Drifting back to the original topic, I had the opportunity to look around the new facilities on Sunday PM. Check-in hall 'B' (as it is known) is indeed a huge improvement over the existing facility (check-in hall 'A') and looks well capable of coping with multiple, high volume flights.
However, who is actually going to use it? It was the arrival of Jet2 that arguably led the airport to build the extension in the first place. Yet according to the lone airport employee in an otherwise deserted hall 'B' on Sunday, Jet2 have said they are staying put in hall 'A' - which unless every one else relocates up to 'B' does seem to rather defeat the objective or providing a more comfortable environment for passengers.
I had, perhaps naively, assumed that the airport authority would use a cut-off of say Fokker-100 size, with flights of this size of lower using 'A' and everyone else in the much more suitable 'B'.
Early days yet, but that is not how its is quite panning out.
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