Originally Posted by
DC3 Dave
I never realised how sensitive and insecure some of you are about your London airport status. This despite huge numbers and capacity for even more.
Do you really want to deprive little ol' SEN of its status as a London airport? You all know deep down there's no justification for that - not from your location.
So stop being big boy bullies. You success or otherwise doesn't depend in any way on what happens elsewhere in Essex.
As someone looking in from outside the Southeast "London Bubble" I would say that the only London airports are LHR, LGW, STN and LTN. Any others, and that includes "little old Southend" simple don't cut it.
Perhaps East Midlands should be Called "Birmingham-East Midlands" or Liverpool "Manchester-Speke". It might be great marketing (and at the same time cause a parochial rumpus in both regions) but it little more than deception of the airlines and industry and it's the passengers that suffer - and many of those would be foreigners who have little perception of distance, and the inadequacies of our surface infrastructure.