Originally Posted by
Mr A Tis
..and how do you think the aircraft into this second airport would dovetail into the airspace around the Manchester TMA? The expansion at very close Liverpool makes the airspace around Manchester complex & congested as it is. Add in Blackpool & Leeds & you have very complicated airspace with everyone climbing, descending & crossing each other.
Well there is an answer to that, make flight times longer by introducing new routes, don't know how easy it would be, but, for example, MME-LHR flights currently go through the Manchester TMA when they could be routed east of it before crossing over to the west further south. Lower EDI-LCY (Scot Airways Dornier 328's) could route down the east coast to use the STAR into LCY around the Southend area.
mmeteesside