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Flights boost for Southend Airport
Flybe will offer 80% more flights from Southend Airport next summer, when services to Dubrovnik and Zadar will be reintroduced.
The airline, which offers the flights from Southend in partnership with Stobart Air, will also launch a new route to Antwerp next summer. It will be operated by Stobart Air and fly four times a week.
A total of 15 routes will be available from mid June to September, with extra seats to European cities including Budapest, Cologne, Vienna and Prague.
Stobart Air through its franchise partnership with Flybe has brought in a fifth aircraft. EasyJet has also announced that it will base a fourth A320 at Southend next July.
Glyn Jones, chief executive officer of Southend Airport owner Stobart Aviation said: "We’re hugely excited about what we’re now offering passengers, almost doubling the number of flights next summer.
"Simply, there’s more choice with a brand new route to Antwerp and the return of increasingly popular destinations in Croatia from next summer.
"There’s a correlation showing travel demand is driven by airline capacity. We’ve added hundreds of extra flights and thousands of more seats for next year’s peak summer season. But what is helping London Southend Airport go from strength to strength is our promise to deliver a better way to travel – more comfort, faster access, fewer queues and a friendlier experience than larger airports in the southeast."
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