7006 fan, I'm not entirely sure where you're coming from... Are you a supporter of HUY or a supporter of DSA? Lets face it, it's gotta be one of the other hasnt it!!
This thread is for HUY, so to keep 'them' happy, we better just talk about HUY on here. We'll move on to the DSA section to talk about road access to DSA... (It's not that bad actually - I'll convince you!).
There's no reason why we cant talk about how the likes of DSA & LBA will effect HUY though is there?!
I'm not sure whether you are supportive of the new hangar at HUY or not? You talked about Peel developing a business park onsite at DSA, in case the airport doesnt work out...
...but I think we all know, that's what Manchester Airport Group has decided to do at HUY. I think that it's failing as a commercial airport, no fault of it's own, just a very unpopulated catchment; so the bosses/council leaders at MAG are presumably giving HUY one last chance with this maintenance facility.
I am sure it will work well at HUY, but to what level? The majority of airlines are signed up to an all stations contract with engineering companies like KLM Engineering (who do the engineering for, amongst others, Thomsonfly) & FLS (who do the engineering for MYT) etc etc... So surely airlines would only put a poorly aircraft into HUY on an ad hoc basis.
The location of HUY has to be questioned in all of this. It seems to come back to location location location every time. HUY has a huge amount of land, which was set to be developed into a Business Park. I think that fell on it's ar*e. I think that the airport itself suffers due to location. Without sounding negative, the engineering maintenance facility seems the best option for HUY to go with - it certainly has uncongested skies for all these 'planes' to land.
Best of luck with turning the Airport around HUY... Is it about time we all started realising that pax flights arent going to be the future for HUY - and lets concentrate on what value the maintenance facilty will bring to the region.
Last edited by lakeside84; 20th March 2005 at 00:54.