Southend Airport tops Which? Poll; Stansted & Luton tie for bottom place

LONDON SOUTHEND airport has been named the best in Britain by a Which? Passenger survey. The airport topped the poll for the third year running with a customer score of 86%, a 1% increase on the score it achieved last year.

The airport also achieved five-star ratings in four of the seven categories assessed – queues at bag drop, queues at security, passport control, and baggage re-claim.

Stansted and Luton tied at the bottom of the list with a 40% customer score.

The results were compiled following a survey completed by 11,226 Which? members this summer. Those polled were asked about their experiences of flying from a UK airport in the past year and were quizzed on queues at check-in, bag drop, airport security, baggage reclaim, seating, food outlets, and passport control.
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New flights to Slovenia

SLOVENIA'S national airline will be running three flights a week from Southend, Essex to Maribor – the country’s second city – from June 1 to October.

Seven miles from the Austrian, border, Maribor was European Capital of Culture in 2012, and is renowned for its Lent International Summer Festival, which takes place for two weeks in June.

As a wine growing area, Maribor has one of the biggest and oldest classic wine cellars in Europe, at more than 215,000 square feet.

The city is a 30 minute-drive away from the oldest town in Slovenia, Ptuj, and one-and-a-half hour drive from the capital, Ljubljana.

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Southend Airport passenger numbers hit 1.09 million

THE number of passengers using Southend Airport, Essex, increased by 9% to 1.09 million in 2014 with capacity now available to handle five million a year.

Stobart Group chief executive Andrew Tinkler, Chief Executive Officer, said: ‘Our investment in London Southend Airport is now largely complete and we are well placed to grow the profitability of that business. The airport serves more than one million passengers a year and, as a result of our recent investment, now has capacity in its terminal to serve five million passengers.’

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