Passengers for many of the LH flights will be fed from the SH operation on the shorter runway. There may well be more flights to JFK but it will be because there are more passengers coming in from the regions and will utilise the extra capacity freed up on the existing 2 runways. This would be seen as a success.
People seem to think the regional traffic will be looked upon as less important in the same way it is now. The transformation into a hub and the extra slots created will change things dramatically and that regional traffic will be a large source of passengers onto any new LH routes.
There are assumptions made in regards to every project including the assumptions that LoCo traffic will be the main growth area in Gatwick or Stansted. Nobody has a crystal ball and we are not going to get cast iron commitments from anyone. If we needed that before commiting to any project then we would still be travelling by horse and cart on mud tracks.
Last edited by Prophead; 19th Jun 2018 at 12:24.