The airport that was once the third-busiest in Britain – after Heathrow and Manchester – is continuing its renaissance, says Independent.co.uk.
Southend airport has become the latest base for Ryanair. Its first flight, to Alicante, departed shortly before 7am, followed immediately by another to Kosice in Slovakia and a third to Dublin.
Europe’s biggest budget airline has deployed three aircraft in Southend, in south-east Essex. It will operate more than 50 flights a week to 13 destinations in eight countries.
Besides serving familiar locations such as Bilbao, Corfu, Dublin, Milan Bergamo and Venice, Ryanair will also fly to Cluj in Romania.
It is also competing head-to-head with its arch-rival, easyJet, on sunshine routes to the main holiday airports: Alicante, Faro, Malaga and Palma.
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