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Old 24th Apr 2018, 16:22
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Originally Posted by Skipness One Echo
Fair point, but when LGW changed their charging policy a while back, they killed flybe’s routes to INV, GCI, JER, BHD and NQY overnight. EZY was the winner but business connectivity was lost as frequency was lost, NQY-LGW was reprieved only because HMG approved a sunsidy. Now that subsidy would generate a lot more inbound traffic if it was NQY-LHR instead, due to many more connections at Hounslow Intl.

Public and private sector are interconnected more than we admit. There would be no railway without subsidy yet we see the benefit in getting us from A to B.
Yes, public and private sector are intertwined, but when two central parts of LHR's case for expansion (regional connectivity, and no taxpayer cost) are so obviously undermined it casts further doubt on their remaining claims (some of which are misleading at best, dishonest at worst).
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