Originally Posted by OCEAN WUN ZERO
65000 + pa movements mean it is a real airport or is it that the G/A element of that total is not 'real' aviation.
Before the mudslinging starts yes, 65000 movements makes it a real airport, like Gloucester and Shoreham who have more.
However - CAS is there for the protection of Air Transport Movements, and Coventry doesn't have enough to warrant that protection yet. There are sufficient airports within the Coventry catchment area (Birmingham, East Midlands, Luton and Bristol) where CAS is already well established. Maybe this is an occasion where operators should re-locate their operation if they want that protection, rather than inflicting more unrequired CAS in an already complex area of the country. CAS for Coventry would effectively be the establishment of CAS for one single, relatively small operation at the site - a situation which is unacceptable and shouldn't be allowed to go through.