Originally Posted by
lfc84
Back in March and April, Manchester Airport were saying the security queues were due to unexpected passenger numbers.
Yet here they are providing the forward forecasting that they claimed not to be able to do earlier in the Summer.
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What a bizarre post. Do you remember a certain geopolitical upheaval known as “Covid19”? It was a global pandemic which resulted in governments closing borders, imposing draconian travel restrictions and constantly shifting the goalposts on these. Our own government was a prominent offender, ignoring all pleas from our industry to provide a roadmap to reopening. Airports and airlines were left floundering with no reliable information to work with. To those who claim that airports and airlines should have recruited based on assumptions of normal throughput in S2022, take a look at what happened to those who did exactly that in 2021. PCR testing was suddenly imposed for passengers entering the UK leaving the industry royally *****ed yet again. And financial help for our aviation industry was thwarted beyond the basic schemes open to all by the carbon demonisation cult at Westminster.
But you make no allowance for all of that. You just expect airports to produce reliable forward projections against that backdrop? Or perhaps this is just another example of you working up to your usual playbook. Manchester Airport gets everything wrong and we should all book to fly from Liverpool instead. Am I on the right lines?