Actually KIL I suspect you are correct in the assertion that it will "outlive us both" HOWEVER a very strong case can be made for the existence of two airfields so close together actually STIFLING overall growth.The duplication of costs and lack of interchange between airlines (pain in the bum in places like BHX/MAN/GLA/EDI if you miss a BEE and see there is an EZY departing for a different airfield) not useful for business travellers. A flight from the capital which leaves ridiculously early in the evening doesn't help.The total number of passengers in the same place might actually act as a pump primer for MORE services from the US /EUROPE and dare I say it beyond?. Noise IS a factor for many people who did NOT move beside the airfield (IT actually moved in with THEM .A naval air station morphs into a facility which is regulary shifting in the region of 1,000,000 people per annum)..
The solution IS BFS .....as unpalatable as it may be to us rich folk in North Down.
