Avrodamo and END BAG, I couldn't agree more about the facilities and seeming lack of direction at the airport over the last few years. But I think that at least some of the blame for this has to be heaped upon Manchester, they hold the purse strings very tightly, and the airport is only allowed to spend what it makes in net profit each year, and any spending has to be thoroughly justified before it can go ahead. This leads to the 'add on' mentality, as this is much cheaper than doing what really needs to be done.
I recently started to think the unthinkable, namely that ownership under National Express was more beneficial to the business (although not the employees)
than ownership by MAN. Between 1994 and 2000, the airport got a new runway, departures building, control tower, eastern cargo apron, Cargo 4, not to mention Cargo West and DHL. Its hard to see any similar expansion being approved under the present regime.
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