Expressflight:
Do you regularly drive to STN or LTN? Googlemaps are having a laugh!
I thought we were arguing about the suggestion that Manston could take some of the load off the London airports. So how many average punters do you know who travel by Bizjet? So that rules out Biggin Hill as a viable alternative what with its lease conditions and all. SEN
may get a runway extension and a railway station in 3 years but then it might not (look at Lydd), Manston already has the facilities and subject to traffic increasing significantly it wouldn't be outside the realms of possibility for it to get its own station as the local railway line runs quite close by and there's no major obstructions and lots of open land to build it on. It would also be on one of the routes that connect to the high-speed CTRL line.
nickmanl:
If you go back to around post #182 on this thread you might discover that EUjet was actually doing OK, bad management brought about its downfall. In any case what is everybody's problem with Manston getting a pax service or three? I suspect there may be some out there with a vested interest in seeing it fail and become a building site?
