aeulad - trust me, i know lots.
A bit more than a number one might do I suspect!
Capt BK - I know what you mean, I do hear a lot about how the local people surrounding HUY do love their little airport. But from an airline or tour operators point of view - they look for a big, well populated catchment.
We use data to look where to place our aircraft, and I dont think that the demographics surrounding HUY are inspiring.
I have spent quite a bit of time at HUY, but I just dont see it going anywhere... I dont think it will NEVER get low cost, and now really is make or break time.
I\'m not one of those people that comes on to Airport specific forums and purposely slags off that airport, but I just wanted to try and make you guys see thru the media/
pr blurb that HUY are getting better at churning out. If you cut out all the blurb (like how they always mention their new food village - is 3 years old still new?!), and when you start to look at the facts... They have got a Malaga flight... they carry less than half a million passengers... they have no retail (away from standard tax free) and limited catering opportunity (limited to cold food airside I believe)... they are best concentrating on their new aircraft hangar - which will indeed be good for the locals to see different aircraft landing at HUY. It\'s just a great shame they prob wont be carrying any pax.