Originally Posted by
TCAS FAN
Please excuse me banging on about it, subject of an ancient post of mine prior to Southampton-3 thread, have been there before when the runway was being re-surfaced, contractors and asphalt plant on site, engineer's estimated cost at the time, £40K! Has gone down in history as one of B****y Awful Airport's many SOU c***k ups, together with the Short Term Car Park eastern boundary (preventing Stand 8-11 development) and the Post Office building site (originally part of the airport site-Stand development and even a second Terminal?).
Give AGS credit, they appear to be doing all possible to grow the business, most unlike their predecessors.
Agreed that AGS are doing all they can to improve the airport and this will finally come to fruition shortly. Mistakes have been made by previous owners and one of those was not adding a northern taxiway. Even now (before an extra 164m) you have a long backtrack for 20 departures and all arrivals on 02 are having to turn back on 37m width of runway to then exit at the mid point. Been told this is part of phase 2 developments although will most likely never be done!