Originally Posted by
SKOJB
point taken, however the airport has always said that the runway will be viable for 320/737 ops once complete and it’s no secret that they are courting tour operators/LCC’s so to suggest that they won’t be going after the likes of Jet2 is probably naive. Also the airport boss is ex Jet2 director so this might assist in any conversations, assuming of course they departed on amicable terms!
It is not just theoretical take-off performance that should be considered, but rather each companies procedures for using things like de-rate where possible, which require longer take-off runs without payload restrictions. This is where you might have an issue, but that would be down to business and commercial decisions no doubt.