London Southend Airport

This ‘start up aid’ will be made available from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund which was announced by the UK government in June 2013 and is open to airports with fewer than five million passengers per year. This fund has already been partly distributed to support strategic routes to London from Newquay and Dundee but is now being extended to bids for more routes.

The airline has added an additional 20 routes to its schedule, including three from its new Amsterdam base.

Swiss regional carrier SkyWork Airlines will move its twice weekday link between its Berne base and London from City Airport to Southend Airport from the start of the winter 2014/2015 schedules at the end of October, although it believes the switch will not impact its strategy to provide an efficient offering to the business traveller.

The independent Swiss regional carrier says the move to the "customer friendly” Southend Airport from October 26, 2014 at the start of the winter season will enable it to modify its schedule and provide better flight times for corporate travellers.

The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP, Secretary of State for Transport, declared the extension to London Southend Airport’s terminal officially open on April 7, 2014, while the airport was actively seeking to further expand its network at the Routes Europe forum in Marseille, France.

UK low-fare carrier Flybe has confirmed the identity of the new routes it will launch this summer from Southend Airport after agreeing a franchising agreement with Stobart Air: Rennes (France), Groningen (the Netherlands), Münster Osnabrück (Germany), Cologne Bonn (Germany), Caen Normandie (France) and Antwerp (Belgium.

Latest statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) shows that UK airports collectively reported a 3.4 per cent growth in total passengers in 2013 when compared to the previous year.

Just days after announcing a new seven-year agreement at its largest base, London’s Gatwick Airport, UK low-fare carrier easyJet has now confirmed it has agreed a ten-year deal at its London Luton Airport headquarters.

UK low-fare carrier Flybe is to open six new routes to destinations across Benelux and Northern Europe from Southend Airport after agreeing a franchising agreement with Stobart Air, the new corporate name for Irish regional carrier Aer Arann.

Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling is to expand its services to Tenerife with the resumption of flights to the Island’s South Airport during summer 2014

As part of the continued expansion of its holiday programme from its home UK market and in particular supporting a business strategy to enable

Irish regional carrier Aer Arann, which currently exclusively operates under the Aer Lingus Regional brand for Ireland’s national carrier, has

UK low-fare carrier easyJet last week launched a fourth scheduled London link from Edinburgh Airport as it inaugurated flights from its London

easyJet in 2013 is launching additional 6 new routes, with services out of Berlin Schoenefeld, London Stansted and London Southend. Reservations for