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Signature handled several extra exec jet type aircraft and turned down a few that wanted to divert whilst signature were closed (they are under no obligation to be there during all airport hours).
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If BOH wants to be taken seriously as an airport then I do feel the handling agents should be present, or at least available on request, during advertised opening hours. It was the middle of the afternoon when some executive jets were refused not late at night!
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Also, parking for aircraft diverting then night stopping is extremely limited, again eghh schedules/charters/mail flights etc take priority.
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Has the airport lost a lot of its concrete/tarmac? They used manage to park diversions around the airfield and this in the days when runway 35/17 was still in use and not a taxiway/parking area as it is now. What about the space the European B747s used to take up (6 at one time I believe) and the space around the now regretably closed BASCO hangar?
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the day that 42 aircraft diverted was utter chaos, several pax waited 3 hours or more to get off their aircraft
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This may have still been preferable to spending time in the SAM hold before having to divert back to Leeds, Glasgow or Jersey as some of the aircraft requesting diversion from SOU had to do. At least the time would have been spent on the ground with less than an hours coach trip back to SOU once disembarked. At least these pax would have got home the same day and I'm sure would have been very grateful.
It does seem that the easy option was taken - just say no. Even if only the SOU traffic had been accepted then this would have been no end of help to ATC, flight crew and passengers. The 'we are full' reason would then perhaps have been a bit more believable.
Le Tirer