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Old 17th Dec 2004, 12:06
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Big Tudor
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No dispute on the amount of industry in the Carlisle area, I'm sure Sellafield (or whatever it is called today) would also welcome air links with the capital. I just question how much they would actually use the service in reality, particularly on the timetables that are proposed. It would appear that any crews would be Carlisle based with the aircraft. On the proposed schedule that is going to mean hotacing the crew in LTN overnight, that's a straight cost of £200-£300 per night. Add on to that the overnight parking at LTN and you are looking at decent loads (or very high ticket prices) just to break even. I would have thought that using Carlisle as a through stop to pick up / drop off would have been a safer starting point for such a route.
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