The companies are consolidating but they are working the aircraft harder. The mergers will only strengthen the package industry. The cost savings will allow even cheaper packages.
Coventry have to forget Thomson now and have a rethink. Where would they have been now if Thomson had not given them false hope? It may be in a position to compete with EMA in the freight markets. BHX has already stated that it has no intentions of expanding any freight ops other than normal belly freight.
Hopefully they will come up with the right blend or I think the value of the land will overtake the value of the airport to such a level that the council will reconsider the options.
I still think Coventry council are in a weird position. Shareholders with a large interest in Birmingham and an airport that is there because they have a clause in the lease forbidding any other use.
