Originally Posted by
Prophead
If you believe that HAL will borrow x amount to build this scheme and then not do everything they can to persuade people to use it and shop in the terminals then you really do not understand how this business is run.
LHR can do what they like to try and make the numbers work. The same applies to LGW if they got the go ahead.
What your one dimensional "analysis" ignores is the impact of the regulated asset base on the charging structure, which incentivises LHR into proposing gold plated solutions to basic problems.
Your retail based silver bullet is also no answer to the environmental or competition based impediments to the scheme.
It also does not account for financing the various surface access schemes, or the fact that LGW offers the best long term financial return for UKplc.