Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
Is that staffing working on getting the extension built or getting through the planning process? Clearly land with permission for development is more valuable than land without.
If AGS are that committed to getting the extension built, surely they must be confident they can attract new business that will can make the investment pay, otherwise the business case just doesn't stack up.
Exactly, but you can’t speak sense on this thread because it has been infiltrated by a resident troll which a number of BOH posters not surprisingly encourage. What is more disappointing though is the so called balanced SOU posters being complicit by not standing up to it. Shame on all of you, you know who you are.
Obtaining planning permission for a project like this costs hundreds of thousands of pounds just in surveys, plans etc, let alone the salaries for the whole team that SOU hired to manage the project. If they had no intention to implement the extension immediately they would put the whole process on hold straight away. LCY is not a comparison to SOU, nor is LHR. Those airports were expanding to facilitate expected growth. As Logan confirmed, even the regional planes that currently fly from SOU can not operate properly, so the extension is needed to support existing operations, and also the move to larger planes that aviation is on a whole moving towards. We are not going to see a manufacturer invest in any new planes below the 80 seat market again. I am not sure why there is such a stigma attached to larger jets anyway, as this will result in less aircraft taking off and landing, and therefore less frequent noise disturbance.