Originally Posted by
Aerial Anarchist
p.s. - once upon a time you could drop off and collect pax outside the terminal, not anymore, now you must enter the EMA run car park and the sensible free time allowance has been shortened to 10 minutes. Par for the course for this money grabbing faceless operation.It won't be the tree-hugging environment campaigners that destroy air travel it will be the yellow jacketed airport managers like Mrs P.C and other greedy puppets of MAN Mega airport.com!
I agree with the sentiments that you raise, East Midlands Airport always prided itself with the old tag-line "your easy midlands airport" with a real sense of it being a local, friendly airport. Since it's been taken over by MAG, whilst we have seen a substantial growth in traffic (admittedly this was predicted for whoever the owners would have been) we have seen a real deterioration in terms of the airport's public face. Besides the generic MAG brand, there has been the name debacle, total chopping & changing of the terminal building with portakabin like extensions, the car park scenario mentioned earlier - it's all just a little bland & gouging.
On the positive side, the airport still does a considerable amount of work within the communities that it serves, they've spent a fortune on improving local public transport to/from the airport and the name now encompasses the region better.