"Our business plan anticipates growth to around 500,000 - 600,000 passengers over the next three years." (ie, by 2010)
All it takes is another Eujet (with proper management etc, dont go down that road again) who flew nearly 400,000 pax (dont query it just accept for now, will create an argument otherwise...) in 10 months to get an airport going
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They are giving it
3 YEARS.
There is the potential for more than one airline in that time frame.
We have to agree that the Norfolk flights were a bit
"out of the way" if you can say that. Eujet were flying to spanish destinations with 109 seat A/C and filling them during the summer months.
You can see after a gap of nearly a year Seguro& Kentescapes jumped in and took over the spain routes. They proved it to be viable to land a second year deal at the airport with double the destinations i.e 20,000 pax. If that were to continue you wuld be getting roughly 60,000 from that airline alone in 2010.
If Steve is true to his word which seems to be not all that certain, he commented in the cosmos report
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positive discussions we are having with established European airlines we remain confident that our long-term business plan will ensure the airport has a bright future".
I seem to see some sense from this and dont just read straight through it!
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