[QUOTE=WOWBOY]
Obviously Plymouth has a bigger
population and Catchment area and yet it lacks many vital services or a
half decent size Airport/Runway.
Plymouth does seem to be in the process of being squeezed from the west by Newquay and the East by Exeter.
Plymouth maybe larger than Exeter, but Exeter's catchment area is larger than Plymouth's. The Devon's population (outside Plymouth) is around 3/4 million, many Plymothians seem to forget that! The further west you go along the SW peninsular the smaller the catchment area becomes. Exeter's includes Torquay, Paignton and the towns on Devon's South East Coast (Teignmouth, Dawlish and Newton Abbot) aswell as North Cornwall, North & East Devon, West Somerset and West Dorset. Indeed for flights such as Toronto and Brest it probably extends up to Bristol.
I think Plymouth should try and get a route to the Midlands. Maybe Air Southwest are happy with the runway at its present length? It means they'll probably have the airport to themselves and they can get on with serving the Plymouth/SE Cornwall area with a few niche services. I heard Flybe were trying to get slots into LGW... EXT to LGW would be very interesting!
Last edited by Devonair; 31st Mar 2006 at 19:59.