airports - therefore it is now a London Airport and should be listed as susch. As the majority of passengers using the airport are actually to/from London, it would seem extremely perverse for Wikipedia (and confusing for potential travellers) to not follow the IATA convention for this airport. It is far from just a marketing tool, being a similar distance from centre of London to Stansted, and with a similar train journey timing to Stansted.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Thames Gateway (talk • contribs) 13:41, 27 December 2012‎

I have moved it back to London Southend Airport as a change really needs to be discussed and agreed here first. MilborneOne (talk) 13:51, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Renaming Stobart Jet Centre to London Southend Jet Centre

London Southend Airport established Stobart Jet Centre - an executive jet centre in January 2018 to handle private aircraft activity. As of 11th April 2022, this was rebranded to London Southend Jet Centre and continues to support the private jet activity into London Southend Airport.

www.londonsouthendjetcentre.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Go4more (talk • contribs) 10:06, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

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