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Rivet Joint
And neither are ever going to happen. Both can co-exist and in my opinion and are moving in the right direction. SOU in growing its options for pax flights and BOH further diversifying with the cargo ops. BOH had around £40m thrown at it with the new terminal etc to become a pax airport, and the lowest ticket in town in FR. The truth is that no real growth has ever materialised and nor will it in my opinion. The best part of their catchment is on the other side of a national park that is never going to have a motorway put through it. Even a junction would be a multimillion investment at the tax payers expense which there will never be a strong enough business case for. Further diversifying their already varied business is a good move for BOH, and clearly a benefit when pax flights go through their regular downturns. It will be interesting to see if the cargo ops have a long term future or whether they are just PPE based. Stoddart is a bit of an opportunist as has been seen in the past.
Absolute drivel from you again!,BOH continues as the South Coast airport simply because it can and will diversify due to its airside development. At best SOU will continue
for the time being,but the pandemic if it continues will put a massive constraint on its viability,the airport can't offer anything further,the runway application is becoming
increasingly irrelevant,simply because there will not be routes to attract Paxs.