European From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 1159 times:
Hello all,
I was wondering with all the Flyeb flight going in and out all day and the BA aircraft operating flights and staying at the airport nearly all day - Why is there not plans to expaned the airport?
I would have thought that there would have to be hangers at Southampton to fix and maintain the aircraft?
Is there enough space in the Airport terminal at all times?
Also I have noticed that Southampton does'nt have turn offs at both ends of the runway - Why?
Are there any plans to make another turn off?
Are there any plans to expand the airport in any way?
LX23 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 347 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 1044 times:
Good question...I'm wondering if BE will actually keep expanding from here...somehow, I think it'll more or less level out as it is now though.Have you been down here recently?
Fbgdavidson From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 3688 posts, RR: 31 Reply 2, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 1037 times:
No plans that I am aware of. The M27 at the southern end and housing at the northern end limit what would be regarded as un-necessary expansion.
The terminal is fine for current needs, and I have been to the airport at 'peak hour'. The place is dead and one days flights can fit on one monitor.
Sometimes on my walk up to Uni a loud two engined jet (well loud in compairson to everything else) flys out. I'm guessing due to runway restrictions it could be an A300 or similar size craft.
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LX23 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 347 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1031 times:
FBG:
what you hear on your way to uni is most probably the same thing that has often enough made me turn my head on the way to uni... These are (usually) Air Europa's 737s (although we do get other operators' 737s from time to time). Once in a while, we also get the odd low-flying FR/EAL flight thats heading for BOH.
Bananaboy From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 1558 posts, RR: 25 Reply 5, posted (8 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 946 times:
Sometimes on my walk up to Uni a loud two engined jet (well loud in compairson to everything else) flys out. I'm guessing due to runway restrictions it could be an A300 or similar size craft.
That size of aircraft would be way to big to operate into the short runway that SOU has.
Britannia / Thomson / whatever they are called now operated the first 757 services into SOU a few years ago, and this is the largest aircraft type licensed to use the airport at this time.
Speaking of which, you should see a 757 in SOU on the 18th Dec operating a ferry flight to LGW, after operating in from Rovaniemi RVN
Mark
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VS045 From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 192 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (8 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 898 times:
At one end of the runway is the M27 motorway/freeway and at the other there is a housing estate and an extensive railway development.There is no turn-off at the start of 02 or 20, aircraft have to backtrack to reach both thresh-holds. Flybe have now developed SOU into a major hub, with many business and leisure destinations, including Geneva, La Rochelles and Guernsey. BA don't actually have very many flights anymore form SOU, the vast majority of flights are operated by flybe and various other carriers. The traffic at Southampton is very seasonal, with many leisure flights to southern european holiday destinations operating in the british summer and a smaller number of mainly business destinations in the winter.
Flycro From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 372 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 833 times:
Unfortunately Flybe have dropped La Rochelle and Perpignan, likewise Prague. Geneva is a weekend only service for a few months in winter and Salzburg operates on a Saturday for a few weeks in the ski season. It apears Flybe are now concentrating on BHX and opening up new bases i.e LPL and possibly NWI. Hopefully Air Berlin will serve a few more German cities.
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