New easyJet Flight to Tenerife announced

HERE  It goes from Southend and flights including tax are from £33.49

Friend wanted to see Montenegro (don't know why) she picked up cheap fights from one of the London airports, can't remember which, her outbound flight time clashed with working day peak travel times for her train trip down from Manchester, her return flight wasn't so bad, rail ticket prices £250 odd pounds, plan B, travel down the night before off peak, night in the Airport Hilton, off peak return, £170 all in, still not cheap, but at least she was there for her morning flight and not having the worry of her trains being on time...

Sometimes it can be as cheap flying from your local airport when all costs are factored in...

You heard it here first...

Agree, We tried Manchester and that was a day out,   We can leave our house 30 mins before boarding and its a breeze, No luggage to faff with, walk in, get on, then it go's tits up,
Leaves on the runway etc,  

Agree with the logic above, but someone, must live near Southend

Is there a Northend?  

Knott end, opposite Fleetwood, no airport tho, Bet Vince would travel to Southend and give that a try,

Would you admit it if you lived near Souufend.

Its called Sowfend. Us Essex boys cant say th but we can at least spell and make ourselves understood. Thanks for that Gypsy. Trouble is I dont want to wait til December!

Tell them then Vince, you are a good customer they should listen

My son in law uses that airport to Faro. He informs me HMRC have their reps there for the unwary. Certainly will on Tuesdays and Fridays I guess.   Easy pickings.

Got to get their own duty free's from somewhere.

No, I dont believe they behave like Guardia Civil. They give you a receipt for it........

2.6 million people live within 40mins drive of southend airport ...that half the population of scotland

Perfectspecimen wrote:My son in law uses that airport to Faro. He informs me HMRC have their reps there for the unwary. Certainly will on Tuesdays and Fridays I guess.   Easy pickings.

all the clever smugglers fly to the small airports on the mainland  from tenerife then change flight to england and as there is no ´´personal´´ limit from there 
they dont get stopped ...as far as i know there is no ´´personal´´ limit from faro to southend?

TVTenerife wrote:2.6 million people live within 40mins drive of southend airport ...that half the population of scotland

I couldn't get down there in that time even with that HS2 train thingy!  

TV my son in law had tobacco taken off him there last year from Faro. (Hand luggage) Customs keep changing the guidelines but basically once they decide they are going to take it thats it. 
Everybody knows most of it comes by sea, at my local dock (both) theres is not even a dock gate. Of course it takes days to search a ship and then they probably wouldnt even find it anyway. Airports, easy pickings.

oh yes you could - it would be stopping when you got there that would be th problem ..

Perfectspecimen wrote:TV my son in law had tobacco taken off him there last year from Faro. (Hand luggage) Customs keep changing the guidelines but basically once they decide they are going to take it thats it. 
Everybody knows most of it comes by sea, at my local dock (both) theres is not even a dock gate. Of course it takes days to search a ship and then they probably wouldnt even find it anyway. Airports, easy pickings.

yes your right - its only 800 now,if you over they take the lot ....long time since my 3 times a week flights to the uk

8 times a year is quite enough for me thanks. The novelty of planes soon wears thin, like the cushions on those seats.

havent been on plane for 5 years now - suits me ...