Originally Posted by
VLCfkight
Problem on this thread is that a few voiciferous supporters of SOH assumed from the outset that a few extra metres of tarmac would bring airlines flooding to the airport. Their expectations were, IMHO, unrealistic. Amongst the many words posted here since Jet2 announced their BOH base, there have been some posts that set out what SOH can really anticipate in the future, while the expectations of others is clearly 'pie in the sky'.
How very true. You could take this statement about Southampton & apply it to Guernsey - where a vociferous “extend the runway” crowd expect “boom time” if the airport becomes able to support unrestricted use of 737s & 320s. This would be to ignore the fact that Guernsey’s population is 65,000. Quite considerably less than the hinterland of Southampton ! Sorry for drifting away from the topic of Soton; but its situation has some relevance elsewhere.