Bally Heck,
Sounds obvious I know, but on the day of this airshow, would the road traffic figures coming from Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Glasgow not vary significantly from more normal traffic figures? I know from personal experience that a 1 hour drive from St. Andrews to the centre of Edinburgh is entirely feasible.
So now, say Ryanair ran 2 return flights a day to each of the five destinations mentioned with 737-NG's stuffed to the gills, that would total about 3600 pax coming and going per day probably spread over about 18 hours in that day - so about 100 an hour average each way. I'll venture this is a shade less increased density experienced than on the day of the airshow...
Anyway, doesn't really matter what Leuchars is called or 're-named' at the end of the day, it's still within an hours drive of a great deal of east central Scotland.
Last edited by BillyFish2; 13th May 2002 at 14:16.