Originally Posted by
Max Tow
There's also a degree to which a rail strike might adversely affect air travel, domestic and international, where air travellers were relying on rail links to travel to/from the city or elsewhere - LGW in particular comes to mind. So much for integrated modes of transport...
Agreed - Manchester also pulls in a lot of people from across northern England by train.
I would suggest the main potential beneficiaries have enough problems running their own current schedules to look to benefit from others misfortunes