Well those are interesting statistics.
They certainly don't correspond with Bristol Airport's own recent survey which found that only 12% of the airport's 4 million passengers came from Devon and Cornwall.
Greater Bristol provides 25% of the whole south west region's GDP (the region from northern Gloucestershire to the Scilly Isles and across to and including Swindon and Bournemouth/Poole) - source: SWRDA website. It has by far the largest density of population in this region, and yet we are told that four times as many people from the far south west travel from Bristol by easyJet than 'locals'.
If four easyJet 737s (2/3rds of the BRS fleet) moved to EXT that would equate to over one million annual passengers. How would the small EXT terminal cope with those, plus the estimated half a million already expected to use EXT this year?
I would be interested to learn more of Ambrosia's sources in what is apparently a 'scoop' in his first post.
Last edited by MerchantVenturer; 17th March 2004 at 21:32.