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London Southend Airport

IATA Code
SEN
ICAO Code
EGMC
Website
http://www.southendairport.com
City
Southend
Country
United Kingdom
Runways
1605m
1531m x 37m
Airlines presently operating to this airport with scheduled services
Aer Lingus
easyJet

London Southend Airport is a regional airport serving the East London and Thames Estuary metropolitan areas in the UK. Southend operates largely charter passenger and corporate service, flight training and maintenance activities. The airport is also a base for various engineering, spares, air taxi operators and aircraft refinishing companies. Southend is undergoing a construction programme, with the airport to receive a new control tower, terminal building and hotel, as a part of its strategy to attract more scheduled passenger services. The airport is also constructing a train station to link it to central London.

Location of London Southend Airport, United Kingdom

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easyJet to open London Southend base

17-Jun-11 5:48 PM

easyJet, Europe’s second-largest LCC, has confirmed plans to launch a base at London Southend Airport in Apr-2012 in a major boost for the struggling facility. Southend has undergone a major capital investment programme over the past few years with a view to taking a larger slice of the scheduled London market. The strategy appears set to pay off.

London City Airport - a marketable proposition?

10-Nov-10 5:24 PM

Amidst the turmoil surrounding the sale of London Gatwick Airport last year and the Oct-2010 Court of Appeal ruling that confirms the sale of Stansted Airport, it is often overlooked that Greater London and the southeast of England is home to at least seven commercial airports serving the catchment area. One of them, London City Airport – LCY - (the only one actually within London) has been arguably the most successful in recent years in terms of passenger traffic growth. There is a suggestion that it could be sold off in 2011 by its majority owner GIP, which now has London Gatwick airport in its portfolio as a competitor to London Heathrow. What benefits might LCY offer to an investor now?

Poor future prospects for Irish regional airports – any opportunity for a private sector saviour?

21-Oct-10 5:20 PM

For a variety of reasons Dublin Airport’s annual passenger traffic may have fallen from 24 million to 18 million over the last three years, but it still dominates the entire Irish aviation landscape, with its influence spreading into Northern Ireland. Amidst arguments over the efficacy of public service obligation routes connecting some of Ireland’s remote airports, the future seems bleak for most of them as Dublin is increasingly accessible by road. Dublin is only three hours from places like Sligo and Knock - and a Metro line to the airport is to be built that would connect at the main rail stations. Calls for some form of privatisation at some of the airports are becoming more strident, but would any investor perceive a long term future for them?

CAPA Regional Manager UK, David Bentley London hokey-cokey: Gatwick sold (?) Estuary in, Heathrow out (?) UK govt shakes it all about

19-Oct-09 4:55 PM

Confusion abounds as the main British airports are thrust back into the spotlight. Depending on who you believe, London Gatwick Airport has all but been sold to one of the bidding consortia, or it has not; BAA has abandoned plans for a third runway at Heathrow in deference to the desires of a ‘future government’, or it has not. Meanwhile a senior government minister hints that the few remaining British airports that are still partly or wholly in the public sector should be sold to help pay off the gargantuan national financial deficit. Or did he? And that is only part of the story, as the political shenanigans surrounding Britain’s airport infrastructure deepen. We try to make sense of it all.

CAPA Regional Manager UK and Ireland, David Bentley He’s at it again – Boris Johnson’s big plan for a Thames estuary airport just won’t go away

7-Aug-09 10:20 AM

On several occasions during the last year London Mayor Boris Johnson’s scheme for a huge new airport in the Thames Estuary has ‘made waves’. But however many times it is ridiculed it keeps on bouncing back. With a change of government imminent the choice is becoming clear – Heathrow or the Estuary airport. But there are indications that a low key one or two runway airport might be constructed in the first instance. Would that be practicable? Almost certainly not.

Stobart Group unexpected buyer of London Southend Airport from Regional Airports Ltd for GBP21 mill

10-Dec-08 1:19 PM

At one stage London City Airport, owned by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a consortium of GE and Credit Suisse, had seemed favourite to acquire Southend Airport, some 50 miles to the east of the capital in Essex. Once the base of British Island Airways, it handled up to 700,000 passengers annually in its heyday,but had been unable to raise passenger throughput much above 200,000. The vendor, Regional Airports, has this year made it clear it preferred to focus its efforts on the general aviation Biggin Hill Airport in southeast London, expanding it to attract more business jet flights and possibly commercial airlines in the future.

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