Originally Posted by
SotonFlightpath
I personally think the name of Hurn lends a certain amount of gravitas to the airport, really important airports are quite happy to be referred to by the names of the villages in which they are situated - Gatwick in Sussex and Heath Row (Heathrow) in what was Middlesex. Associating the airport with a provincial seaside town makes it sound a lot less important!
Agree, except that the Southampton could not be referred to as a "seaside town"..
All but a few hundred metres of the south end of the runway is within the Borough of Eastleigh, and until BAA and their preceding subsidiary pitched up it always was Southampton/Eastleigh Airport.
We don't have "Heathrow Intl" or "Gatwick Intl", what could be next "London Southampton"?