Southampton Airport - General Thread

[Jerry]

LCY seems to be hugely successful despite runway constraints??? I'm not objecting to SOUs proposal btw

In general Southampton is with most of the market focusing on domestic connections and regional France and some Spanish routes but it is limited in the aircraft in can take and the range of those aircraft. The extension should help with that and hopefully increase Easyjet flights from it.

 

[jfy1999]

Recommended for approval by the planning officer. I’m not familiar with the make up of the local authority so I don’t know how likely it is to be approved.

Southampton Airport expansion recommended for approval

Council officers say an application to extend the runway at Southampton Airport should be passed.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The local planning committee's determination of the airport's planning application to extend its runway began this morning and is still going on. There have been some breaks in the day but the council has now provisionally allotted extra time for the matter to be concluded tomorrow if necessary.

 

[Ashley.S.]

I posted an update about the extension this morning: https://forums4airports.com/threads/5754/ figured it might be a good idea to post a new thread so it could be promoted to the homepage, if not it can be merged in here

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I posted an update about the extension this morning: https://forums4airports.com/threads/5754/ figured it might be a good idea to post a new thread so it could be promoted to the homepage, if not it can be merged in here

Good idea. Further comment about the subject can be made in your thread.

 

[Severn]

Saturday 11th Sept 2021
Hadn't quite realised the scale of BA Cityflyers weekend operations at SOU. There are currently 8x overnighting E190s in SOU, along with an Eastern AT76 & E190 making 10x aircraft total. Theres only 11/12 commercial stands in SOU, so it must be quite an impressive sight.

 

[Silvercity]

Saturday 11th Sept 2021
Hadn't quite realised the scale of BA Cityflyers weekend operations at SOU. There are currently 8x overnighting E190s in SOU, along with an Eastern AT76 & E190 making 10x aircraft total. Theres only 11/12 commercial stands in SOU, so it must be quite an impressive sight.

I have a fried who uses SOU, he said the aircrafts come from LCY and they are offeting quite a range of destinations now from SOU.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Next 737 for STS due on 15th at 1830 from Bangor

N947BC

Ian

 

[Seasider]

I didn't know that there is a STS hangar at SOU.

 

[Severn]

Aircraft Based / Overnighting at SOU - August 2022

TOTAL: 1
Note: at weekends - up to 7x BA Cityflyer E190s overnight

Eastern (1)

AT76 (1)​

 

[Jerry]

Something a different for Southampton.
NEW ROUTE
Chalair - Caen to Southampton.
Summer seasonal flights start 28 June 2024
CE1431 CFR 1000-0945 SOU (Fri)
CE1431 CFR 1645-1630 SOU (Sun)
CE1432 SOU 1030-1215 CFR (Fri)
CE1432 SOU 1715-1900 CFR (Sun)
Flights operate 28 June - 22 September 2024

https://x.com/SeanM1997/status/1781051009533452653

 

[Seasider]

Good news for Southampton. With BOH getting a new Jet2 base next year, they need to increase their number of flights.

 

[Jerry]

Looks like Caen won't be coming back.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1869774955661201693

 

[Silvercity]

Iconic Trislander plane arrives at Southampton museum

A legendary piece of British aviation history has landed at a Southampton museum

www.dailyecho.co.uk

 

[Jerry]

Southampton owner's will be investing £350 million in all 3 of it's airports. The others are Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Major Scottish airport announces 'comprehensive transformation' of terminal

Biggest upgrade for 11 years to “significantly enhance passenger experience”

www.scotsman.com

 

[Sotonsean]

In the article it states that a new coffee shop is planned for the departure lounge.

I wonder where the location will be for this new coffee shop.

Or is it just a rebrand of the existing Costa coffee outlet on the first floor

Having just joined this site I was hoping that the Southampton thread was more active than it is.

Hopefully we can discuss the article and what it actually means for Southampton Airport.

The departure lounge definitely needs enlarging as it's almost to full capacity with three A320s. Having a new cafe location will only take up valuable seating in the departure lounge.

The airport needs to enlarge the departure lounge footprint with dedicated gate areas capable of simultaneously handling upto 3 or 4 A320s.

 

[Severn]

In the article it states that a new coffee shop is planned for the departure lounge.

I wonder where the location will be for this new coffee shop.

Or is it just a rebrand of the existing Costa coffee outlet on the first floor

Having just joined this site I was hoping that the Southampton thread was more active than it is.

Hopefully we can discuss the article and what it actually means for Southampton Airport.

The departure lounge definitely needs enlarging as it's almost to full capacity with three A320s. Having a new cafe location will only take up valuable seating in the departure lounge.

The airport needs to enlarge the departure lounge footprint with dedicated gate areas capable of simultaneously handling upto 3 or 4 A320s.

Welcome @Sotonsean
Hopefully more will join the Southampton thread and discuss the airports exciting future. Feel free also to check out the other airport/airline forums on here, always lots of interesting discussions.
Regarding SOU, hopefully they’ll make space for a new coffee shop rather than just rebrand the Costa. With the potential of more based aircraft in the future and more flights using A320s, more terminal space will surely be needed? 1x A320 departure is the same as 2x DH8Ds in the past), so like you said, a few A320s departing simultaneously and the terminal might be near capacity?

 

[Fernley]

AGS are spending a huge sum of money on SOU over the next few months to improve amongst other things the departure lounge. This will be extended, possibly over stand 6, although other options are still on the table. One would imagine that the new Starbucks will operate from the extended departures and will be separate from Costa on First floor. Lots of talk of new routes and airlines with easyjet and TUI keen to expand their footprint, some news could be announced soon for this winter season.

 

[Jerry]

AGS are spending a huge sum of money on SOU over the next few months to improve amongst other things the departure lounge. This will be extended, possibly over stand 6, although other options are still on the table. One would imagine that the new Starbucks will operate from the extended departures and will be separate from Costa on First floor. Lots of talk of new routes and airlines with easyjet and TUI keen to expand their footprint, some news could be announced soon for this winter season.

@Sotonsean

 

[Sotonsean]

AGS are spending a huge sum of money on SOU over the next few months to improve amongst other things the departure lounge. This will be extended, possibly over stand 6, although other options are still on the table. One would imagine that the new Starbucks will operate from the extended departures and will be separate from Costa on First floor. Lots of talk of new routes and airlines with easyjet and TUI keen to expand their footprint, some news could be announced soon for this winter season.

But there's always lots of talk of new routes and airlines at SOU none of which come to fruition.

I can't see any significant expansion from TUI especially until they see the results of their operations using a Boeing B737-800 to Palma.

Easyjet have been extremely lacklustre with SOU. The fact that they didn't add AGP from SOU for summer 2025 is very disheartening.

There's been no actual figures attached to SOU regarding any expansion of it's current facilities. The new owners are going to invest heavily in GLA but I can't see them spending huge sums of money at SOU.

A small extension to the departure lounge more than likely over part of stand 6 is apparently planned with a new cafe outlet attached. This will be a major improvement on the current departure lounges configuration.

But please don't let the new cafe outlet be a Starbucks. I'd personally much prefer to see a Neros coffee shop outlet at SOU over a Starbucks.